- Winners of the Palme d'Or

To get an understanding of the representation of artists linked to the films that won the Palme d’Or each year, I created tables for the directors, cast leads, and character leads.

Of note, there are no artists among the winners who identify primarily as Indigenous, though I did identify three with partial Indigenous heritage: one white man, and two black women. There are also no transgender artists among the winners or among the nominees.

For all three roles, inequality can be observed in each of the four main facets of identity that I collected data on. First, with gender identity, there is only one director who is a woman, and the rest are men. For cast leads, there is one nonbinary person and one male female ensemble, and the rest are men. The character leads are similar, except the nonbinary cast lead has the role of a woman. Second, for race, in all three tables there are three white ensembles (individual or group of artists), two person of colour ensembles, and zero black ensembles. Third, for sexual orientation there is a majority of straight artists, one director of unknown sexual orientation, two individual cast leads of unknown sexual orientation, and one group combination of straight/unknown cast leads, and only one queer character lead. Fourth, disability is significantly underrepresented among the three winning artist groups with all being n/a except for 2 character leads, and both of these characters were depicted as having physical disabilities.