1979 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or Winner
![Apocalypse Now Francis Ford Coppola](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/apocalypse-now-francis-ford-coppola-image.jpg)
Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola
A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
![The Tin Drum Volker Schlöndorff](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-tin-drum-volker-schlondorff-image.jpg)
The Tin Drum
Volker Schlöndorff
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
1979 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or Nominees
![Caro papà Dino Risi](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/caro-papa-dino-risi-image.jpg)
Caro papà
Dino Risi
![Days of Heaven Terrence Malick](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/days-of-heaven-terrence-malick-image.jpg)
Days of Heaven
Terrence Malick
![Hungarian Rhapsody Miklós Jancsó](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/hungarian-rhapsody-miklos-jancso-image.jpg)
Hungarian Rhapsody
Miklós Jancsó
![Los sobrevivientes Tomás Gutiérrez Alea](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/los-sobrevivientes-tomas-gutierrez-alea-image.jpg)
Los sobrevivientes
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
![My Brilliant Career Gillian Armstrong](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/my-brilliant-career-gillian-armstrong-image.jpg)
My Brilliant Career
Gillian Armstrong
![Next of Kin Anja Breien](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/next-of-kin-anja-breien-image.jpg)
Next of Kin
Anja Breien
![Norma Rae Martin Ritt](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/norma-rae-martin-ritt-image.jpg)
Norma Rae
Martin Ritt
![Occupation in 26 Pictures Lordan Zafranovic](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/occupation-in-26-pictures-lordan-zafranovic-image.jpg)
Occupation in 26 Pictures
Lordan Zafranovic
![Rough Treatment Andrzej Wajda](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/rough-treatment-andrzej-wajda-image.jpg)
Rough Treatment
Andrzej Wajda
![Série noire Alain Corneau](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/serie-noire-alain-corneau-image.jpg)
Série noire
Alain Corneau
![Siberiade Andrey Konchalovskiy](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/siberiade-image.jpg)
Siberiade
Andrey Konchalovskiy
![The Brontë Sisters André Téchiné](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-bronte-sisters-andre-techine-image.jpg)
The Brontë Sisters
André Téchiné
![The China Syndrome James Bridges](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-china-syndrome-james-bridges-image.jpg)
The China Syndrome
James Bridges
![The Europeans James Ivory](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-europeans-james-ivory-image.jpg)
The Europeans
James Ivory
![The Hussy Jacques Doillon](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-hussy-jacques-doillon-image.jpg)
The Hussy
Jacques Doillon
![Traffic Jam Luigi Comencini](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/traffic-jam-luigi-comencini-image.jpg)
Traffic Jam
Luigi Comencini
![Victoria Bo Widerberg](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/victoria-bo-widerberg-image.jpg)
Victoria
Bo Widerberg
![Woman in a Twilight Garden André Delvaux](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/woman-in-a-twilight-garden-andre-delvaux-image.jpg)
Woman in a Twilight Garden
André Delvaux
![Woyzeck Werner Herzog](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/woyzeck-werner-herzog-image.jpg)