Award winners

 

 

 

 

 Grand Prix du Festival International du Film (1939-54)

 

 

Year

Film

Director

Nationality of Director

 

(at time of film's release)

1939

Union Pacific[4]

Cecil B. DeMille

 United States

1946

Torment (Hets)

Alf Sjöberg

 Sweden

 

The Lost Weekend

Billy Wilder

 United States

 

Red Meadows (De røde enge)

Bodil Ipsen and Lau Lauritzen

 Denmark

 

Brief Encounter

David Lean

 United Kingdom

 

Portrait of Maria (María Candelaria)

Emilio Fernández

 Mexico

 

Neecha Nagar

Chetan Anand

 India

 

The Turning Point (Великий перелом, Velikiy perelom)

Fridrikh Markovitch Ermler

 Soviet Union

 

La symphonie pastorale

Jean Delannoy

 France

 

The Last Chance (Die Letzte Chance)

Leopold Lintberg

 Austria

 

Men Without Wings (Muži bez křídel)

František Čáp

 Czechoslovakia

 

Rome, Open City (Roma, città aperta)

Roberto Rossellini

 Italy

1947

not awarded

 

1948

not held

 

1949

The Third Man

Carol Reed

 United Kingdom

1950

not held

 

1951

Miss Julie (Fröken Julie)

Alf Sjöberg

 Sweden

 

Miracle in Milan (Miracolo a Milano)

Vittorio De Sica

 Italy

1952

The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice

Orson Welles

 United States

 

Two Cents Worth of Hope (Due soldi di speranza)

Renato Castellani

 Italy

1953

The Wages of Fear (Le salaire de la peur)

Henri-Georges Clouzot

 France

1954

Gate of Hell (地獄門, Jigokumon)

Teinosuke Kinugasa

 Japan

 

 Palme d'Or (1955-1963)

 

 

Year

Film

Director

Nationality of Director

 

(at time of film's release)

1955

Marty

Delbert Mann

 United States

1956

The Silent World (Le monde du silence)

Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle

 France

1957

Friendly Persuasion

William Wyler

 United States

1958

The Cranes Are Flying (Летят журавли, Letyat zhuravli)

Mikhail Kalatozov

 Soviet Union

1959

Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro)

Marcel Camus

 France

1960

La dolce vita

Federico Fellini

 Italy

1961

The Long Absence (Une aussi longue absence)

Henri Colpi

 France

 

Viridiana

Luis Buñuel

 Spain

1962

O Pagador de Promessas

Anselmo Duarte

 Brazil

1963

The Leopard (Il gattopardo)

Luchino Visconti

 Italy

 

 Grand Prix du Festival International du Film (1964-1974)

 

 

Year

Film

Director

Nationality of Director

 

(at time of film's release)

1964

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les parapluies de Cherbourg)

Jacques Demy

 France

1965

The Knack …and How to Get It

Richard Lester

 United States

1966

A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme)

Claude Lelouch

 France

 

The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (Signore and signori)

Pietro Germi

 Italy

1967

Blow-Up

Michelangelo Antonioni

 Italy

1968

canceled due to events of May 1968

 

1969

if....

Lindsay Anderson

 United Kingdom

1970

MASH

Robert Altman

 United States

1971

The Go-Between

Joseph Losey

 United States

1972

The Working Class Goes to Heaven (La classe operaia va in paradiso)

Elio Petri

 Italy

 

The Mattei Affair (Il caso Mattei)

Francesco Rosi

 Italy

1973

The Hireling

Alan Bridges

 United Kingdom

 

Scarecrow

Jerry Schatzberg

 United States

1974

The Conversation

Francis Ford Coppola

 United States

 

 Palme d'Or (1975-present)

 

 

Year

Film

Director

Nationality of Director

 

(at time of film's release)

1975

Chronicle of the Years of Fire (Chronique des années de braise)

Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina

 Algeria

1976

Taxi Driver

Martin Scorsese

 United States

1977

Padre Padrone

Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani

 Italy

1978

The Tree of Wooden Clogs (L'albero degli zoccoli)

Ermanno Olmi

 Italy

1979

Apocalypse Now

Francis Ford Coppola

 United States

 

The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel)

Volker Schlöndorff

 West Germany

1980

All That Jazz

Bob Fosse

 United States

 

Kagemusha (影武者)

Akira Kurosawa

 Japan

1981

Man of Iron (Człowiek z żelaza)

Andrzej Wajda

 Poland

1982

Missing

Costa-Gavras

 Greece

 

The Way (Yol)

Yılmaz Güney and Şerif Gören

 Turkey

1983

The Ballad of Narayama (楢山節考, Narayama bushiko)

Shohei Imamura

 Japan

1984

Paris, Texas

Wim Wenders

 West Germany

1985

When Father Was Away on Business (Otac na službenom putu)

Emir Kusturica

 Yugoslavia

1986

The Mission

Roland Joffé

 United Kingdom

1987

Under the Sun of Satan (Sous le soleil de Satan)

Maurice Pialat

 France

1988

Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle erobreren)

Bille August

 Denmark

1989

sex, lies, and videotape

Steven Soderbergh

 United States

1990

Wild at Heart

David Lynch

 United States

1991

Barton Fink

Joel and Ethan Coen

 United States

1992

The Best Intentions (Den goda viljan)

Bille August

 Denmark

1993

Farewell My Concubine (霸王別姬, Bàwáng bié jī)

Chen Kaige

 China

 

The Piano

Jane Campion

 New Zealand

1994

Pulp Fiction

Quentin Tarantino

 United States

1995

Underground (Подземље, Podzemlje)

Emir Kusturica

 FR Yugoslavia

1996

Secrets & Lies

Mike Leigh

 United Kingdom

1997

Taste of Cherry (طعم گيلاس, Ta'm-e gīlās)

Abbas Kiarostami

 Iran

 

The Eel (''うなぎ, Unagi)

Shohei Imamura

 Japan

1998

Eternity and a Day (Μια αιωνιότητα και μια μέρα, Mia aioniotita kai mia mera)

Theo Angelopoulos

 Greece

1999

Rosetta

Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne

 Belgium

2000

Dancer in the Dark

Lars von Trier

 Denmark

2001

The Son's Room (La stanza del figlio)

Nanni Moretti

 Italy

2002

The Pianist

Roman Polanski

 Poland

2003

Elephant

Gus Van Sant

 United States

2004

Fahrenheit 9/11

Michael Moore

 United States

2005

The Child (L'enfant)

Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne

 Belgium

2006

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Ken Loach

 United Kingdom

2007

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile)

Cristian Mungiu

 Romania

2008

The Class (Entre les murs)

Laurent Cantet

 France

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6 directors have received two Golden Palms so far, including the Dardenne brothers who came that close to breaking history.

Alf Sjöberg (1946, 1951)
Francis Ford Coppola (1974, 1979)
Shohei Imamura (1983, 1997)
Emir Kusturica (1985, 1995)
Bille August (1988, 1992)
Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne (1999, 2005)