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Cannes Film Festival

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. Winners:

Year Film Director Country

1946L'Épreuve (Hets)Alf SjöbergSweden
1946The Lost WeekendBilly WilderUnited States
1946La Terre sera rougeBodil Ipsen & Lau Jr. LauritzenDenmark
1946Neecha NagarChetan AnandIndia
1946Brève rencontre (Brief Encounter)David LeanUnited Kingdom
1946Maria CandelariaEmilio FernandezMexico
1946Le Tournant décisifFridrikh Markovitch ErmlerSoviet Union
1946la Symphonie pastoraleJean DelannoyFrance
1946la Dernière ChanceLeopold LintbergSwitzerland
1946les Hommes sans ailesM. CapCzechoslovakia
1946Rome ville ouverteRoberto RosselliniItaly
1947not awarded
1948no festival that year
1949The Third ManCarol ReedUnited Kingdom
1950no festival that year
1951Mademoiselle JulieAlf SjöbergSweden
1951Miracle à MilanVittorio De SicaItaly
1952OthelloOrson WellesUnited States
1952Deux Sous d'espoirRenato CastellaniItaly
1953Le Salaire de la peurHenri-Georges ClouzotFrance
1954La Porte de l'enferTeinosuke KinugasaJapan
1955MartyDelbert MannUnited States
1956Le Monde du silenceJacques-Yves Cousteau & Louis MalleFrance
1957La Loi du Seigneur (Friendly Persuasion)William WylerUnited States
1958Quand passent les cigognesMikhaïl KalatozovSoviet Union
1959Orfeu NegroMarcel CamusFrance
1960la Dolce VitaFederico FelliniItaly
1961Une aussi longue absenceHenri ColpiFrance
1961ViridianaLuis BuñuelSpain
1962la Parole donnéeAnselmo DuarteBrazil
1963le GuépardLuchino ViscontiItaly
1964les Parapluies de CherbourgJacques DemyFrance
1965le Knack... et comment l'avoirRichard LesterUnited Kingdom
1966Un homme et une femmeClaude LelouchFrance
1966Ces messieurs damesPietro GermiItaly
1967Blow-UpMichelangelo AntonioniItaly
1968canceled due to May 1968 uprising in Paris
1969IfLindsay AndersonUnited Kingdom
1970M*A*S*HRobert AltmanUnited States
1971The Go-BetweenJoseph LoseyUnited Kingdom
1972La classe ouvrière va au paradisElio PetriItaly
1972l'Affaire MatteiFrancesco RosiItaly
1973la MépriseAlan BridgesUnited Kingdom
1973ScarecrowJerry SchatzbergUnited States
1974The ConversationFrancis Ford CoppolaUnited States
1975Chronique des années de braiseMohammed Lakhdar-HaminaAlgeria
1976Taxi DriverMartin ScorseseUnited States
1977Padre padronePaolo Taviani & Vittorio TavianiItaly
1978l'Arbre aux sabotsErmanno OlmiItaly
1979Apocalypse NowFrancis Ford CoppolaUnited States
1979le TambourVolker SchlöndorffWest Germany
1980All That JazzBob FosseUnited States
1980KagemushaKurosawa AkiraJapan
1981l'Homme de ferAndrzej WajdaPoland
1982MissingCosta-GavrasUnited States
1982YolYilmaz GüneyTurkey
1983la Balade de NarayamaImamura ShoheiJapan
1984Paris, TexasWim WendersWest Germany
1985Otac na sluzbenom putu (When Father Was Away on Business)Emir KusturicaYugoslavia
1986The MissionRoland JofféUnited Kingdom
1987Sous le soleil de Satan (Under the Sun of Satan)Maurice PialatFrance
1988Pelle erobreren (Pelle the Conqueror)Bille AugustDenmark
1989Sex, Lies and VideotapeSteven SoderberghUnited States
1990Wild at HeartDavid LynchUnited States
1991Barton FinkJoel Coen & Ethan CoenUnited States
1992Den Goda viljan (The Best Intentions)Bille AugustDenmark
1993Ba wang bie ji (Farewell My Concubine)Chen KaigeChina
1993The PianoJane CampionNew Zealand
1994Pulp FictionQuentin TarantinoUnited States
1995UndergroundEmir KusturicaYugoslavia
1996Secrets and LiesMike LeighUnited Kingdom
1997Ta'm e guilass (Taste of Cherry)Abbas KiarostamiIran
1997Unagi (The Eel)Imamura ShoheiJapan
1998Mia aiwniothta kai mia mera (Eternity and a Day)Theo AngelopoulosGreece
1999RosettaLuc Dardenne & Jean-Pierre DardenneBelgium
2000Dancer in the DarkLars von TrierDenmark
2001La Stanza del figlioNanni MorettiItaly
2002The PianistRoman PolanskiFrance
2003ElephantGus Van SantUnited States

Other Awards

Feature Films

Short Films

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