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My (useless) hunches, simply because I like guessing:

Palme d’Or: Fallen Leaves
Grand Prix: The Zone of Interest
Jury Prize: Monster
Best Actor: Koji Yakusho
Best Actress: Sandra Huller
Best Director: Alice Rohrwacher
Best Screenplay: May December

My predictions:
PALME D’OR: Fallen Leaves
GRAND PRIX: Monster
JURY PRIZE: 
La chimera

DIRECTOR: Jonathan Glazer
ACTOR: Koji Yakusho

ACTRESS: Sandra Hüller
SCREENPLAY: Asteroid City

Kore-eda, Glazer, Ceylan, Wenders, Tran Anh Hung, Triet and Kaurismaki’s films have representation on the red carpet, they’re likely to win some award

Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell by Thien An Pham wins Camera d’Or

Koji Yakusho wins Best Actor

Shocked how different Wenders looks without his longer hair.

(For anyone interested in watching, Brut is live streaming the awards on Facebook.)

Oh, and I missed the short film Palme, which went to 27 by Flóra Anna Buda, with a special mention for Fàr by Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter.

Merve Dizdar wins Best Actress -- there go all our ballots!

Seems like Anatomy of a Fall will be fighting it out for the big one then

Best Screenplay goes to Koreeda’s Monster (written by Yuji Sakamoto)

Kaurismaki wins Jury Prize

Tran Anh Hung wins Best Director

So it’s between Glazer and Triet

A smiling Roger Corman gets a standing ovation, which was not on my bingo card.

Zone of Interest wins the Grand Prix, all but guaranteeing Anatomy of a Fall nabs the Palme d'or.

Trying to figure out what black magic NEON has that lets them actively predict what film will win the Palme d'Or

Is having distributed the Palme D'or winner 4 times in a row some sort of record?

At least there is a good chance of NEON showing the Triet near me thanks to its win. It's a shame I can't be sure about the same happening for the Rohrwacher.

Surprised only really by Sandra Huller not winning for Best Actress. A German critic I enjoy reading described Anatomy of a Fall as akin to an above average TV movie in his original review of the film. Hope the Kaurismaki will play near me in Philly at least and I'm interested in the Tran An Hung and Kore-eda, maybe the Glazer.

Well, it's hard to complain about these awards given that all seven were acclaimed even if Haynes or Kaurismäki would have been more exciting, but it is more exciting to have the Palme come down to two of the more acclaimed films of the festival and not Ken Loach and Xavier Dolan. NEON seems to have a hypothetical hit with Anatomy (good chunks of it may be in English?), and Tran Anh Hung winning Director in 2023 was unexpected. Most of these films received sufficient acclaim or came courtesy of directors who are essentially festival-proof, so hopefully there isn't a Showing Up among the lot that waits an entire year to resurface.

Thrilled for Koji Yakusho, a long time coming

The new Wang Bing film has leaked with hardcoded English subs. DM if you would like a copy.

A user on a different forum was at a Q&A with Bertrand Bonello and he confirmed that his newest film 'The Beast' was going to TIFF.

Bonello also stated that The Beast was going to be a 2.5 hour long sci-fi film.

That sounds amazing. But in the meanwhile could someone—anyone—please release COMA in the States? One would think this could’ve sold on the strength of the cast alone.