This is the list of all the major winners (in different years: «Golden Palm», «Grand Prix») of the Cannes International Film Festival since 1946. In the notes: information about the number of the festival, the year of the event and the country of production of the winner.
Unrewarded Years due to canceled, or noncompetitive, or failed competitive festival issue:
• 1948 – Canceled (no festival due to budgetary problems)
• 1950 – Canceled (no festival due to budgetary problems)
• 1968, 21st Cannes – Failed Competitive (no award this edition because the festival was cancelled midway to show solidarity with the students and workers who were demonstrating in what became known as the May 68 movement)
• 2020, 73rd Cannes…
This is the list of all the major winners (in different years: «Golden Palm», «Grand Prix») of the Cannes International Film Festival since 1946. In the notes: information about the number of the festival, the year of the event and the country of production of the winner.
Unrewarded Years due to canceled, or noncompetitive, or failed competitive festival issue:
• 1948 – Canceled (no festival due to budgetary problems)
• 1950 – Canceled (no festival due to budgetary problems)
• 1968, 21st Cannes – Failed Competitive (no award this edition because the festival was cancelled midway to show solidarity with the students and workers who were demonstrating in what became known as the May 68 movement)
• 2020, 73rd Cannes – Canceled (no festival due to the COVID-19 pandemic)
Multiple Winners:
• Alf Sjöberg (1946, 1951) – Sweden
• Francis Ford Coppola (1974, 1979) – United States
• Bille August (1988, 1992) - Denmark
• Emir Kusturica (1985, 1995) – Serbia/Yugoslavia
• Shohei Imamura (1983, 1997) – Japan
• Luc Dardenne & Jean-Pierre Dardenne (1999, 2005) – Belgium
• Michael Haneke (2009, 2012) – Austria
• Ken Loach (2006, 2016) – United Kingdom
• Ruben Östlund (2017, 2022) – Sweden
• Cristian Mungiu (2007, 2026) – Romania
Winners by Country:
United States – 25: (1939, 1946, 1947 (x3), 1952 (1/2), 1955, 1957, 1970, 1973 (1/2), 1974, 1976, 1979 (1/2), 1980 (1/2), 1982 (1/2), 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 2003, 2004, 2011, 2022, 2024)
France – 18: (1946, 1947 (x2), 1953, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1961 (1/2), 1964, 1966 (1/2), 1987, 2002, 2008, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2022, 2023, 2025)
Italy – 13: (1946, 1951 (1/2), 1952 (1/2), 1953, 1960, 1963, 1966 (1/2), 1967, 1972 (x2), 1977, 1978, 2001)
United Kingdom – 13: (1946, 1949, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1971, 1973 (1/2), 1986, 1996, 2002, 2006, 2016, 2022)
Sweden – 6: (1946, 1951 (1/2), 1988, 1992, 2017, 2022)
Japan – 5: (1954, 1980 (1/2), 1983, 1997 (1/2), 2018)
Germany – 5: (1979 (1/2), 1984, 2002, 2009, 2022)
Denmark – 4: (1946, 1988, 2000, 2022)
Belgium – 3: (1999, 2005, 2013)
Russia/Soviet Union – 2: (1946, 1958)
Mexico – 2: (1946, 1961 (1/2)
Brazil – 2: (1959, 1962)
Poland – 2: (1981, 2002)
Turkey – 2: (1982 (1/2), 2014)
Serbia/Yugoslavia – 2: (1985, 1995)
Austria – 2: (2009, 2012)
Iran – 2: (1997 (tie), 2025)
Switzerland: 1946
Czech Republic: 1946
India: 1946
Spain: 1961
Algeria: 1975
China: 1993 (1/2)
Hong Kong: 1993 (1/2)
New Zealand: 1993 (1/2)
Australia: 1993 (1/2)
Greece: 1998
Ireland: 2006
Romania: 2007
South Korea: 2019
Luxembourg: 2025
Honorary Palme d'Or:
1997: Ingmar Bergman
2002: Woody Allen
2003: Jeanne Moreau
2005: Catherine Deneuve
2007: Jane Fonda
2008: Manoel de Oliveira
2009: Clint Eastwood
2011: Bernardo Bertolucci, Jean-Paul Belmondo
2015: Agnès Varda
2016: Jean-Pierre Léaud
2017: Jeffrey Katzenberg
2019: Alain Delon
2021: Marco Bellocchio, Jodie Foster
2022: Forest Whitaker, Tom Cruise
2023: Michael Douglas, Harrison Ford
2024: George Lucas, Meryl Streep, Studio Ghibli
2025: Robert De Niro, Denzel Washington
The Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the festival's organizing committee. Previously, from 1939 to 1954, the highest prize at the festival was the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film. In 1964, The Palme d'Or was replaced again by the Grand Prix, before being reintroduced in 1975. The Palme d'Or is widely considered to be one of the most prestigious awards in the film industry.
My Letterboxd lists of Cannes:
• 78th Cannes (2025)
• 77th Cannes (2024)
• 76th Cannes (2023)
• 75th Cannes (2022)
• 74th Cannes (2021)
• 73rd Cannes (2020) / Cancelled
• 72nd Cannes (2019)
• 71st Cannes (2018)
• 70th Cannes (2017)
• 69th Cannes (2016)
• 68th Cannes (2015)
My Letterboxd lists of Festival Winners:
• Golden Palm | Winners of Cannes (since 1946)
• Golden Lion | Winners of Venice (since 1932)
• Golden Bear | Winners of Berlinale (since 1951)
• Tiger Award | Winners of Rotterdam (since 1995)
• Golden Leopard | Winners of Locarno (since 1946)
• Golden Shell | Winners of San Sebastian (since 1953)
• Crystal Globe | Winners of Karlovy Vary (since 1948)
• Grand Prix | Winners of Warsaw (since 1987)
• Golden Wolf | Winners of Tallinn Black Nights (since 2004)
• Sundance | Winners (since 1984)
• SXSW | Winners (since 1995)
• Tribeca | Winners (since 2002)
• Slamdance | Winners (since 1996)
• TIFF | Winners (since 1978)
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