What Happened to the Films Selected for Last Year’s Cannes Film Festival?

Steve Pond

Cannes 2021: The 2020 festival was canceled, but many of the five dozen films chosen by Cannes last year made a mark, and two won Oscars

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"Another Round" / Henrik Ohsten/Samuel Goldwyn
Steve Pond

This story about Cannes’ 2020 selection first appeared in TheWrap’s special digital Cannes magazine.

Last year, Cannes announced a list of 62 new feature films as its official selection for 2020, a year in which the festival itself didn’t take place. Bearing the prestigious imprimatur of the festival, the movies (not separated into the usual sections, but given the other classifications used below) had a variety of releases. Here are some of the ones with the highest profiles since being singled out by Cannes.

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“DNA,” Maïwenn
Premiered at the Deauville Film Festival in September 2020, released by Netflix in the U.S.

Steve Pond

Steve Pond

Steve Pond is TheWrap’s Executive Editor, Awards and has been writing and overseeing awards coverage on the site since 2009. He spent decades writing about film, television, music and the entertainment industry for the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Premiere, New York Times, Playboy and many other publications. He is the author of…

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