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2019 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
Atlantics
Mati Diop
2018 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
BlacKkKlansman
Spike Lee
2017 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
BPM (Beats Per Minute)
Robin Campillo
2016 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
It’s Only the End of the World
Xavier Dolan
2015 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
Son of Saul
László Nemes
2014 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
The Wonders
Alice Rohrwacher
2013 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
Inside Llewyn Davis
Ethan Coen
2012 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
Reality
Matteo Garrone
2011 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
2011 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
The Kid with a Bike
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
2010 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
Of Gods and Men
Xavier Beauvois
2009 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
A Prophet
Jacques Audiard
2008 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
Gomorrah
Matteo Garrone
2007 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
The Mourning Forest
Naomi Kawase
2006 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
Flanders
Bruno Dumont
2005 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
Broken Flowers
Jim Jarmusch
2004 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
Oldboy
Chan-wook Park
2003 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
Uzak
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
2002 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
The Man Without a Past
Aki Kaurismäki
2001 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
The Piano Teacher
Michael Haneke
2000 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
Devils on the Doorstep
Wen Jiang
1999 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
L’humanité
Bruno Dumont
1998 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
Life Is Beautiful
Roberto Benigni
1997 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
The Sweet Hereafter
Atom Egoyan
1996 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
Breaking the Waves
Lars von Trier
1995 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
Ulysses’ Gaze
Theodoros Angelopoulos
1994 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
Burnt by the Sun
Nikita Mikhalkov
1994 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
To Live
Yimou Zhang
1993 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
Faraway, So Close!
Wim Wenders
1992 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
The Stolen Children
Gianni Amelio
1991 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
La belle noiseuse
Jacques Rivette
1990 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
The Law
Idrissa Ouedraogo
1990 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
The Sting of Death
Kôhei Oguri
1989 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
Cinema Paradiso
Giuseppe Tornatore
1989 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
Too Beautiful for You
Bertrand Blier
1988 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
A World Apart
Chris Menges
1987 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
Repentance
Tengiz Abuladze
1986 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
The Sacrifice
Andrei Tarkovsky
1985 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
Birdy
Alan Parker
1984 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
Diary for My Children
Márta Mészáros
1983 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
The Meaning of Life
Terry Jones
1982 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
The Night of the Shooting Stars
Paolo Taviani
1981 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
Light Years Away
Alain Tanner
1980 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
My American Uncle
Alain Resnais
1979 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
Siberiade
Andrey Konchalovskiy
1978 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
Bye Bye Monkey
Marco Ferreri
1978 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
The Shout
Jerzy Skolimowski
1976 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
Cría cuervos
Carlos Saura
1976 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
The Marquise of O
Éric Rohmer
1975 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Werner Herzog
1974 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
Arabian Nights
Pier Paolo Pasolini
1973 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
The Mother and the Whore
Jean Eustache
1972 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
Solaris
Andrei Tarkovsky
1971 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
Johnny Got His Gun
Dalton Trumbo
1971 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
Taking Off
Milos Forman
1970 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Elio Petri
1969 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
Adalen 31
Bo Widerberg
1967 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
Accident
Joseph Losey
1967 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
I Even Met Happy Gypsies
Aleksandar Petrovic
1959 Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prize of the Jury
