A Palme d'Or Checklist

By: Duncan Gray

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
  Miss Julie
  Alf Sjöberg
• 05
  Othello
  Orson Welles
• 06
  The Wages of Fear
  Henri-Georges Clouzot
• 07
  Gate of Hell
  Teinosuke Kinugasa
• 08
  The Silent World
  Jacques-Yves Cousteau
• 09
  The Cranes Are Flying
  Mikhail Kalatozov
• 10
  Black Orpheus
  Marcel Camus
• 11
  La dolce vita
  Federico Fellini
• 12
  Viridiana
  Luis Buñuel
• 13
  The Leopard
  Luchino Visconti
• 14
  The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
  Jacques Demy
• 15
  The Knack ...and How to Get It
  Richard Lester
• 16
  The Birds, the Bees and the Italians
  Pietro Germi
• 17
  Blow-Up
  Michelangelo Antonioni
• 18
  If....
  Lindsay Anderson
• 19
  M*A*S*H
  Robert Altman
• 20
  The Go-Between
  Joseph Losey
• 21
  The Hireling
  Alan Bridges
• 22
  Scarecrow
  Jerry Schatzberg
• 23
  The Conversation
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 24
  Taxi Driver
  Martin Scorsese
• 25
  Padre padrone
  Paolo Taviani
• 26
  The Tree of Wooden Clogs
  Ermanno Olmi
• 27
  Apocalypse Now
  Francis Ford Coppola
• 28
  Kagemusha
  Akira Kurosawa
• 29
  Man of Iron
  Andrzej Wajda
• 30
  Missing
  Costa-Gavras
• 31
  Paris, Texas
  Wim Wenders
• 32
  When Father Was Away on Business
  Emir Kusturica
• 33
  The Mission
  Roland Joffé
• 34
  sex, lies and videotape
  Steven Soderbergh
• 35
  Barton Fink
  Joel Coen
• 36
  The Piano
  Jane Campion
• 37
  Farewell My Concubine
  Chen Kaige
• 38
  Pulp Fiction
  Quentin Tarantino
• 39
  Secrets & Lies
  Mike Leigh
• 40
  Taste of Cherry
  Abbas Kiarostami
• 41
  Eternity and a Day
  Theodoros Angelopoulos
• 42
  Rosetta
  Jean-Pierre Dardenne
• 43
  The Son's Room
  Nanni Moretti
• 44
  The Pianist
  Roman Polanski
• 45
  Elephant
  Gus Van Sant
• 46
  Fahrenheit 9/11
  Michael Moore
• 47
  L'enfant
  Jean-Pierre Dardenne
• 48
  The Wind that Shakes the Barley
  Ken Loach
• 49
  The Class
  Laurent Cantet
• 50
  The White Ribbon
  Michael Haneke
• 51
  Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• 52
  The Tree of Life
  Terrence Malick
• 53
  Amour
  Michael Haneke