The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity handed out its first Grand Prix awards of the week on Monday, and Ad Age has published the running list of winners as the Monday-night results land.

The Monday ceremony opens the awards program at Cannes Lions, the annual festival held in Cannes, France, that runs across a full week of juries, shortlists and gala nights. Grand Prix represent the top honor in each of the festival's multiple awards categories, and the Monday session typically covers the first block of those competitions.

What does the Monday session decide?

Each Cannes Lions awards night distributes Grand Prix, Gold, Silver and Bronze Lions by category. The Grand Prix is the single highest award a jury can give within a track, awarded only when the jury agrees a piece of work clears the bar. Monday's results cover the first set of categories in the 2025 program.

For agencies, networks and holding companies, these early wins matter beyond trophies. Festival results feed annual rankings, network league tables and new-business decks for the following twelve months. A Grand Prix on night one can set the pace for which agency network leads the week.

How can readers track the winners?

Ad Age's report collects the Grand Prix results from Monday's ceremony as they are announced. The publication covers the festival across the week, updating winner lists category by category as each awards night concludes.

The mechanics are straightforward:

• Juries shortlist entries ahead of the festival week.
• Awards ceremonies run nightly, divided by category groupings.
• Grand Prix winners are named at each ceremony.
• Ad Age aggregates the results into running coverage throughout the week.

Why the first night shapes the week?

Monday's Grand Prix set the first scoreboard of the festival. Networks that score early can bank momentum — and talking points — before the larger trophy categories are decided later in the week. Media buyers, brand marketers and rival creative departments all parse the Monday results for signals about which work the juries are rewarding this cycle.

Ad Age's winner list is the reference point for the first block of Grand Prix decisions. Follow the outlet's festival coverage for the remaining category results as the week's ceremonies continue.