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Palme d'Or

Highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival

Field	Value
name	Palme d'Or
image	Palme dor.png
imagesize	200px
presenter	Cannes Film Festival
country	France
location	Cannes
year	1955 (Marty)
holder	It Was Just an Accident (2025)
website

The Palme d'Or (; ) is the highest prize awarded to the director of the Best Feature Film of the Official Competition at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the festival's organizing committee. Previously, from 1939 to 1954, the festival's highest prize was the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film. In 1964, the Palme d'Or was replaced again by the Grand Prix, before being reintroduced in 1975.

The Palme d'Or is widely considered one of the film industry's most prestigious awards.

History

The Commune of Cannes coat of arms

In 1954, the festival decided to present an award annually, titled the Grand Prix of the International Film Festival, with a new design each year from a contemporary artist. The festival's board of directors invited several jewellers to submit designs for a palm, in tribute to the coat of arms of the city of Cannes, evoking the famous legend of Saint Honorat and the palm trees lining the famous Promenade de la Croisette. The original design by Parisian jeweller Lucienne Lazon, inspired by a sketch by director Jean Cocteau, had the bevelled lower extremity of the stem forming a heart, and the pedestal a sculpture in terracotta by the artist Sébastien.

In 1955, the first Palme d'Or was awarded to Delbert Mann for his film Marty. From 1964 to 1974, the festival temporarily resumed a Grand Prix. In 1975, the Palme d'Or was reintroduced and has since remained the festival's symbol, awarded each year to the director of the winning film, presented in a case of pure red Morocco leather lined with white suede.[[File:Palmed'or.jpg|thumb|upright=1.05|Palme d'Or awarded to [[Apocalypse Now]] at the [[1979 Cannes Film Festival]]]]

As of 2023, Jane Campion, Julia Ducournau, and Justine Triet are the only female directors to have won the Palme d'Or (for The Piano, Titane, and Anatomy of a Fall, respectively). However, Bodil Ipsen won the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film for The Red Meadows (along with Lau Lauritzen Jr.) as part of an 11-way tie at the inaugural 1946 festival.

Additionally, in 2013, when Blue Is the Warmest Color won the Palme d'Or, the jury headed by Steven Spielberg awarded it to the film's actresses Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux, as well as the director Abdellatif Kechiche. This remains the only instance where multiple Palme d'Or trophies were presented. The jury decided to include the actresses in the recognition due to a Cannes policy that forbids the Palme d'Or-winning film from receiving any additional awards. This policy would have prevented the jury from acknowledging the actresses separately. Regarding the unorthodox decision, Spielberg commented, "Had the casting been 3% wrong, [the film] wouldn't have worked like it did for us". Subsequently, Kechiche auctioned off his Palme d'Or trophy to fund his new feature film. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, he expressed dissatisfaction with the festival's decision to award multiple trophies, stating that he felt they had "publicly insulted" him. He added, "Liberating myself from this Palme d'Or is a way of washing my hands of this sorry affair".

Since its reintroduction, the prize has been redesigned several times. At the beginning of the 1980s, the rounded shape of the pedestal, bearing the palm has gradually transformed to become pyramidal in 1984. In 1992, Thierry de Bourqueney redesigned the Palme and its pedestal in hand-cut crystal. In 1997, Caroline Scheufele redesigned the statuette; since then, it has been manufactured by the Swiss jewellery firm Chopard. The palm is made from 4.16 oz of 18-carat yellow gold while the branch's base forms a small heart. The Palme d'or rests on a dainty crystal cushion shaped like an emerald-cut diamond. A single piece of cut crystal forms a cushion for the palm, which is hand-cast into a wax mould and now presented in a case of blue Morocco leather. In 1998, Theo Angelopoulos was the first director to win the Palme d'or as it appears today, for his film Eternity and a Day.

The presentation of the 2014 Palme d'Or to Winter Sleep, a Turkish film by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, occurred during the 100th anniversary year of Turkish cinema. On receiving the award, Ceylan dedicated it to the "young people" involved in Turkey's ongoing political unrest, and the workers killed in the Soma mine disaster, which occurred on the day before the commencement of the awards event.

In 2017, the award was redesigned to celebrate the festival's 70th anniversary. The diamonds were provided by an ethical supplier certified by the Responsible Jewellery Council.

The 2020 Cannes Film Festival was cancelled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. 56 films were announced as official selections by the festival, but no awards were presented for the first time since 1968.

Winners

Dardenne brothers}} won twice in 1999 and 2005.

1940s

Year	English Title	Original Title	Director
'*The inaugural Cannes Film Festival was to have been held in 1939, but was cancelled due to the outbreak of the Second World War.{{Efn	The festival was not inaugurated until after the conclusion of the war. Sixty-three years later, the organizers of the [2002 festival](2002-cannes-film-festival-1939-palme-d-or) assembled a jury of six members, including Dieter Kosslick and Alberto Barbera, to watch seven of the twelve features which had been entered into the 1939 competition, namely: Goodbye, Mr. Chips, La Loi du Nord, Lenin in 1918, The Four Feathers, The Wizard of Oz, Union Pacific, and Boefje. *Union Pacific'' by Cecil B. DeMille was retrospectively voted the winner of the 1939 Palme d'Or.	}}'''
		United Kingdom
			Switzerland
		United States
		Mexico
			Czechoslovakia
		India
			France
Denmark
			Italy
			Sweden
	Великий перелом		Soviet Union
(Best Psychological & Love Film)			France
(Best Social Film)		United States
(Best Adventure & Crime Film)			France
(Best Musical Comedy)		United States
Festival cancelled
		United Kingdom

