British director Andrea Arnold (American Honey, Cow) will receive the 2024 Carrosse d’Or, or Golden Coach Award, at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, which runs alongside the Cannes Film Festival.
Organizers on Tuesday lauded the British director as “an avid explorer of the fringes of society.” She will receive the honor on May 15 during the opening ceremony of the Directors’ Fortnight.
The honor, launched in 2002, is bestowed by the Society of French Directors, the governing body of the Cannes sidebar, to filmmakers showcasing “innovative qualities, courage and independent-mindedness.” Its board said in a letter to Arnold: “From Milk to Red Road, from Wuthering Heights to American Honey, you scrutinize society from every angle, traveling through times and environments, and you embark us with powerful female characters.”
The Society of French Directors also described Arnold as “a dynamiter of social film codes” with “a knack of sounding out the power of bodies and souls.”
It concluded: “We love the bravery and freedom of your work, your subtle art of contrast in the field of desire and revolt. And we are amazed by your constant ability to reinvent yourself as if to question your filmmaking every time.”
Past winners of the Golden Coach honor include Martin Scorsese, Werner Herzog, Jia Zhangke, Jane Campion, Jim Jarmusch, Kelly Reichardt, and Clint Eastwood.
