The Palme d'Or Winners

  • 2009: The White Ribbon[/link], by Michael Haneke
  • 2008: The Class, by Laurent Cantet
  • 2007: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, by Cristian Mungiu
  • 2006: The Wind That Shakes The Barley, by Ken Loach
  • 2005: L'Enfant, by Jean-Pierre Dardenne
  • 2004: Fahrenheit 9/11, by Michael Moore
  • 2003: Elephant, by Gus Van Sant
  • 2002: The Pianist, by Roman Polanski
  • 2001: La Stanza del Figlio, by Nanni Moretti
  • 2000: Dancer in the Dark, by Lars Von Trier
  • 1999: Rosetta, by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
  • 1998: Eternity and a Day, by Theo Angelopoulos
  • 1997: The Eel, by Shohei Imamura, Taste of Cherry, by Abbas Kiarostami
  • 1996: Secrets & Lies, by Mike Leigh
  • 1995: Underground, by Emir Kusturica
  • 1994: Pulp Fiction, by Quentin Tarantino
  • 1993: Farewell My Concubine, by Kaige Chen, The Piano, by Jane Campion
  • 1992: The Best Intentions, by Bille August
  • 1991: Barton Fink, by Joel and Ethan Coen
  • 1990: Wild At Heart, by David Lynch
  • 1989: Sex, Lies and Videotape, by Steven Soderbergh
  • 1988: Pelle the Conqueror, by Bille August
  • 1987: Under the Sun of Satan, by Maurice Pialat
  • 1986: The Mission, by Roland Joffe
  • 1985: When Father Was Away on Business, by Emir Kusturica
  • 1984: Paris,Texas, by Wim Wenders
  • 1983: The Ballad of Narayama, by Shohei Imamura
  • 1982: Missing, by Costa-Gavras, Yol, by Yilmaz Guney
  • 1981: Man of Iron, by Andrzej Wajda
  • 1980: Kagemusha, by Akira Kurosawa
  • ______All That Jazz, by Bob Fosse
  • 1979: Apocalypse Now, by Francis Ford Coppola, The Tin Drum, by Volker Schlondorff
  • 1978: The Tree of Wooden Clogs, by Ermanno Olmi
  • 1977: Padre Padrone, by Paolo Taviani
  • 1976: Taxi Driver, by Martin Scorsese
  • 1975: Chronique des Annees de Braise, by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
  • 1974: The Conversation, by Francis Ford Coppola, The Hireling, by Alan Bridges
  • 1973: Scarecrow, by Jerry Schatzberg, The Mattei Affair, by Francesco Rosi
  • 1972: The Working Class Goes to Heaven, by Elio Petri
  • 1971: The Go-Between, by Joseph Losey
  • 1970: M*A*S*H, by Robert Altman
  • 1969: If, by Lindsay Anderson
  • 1967: Blow-Up, by Michelangelo Antonioni
  • 1966: Un Homme et Une Femme, by Claude Lelouch, Ces Messieurs Dames (Signore e signori), by Pietro Germi
  • 1965: The Knack (...and How to Get It), by Richard Lester
  • 1964: Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, by Jacques Demy
  • 1963: The Leopard, by Luchino Visconti
  • 1962: La Parole Donnee, by Anselmo Duarte
  • 1961: Viridiana, by Luis Bunuel, Une Aussi Longue Absence, by Henri Colpi
  • 1960: La Dolce Vita, by Federico Fellini
  • 1959: Black Orpheus, by Marcel Camus
  • 1958: The Cranes are Flying, by Mikhail Kalatoz
  • 1957: Friendly Persuasion, by William Wyler
  • 1956: Le Monde du Silence, by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle
  • 1955: Marty, by Delbert Mann
  • 1954: The Gate of Hell (Jigokumon), by Teinosuke Kinugasa
  • 1953: The Wages of Fear, by Henri-Georges Clouzot
  • 1952: Othello, by Orson Welles, Deux Sous d'Espoir, by Renato Castellani
  • 1951: Miracle In Milan, by Vittorio de Sica, Mademoiselle Julie, by Alf Sjoberg
  • 1949: The Third Man, by Carol Reed
  • 1947: Six prizes including: Les Maudits, by Rene Clement, Ziegfeld Follies, by Vincente Minnelli, Dumbo, by Walt Disney
  • 1946: 11 films shared the top prize, including: Open City, by Roberto Rossellini, Maria Candelaria, by Emilio Fernandez, Brief Encounter, by David Lean, The Lost Weekend, by Billy Wilder