Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity announced its latest slate of Lion winners on day three of the 2025 edition, marking the midpoint of the awards week in Cannes.

The day-three announcement continues the festival's daily reveal structure, in which juries across the Lions programme name winners category by category. Each day of the festival surfaces a new tier of awarded work, building toward the final ceremonies late in the week.

What does the day-three announcement signal?

Daily winner announcements at Cannes Lions function as the festival's primary news cycle. Juries convene throughout the week, debate shortlisted entries, and release results in structured waves rather than a single end-of-week drop.

• Day three sits in the middle of the schedule, when category juries have completed deliberations on a substantial portion of the Lions
• Winners at this stage have typically cleared both the shortlist and a second-round jury review
• Remaining categories generally resolve on days four and five

How does the Lions voting process work?

The Cannes Lions jury system runs on multi-stage evaluation. A shortlisting jury first scores entries against the category's core criteria. A second jury — typically drawn from senior creative and strategy leaders across agencies, brands, and platforms — then re-scores the surviving work before final placements are locked.

Grand Prix and Titanium Lions carry separate deliberation processes. Those juries review category winners as a pooled shortlist before selecting the top honour in each track. That step falls later in the week.

What shifts in the race after day three?

By the festival's midpoint, the agency standings begin to take shape. Holding companies track wins by office, by network, and by region. Independent shops look for category breakthroughs that can lift their visibility against larger group competitors.

For brands, a Lion at this stage carries the same commercial weight as one announced later in the week — the announcement timing affects media coverage more than the award's prestige.

What to watch in the remaining days

Days four and five will resolve the categories still pending, followed by the special awards track and the final Titanium deliberations. The Cannes Lions award announcement marks the structural centre of the festival, with the final honours typically closing the week.

The festival's communications team issues daily winner lists throughout the week, with full category breakdowns published on the official Cannes Lions results page.