The Cannes Film Festival is a prestigious international film festival. It has been held annually in Cannes, in the south of France, since 1946 with a few exceptions.
Given massive media exposure, the Festival is attended by many movie stars and is a popular venue for movie producers to launch their new films and attempt to sell their works to the distributors who come from all over the globe.
The most prestigious award given out at Cannes is the Palme d’Or (Golden Palm) for the best film; this is sometimes shared by multiple films in one year.
Golden Palm winners :
Year Film Director Country
- 1939 Union Pacific Cecil B. DeMille (United States)
- 1946 Torment Alf Sjöberg (Sweden)
- 1946 The Lost Weekend Billy Wilder (United States)
- 1946 Red Meadows Bodil Ipsen & Lau Lauritzen (Denmark)
- 1946 Lowly City Chetan Anand (India)
- 1946 Brief Encounter David Lean (United Kingdom)
- 1946 Portrait of Maria Emilio Fernández (Mexico)
- 1946 The Turning Point Fridrikh Markovitch Ermler (Soviet Union)
- 1946 La symphonie pastorale Jean Delannoy (France)
- 1946 The Last Chance Leopold Lintberg (Switzerland)
- 1946 Men Without Wings FrantiÅ¡ek Čáp (Czechoslovakia)
- 1946 Open City Roberto Rossellini (Italy)
- 1947 not awarded
- 1948 not held
- 1949 The Third Man Carol Reed (United Kingdom)
- 1950 not held
- 1951 Miss Julie Alf Sjöberg (Sweden)
- 1951 Miracle in Milan Vittorio De Sica (Italy)
- 1952 The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice Orson Welles (United States)
- 1952 Two Cents Worth of Hope Renato Castellani (Italy)
- 1953 The Wages of Fear Henri-Georges Clouzot (France)
- 1954 Gate of Hell Teinosuke Kinugasa (Japan)
- 1955 Marty Delbert Mann (United States)
- 1956 The Silent World Jacques-Yves Cousteau & Louis Malle (France)
- 1957 Friendly Persuasion William Wyler (United States)
- 1958 The Cranes Are Flying Mikheil Kalatozishvili (Soviet Union)
- 1959 Black Orpheus Marcel Camus (France)
- 1960 La dolce vita Federico Fellini (Italy)
- 1961 The Long Absence Henri Colpi (France)
- 1961 Viridiana Luis Buñuel (Spain)
- 1962 Keeper of Promises Anselmo Duarte (Brazil)
- 1963 The Leopard Luchino Visconti (Italy)
- 1964 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Jacques Demy (France)
- 1965 The Knack Richard Lester (United Kingdom)
- 1966 A Man and a Woman Claude Lelouch (France)
- 1966 The Birds, the Bees and the Italians Pietro Germi (Italy)
- 1967 Blowup Michelangelo Antonioni (Italy)
- 1968 canceled
- 1969 If…. Lindsay Anderson (United Kingdom)
- 1970 MASH Robert Altman (United States)
- 1971 The Go-Between Joseph Losey (United Kingdom)
- 1972 The Working Class Goes to Heaven Elio Petri (Italy)
- 1972 The Mattei Affair Francesco Rosi (Italy)
- 1973 The Hireling Alan Bridges (United Kingdom)
- 1973 Scarecrow Jerry Schatzberg (United States)
- 1974 The Conversation Francis Ford Coppola (United States)
- 1975 Chronicle of the Years of Fire Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina (Algeria)
- 1976 Taxi Driver Martin Scorsese (United States)
- 1977 Father and Master Paolo Taviani & Vittorio Taviani (Italy)
- 1978 The Tree with the Wooden Clogs Ermanno Olmi (Italy)
- 1979 Apocalypse Now Francis Ford Coppola (United States)
- 1979 The Tin Drum Volker Schlöndorff (West Germany)
- 1980 All That Jazz Bob Fosse (United States)
- 1980 Shadow Warrior Akira Kurosawa (Japan)
- 1981 Man of Iron Andrzej Wajda (Poland)
- 1982 Missing Costa-Gavras (United States)
- 1982 The Way Yilmaz Güney (Turkey)
- 1983 Ballad of Narayama Shohei Imamura (Japan)
- 1984 Paris, Texas Wim Wenders (West Germany)
- 1985 When Father Was Away on Business Emir Kusturica (Yugoslavia)
- 1986 The Mission Roland Joffé (United Kingdom)
- 1987 Under the Sun of Satan Maurice Pialat (France)
- 1988 Pelle the Conqueror Bille August (Denmark)
- 1989 Sex, Lies, and Videotape Steven Soderbergh (United States)
- 1990 Wild at Heart David Lynch (United States)
- 1991 Barton Fink Joel Coen & Ethan Coen (United States)
- 1992 The Best Intentions Bille August (Denmark)
- 1993 Farewell My Concubine Kaige Chen (China)
- 1993 The Piano Jane Campion (New Zealand)
- 1994 Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino (United States)
- 1995 Underground Emir Kusturica (Yugoslavia)
- 1996 Secrets & Lies Mike Leigh (United Kingdom)
- 1997 A Taste of Cherry Abbas Kiarostami (Iran)
- 1997 The Eel Imamura Shohei (Japan)
- 1998 Eternity and a Day Theo Angelopoulos (Greece)
- 1999 Rosetta Luc Dardenne & Jean-Pierre Dardenne (Belgium)
- 2000 Dancer in the Dark Lars von Trier (Denmark)
- 2001 The Son’s Room Nanni Moretti (Italy)
- 2002 The Pianist Roman Polanski (France)
- 2003 Elephant Gus Van Sant (United States)
- 2004 Farenheit 9/11 Michael Moore(United States)
Other awards:
Feature Films
* Grand Prix
* Prix de la mise en scène
* Prix du Jury
* Prix du scénario
* Prix d’interprétation féminine du Festival de Cannes
* Prix d’interprétation masculine du Festival de Cannes
Short Films
* Palme d’Or du Festival de Cannes – court métrage
* Prix du Jury Рcourt m̩trage
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