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“Anora”, a uncooked, extremely express and sometimes hilarious story a few New York erotic dancer, was awarded the Palme d’Or on the 77th Cannes Movie Competition on Saturday. One of many main voices of American indie cinema, its director Sean Baker devoted the movie to all intercourse employees. A trans girl gained finest actress for the primary time, as Karla Sofia Gascon took the award for the audacious musical “Emilia Perez”, during which she performs a Mexican narco boss who turns into a girl. And “Star Wars” creator George Lucas obtained an honorary Palme d’Or from his previous pal Francis Ford Coppola, who competed this 12 months with the extremely divisive “Megalopolis”.