Palme d'Or

The Palme d'Or ("Golden Palm") is the name of the highest prize given to a film at the Cannes Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1955 by the organizing committee (it was previously known as the Grand Prix du Festival international du film) and is now regarded as one of the film industry's most distinguished prizes.

Golden Palm winners

Year Film Director Country
1939 Union Pacific[1] (https://academickids.com:443/encyclopedia/index.php/Palme_d%27Or#fn_1939) 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 & Lau Lauritzen Denmark
Lowly City (Neecha Nagar) Chetan Anand India
Brief Encounter David Lean United Kingdom
Portrait of Maria (María Candelaria) Emilio Fernández Mexico
The Turning Point (Великий перелом, Veliky perelom) Fridrikh Markovitch Ermler Soviet Union
La symphonie pastorale Jean Delannoy France
The Last Chance (Die Letzte Chance) Leopold Lintberg Switzerland
Men Without Wings (Muži bez křídel) František Čáp Czechoslovakia
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 (Jigokumon) Teinosuke Kinugasa Japan
1955 Marty Delbert Mann United States
1956 The Silent World (Le monde du silence) Jacques-Yves Cousteau & Louis Malle France
1957 Friendly Persuasion William Wyler United States
1958 The Cranes Are Flying (Летят журавли, Letyat zhuravli) Mikheil Kalatozishvili 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 Keeper of Promises (O Pagador de Promessas) Anselmo Duarte Brazil
1963 The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) Luchino Visconti Italy
1964 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg) Jacques Demy France
1965 The Knack Richard Lester United Kingdom
1966 A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme) Claude Lelouch France
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (Signore & signori) Pietro Germi Italy
1967 Blowup Michelangelo Antonioni Italy
1968 canceled due to May 1968 riots    
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 (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
1975 Chronicle of the Years of Fire (Chronique des années de braise) Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina Algeria
1976 Taxi Driver Martin Scorsese United States
1977 Father and Master (Padre padrone) Paolo Taviani & Vittorio Taviani Italy
1978 The Tree with the 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
Shadow Warrior (Kagemusha) Akira Kurosawa Japan
1981 Man of Iron (Czlowiek z zelaza) Andrzej Wajda Poland
1982 Missing Costa-Gavras United States
The Way (Yol) Yilmaz Güney 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 Coen & 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 Emir Kusturica Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
1996 Secrets & Lies Mike Leigh United Kingdom
1997 A Taste of Cherry (Ta'm e guilass) Abbas Kiarostami Iran
The Eel (Unagi) Shohei Imamura Japan
1998 Eternity and a Day (Mia aioniotita kai mia mera) 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 (La stanza del figlio) Nanni Moretti Italy
2002 The Pianist Roman Polanski France
2003 Elephant Gus Van Sant United States
2004 Fahrenheit 9/11 Michael Moore United States
2005 The Child (L'Enfant) Luc Dardenne & Jean-Pierre Dardenne Belgium

Notes

Template:Anb This particular Palme d'Or was awarded in retrospect at the 2002 festival. The festival's debut was to take place in 1939, but it was canceled due to World War II. The organizers of the 2002 festival presented part of the original 1939 selection to a professional jury of six members. The films were: Goodbye Mr. Chips, La piste du nord, Lenin in 1918, The Four Feathers, The Wizard of Oz, Union Pacific and Boefje.da:De Gyldne Palmer fr:Palme d'or id:Palem Emas ja:パルム・ドール pl:Złota Palma sv:Guldpalmen zh:金棕榈奖

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