Awards & Winners

Palme d'Or

Cannes Film Festival Awards

The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee. From 1939 to 1954, the highest prize was the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film. In 1964 it was replaced once again by the Grand Prix du Festival before being reintroduced in 1974.

Check all the winners of Palme d'Or presented under Cannes Film Festival Awards since 1955 .


Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Honored for : Winter Sleep

Nominations 2014 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Nuri Bilge Ceylan Winter Sleep

Abdellatif Kechiche

Honored for : Blue Is the Warmest Colour

Michael Haneke

Honored for : Amour

Nominations 2012 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Michael Haneke Amour

Terrence Malick

Honored for : The Tree of Life

Nominations 2011 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Lars von Trier Melancholia
Terrence Malick The Tree of Life

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Honored for : Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Michael Haneke

Honored for : The White Ribbon

Nominations 2009 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Quentin Tarantino Inglourious Basterds

Laurent Cantet

Honored for : The Class

Nominations 2008 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Daniela Thomas Linha de Passe
Walter Salles Linha de Passe
Matteo Garrone Gomorrah
Jia Zhangke 24 City
Jean-Pierre Dardenne The Silence of Lorna
Luc Dardenne The Silence of Lorna
Clint Eastwood Changeling

Cristian Mungiu

Honored for : 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Nominations 2007 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Cristian Mungiu 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Ken Loach

Honored for : The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Nominations 2006 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Ken Loach The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Honored for : L'Enfant

Nominations 2005 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Luc Dardenne L'Enfant
Jean-Pierre Dardenne L'Enfant
Michael Haneke Caché
Tommy Lee Jones The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Michael Moore

Honored for : Fahrenheit 9/11

Nominations 2004 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Wong Kar-wai 2046
Agnès Jaoui Look at Me

Nominations 2004 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Wong Kar-wai 2046
Agnès Jaoui Look at Me

Gus Van Sant

Honored for : Elephant

Roman Polanski

Honored for : The Pianist

Nominations 2002 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Paul Thomas Anderson Punch-Drunk Love
Alexander Sokurov Russian Ark
Mike Leigh All or Nothing

Nanni Moretti

Honored for : The Son's Room

Nominations 2001 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Nanni Moretti The Son's Room
Mohsen Makhmalbaf Kandahar

Lars von Trier

Honored for : Dancer in the Dark

Nominations 2000 »

Nominee Nominated Work
James Gray The Yards
Im Kwon-taek Chunhyang
James Ivory The Golden Bowl

Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne

Honored for : Rosetta

Nominations 1999 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Jean-Pierre Dardenne Rosetta
Luc Dardenne Rosetta
John Sayles Limbo
Pedro Almodóvar All About My Mother
Mohsen Makhmalbaf Tales of Kish
Abolfazl Jalili Tales of Kish
Nasser Taghvai Tales of Kish

Theodoros Angelopoulos

Honored for : Eternity and a Day

Nominations 1998 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hal Hartley Henry Fool
John Turturro Illuminata
Roberto Benigni Life Is Beautiful
Benoît Jacquot The School of Flesh

Shohei Imamura

Honored for : The Eel

Nominations 1997 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Atom Egoyan The Sweet Hereafter

Abbas Kiarostami

Honored for : Taste of Cherry
(1997 winner also The Eel)

Nominations 1997 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Atom Egoyan The Sweet Hereafter

Mike Leigh

Honored for : Secrets & Lies

Nominations 1996 »

Nominee Nominated Work
The Quiet Room
André Téchiné Thieves

Emir Kusturica

Honored for : Underground

Quentin Tarantino

Honored for : Pulp Fiction

Jane Campion

Honored for : The Piano
(1993 winner also Farewell My concubine)

Nominations 1993 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Wim Wenders Faraway, So Close!

Chen Kaige

Honored for : Farewell My Concubine
(1993 winner also The Piano)

Nominations 1993 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Wim Wenders Faraway, So Close!

Ingmar Bergman

Honored for : The Best Intentions

Nominations 1992 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Léolo
Sidney Lumet A Stranger Among Us

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Honored for : Barton Fink

David Lynch

Honored for : Wild at Heart

Steven Soderbergh

Honored for : Sex, Lies, and Videotape

Bille August

Honored for : Pelle the Conqueror

Maurice Pialat

Honored for : Under the Sun of Satan

Roland Joffé

Honored for : The Mission

Nominations 1986 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Raúl de la Torre Poor Butterfly

Emir Kusturica

Honored for : When Father Was Away on Business

Shohei Imamura

Honored for : The Ballad of Narayama

Nominations 1984 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Marek Kanievska Another Country

Wim Wenders

Honored for : Paris, Texas

Nominations 1984 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Marek Kanievska Another Country

Costa-Gavras

Honored for : Missing

Nominations 1982 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Susan Seidelman Smithereens

?erif Gören

Honored for : The Road

Nominations 1982 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Susan Seidelman Smithereens

Andrzej Wajda

Honored for : Man of Iron

Bob Fosse

Honored for : All That Jazz

Akira Kurosawa

Honored for : Kagemusha

Francis Ford Coppola, Volker Schlöndorff

Honored for : Apocalypse Now, The Tin Drum

Ermanno Olmi

Honored for : The Tree of Wooden Clogs

Vittorio Taviani, Paolo Taviani

Honored for : Padre Padrone

Martin Scorsese

Honored for : Taxi Driver

Nominations 1976 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Wim Wenders Kings of the Road

Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina

Honored for : Chronicle of the Years of Fire

Jacques Demy

Honored for : The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Luchino Visconti

Honored for : The Leopard

Anselmo Duarte

Honored for : O Pagador de Promessas

Nominations 1962 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Sidney Lumet Long Day's Journey into Night

Henri Colpi

Honored for : The Long Absence

Luis Buñuel

Honored for : Viridiana

Federico Fellini

Honored for : La Dolce Vita

Nominations 1960 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Federico Fellini La Dolce Vita

Marcel Camus

Honored for : Black Orpheus

Mikhail Kalatozov

Honored for : The Cranes Are Flying

William Wyler

Honored for : Friendly Persuasion

Louis Malle, Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Honored for : The Silent World

Delbert Mann

Honored for : Marty