Cannes Best Director AwardCheck all the winners of Cannes Best Director Award. |
| Year | Winner | Winner Work | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 |
|
Nicolas Winding Refn | Drive |
| 2010 |
|
Mathieu Amalric | On Tour |
| 2009 |
|
Brillante Mendoza | Kinatay |
| 2008 |
|
Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Three Monkeys |
| 2007 |
|
Julian Schnabel | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly |
| 2006 |
|
Alejandro González Iñárritu | Babel |
| 2005 |
|
Michael Haneke | Caché |
| 2004 |
|
Tony Gatlif | Exils |
| 2003 |
|
Gus Van Sant | Elephant |
| 2002 |
|
Paul Thomas Anderson | Punch-Drunk Love (Tied with Im Kwon-taek) |
| 2002 |
|
Im Kwon-taek | Painted Fire (Tied with Paul Thomas Anderson) |
| 2001 |
|
Joel Coen | The Man Who Wasn't There (Tie with Mulholland Drive) |
| 2001 |
|
David Lynch | Mulholland Drive (Tie with The Man Who Wasn't There) |
| 2000 |
|
Edward Yang | Yi Yi: A One and a Two |
| 1999 |
|
Pedro Almodóvar | All About My Mother |
| 1998 |
|
John Boorman | The General |
| 1997 |
|
Wong Kar-wai | Happy Together |
| 1996 |
|
Joel Coen | Fargo |
| 1995 |
|
Mathieu Kassovitz | La Haine |
| 1994 |
|
Nanni Moretti | Caro diario |
| 1993 |
|
Mike Leigh | Naked |
| 1992 |
|
Robert Altman | The Player |
| 1991 |
|
Joel Coen | Barton Fink |
| 1990 |
|
Pavel Lungin | Taxi Blues |
| 1989 |
|
Emir Kusturica | Time of the Gypsies |
| 1988 |
|
Fernando Solanas | Sur |
| 1987 |
|
Wim Wenders | Wings of Desire |
| 1986 |
|
Martin Scorsese | After Hours |
| 1985 |
|
André Téchiné | Rendez-vous |
| 1984 |
|
Bertrand Tavernier | A Sunday in the Country |
| 1983 |
|
Andrei Tarkovsky | Nostalghia (Tie with L'Argent) |
| 1983 |
|
Robert Bresson | L'Argent (Tie with Nostalghia) |
| 1982 |
|
Werner Herzog | Fitzcarraldo |
| 1979 |
|
Terrence Malick | Days of Heaven |
| 1978 |
|
Nagisa Oshima | Empire of Passion |
| 1976 |
|
Ettore Scola | Ugly, Dirty and Bad |
| 1975 |
|
Michel Brault | Orders (Tie with Section spéciale) |
| 1975 |
|
Costa-Gavras | Section spéciale (Tie with Orders) |
| 1972 |
|
Miklós Jancsó | Red Psalm |
| 1970 |
|
John Boorman | Leo the Last |
| 1969 |
|
Glauber Rocha | The Dragon of Evil Against the Saint Warrior (tie with All My Compatriots) |
| 1969 |
|
Vojtech Jasny | All My Compatriots (tie with The Dragon of Evil Against the Saint Warrior) |
| 1967 |
|
Ferenc Kósa | Ten Thousand Days |
| 1966 |
|
Sergei Yutkevich | Lenin in Poland |
| 1965 |
|
Liviu Ciulei | Forest of the Hanged |
| 1961 |
|
Yuliya Solntseva | Chronicle of Flaming Years |
| 1959 |
|
François Truffaut | The 400 Blows |
| 1958 |
|
Ingmar Bergman | Brink of Life |
| 1957 |
|
Robert Bresson | A Man Escaped |
| 1956 |
|
Sergei Yutkevich | Othello |
| 1955 |
|
Sergei Vasilyev | Heroes of Shipka (Tie with Rififi) |
| 1955 |
|
Jules Dassin | Rififi (Tie with Heroes of Shipka) |
| 1952 |
|
Christian-Jaque | Fanfan la Tulipe |
| 1951 |
|
Luis Buñuel | Los Olvidados |
| 1949 |
|
René Clément | The Walls of Malapaga |
| 1946 |
|
René Clément | The Battle of the Rails |
