Palme d'Or
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
The Palme d'Or ("Golden Palm") is the highest prize given to a competing film at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the organizing committee. From 1902 to 1954, the highest accolade had been called the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film.
The Palme d'Or was not awarded from 1964 to 1974; it was replaced by the Grand Prix.
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Grand Prix du Festival International du Film (1939-54)
| Year | Film | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1939 | Union Pacific | Cecil B. DeMille |
| 1946 | Torment (Hets) | Alf Sjöberg |
| The Lost Weekend | Billy Wilder | |
| Red Meadows (De røde enge) | Bodil Ipsen and Lau Lauritzen | |
| Lowly City (Neecha Nagar) | Chetan Anand | |
| Brief Encounter | David Lean | |
| Portrait of Maria (María Candelaria) | Emilio Fernández | |
| The Turning Point (Великий перелом, Velikiy perelom) | Fridrikh Markovitch Ermler | |
| La symphonie pastorale | Jean Delannoy | |
| The Last Chance (Die Letzte Chance) | Leopold Lintberg | |
| Men Without Wings (Muži bez křídel) | František Čáp | |
| Rome, Open City (Roma, città aperta) | Roberto Rossellini | |
| 1947 | not awarded | |
| 1948 | not held | |
| 1949 | The Third Man | Carol Reed |
| 1950 | not held | |
| 1951 | Miss Julie (Fröken Julie) | Alf Sjöberg |
| Miracle in Milan (Miracolo a Milano) | Vittorio De Sica | |
| 1952 | The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice | Orson Welles |
| Two Cents Worth of Hope (Due soldi di speranza) | Renato Castellani | |
| 1953 | The Wages of Fear (Le salaire de la peur) | Henri-Georges Clouzot |
| 1954 | Gate of Hell (地獄門, Jigokumon) | Teinosuke Kinugasa |
Palme d'Or (1955-1963)
| Year | Film | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1955 | Marty | Delbert Mann |
| 1956 | The Silent World (Le monde du silence) | Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle |
| 1957 | Friendly Persuasion | William Wyler |
| 1958 | The Cranes Are Flying (Летят журавли, Letyat zhuravli) | Mikhail Kalatozov |
| 1959 | Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro) | Marcel Camus |
| 1960 | La dolce vita | Federico Fellini |
| 1961 | The Long Absence (Une aussi longue absence) | Henri Colpi |
| Viridiana | Luis Buñuel | |
| 1962 | Keeper of Promises (O Pagador de Promessas) | Anselmo Duarte |
| 1963 | The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) | Luchino Visconti |
Grand Prix du Festival International du Film (1964-1974)
| Year | Film | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1964 | The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg) | Jacques Demy |
| 1965 | The Knack ...and How to Get It | Richard Lester |
| 1966 | A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme) | Claude Lelouch |
| The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (Signore and signori) | Pietro Germi | |
| 1967 | Blowup | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| 1968 | canceled due to events of May 1968 | |
| 1969 | If.... | Lindsay Anderson |
| 1970 | M*A*S*H | Robert Altman |
| 1971 | The Go-Between | Joseph Losey |
| 1972 | The Working Class Goes to Heaven (La classe operaia va in paradiso) | Elio Petri |
| The Mattei Affair (Il Caso Mattei) | Francesco Rosi | |
| 1973 | The Hireling | Alan Bridges |
| Scarecrow | Jerry Schatzberg | |
| 1974 | The Conversation | Francis Ford Coppola |
Palme d'Or (1975-present)
Repeated winners
- Alf Sjöberg (1946, 1951)
- Francis Ford Coppola (1974, 1979)
- Shohei Imamura (1983, 1997)
- Emir Kusturica (1985, 1995)
- Bille August (1988, 1992)
- Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne (1999, 2005)
Criticism
The festival is sometimes criticized for eurocentrism.Template:Fact Specifically, the film festival is designed to be an international film festival, but almost all Golden Palm winners are from the United States or Europe.
