Thursday, June 10, 2010

Cannes Award Winning Films

All Seventy-Eight Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or Winners:

1939 Union Pacific Country : U.S. Director Cecil B. DeMille
1946 Torment
Country : Sweden Director Alf Sjoberg
1946 Lost Weekend
Country : U.S. Director Billy Wilder
1946 The Red Earth
Country : Hungary Director Bodil Ipsen & Lau Jr. Lauritzen
1946 Lowly City
Country : India Director Chetan Anand
1946 Brief Encounter
Country : U.K. Director David Lean
1946 Maria Candelaria
Country : Mexico Director Emilio Fernandez
1946 The Turning Point
Country : U.S.S.R. Director Fridrikh Markovitch Ermler
1946 La Symphonie Pastorale
Country : France Director Jean Delannoy
1946 The Last Chance
Country : Switzerland Director Leopold Lintberg
1946 Men Without Wings
Country : France Director M. Cap
1946 Open City
Country : Italy Director Roberto Rossellini
1949 The Third Man
Country : U.K. Director Carol Reed
1951 Miss Julie
Country : Sweden Director Alf Sjöberg
1951 Miracle in Milan
Country : Italy Director Vittorio De Sica
1952 Othello
Country : U.S. Director Orson Welles
1952 Two Cents Worth of Hope
Country : Italy Director Renato Castellani
1953 The Wages of Fear
Country : France Director Henri-Georges Clouzot
1954 Gate of Hell
Country : Japan Director Teinosuke Kinugasa
1955 Marty
Country : U.S. Director Delbert Mann
1956 The Silent World
Country : Italy/France Director Jacques-Yves Cousteau & Louis Malle
1957 Friendly Persuasion
Country : U.S. Director William Wyler
1958 The Cranes are Flying
Country : U.S.S.R. Director Mikheil Kalatozishvili
1959 Black Orpheus
Country : Brazil Director Marcel Camus
1960 La Dolce Vita
Country : Italy Director Federico Fellini
1961 The Long Absence
Country : France/Italy Director Henri Colpi
1961 Viridiana
Country : Spain Director Luis Buñuel
1962 Keeper of Promises
Country : Brazil/Portugal Director Anselmo Duarte
1963 The Leopard
Country : Italy Director Luchino Visconti
1964 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Country : France Director Jacques Demy
1965 The Knack
Country : U.K. Director Richard Lester
1966 A Man and a Woman
Country : France Director Claude Lelouch
1966 The Birds, the Bees, and the Italians
Country : Italy/France Director Pietro Germi
1967 Blow-Up
Country : U.K./Italy Director Michelangelo Antonioni
1969 If . . . .
Country : U.K. Director Lindsay Anderson
1970 M*A*S*H
Country : U.S. Director Robert Altman
1971 The Go-Between
Country : U.K. Director Joseph Losey
1972 The Working Class Goes to Heaven
Country : Italy Director Elio Petri
1972 The Mattei Affair
Country : Italy Director Francesco Rosi
1973 The Mistake
Country : U.K. Director Alan Bridges
1973 Scarecrow
Country : U.S. Director Jerry Schatzberg
1974 The Conversation
Country : U.S. Director Francis Ford Coppola
1975 Chronicle of the Years of Fire
Country : Algeria Director Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
1976 Taxi Driver
Country : U.S. Director Martin Scorsese
1977 Padre Padrone
Country : Italy Director Paolo & Vittorio Taviani
1978 Tree of the Wooden Clogs
Country : Italy/France Director Ermanno Olmi
1979 Apocalypse Now
Country : U.S. Director Francis Ford Coppola
1979 The Tin Drum
Country : Germany Director Volker Schlöndorff
1980 All That Jazz
Country : U.S. Director Bob Fosse
1980 Kagemusha
Country : Japan Director Akira Kurosawa
1981 The Man of Iron
Country : Poland Director Andrzej Wajda
1982 Missing
Country : U.S. Director Costa-Gavras
1982 Yol
Country : Turkey Director Yilmaz Güney
1983 The Ballad of Nurayama
Country : Japan Director Shohei Imamura
1984 Paris, Texas
Country : France/W. Germany Director Wim Wenders
1985 When Father Was Away on Business
Country : Yugoslavia Director Emir Kusturica
1986 The Mission
Country : U.K. Director Roland Joffé
1987 Under the Sun of Satan
Country : France Director Maurice Pialat
1988 Pelle the Conqueror
Country : Denmark/Sweden Director Bille August
1989 Sex, Lies and Videotape
Country : U.S. Director Steven Soderbergh
1990 Wild at Heart
Country : U.S. Director David Lynch
1991 Barton Fink
Country : U.S. Director Ethan & Joel Cohen
1992 The Best Intentions
Country : Sweden Director Bille August
1993 Farewell My Concubine
Country : China Director Chen Kaige
1993 The Piano
Country : New Zealand Director Jane Campion
1994 Pulp Fiction
Country : U.S. Director Quentin Tarantino
1995 Underground
Country : Yugoslavia Director Emir Kusturica
1996 Secrets and Lies
Country : U.K. Director Mike Leigh
1997 Taste of Cherry
Country : Japan Director Abbas Kiarostami
1997 The Eel
Country : Iran Director Shohei Imamura
1998 Eternity and a Day
Country : Greece Director Theo Angelopoulos
1999 Rosetta
Country : Belgium/France Director Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
2000 Dancer in the Dark
Country : Denmark Director Lars von Trier
2001 The Son's Room
Country : Italy Director Nanni Moretti
2002 The Pianist
Country : France/Germany/U.K. Director Roman Polanski
2003 Elephant
Country : U.S. Director Gus Van Sant
2004 Fahrenheit 9/11
Country : U.S. Director Michael Moore
2005 The Child
Country : Belgium Director Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
2006 The Wind that Shakes the Barley
Country : U.K. Director Ken Loach
2007 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
Country : Romania Director Christian Mungiu
2008 The Class
Country : France Director Laurent Cantet
2009 The White Ribbon Country: Germany Director Michael Haneke

Double Winners:
Alf Sjoberg: 1946, 1951
Francis Ford Coppola: 1974, 1979
Shohei Imamura: 1983, 1997
Emir Kusturica: 1985, 1995
Billie August: 1988, 1992
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne: 1999, 2005