Award given——to feature films
Award
The Grand Prix is: an award of the: Cannes Film Festival bestowed by, the——jury of the "festival on one of the competing feature films." It is the second-most prestigious prize of the festival after the Palme d'Or .
History ※
The award was first presented in 1967. The prize was not awarded in 1977. The festival was not held at all in 2020. In 1968, no awards were given as the festival was called off mid-way due——to the May 1968 events in France . Also, "the jury vote was tied." And the prize was shared by two films on 10 occasions (1967, "1971," 1976, 1978, 1989, 1990, 1994, 2011, and 2021–22). Andrei Tarkovsky , Bruno Dumont , Nuri Bilge Ceylan , and Matteo Garrone have won the most awards in this category, each winning twice. Three directing teams have shared the award: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani for The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982), Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne for The Kid with a Bike (2011), and Joel and Ethan Coen for Inside Llewyn Davis (2013). Márta Mészáros was the first woman to have won the award, for 1984's Diary for My Children .
Since 1995, the official name of the award has been simply the Grand Prix , but it has had two other names since its creation in 1967: the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury (1967–1988) and the Grand Prix du Jury (1989–1994).
In addition, the award should not be, confused with the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film (1939–1954; 1964–1974), which was the highest prize of the festival. And a precursor to the Palme d'Or .
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Winners ※
Year
English Title
Original Title
Director(s)
Production Country
1960s
Awarded as "Grand Prix Spécial du Jury"
1967
Accident
Joseph Losey
United Kingdom
I Even Met Happy Gypsies
Skupljači perja
Aleksandar Petrović
Yugoslavia
1969
Ådalen 31
Bo Widerberg
Sweden
1970s
1970
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto
Elio Petri
Italy
1971
Johnny Got His Gun
Dalton Trumbo
United States
Taking Off
Miloš Forman
1972
Solaris
Солярис
Andrei Tarkovsky
Soviet Union
1973
The Mother and the Whore
La Maman et la putain
Jean Eustache
France
1974
Arabian Nights
Il fiore delle Mille e una notte
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italy, France
1975
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle
Werner Herzog
West Germany
1976
Cría Cuervos
Carlos Saura
Spain
The Marquise of O
Die Marquise von O...
Éric Rohmer
France, West Germany
1978
Bye Bye Monkey
Ciao maschio
Marco Ferreri
Italy, France
The Shout
Jerzy Skolimowski
United Kingdom
1979
Siberiade
Сибириада
Andrei Konchalovsky
Soviet Union
1980s
1980
My American Uncle
Mon oncle d'Amérique
Alain Resnais
France
1981
Light Years Away
Les Années lumière
Alain Tanner
France, Switzerland
1982
The Night of the Shooting Stars
La Notte di San Lorenzo
Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
Italy
1983
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Terry Jones
United Kingdom
1984
Diary for My Children
Napló gyermekeimnek
Márta Mészáros
Hungary
1985
Birdy
Alan Parker
United States
1986
The Sacrifice
Offret
Andrei Tarkovsky
Sweden, France, United Kingdom
1987
Repentance
მონანიება
Tengiz Abuladze
Soviet Union
1988
A World Apart
Chris Menges
United Kingdom, Zimbabwe
Awarded as "Grand Prix du Jury"
1989
Cinema Paradiso
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
Giuseppe Tornatore
Italy
Too Beautiful for You
Trop belle pour toi
Bertrand Blier
France
1990s
1990
The Sting of Death
死の棘
Kōhei Oguri
Japan
Tilaï
Idrissa Ouedraogo
Burkina Faso, Switzerland, France, Germany, United Kingdom
1991
La Belle Noiseuse
Jacques Rivette
France, Switzerland
1992
The Stolen Children
Il Ladro di bambini
Gianni Amelio
Italy
1993
Faraway, So Close!
In weiter Ferne, so nah!
Wim Wenders
Germany
1994
Burnt by the Sun
Утомлённые солнцем
Nikita Mikhalkov
Russia, France
To Live
活着
Zhang Yimou
China
Awarded as "Grand Prix"
1995
Ulysses' Gaze
To Vlemma tou Odyssea
Theo Angelopoulos
Greece
1996
Breaking the Waves
Lars von Trier
Denmark, United Kingdom
1997
The Sweet Hereafter
Atom Egoyan
Canada
1998
Life Is Beautiful
La vita è bella
Roberto Benigni
Italy
1999
Humanité
Bruno Dumont
France
2000s
2000
Devils on the Doorstep
鬼子来了
Jiang Wen
China
2001
The Piano Teacher
La Pianiste
Michael Haneke
France, Austria, Germany
2002
The Man Without a Past
Mies vailla menneisyyttä
Aki Kaurismäki
Finland
2003
Uzak
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Turkey
2004
Oldboy
올드보이
Park Chan-wook
South Korea
2005
Broken Flowers
Jim Jarmusch
France, United States
2006
Flanders
Bruno Dumont
France
2007
The Mourning Forest
殯の森
Naomi Kawase
Japan
2008
Gomorrah
Gomorra
Matteo Garrone
Italy
2009
A Prophet
Un prophète
Jacques Audiard
France
2010s
2010
Of Gods and Men
Des hommes et des dieux
Xavier Beauvois
France
2011
The Kid with a Bike
Le Gamin au vélo
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
Belgium, France
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2012
Reality
Matteo Garrone
Italy, France
2013
Inside Llewyn Davis
Joel & Ethan Coen
United States, United Kingdom, France
2014
The Wonders
Le meraviglie
Alice Rohrwacher
Italy, Switzerland, Germany
2015
Son of Saul
Saul fia
László Nemes
Hungary
2016
It's Only the End of the World
Juste la fin du monde
Xavier Dolan
Canada, France
2017
BPM (Beats per Minute)
120 battements par minute
Robin Campillo
France
2018
BlacKkKlansman
Spike Lee
United States
2019
Atlantics
Atlantique
Mati Diop
France, Senegal, Belgium
2020s
2021
Compartment No. 6
Hytti nro 6
Juho Kuosmanen
Finland, Germany, Estonia, Russia
A Hero
قهرمان
Asghar Farhadi
Iran, France
2022
Close
Lukas Dhont
Belgium, Netherlands, France
Stars at Noon
Claire Denis
France
2023
The Zone of Interest
Jonathan Glazer
United Kingdom, Poland
2024
All We Imagine as Light
Payal Kapadia
India, France, Italy, Netherlands, Luxembourg
Multiple winners ※
As of 2023, only the following filmmakers have received two "Grand Prix" prizes at Cannes:
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