Caméra d'Or
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Caméra d'Or |
| image | Hasan Hadi awardee interview at 2025 Cannes Film Festival (cropped).jpg |
| awarded_for | Best first feature film |
| presenter | Cannes Film Festival |
| holder | The President's Cake by Hasan Hadi (2025) |
| year | 1978 |
| website | http://www.festival-cannes.com/ |
| image_upright | 1.0 |
| image_caption | 2025 recipient: Hasan Hadi |
| :: |
| name = Caméra d'Or | image = Hasan Hadi awardee interview at 2025 Cannes Film Festival (cropped).jpg | awarded_for = Best first feature film | presenter = Cannes Film Festival | holder = The President's Cake by Hasan Hadi (2025) | year = 1978 | website = http://www.festival-cannes.com/ | image_upright = 1.0 | image_caption = 2025 recipient: Hasan Hadi
The Caméra d'Or ("Golden Camera") is an award of the Cannes Film Festival for the best first feature film presented in one of the Cannes selections (Official Selection, Directors' Fortnight or Critics' Week).
The prize was created in 1978 by Gilles Jacob, and is awarded during the festival's closing ceremony by an independent jury.
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Criteria
The rules define first film as "the first feature film for theatrical screening (whatever the format—fiction, documentary or animation) of 60 minutes or more in length, by a director who has not made another film of 60 minutes or more in length and released theatrically." Directors who have previously made only student thesis films or TV films can still compete in this category. The stated aim is to reveal a film "whose qualities emphasize the need to encourage the director to undertake a second film".
Winners
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Jim_Jarmusch_Cannes_2013.JPG" caption="[[Jim Jarmusch]] won for ''[[Stranger Than Paradise]]'' (1984)"] ::
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2d/Nana_Jorjadze_Odessa_International_Film_Festival.jpg" caption="[[Nana Dzhordzhadze]] won for ''[[Robinson Crusoe in Georgia]]'' (1987)"] ::
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Ildikó_Enyedi_Photo_Call_On_Body_and_Soul_Berlinale_2017_02.jpg" caption="[[Ildikó Enyedi]] won for ''[[My 20th Century]]'' (1989)"] ::
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Tran_Anh_Hung_from_"The_Pot-au-Feu"at_Red_Carpet_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2023(53348533555).jpg" caption="[[Tran Anh Hung]] won for ''[[The Scent of Green Papaya]]'' (1993)"] ::
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Jafar_Panahi,_Cines_del_Sur_2007.jpg" caption="[[Jafar Panahi]] won for ''[[The White Balloon]]'' (1995)"] ::
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Kawase_Naomi.jpg" caption="Suzaku]]'' (1997)"] ::
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/Steve_McQueen_at_the_2024_New_York_Film_Festival_2.jpg" caption="Hunger]]'' (2008)"] ::
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Benh_Zeitlin_(Fantasy_Film_Festival_Berlin_2012)_6.jpg" caption="[[Benh Zeitlin]] won for ''[[Beasts of the Southern Wild]]'' (2012)"] ::
1970s
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| Year | English title | Original title | Director | Production country | 1978 | 1979 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alambrista! | Robert M. Young | United States | ||||
| Northern Lights | Aurora Boreal | John Hanson and Rob Nilsson | ||||
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1980s
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| Year | English title | Original title | Director | Production country | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adrien's Story | Histoire d'Adrien | Jean-Pierre Denis | France | |||||||||||
| Desperado City | Vadim Glowna | West Germany | ||||||||||||
| Half a Life | Mourir à 30 ans | Romain Goupil | France | |||||||||||
| The Princess | Adj király katonát | Pál Erdőss | Hungary | |||||||||||
| Stranger Than Paradise | Jim Jarmusch | United States | ||||||||||||
| Oriana | Fina Torres | Venezuela | ||||||||||||
| Noir et Blanc | Claire Devers | France | ||||||||||||
| Robinson Crusoe in Georgia | Robinzoniada, anu chemi ingliseli Papa | Nana Dzhordzhadze | Soviet Union | |||||||||||
| Salaam Bombay! | Mira Nair | India | ||||||||||||
| My 20th Century | Az én XX. századom | Ildikó Enyedi | Hungary | |||||||||||
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1990s
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| Year | English title | Original title | Director | Production country | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freeze Die Come to Life | Замри, умри, воскресни! | Vitali Kanevsky | Soviet Union | |||||||||||
| Toto the Hero | Toto le Héros | Jaco Van Dormael | Belgium | |||||||||||
| Mac | John Turturro | United States | ||||||||||||
| The Scent of Green Papaya | Mùi đu đủ xanh | Tran Anh Hung | Vietnam | |||||||||||
| Coming to Terms with the Dead | Petits arrangements avec les morts | Pascale Ferran | France | |||||||||||
| The White Balloon | بادکنک سفيد | Jafar Panahi | Iran | |||||||||||
| Love Serenade | Shirley Barrett | Australia | ||||||||||||
| Suzaku | 萌の朱雀 | Naomi Kawase | Japan | |||||||||||
| Slam | Marc Levin | United States | ||||||||||||
| Marana Simhasanam | Murali Nair | India | ||||||||||||
| :: |
2000s
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| Year | English title | Original title | Director | Production country | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Djomeh | Hassan Yektapanah | Iran | ||||||||||||
| A Time for Drunken Horses | زمانی برای مستی اسبها | Bahman Ghobadi | ||||||||||||
| Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner | Zacharias Kunuk | Canada | ||||||||||||
| Seaside | Bord de mer | Julie Lopes-Curval | France | |||||||||||
| Reconstruction | Christoffer Boe | Denmark | ||||||||||||
| Or (My Treasure) | Keren Yedaya | Israel | ||||||||||||
| Me and You and Everyone We Know | Miranda July | United States | ||||||||||||
| The Forsaken Land | සුළඟ එනු පිණිස | Vimukthi Jayasundara | Sri Lanka | |||||||||||
| 12:08 East of Bucharest | A fost sau n-a fost? | Corneliu Porumboiu | Romania | |||||||||||
| Jellyfish | מדוזות | Etgar Keret, Shira Geffen | Israel | |||||||||||
| Hunger | Steve McQueen | United Kingdom | ||||||||||||
| Samson and Delilah | Warwick Thornton | Australia | ||||||||||||
| :: |
2010s
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| Year | English title | Original title | Director | Production country | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Año Bisiesto | Michael Rowe | Mexico | ||||||||||||
| Las Acacias | Pablo Giorgelli | Argentina | ||||||||||||
| Beasts of the Southern Wild | Benh Zeitlin | United States | ||||||||||||
| Ilo Ilo | 爸媽不在家 | Anthony Chen | Singapore | |||||||||||
| Party Girl | Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis | France | ||||||||||||
| Land and Shade | La tierra y la sombra | César Augusto Acevedo | Colombia | |||||||||||
| Divines | Houda Benyamina | France | ||||||||||||
| Montparnasse Bienvenue | Jeune femme | Léonor Serraille | ||||||||||||
| Girl | Lukas Dhont | Belgium | ||||||||||||
| Our Mothers | Nuestras madres | César Diaz | Guatemala | |||||||||||
| :: |
2020s
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| Year | English title | Original title | Director | Production country | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Murina | Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović | Croatia | |||||||
| War Pony | Riley Keough and Gina Gammell | United States | |||||||
| Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell | Bên trong vỏ kén vàng | Pham Thien An | Vietnam | ||||||
| Armand | Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel | Norway | |||||||
| The President's Cake | مملكة القصب | Hasan Hadi | Iraq, Qatar, United States | ||||||
| :: |
Special Mention winners (''Mention Spéciale'')
Some years, some films that did not win the award have received a special mention for their outstanding quality as first features in Cannes. Also called Caméra d'Or — Mention or Caméra d'Or — Mention d'honneur.
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| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1997 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2022 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waller's Last Trip | Wallers letzter Gang | Christian Wagner | Germany | |||||||||||||||||
| The Birth | പിറവി | Shaji N. Karun | India | |||||||||||||||||
| Time of the Servants | Čas sluhů | Irena Pavlásková | Czechoslovakia | |||||||||||||||||
| Farendj | Sabine Prenczina | France | ||||||||||||||||||
| Proof | Jocelyn Moorhouse | Australia | ||||||||||||||||||
| Sam & Me | Deepa Mehta | India | ||||||||||||||||||
| Friends | Elaine Proctor | South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||
| The Silences of the Palace | صمت القصور | Moufida Tlatli | Tunisia | |||||||||||||||||
| Denise Calls Up | Hal Salwen | United States | ||||||||||||||||||
| The Life of Jesus | La Vie de Jésus | Bruno Dumont | France | |||||||||||||||||
| Japón | Carlos Reygadas | Mexico | ||||||||||||||||||
| Osama | Siddiq Barmak | Afghanistan | ||||||||||||||||||
| Passages | 路程 | Yang Chao | China | |||||||||||||||||
| Bitter Dream | خواب تلخ | Mohsen Amiryoussefi | Iran | |||||||||||||||||
| Control | Anton Corbijn | Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||
| Everybody Dies but Me | Все умрут, а я останусь | Valeriya Gai Germanika | Russia | |||||||||||||||||
| Ajami | عجمي | Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani | Israel | |||||||||||||||||
| Plan 75 | Chie Hayakawa | Japan | ||||||||||||||||||
| Mongrel | 白衣蒼狗 | Wei Liang Chiang and You Qiao Yin | Taiwan | |||||||||||||||||
| My Father's Shadow | Akinola Davies Jr. | United Kingdom, Ireland, Nigeria | ||||||||||||||||||
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References
References
- "Festival de Cannes : The Caméra d’Or Prize".
- "Cannes cumple los 60: Gilles Jacob, Director del festival: “La palabra Festival está deshonrada. Hay una abundancia ridícula”".
- "Festival de Cannes : Camera d’Or jury".
- "Camera d'Or Rules & Regulations 2017". Festival de Cannes.
- Ramachandran, Naman. (2022-12-06). "Cannes Prizewinner Vimukthi Jayasundara Sets France-Sri Lanka Project ‘Turtle’s Gaze on Spying Stars’ (EXCLUSIVE)".
- Kohn, Eric. (2022-12-14). "‘Close’: Behind the Scenes of the Most Heartbreaking Coming-of-Age Story of the Year".
- (2022-04-28). "Actress Rossy de Palma, President of the Jury of the Caméra d'or at the 75th Festival de Cannes".
- Dalton, Ben. "Rossy de Palma to lead Cannes 2022 Camera d’Or jury".
- (2021-07-18). "“Murina” by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović wins Camera d’Or award at Cannes Film Festival".
- Coyle, Jake. (May 29, 2022). "'Triangle of Sadness' wins Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Fest".
- Debruge, Peter. (27 May 2023). "Cannes Awards: 'Anatomy of a Fall' Takes Palme d'Or, 'The Zone of Interest' and 'The Pot au Feu' Among Winners".
- Parfitt, Orlando. (25 May 2024). "Cannes Film Festival 2024: follow the winners live".
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