Un Certain Regard Awards Ceremony Gets Under Way at Cannes Film Festival (Updating Live)

The Cannes Film Festival‘s second-most prestigious competition, Un Certain Regard, is typically dominated by newer, less heralded names in world cinema. But there’s more star power than usual at stake in this year’s awards ceremony, as pundits wonder whether one of the three debut features by prominent actors-turned-directors in this year’s lineup — Kristen Stewart, Scarlett Johansson and Harris Dickinson — can land a prize. Other buzzy titles in the section this year include Charlie Polinger’s “The Plague,” Akinola Davies Jr.’s “My Father’s Shadow” and the Vicky Krieps starrer “Love Me Tender.”

The decision rests with a jury headed by a relative newcomer herself: 31-year-old British writer-director Molly Manning Walker won the top prize in Un Certain Regard two years ago for her vivid debut “How to Have Sex,” and is joined on the panel by directors Louise Courvoisier and Roberto Minervini, actor Nahuel Perez Biscayart and Rotterdam fest director Vanja Kaluđerčić.

The ceremony is currently under way; this post will be updated with the winners as they are announced.