Caméra d'Or, Cannes Film Festival

The Caméra d’Or, or Golden Camera, is a prize awarded annually at the Cannes Film Festival since 1978 to a film (screening either in competition, in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs or during the Semaine Internationale de la Critique) from a first-time director. The award, created by Gilles Jacob, was first given to Robert M. Young’s Alambrista! in 1978. Since then, the award has gone to a number of important world filmmakers including Jim Jarmusch, Naomi Kawase, Bahman Ghobadi, Tran Anh Hung, Jaco Van Dormael,...