A STAR-STUDDED Cannes Film Festival came to a close Saturday night with a bang as Bong Joon-ho’s “Parasite” took home the Palme d’Or, while Mati Diop’s “Atlantics” landed the runner-up Grand Prix award.

The “Parasite” win denied Quentin Tarantino his second top Cannes prize of his career (the “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” helmer won the Palme d’Or 25 years ago for his groundbreaking “Pulp Fiction”). Instead, the widely praised “Once Upon a Time” came up empty handed at the ceremony.

Bong’s dark comedy, which premiered the same night as “Once Upon a Time,” has drawn raves, including at the Cannes closing ceremony, where the audience stood up and screamed when it was named the Palme d’Or winner. The film revolves around a man and his unemployed family as they take a peculiar interest in a wealthy family, which leads all of them to become entangled in an unexpected incident. Jury president Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu said the Palme d’Or decision was “unanimous.”

Antonio Banderas won the best actor award for his starring role in “Pain & Glory.” In his eighth teaming with director Pedro Almodovar, Banderas plays a Spanish film director past his professional peak and in the middle of a creative crisis, battling addiction among other physical and mental ailments. The win bodes well for Banderas’ chances come awards-season.

“You have no idea how much I’d love to speak French,” said Banderas to the roar of the crowd. “I met Pedro 40 years ago, eight movies together. I respect, admire, love him. He’s given me so much in my life that this award obviously is dedicated to him. People think we live on a red carpet. We suffer a lot, sacrifice a lot and there is a lot of pain. And also there are nights of glory. And this is my night of glory.”

Brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne took best director honors for “Young Ahmed,” a film about a Belgian teenager embracing Islamic extremism.

Brit Emily Beecham won the best actress award for “Little Joe” for her turn as Alice, a scientist who creates a genetically modified plant that seemingly causes uncanny changes in other living creatures. And the Jury Prize wound up in a tie for Ladj Ly’s “Les Miserables” and Kleber Mendonca Filho and Juliano Dornelles’ “Bacurau,” a paranormal Western from Brazil. Earlier in the festival, Amazon nabbed distribution rights to “Les Miserables.”

Celine Sciamma nabbed the screenplay prize for “Portrait of a Lady on Fire.” Sciamma, who also directed the film, crafted a story about a young female painter in the 18th century who disguises herself as a lady’s maid in order to gain her subject’s trust only to find herself inadvertently falling in love with her.

The awards ceremony drew a who’s who of celebrities from the film industry including Viggo Mortensen, Sylvester Stallone and Vincent Cassel, adding to the glamour quotient for the festival that also saw the world premieres of such films as the Taron Egerton-led Elton John biopic “Rocketman” and opening night film “The Dead Don’t Die,” with its star-studded ensemble cast that included Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton and Selena Gomez on hand for that bow. But nothing was quite like the red carpet for “Once Upon a Time,” where the film’s Leonardo DiCaprio walked alongside Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie for the film that takes place around the famed Manson murders of 1969.

While the festival has been making strides to include more female directors in its Competition lineup, the Palme d’Or and best director prizes went to men, with the Dardennes picking up the latter. But Diop’s win for the night’s runner-up prize was significant given that she also was the first black woman to direct a film featured in Competition at the festival. With elements of the supernatural, “Atlantics” kicks off in a suburb of Dakar, where workers at a construction site of a futuristic tower, having foregone pay for months, decide to leave the country via the ocean for a better future.

During the ceremony, Inarritu called his post as head of the jury “an enormous privilege.” He added, “We, during the last 10 days, saw 21 films and spent hours not as judges but as film lovers sharing film passionately for hours. ... Only time will judge them clearly.”

Members of the competition jury also included actress Elle Fanning and directors Yorgos Lanthimos (“The Favorite”), Kelly Reichardt (“Certain Women”) and Pawel Pawlikowski, who won last year’s top director prize for “Cold War.”

The first prize of the night — the Camera d’Or — went to Cesar Diaz for “Our Mothers.” The award honors the best first feature film presented in one of the Cannes’ selections. Special mention was handed to Elia Suleiman for “It Must Be Heaven,” which played in Competition. (SD-Agencies)