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- One of only nine directors to win the Palme d'Or twice, Francis Ford Coppola took home his first 50 years ago - back when the award was still called the Grand Prix - for The Conversation.
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- “ Taxi Driver” (1976) Fellow Palme d’Or winner Quentin Tarantino once called “Taxi Driver” the greatest first-person character study ever committed to film and we aren’t here to disagree.
- “The Leopard” (1963) Underneath the lush trappings of Luchino Visconti’s 1963 winner beats the heart of the most tragic of personal and political dramas.
- “La Dolce Vita” (1960) Perhaps the definitive Cannes crowdpleaser, Federico Fellini’s magnum opus is an lush story about searching for the eponymous sweet life over the course of just seven days in Rome.
- “Viridiana” (1961) When a film wins the Palme d’Or, is banned in its home country, and gets denounced by the Vatican, it must be doing something right.
May 19, 2024 · Francis Ford Coppola wins Cannes Palme d’Or in 1974 Courtesy of Gilbert TOURTE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images. One of only nine directors to win the Palme d’Or twice, Francis Ford Coppola took home...
May 28, 2017 · Onstage in the Lumière Theater, where the awards ceremony took place, the director Maren Ade, a juror, accepted the prize for an absent Ms. Coppola, who thanked her parents as well as the...
- “Marty” (1955) In the first year that Cannes started calling their top prize the Palme d’Or, the Delbert Mann drama and romance based on a Paddy Chayefsky teleplay won the film festival’s highest honor — and went on to earn four Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Writing and Best Actor for Ernest Borgnine.
- “The Silent World” (1956) Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s pioneering, underwater nature documentary beat out films from Satyajit Ray, Alfred Hitchcock, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa and more to win the Palme d’Or, and it also took home the Best Documentary Oscar.
- “Black Orpheus” (1959) Marcel Camus’s dreamy, contemporary take on the Orpheus and Eurydice Greek myth won the Palme d’Or and the Best Foreign Language Oscar.
- “La Dolce Vita” (1960) Federico Fellini’s sensuous reverie of a film “La Dolce Vita” managed Oscar nods for Best Director and Screenplay, but only won for Best Costume Design.
- The Tree of Life
- Fahrenheit 9/11
- Elephant
- Pulp Fiction
- The Lost Weekend
- Marty
- Taxi Driver
- Apocalypse Now
- Wild at Heart
- Barton Fink
Terrence Malick’s time-shifting narrative about discipline and grace was a very polarizing film when it was first released in 2011. After The Tree of Life debuted at the 64th Cannes Film Festival, half of the 2400-seat Grand Auditorium audience heckled and booed the surreal film, while its supporters cheered. The Tree of Liferemains a very divisive...
Fresh off his Academy Award for Bowling For Columbine, Michael Moore’s follow-up was the first American-made documentary to win the Palme d’Or when it debuted at the 57th Cannes Film Festival in 2004. Fahrenheit 9/11received a 20-minute standing ovation after it was first screened. Famously, director Quentin Tarantino, who was the president of the ...
The first film in director Gus Van Sant’s Death Trilogy—along with the films Gerry and Last Days—Elephant took a fictional look at the mass shooting at Columbine High School. Reviews of the film were mixed, and Elephantremains a very controversial film, even being blamed by some for spawning copycat school shootings.
Director Quentin Tarantino took the world by storm with the release of Pulp Fiction at the 47th Cannes Film Festival in 1994. The festival’s jury loved the film’s sharp wit, non-linear structure, and in-depth storytelling. When Pulp Fictionopened in the US, the film took the No. 1 spot at the box office in its first week of release. Today, Pulp Fic...
Before the Palme d’Or was the highest award, the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film was the most prestigious honor a film could aspire to during the Cannes Film Festival. In 1945, Billy Wilder’s The Lost Weekend—which took a dark look at alcoholism in America—received the top prize. The film would go on to win four Academy Awards includin...
Director Delbert Mann’s Marty was the first film to unanimously win the top prize in the history of the Cannes Film Festival. Based on Paddy Chayefsky’s 1953 teleplay, Marty told the story of a socially awkward unmarried 34-year-old man (Ernest Borgnine) who still lived with his mother. Marty, along with The Lost Weekend, are the only two films to ...
Martin Scorsese’s breakthrough film was the Italian-American director’s first critical and commercial hit in the United States. Timemagazine put the film on its list of Top 100 Films of All Time.
Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now was the director’s second Palme d’Or-winning film (the first was The Conversationin 1974). The epic Vietnam War film showcased an all-star cast including Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, and Martin Sheen. With production delays due to a massive typhoon in the Philippines, the early recasting of Martin Sheen for Ha...
One of David Lynch’s most controversial films, Wild At Heart received an abundance of applause and wild cheers when it debuted at the 43rd Cannes Film Festival in 1990. But when the film won the Palme’ d’Or, a few film critics—including Roger Ebert—booed and jeered the jury’s selection for the festival’s prestigious top prize. Wild At Heartis a fev...
The Coen Brothers’ Barton Finkwas a big winner at the 44th Cannes Film Festival in 1991. The strange film won Best Director for Joel Coen and Best Actor for John Turturro in addition to the festival's top prize. To prevent other films from receiving so many accolades in the future, the festival organizers and programmers limited the number of award...
May 19, 2024 · Story by Shannon L. Bowen. • 10h. One of only nine directors to win the Palme d'Or twice, Francis Ford Coppola took home his first 50 years ago - back when the award was still called the...
The Palme d’or, a timeless symbol of the Festival de Cannes, has been awarded to the best film in the Official Competition for over 60 years. The famous trophy has been garnered by Fellini, Coppola, Haneke and Kurosawa, amongst others, and is a jewellery marvel, hand-crafted in the Geneva workshops of the celebrated jewellers Chopard in ...
