Cannes Film Festival

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
1946	L'Épreuve (Hets)	Alf Sjöberg	Sweden
1946	The Lost Weekend	Billy Wilder	United States
1946	La Terre sera rouge	Bodil Ipsen & Lau Jr. Lauritzen	Denmark
1946	Neecha Nagar	Chetan Anand	India
1946	Brève rencontre (Brief Encounter)	David Lean	United Kingdom
1946	Maria Candelaria	Emilio Fernandez	Mexico
1946	Le Tournant décisif	Fridrikh Markovitch Ermler	Soviet Union
1946	la Symphonie pastorale	Jean Delannoy	France
1946	la Dernière Chance	Leopold Lintberg	Switzerland
1946	les Hommes sans ailes	M. Cap	Czechoslovakia
1946	Rome ville ouverte	Roberto Rossellini	Italy
1947	not awarded
1948	no festival that year
1949	The Third Man	Carol Reed	United Kingdom
1950	no festival that year
1951	Mademoiselle Julie	Alf Sjöberg	Sweden
1951	Miracle à Milan	Vittorio De Sica	Italy
1952	Othello	Orson Welles	United States
1952	Deux Sous d'espoir	Renato Castellani	Italy
1953	Le Salaire de la peur	Henri-Georges Clouzot	France
1954	La Porte de l'enfer	Teinosuke Kinugasa	Japan
1955	Marty	Delbert Mann	United States
1956	Le Monde du silence	Jacques-Yves Cousteau & Louis Malle	France
1957	La Loi du Seigneur (Friendly Persuasion)	William Wyler	United States
1958	Quand passent les cigognes	Mikhaïl Kalatozov	Soviet Union
1959	Orfeu Negro	Marcel Camus	France
1960	la Dolce Vita	Federico Fellini	Italy
1961	Une aussi longue absence	Henri Colpi	France
1961	Viridiana	Luis Buñuel	Spain
1962	la Parole donnée	Anselmo Duarte	Brazil
1963	le Guépard	Luchino Visconti	Italy
1964	les Parapluies de Cherbourg	Jacques Demy	France
1965	le Knack... et comment l'avoir	Richard Lester	United Kingdom
1966	Un homme et une femme	Claude Lelouch	France
1966	Ces messieurs dames	Pietro Germi	Italy
1967	Blow-Up	Michelangelo Antonioni	Italy
1968	canceled due to May 1968 uprising in Paris
1969	If...	Lindsay Anderson	United Kingdom
1970	M*A*S*H	Robert Altman	United States
1971	The Go-Between	Joseph Losey	United Kingdom
1972	La classe ouvrière va au paradis	Elio Petri	Italy
1972	l'Affaire Mattei	Francesco Rosi	Italy
1973	la Méprise	Alan Bridges	United Kingdom
1973	Scarecrow	Jerry Schatzberg	United States
1974	The Conversation	Francis Ford Coppola	United States
1975	Chronique des années de braise	Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina	Algeria
1976	Taxi Driver	Martin Scorsese	United States
1977	Padre padrone	Paolo Taviani & Vittorio Taviani	Italy
1978	l'Arbre aux sabots	Ermanno Olmi	Italy
1979	Apocalypse Now	Francis Ford Coppola	United States
1979	le Tambour	Volker Schlöndorff	West Germany
1980	All That Jazz	Bob Fosse	United States
1980	Kagemusha	Kurosawa Akira	Japan
1981	l'Homme de fer	Andrzej Wajda	Poland
1982	Missing	Costa-Gavras	United States
1982	Yol	Yilmaz Güney	Turkey
1983	la Balade de Narayama	Imamura Shohei	Japan
1984	Paris, Texas	Wim Wenders	West Germany
1985	Otac na sluzbenom putu (When Father Was Away on Business)	Emir Kusturica	Yugoslavia
1986	The Mission	Roland Joffé	United Kingdom
1987	Sous le soleil de Satan (Under the Sun of Satan)	Maurice Pialat	France
1988	Pelle erobreren (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	Den Goda viljan (The Best Intentions)	Bille August	Denmark
1993	Ba wang bie ji (Farewell My Concubine)	Chen Kaige	China
1993	The Piano	Jane Campion	New Zealand
1994	Pulp Fiction	Quentin Tarantino	United States
1995	Underground	Emir Kusturica	Yugoslavia
1996	Secrets and Lies	Mike Leigh	United Kingdom
1997	Ta'm e guilass (Taste of Cherry)	Abbas Kiarostami	Iran
1997	Unagi (The Eel)	Imamura Shohei	Japan
1998	Mia aiwniothta kai mia mera (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	La Stanza del figlio	Nanni Moretti	Italy
2002	The Pianist	Roman Polanski	France
2003	Elephant	Gus Van Sant	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 (Ex-aequo)

Short Films

• Palme d'Or du Festival de Cannes - court métrage
• Prix du Jury - court métrage

External link

• http://www.festival-cannes.com/

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