Sunday, March 30, 2008


2008 - ENTRE LES MURS (THE CLASS) by Laurent Cantet

2007 - 4 LUNI, 3 SAPTAMINI SI 2 ZILE (4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS) by Christian Mungiu

2006 - THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY by Ken Loach

2005L’ENFANT (THE CHILD) by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne

2004FAHRENHEIT 9/11 by Michael Moore

2003ELEPHANT by Gus Van Sant

2002THE PIANIST by Roman Polanski

2001LA STANZA DEL FIGLIO (THE SON’S ROOM) by Nanni Moretti

2000 - DANCER IN THE DARK by Lars Von Trier

1999 - ROSETTA by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne

1998MIA EONIOTITA KE MIA MERA (ETERNITY AND A DAY) by Theo Angelopoulos

1997 – (tie) UNAGI (THE EEL) by Shohei Imamura

+ TA’M E GUILASS (TASTE OF CHERRY) by Abbas Kiarostami

1996SECRETS AND LIES by Mike Leigh

1995UNDERGROUND by Emir Kusturica

1994PULP FICTION by Quentin Tarantino

1993 – (tie) THE PIANO by Jane Campion

+ BA WANG BIE JI (FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE) by Kaige Chen

1992 - DEN GODA VILJAN (THE BEST INTENTIONS) by Bille August

1991BARTON FINK by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

1990WILD AT HEART by David Lynch

1989SEX, LIES & VIDEOTAPE by Steven Soderbergh

1988PELLE EROBREREN (PELLE THE CONQUEROR) by Bille August

1987SOUS LE SOLEIL DE SATAN (UNDER SATAN’S SUN) by Maurice Pialat

1986 - THE MISSION by Roland Joffe

1985OTAC NA SLUZBENOM PUTU (WHEN FATHER WAS AWAY ON BUSINESS) by Emir Kusturica

1984 - PARIS, TEXAS by Wim Wenders

1983NARAYAMA BUSHIKO (BALLAD OF NARAYAMA) by Shohei Imamura

1982 – (tie) MISSING by Costa-Gavras

+ YOL by Yilmaz Güney and Şerif Gören

1981CZLOWIEK Z ZELAZA (MAN OF IRON) by Andrzej Wajda

1980 – (tie) KAGEMUSHA (THE SHADOW WARRIOR) by Akira Kurosawa

+ ALL THAT JAZZ by Bob Fosse

1979 – (tie) DIE BLECHTROMMEL (THE TIN DRUM) by Völker Schlondorff

+ APOCALYPSE NOW (A WORK IN PROGRESS) by Francis Ford Coppola

1978 - L’ALBERO DEGLI ZOCCOLI (THE TREE OF WOODEN CLOGS) by Ermanno Olmi

1977PADRE PADRONE by Vittorio Taviani and Paolo Taviani

1976TAXI DRIVER by Martin Scorsese

1975CHRONIQUE DES ANNEES DE BRAISE (CHRONICLE OF THE YEARS OF FIRE) by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina

(1964-1974: Top Award Called Grand Prix du Festival International du Film "when the Festival temporarily resumed awarding a Grand Prix, due to copyright problems with the Palm. In 1975, the Palme d'Or was reintroduced and became again the symbol of the Cannes Film Festival, awarded each and every year since to the director of the Best Feature Film of the Official Competition.")

1974THE CONVERSATION by Francis Ford Coppola

1973 – (tie) THE HIRELING by Alan Bridges

+ SCARECROW by Jerry Schatzberg

1972 – (tie) LA CLASSE OPERAIA VA IN PARADISO (THE WORKING CLASS GOES TO HEAVEN) by Elio Petri

+ IL CASO MATTEI (THE MATTEI AFFAIR) by Francesco Rosi

1971THE GO-BETWEEN by Joseph Losey

1970M*A*S*H by Robert Altman

1969IF.... by Lindsay Anderson

1968 - canceled due to events of May 1968

1967 - BLOW-UP by Michelangelo Antonioni

1966 - (tie) UN HOMME ET UNE FEMME (A MAN AND A WOMAN) by Claude Lelouch

+ SIGNORE E SIGNORI (THE BIRDS, THE BEES, AND THE ITALIANS) by Pietro Germi

1965 - THE KNACK...AND HOW TO GET IT by Richard Lester

1964 - LES PARAPLUIES DE CHERBOURG (THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG) by Jacques Demy

(1964-1974: Top Award Called Grand Prix du Festival International du Film "when the Festival temporarily resumed awarding a Grand Prix, due to copyright problems with the Palm. In 1975, the Palme d'Or was reintroduced and became again the symbol of the Cannes Film Festival, awarded each and every year since to the director of the Best Feature Film of the Official Competition.")

1963IL GATTOPARDO (THE LEOPARD) by Luchino Visconti

1962O PAGADOR DE PROMESSAS by Anselmo Duarte

1961 – (tie) UNE AUSSI LONGUE ABSENCE (THE LONG ABSENCE) by Henri Colpi

+ VIRIDIANA by Luis Buñuel

1960LA DOLCE VITA by Federico Fellini

1959ORFEU NEGRO (BLACK ORPHEUS) by Marcel Camus

1958LETYAT ZHURAVLI (THE CRANES ARE FLYING) by Mikhail Kalatozov

1957FRIENDLY PERSUASION by William Wyler

1956LE MONDE DU SILENCE (THE SILENT WORLD) by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle

1955MARTY by Delbert Mann