A Palme d'Or Checklist

By: Cinesth​esia (aka Duncan)

All the top prizewinners at Cannes I’ve seen, in chronological order. (Also counting the years it was called the “Grand Prix du Festival International du Film”).

• 01
  Rome, Open City
  Roberto Rossellini
• 02
  Brief Encounter
  David Lean
• 03
  The Third Man
  Carol Reed
• 04
  Othello
  Orson Welles
• 05
  The Wages of Fear
  Henri-Georges Clouzot
• 06
  Gate of Hell
  Teinosuke Kinugasa
• 07
  The Silent World
  Jacques-Yves Cousteau
• 08
  The Cranes Are Flying
  Mikhail Kalatozov
• 09
  Black Orpheus
  Marcel Camus
• 10
  La dolce vita
  Federico Fellini
• 11
  Viridiana
  Luis Buñuel
• 12
  The Leopard
  Luchino Visconti
• 13
  The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
  Jacques Demy
• 14
  The Knack ...and How to Get It
  Richard Lester
• 15
  The Birds, the Bees and the Italians
  Pietro Germi
• 16
  Blow-Up
  Michelangelo Antonioni
• 17
  If....
  Lindsay Anderson
• 18
  M*A*S*H
  Robert Altman
• 19
  The Go-Between
  Joseph Losey
• 20
  The Conversation
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 21
  Taxi Driver
  Martin Scorsese
• 22
  The Tree of Wooden Clogs
  Ermanno Olmi
• 23
  Apocalypse Now
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 24
  Kagemusha
  Akira Kurosawa
• 25
  Man of Iron
  Andrzej Wajda
• 26
  Missing
  Costa-Gavras
• 27
  When Father Was Away on Business
  Emir Kusturica
• 28
  The Mission
  Roland Joffé
• 29
  sex, lies and videotape
  Steven Soderbergh
• 30
  Barton Fink
  Joel Coen
• 31
  The Piano
  Jane Campion
• 32
  Pulp Fiction
  Quentin Tarantino
• 33
  Taste of Cherry
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 34
  Eternity and a Day
  Theodoros Angelopoulos
• 35
  The Son's Room
  Nanni Moretti
• 36
  Elephant
  Gus Van Sant
• 37
  Fahrenheit 9/11
  Michael Moore
• 38
  L'enfant
  Jean-Pierre Dardenne
• 39
  The Wind that Shakes the Barley
  Ken Loach
• 40
  The White Ribbon
  Michael Haneke
• 41
  Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• 42
  The Tree of Life
  Terrence Malick