Cannes 2025: Nicole Kidman wins Kering Girls In Movement award, champions gender equality at star-studded occasion

Nicole Kidman attends the 2025 Kering Girls In Movement Awards and Cannes Movie Competition Presidential Dinner on the 78th annual Cannes Movie Competition on the Place de la Castre on Could 18, 2025 in Cannes, France.
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Australian actor Nicole Kidman vowed to maintain pushing for gender equality in cinema at an unique occasion on the sidelines of the Cannes Movie Competition on Sunday. The actor was awarded the Kering Girls In Movement award on the Girls in Movement dinner at Cannes, a part of a program arrange by luxurious group Kering in 2015.

“I am simply an advocate and wish to proceed to maintain transferring ahead with that, with my pledge from 2017, so it ain’t over,” stated the actor.

Kidman, who gained an Oscar for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in The Hours in 2002, has labored with lots of the main male administrators of her technology, however she pledged in 2017 to shoot with a feminine director each 18 months.

She informed journalists within the French Riviera resort city earlier on Sunday that within the eight years since, she’s labored with 27 feminine administrators, together with initiatives in improvement.

“A part of it’s defending and surrounding the ladies with nearly like a power subject of safety and help,” she stated.

(L-R) Competition Director Thierry Frémaux, Cannes President Iris Knobloch, Marianna Brennand, winner of the 2025 Girls In Movement Rising Expertise Award, Nicole Kidman, winner of the 2025 Kering Girls In Movement Award, and François-Henri Pinault attend the 2025 Kering Girls In Movement Awards and Cannes Movie Competition Presidential Dinner on the 78th annual Cannes Movie Competition on the Place de la Castre on Could 18, 2025 in Cannes, France.
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Monica Schipper

Different stars on the dinner included Dakota Johnson and Julianne Moore, in addition to Patrick Schwarzenegger of The White Lotus. Director Guillermo del Toro was additionally in attendance.

Brazilian director Marianna Brennand obtained the initiative’s rising expertise award, which features a grant of fifty,000 euros ($55,920.00) to work on a second function venture.

“In the event you take a look at the numbers, sadly, the numbers, they do not change,” stated French director Coralie Fargeat, whose Demi Moore-led physique horror hit The Substance discovered widespread success after premiering at Cannes final yr.

“We actually must hold making enormous modifications and never beauty modifications,” she stated.

In line with Girls in Movement organisers, the share of ladies administrators elevated to solely 13.6% from 7.5% among the many high 100 field workplace movies in the USA between 2015 and 2024.

Seven out of the 22 movies in competitors this yr have been made by girls, together with an entry from Julia Ducournau, one in all solely three girls to have ever gained the Palme d’Or high prize.