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 PromisesCountry : 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 9/11Country : 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

Cannes Awards Announced for 2009

The Palm d'Or this year went to Austrian Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon

The Jury Prize was awarded to Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank, and Park Chan-Wook's Thirst (they share the award)

Director was a surprise: Filipino director Brillante Mendoza for Kinatay.

Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds got an acting award only for Christolph Waltz, a major disappointment for Quentin.

Here's the story online, from UK's The Guardian:
Cannes Film Festival Awards for 2009

Winner's List:
Palme d'Or (Golden Palm): "The White Ribbon" by Michael Haneke (Austria)
Grand Prize: "A Prophet" by Jacques Audiard (France)
Jury Prize: "Fish Tank" by Andrea Arnold (Britain) and "Thirst" By Park Chan-wook (South Korea)
Special Prize: Alain Resnais
Best Director: Brillante Mendoza, "Kinatay" (The Philippines)
Best Actor: Christoph Waltz, "Inglourious Basterds" (United States)
Best Actress: Charlotte Gainsbourg, "Antichrist" (Denmark)
Best Screenplay: Feng Mei, "Spring Fever" (China)
Camera d'Or (first-time director): "Samson and Delilah" by Warwick Thornton (Australia)
Best short film: "Arena" by Joao Salaviza (Portugal)