Click through each award to see the full list of nominees and winners!
2019 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Parasite
Bong Joon Ho
2018 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Shoplifters
Hirokazu Koreeda
2017 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
The Square
Ruben Östlund
2016 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
I, Daniel Blake
Ken Loach
2015 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Dheepan
Jacques Audiard
2014 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Winter Sleep
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
2013 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Blue Is the Warmest Color
Abdellatif Kechiche
2012 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Amour
Michael Haneke
2011 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
The Tree of Life
Terrence Malick
2010 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
2009 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
The White Ribbon
Michael Haneke
2008 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
The Class
Laurent Cantet
2007 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Cristian Mungiu
2006 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
The Wind that Shakes the Barley
Ken Loach
2005 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
The Child
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
2004 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Fahrenheit 9/11
Michael Moore
2003 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Elephant
Gus Van Sant
2002 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
The Pianist
Roman Polanski
2001 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
The Son’s Room
Nanni Moretti
2000 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Dancer in the Dark
Lars von Trier
1999 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Rosetta
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
1998 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Eternity and a Day
Theodoros Angelopoulos
1997 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Taste of Cherry
Abbas Kiarostami
1997 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
The Eel
Shôhei Imamura
1996 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Secrets & Lies
Mike Leigh
1995 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Underground
Emir Kusturica
1994 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino
1993 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Farewell My Concubine
Kaige Chen
1992 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
The Best Intentions
Bille August
1991 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Barton Fink
Joel Coen
1990 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Wild at Heart
David Lynch
1989 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Steven Soderbergh
1988 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Pelle the Conqueror
Bille August
1987 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Under the Sun of Satan
Maurice Pialat
1986 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
The Mission
Roland Joffé
1985 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
When Father Was Away on Business
Emir Kusturica
1984 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Paris, Texas
Wim Wenders
1983 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
The Ballad of Narayama
Shôhei Imamura
1982 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Missing
Costa-Gavras
1981 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Man of Iron
Andrzej Wajda
1980 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
All That Jazz
Bob Fosse
1979 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
The Tin Drum
Volker Schlöndorff
1978 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
The Tree of Wooden Clogs
Ermanno Olmi
1977 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Padre padrone
Paolo Taviani
1976 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Taxi Driver
Martin Scorsese
1975 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Chronicle of the Years of Fire
Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
1974 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
The Conversation
Francis Ford Coppola
1973 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Scarecrow
Jerry Schatzberg
1972 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Lulu the Tool
Elio Petri
1971 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
The Go-Between
Joseph Losey
1970 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
MASH
Robert Altman
1969 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
If….
Lindsay Anderson
1967 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Blow-Up
Michelangelo Antonioni
1966 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
A Man and a Woman
Claude Lelouch
1966 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians
Pietro Germi
1965 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
The Knack… and How to Get It
Richard Lester
1964 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Jacques Demy
1963 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
The Leopard
Luchino Visconti
1962 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
The Given Word
Anselmo Duarte
1961 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
The Long Absence
Henri Colpi
1960 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
La dolce vita
Federico Fellini
1959 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Black Orpheus
Marcel Camus
1958 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
The Cranes Are Flying
Mikhail Kalatozov
1957 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Friendly Persuasion
William Wyler
1956 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
The Silent World
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
1955 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Marty
Delbert Mann
1954 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Gate of Hell
Teinosuke Kinugasa
1953 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
The Wages of Fear
Henri-Georges Clouzot
1952 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Othello
Orson Welles
1951 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Miss Julie
Alf Sjöberg
1949 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
The Third Man
Carol reed
1947 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Antoine and Antoinette
Jacques Becker
1946 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
Torment
Alf Sjöberg
1939 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or
