Best Director Prizes, Cannes Film Festival
By: Joe Bowman
Here’s a list of the winners of the Best Director Prize at the annual Cannes Film Festival.
Not listed:
Le mura di Malapaga / 1969 / René Clément / France/Italy
Geroite na Shipka / Heroes of Shipka / 1955 / Sergei Vasilyev / Soviet Union/Bulgaria
Othello / 1955 / Sergei Yutkevich / Soviet Union
Povest plamennykh let / Chronicle of Flaming Years / 1961 / Yuliya Solntseva / Soviet Union
Lenin v Polshe / Lenin in Poland / 1966 / Sergei Yutkevich / Soviet Union/Poland
Tízezer nap / Ten Thousand Days / 1967 / Ferenc Kósa / Hungary
Les ordres / 1974 / Michel Brault / Canada
Section spéciale / Special Section / 1975 / Costa-Gavras / France
Brutti, sporchi e cattivi / Ugly, Dirty and Bad / 1976 / Ettore Scola / Italy
Taxi Blues / 1990 / Pavel Lungin / Soviet Union/France
Exils / Exiles / 2004 / Tony Gatlif / France/Japan
Joel Coen, John Boorman, Sergei Yutkevich and Robert Bresson are the only directors to have won the award twice.
Only twice have the Palme d’Or and Best Director Prize been awarded to the same film. In 1991, for Barton Fink, and in 2003, for Elephant.
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01Luis Buñuel
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02Christian-Jaque
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03Jules Dassin
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04Robert Bresson
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05Ingmar Bergman
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06François Truffaut
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07Liviu Ciulei
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08Miklós Jancsó
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09Nagisa Ôshima
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10Terrence Malick
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11Werner Herzog
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12Robert Bresson
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13Andrei Tarkovsky
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14Bertrand Tavernier
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15Martin Scorsese
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16Wim Wenders
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17Emir Kusturica
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18Joel Coen
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19Robert Altman
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20Mike Leigh
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21Nanni Moretti
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22Mathieu Kassovitz
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23Joel Coen
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24Wong Kar-wai
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25John Boorman
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26Pedro Almodóvar
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27Edward Yang
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28Joel Coen
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29David Lynch
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30Paul Thomas Anderson
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31Gus Van Sant
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32Michael Haneke
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33Alejandro González Iñárritu
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34Julian Schnabel
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35Nuri Bilge Ceylan
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36Brillante Mendoza
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37Glauber Rocha
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38Fernando E. Solanas
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39Im Kwon-taek
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40André Téchiné
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41Vojtěch Jasný
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42John Boorman
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43René Clément
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44Tony Gatlif
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45Pavel Lungin
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46Mathieu Amalric
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47Nicolas Winding Refn
