Palme d'Or

The Palme d'Or ("Golden Palm") is the name of the highest prize given to a film at the Cannes Film Festival.

Golden Palm winners

Year	Film	Director	Country
1939	Union Pacific	Cecil B. DeMille	United States
1946	Torment (Hets)	Alf Sjöberg	Sweden
1946	The Lost Weekend	Billy Wilder	United States
1946	Red Meadows (De røde enge)	Bodil Ipsen & Lau Lauritzen	Denmark
1946	Lowly City (Neecha Nagar)	Chetan Anand	India
1946	Brief Encounter	David Lean	United Kingdom
1946	Portrait of Maria (María Candelaria)	Emilio Fernández	Mexico
1946	The Turning Point (Великий перелом, Veliky perelom)	Fridrikh Markovitch Ermler	Soviet Union
1946	La symphonie pastorale	Jean Delannoy	France
1946	The Last Chance (Die Letzte Chance)	Leopold Lintberg	Switzerland
1946	Men Without Wings (Muži bez křídel)	František Čáp	Czechoslovakia
1946	Open City (Roma, città aperta)	Roberto Rossellini	Italy
1947	not awarded
1948	not held
1949	The Third Man	Carol Reed	United Kingdom
1950	not held
1951	Miss Julie (Fröken Julie)	Alf Sjöberg	Sweden
1951	Miracle in Milan (Miracolo a Milano)	Vittorio De Sica	Italy
1952	The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice	Orson Welles	United States
1952	Two Cents Worth of Hope (Due soldi di speranza)	Renato Castellani	Italy
1953	The Wages of Fear (Le Salaire de la peur)	Henri-Georges Clouzot	France
1954	Gate of Hell (Jigokumon)	Teinosuke Kinugasa	Japan
1955	Marty	Delbert Mann	United States
1956	The Silent World (Le monde du silence)	Jacques-Yves Cousteau & Louis Malle	France
1957	Friendly Persuasion	William Wyler	United States
1958	The Cranes Are Flying (Летят журавли, Letyat zhuravli)	Mikheil Kalatozishvili	Soviet Union
1959	Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro)	Marcel Camus	France
1960	La dolce vita	Federico Fellini	Italy
1961	The Long Absence (Une aussi longue absence)	Henri Colpi	France
1961	Viridiana	Luis Buñuel	Spain
1962	Keeper of Promises (O Pagador de Promessas)	Anselmo Duarte	Brazil
1963	The Leopard (Il Gattopardo)	Luchino Visconti	Italy
1964	The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg)	Jacques Demy	France
1965	The Knack	Richard Lester	United Kingdom
1966	A Man and a Woman (Un homme et une femme)	Claude Lelouch	France
1966	The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (Signore & signori)	Pietro Germi	Italy
1967	Blowup	Michelangelo Antonioni	Italy
1968	canceled
1969	If....	Lindsay Anderson	United Kingdom
1970	MASH	Robert Altman	United States
1971	The Go-Between	Joseph Losey	United Kingdom
1972	The Working Class Goes to Heaven (La classe operaia va in paradiso)	Elio Petri	Italy
1972	The Mattei Affair (Il Caso Mattei)	Francesco Rosi	Italy
1973	The Hireling	Alan Bridges	United Kingdom
1973	Scarecrow	Jerry Schatzberg	United States
1974	The Conversation	Francis Ford Coppola	United States
1975	Chronicle of the Years of Fire (Chronique des années de braise)	Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina	Algeria
1976	Taxi Driver	Martin Scorsese	United States
1977	Father and Master (Padre padrone)	Paolo Taviani & Vittorio Taviani	Italy
1978	The Tree with the Wooden Clogs (L'Albero degli zoccoli)	Ermanno Olmi	Italy
1979	Apocalypse Now	Francis Ford Coppola	United States
1979	The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel)	Volker Schlöndorff	West Germany
1980	All That Jazz	Bob Fosse	United States
1980	Shadow Warrior (Kagemusha)	Akira Kurosawa	Japan
1981	Man of Iron (Czlowiek z zelaza)	Andrzej Wajda	Poland
1982	Missing	Costa-Gavras	United States
1982	The Way (Yol)	Yilmaz Güney	Turkey
1983	The Ballad of Narayama (Narayama bushiko)	Shohei Imamura	Japan
1984	Paris, Texas	Wim Wenders	West Germany
1985	When Father Was Away on Business (Otac na službenom putu)	Emir Kusturica	Yugoslavia
1986	The Mission	Roland Joffé	United Kingdom
1987	Under the Sun of Satan (Sous le soleil de Satan)	Maurice Pialat	France
1988	Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle erobreren)	Bille August	Denmark
1989	Sex, Lies, and Videotape	Steven Soderbergh	United States
1990	Wild at Heart	David Lynch	United States
1991	Barton Fink	Joel Coen & Ethan Coen	United States
1992	The Best Intentions (Den goda viljan)	Bille August	Denmark
1993	Farewell My Concubine (霸王别姬, Ba wang bie ji)	Kaige Chen	China
1993	The Piano	Jane Campion	New Zealand
1994	Pulp Fiction	Quentin Tarantino	United States
1995	Underground	Emir Kusturica	Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
1996	Secrets & Lies	Mike Leigh	United Kingdom
1997	A Taste of Cherry (Ta'm e guilass)	Abbas Kiarostami	Iran
1997	The Eel (Unagi)	Shohei Imamura	Japan
1998	Eternity and a Day (Mia aioniotita kai mia mera)	Theo Angelopoulos	Greece
1999	Rosetta	Luc Dardenne & Jean-Pierre Dardenne	Belgium
2000	Dancer in the Dark	Lars von Trier	Denmark
2001	The Son's Room (La stanza del figlio)	Nanni Moretti	Italy
2002	The Pianist	Roman Polanski	France
2003	Elephant	Gus Van Sant	United States
2004	Fahrenheit 9/11	Michael Moore	United States

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