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A brief history of 
the awards given at the 
Cannes Film Festival

1946 - 2013




From 1946 to 1954, before the creation of the Palme d’or, the Jury awarded the "Grand Prix du Festival International du Film". 

1946: every one of the selected films picked up a prize. The "Grand Prix " was awarded to eleven films including The Lost Week-end  by Billy Wilder and Roberto Rossellini's  Roma Citta Aperta. The Battle of the Rails by René Clément garnered the Jury International prize. (>>> The list of winners in 1946)

1947: six films picked up awards in various genres: prizes were given for the best animated film, musical comedy, social film, adventure and detective film and documentaries (>>> The list of winners in 1947)

1949: The Third Man by Carol Reed

From 1951 to 1954, the Grand Prix took the form of a certificate and a work of art signed by an artist in vogue.

1951: Spiegel Van Holland (Mirror of Hollande) by Bert Haanstra

           Fröken Julie  by Alf Sjöberg

           Miracolo a Milano by Vittorio De Sica

1952: The Tragedy of Othello : The Moor of Venice by Orson Welles

           Due Soldi di Speranza by Renato Castellani

1953: Le Salaire de la peur by Henri-Georges Clouzot

1954: Jigoku-Mon by Teinosuke Kinugaza

The Palme d’or was created in 1954 on the instigation of Robert Favre Le Bret.   It was awarded for the first time in 1955.

1955: Marty by Delbert Mann 

1956: The Silent World by Jean-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle 

1957: Friendly Persuasion by William Weyler 

1958: Letiat Jouravly (The Cranes are flying) by Mikhaïl Kalatozov 

1959: Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus) by Marcel Camus 

1960: La Dolce Vita by Federico Fellini 

1961: Viridiana by Luis Bunuel 

          Une aussi longue absence (The Long Absence) by Henri Colpi 

1962: O Pagador de Promessas (The Promise) by Anselmo Duarte 

1963: Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) by Luschino Visconti 

1964: Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) by Jacques Demy 

1965: The Knack and How to Get it by Richard Lester 

1955: Marty by Delbert Mann 

1956: The Silent World by Jean-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle 

1957: Friendly Persuasion by William Weyler 

1958: Letiat Jouravly (The Cranes are flying) by Mikhaïl Kalatozov 

1959: Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus) by Marcel Camus 

1960: La Dolce Vita by Federico Fellini 

1961: Viridiana by Luis Bunuel 

          Une aussi longue absence (The Long Absence) by Henri Colpi 

1962: O Pagador de Promessas (The Promise) by Anselmo Duarte 

1963: Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) by Luschino Visconti 

1964: Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) by Jacques Demy 

1965: The Knack and How to Get it by Richard Lester 


From 1964 to 1974 the Festival de Cannes decided to return to awarding a Grand Prix rather than a Palme d’Or. 

  
1966: Un homme et une femme (A Man and a Woman) by Claude Lelouch 

          Signore e Signori (The Birds, the Bees and the Italians) de Pietro Germi 

1967: Blow up by Michelangelo Antonioni

1969: If by Lindsay Anderson 

1970: M.A.S.H. by Robert Altman 

1971: The Go-Between by Joseph Losey 

1972: La classe operaia va in paradiso (The Working Class Goes to Heaven) by Elio Petri 

1973: Il Caso Mattei (The Mattei Affair) de Francesco Rosi

1973: Scarecrow by Jerry Schatzberg 

          The Hireling by Alan Bridges 

1974: The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola 

1966: Un homme et une femme (A Man and a Woman) by Claude Lelouch 

          Signore e Signori (The Birds, the Bees and the Italians) de Pietro Germi 

1967: Blow up by Michelangelo Antonioni

1969: If by Lindsay Anderson 

1970: M.A.S.H. by Robert Altman 

1971: The Go-Between by Joseph Losey 

1972: La classe operaia va in paradiso (The Working Class Goes to Heaven) by Elio Petri 

1973: Il Caso Mattei (The Mattei Affair) de Francesco Rosi

1973: Scarecrow by Jerry Schatzberg 

          The Hireling by Alan Bridges 

1974: The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola 

 

In 1975, la Palme d’or was reintroduced. It remains to this day the most prestigious prize of all and is seen as one of the most important prizes in the international cinema world.

1975: Chronique des années de braise (Chronicle of the Burning Years) by Mohammed 

Lakhdar-Hamina 

1976: Taxi Driver by Martin Scorsese 

1977: Padre Padrone by Vittorio and Paolo Taviani 

1978: L’Arbero Degli Zoccoli (The Tree of Wooden Clogs)by Ermanno Olmi 

1979: Apocalypse Now by Francis ford Coppola 

          Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum) by Volker Schlondorff 

1980: All That Jazz by Bob Fosse 

          Kagemusha by Akira Kurusawa 

1981: Czlowiek Z Zelaza (Man of Iron) by Andrezj Wajda 

1982: Missing by Costa Gavras 

          Yol by Yilmaz Guney 

1983: Narayama-Bushi-ko (Ballad of Narayama) by Shohei Imamura 

1984: Paris Texas by Wim Wenders 

1985: Otac Na Sluzbenom Putu (When Father Was Away on Business) by Emir Kusturica 

1986: Mission (The Mission) by Roland Joffé 

1987: Sous le soleil de Satan (Under the Sun of Satan) by Maurice Pialat 

1988: Pelle Erobreren (Pelle the Conqueror) by Bille August 

1989: Sex, Lies and Videotape by Steven Soderbergh 

1990: Wild at Heart by David Lynch 

1991: Barton Fink by Ethan and Joël Coen 

1992: Den Goda Viljan (The Best Intentions) by Bille August

1993: Bawang Bieji (Farewell my Concubine) by Kaige Chen 

          The Piano by Jane Campion 

1994: Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino 

1995: Underground by Emir Kusturica 

1996: Secrets and Lies by Mike Leigh 

1997: Unagi (The Eel) by Inamura Shohei 

          Tam’e Guilass (Taste of Cherry) by Abbas Kiarostami 

1998: Mia Eoniotita Ke Mia Mera (Eternity and a Day) by Theo Angelopoulos 

1999: Rosetta by Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne 

2000: Dancer in the Dark by Lars Von Trier 

2001: La Stanza de Figlio (The Son’s Room) by Nanni Moretti 

2002: The Pianist by Roman Polanski 

2003: Elephant by Gus Van Sant 

2004: Fahrenheit 9/11 by Mickael Moore 

2005: L’Enfant (The Child) by Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne 

2006: The Wind That Shakes the Barley by Ken Loach 

2007: 4 Luni, 3 Saptamini si 2 Zile (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) by Christian Mungiu 

2008: Entre les murs (The Class) by Laurent Cantet 

2009: Das Weiss Band (The White Ribbon) by Michael Haneke 

2010: Lung Boonmee Raluek Chat (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives) by 

          Apichatpong Weerasethakul 

2011: The Tree of Life by Terrence Malick 

2012: Love by Michael Haneke

2013: Blue is the Warmest Color by Abdellatif Kechiche. For the first time in the history of the Festival, the Palme d'or was awarded both to the director and to his two leading actresses: Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux.

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