1950s

Year	English Title	Original Title	Director
Festival cancelled
			Italy
			Sweden
Othello		Italy, Morocco, United States
			Italy
			France
	地獄門		Japan
§		United States
France
		United States
	Летят журавли		Soviet Union
§			France, Brazil

1960s

Year	Original Title	Director
§	Italy
§		France
§	Spain
§	Brazil
§		Italy
		France
	United Kingdom
		Italy
		France
	United Kingdom
The festival was cancelled midway through to show solidarity with the students and workers who were demonstrating in what became known as the May 68 movement.
	United Kingdom

1970s

Year	Original Title	Director
	United States
	United Kingdom
§		Italy
§
	United Kingdom
	United States
		Algeria
	United States
	Italy
§
	United States
		West Germany, France

1980s

Year	English Title	Original Title	Director
		United States
	影武者		Japan
			Poland
§	Costa-Gavras	United States
§	&	Turkey
	楢山節考		Japan
§		West Germany, France
§	Отац на службеном путу		Yugoslavia
		United Kingdom, United States
§			France
			Denmark
		United States

1990s

Year	English Title	Original Title	Director	Production Country	Ref.	[1990](1990-cannes-film-festival)
		United States
§
			Denmark, Sweden
	霸王別姬	{{sortname	Chen	Kaige	Chen, Kaige}}	Hong Kong
		New Zealand, Australia, France
		United States
Underground	Подземље		Yugoslavia
		France, United Kingdom
	うなぎ		Japan
	طعم گيلاس		Iran
§	Μια αιωνιότητα και μια μέρα		Greece
§		Belgium

2000s

Year	English Title	Original Title	Director
		Denmark
			Italy
		Poland, France, Germany, United Kingdom
		United States
	Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne	Belgium, France
§		Ireland, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany
			Romania
§			France
			Germany, Austria, France

2010s

Year	English Title	Original Title	Director	Production Country	Ref.	[2010](2010-cannes-film-festival)
	ลุงบุญมีระลึกชาติ		Thailand, France, Germany
		United States
		France, Germany, Austria
§			France, Belgium, Spain
			Turkey, France, Germany
		France
		United Kingdom
		Sweden, Germany, France, Denmark
	万引き家族		Japan
§	기생충	{{sortname	Bong	Joon Ho	Bong, Joon Ho}}	South Korea

2020s

Year	English Title	Original Title	Director
Festival cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 56 films were announced as official selections by the festival, but no awards were presented.
		France, Belgium
		Sweden, Germany, France, United Kingdom
			France
Anora	Sean Baker	United States
It Was Just an Accident	یک تصادف ساده	Jafar Panahi	Iran, France, Luxembourg

; Notes : § Denotes unanimous win

Special Palme d'Or

During the 2018 closing ceremony, the jury awarded a "Special Palme d'Or" for the first time ever. Even though the award was not intended to be an Honorary Palme d'Or to Jean-Luc Godard, the move was made as an homage to his career, and as an award to the film itself as well.

Year	English Title	Original Title	Director	Production Country		Ref.	[2018](2018-cannes-film-festival)
The Image Book	Le Livre d'image	Jean-Luc Godard	Switzerland, France	date=12 May 2018	title=LE LIVRE D'IMAGE	url=https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/festival/films/le-livre-d-image	access-date=16 July 2021	website=Festival de Cannes	language=en	archive-date=1 May 2018	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180501161712/https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/festival/films/le-livre-d-image	url-status=live }}

Wins by country

Country	Number of Wins
France	28
United States	24
Italy	13
United Kingdom
Germany	10
Denmark	5
Japan
Sweden
Belgium	4
USSR	2
Brazil
Yugoslavia
Poland
Austria
Spain
Turkey
Iran
Czechoslovakia	1
India
Mexico
Switzerland
Morocco
Algeria
Australia
Hong Kong
New Zealand
Greece
Ireland
Romania
South Korea
Thailand
Luxembourg

Multiple winners

Nine directors or director duos have won the award twice. Three of them () have won for consecutive films.

Number of Wins	Directors	Nationality
Alf Sjöberg	Sweden	Torment (1946),
Miss Julie (1951)
Francis Ford Coppola	United States	The Conversation (1974),
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Bille August	Denmark	Pelle the Conqueror (1988),
The Best Intentions (1992)
Emir Kusturica	Yugoslavia	When Father Was Away on Business (1985),
Underground (1995)
Shōhei Imamura	Japan	The Ballad of Narayama (1983),
The Eel (1997)
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne	Belgium	Rosetta (1999),
L'Enfant (2005)
Michael Haneke	Austria	The White Ribbon (2009),
Amour (2012)
Ken Loach	United Kingdom	The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006),
I, Daniel Blake (2016)
Ruben Östlund	Sweden	The Square (2017),
Triangle of Sadness (2022)

Honorary Palme d'Or

In 1997, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Festival, the Cannes jury awarded a "Palme des Palmes" for the first time.

Year	Recipient	Profession	Nationality of Recipient	1997
Ingmar Bergman	Filmmaker	Sweden

Since 2002 the festival began to award a non-competitive Honorary Palme d'Or to directors or actors who had achieved a notable body of work but who had never won a competitive Palme d'Or.

Year	Recipient	Profession
Woody Allen	Filmmaker and actor	United States
Jeanne Moreau	Actress	France
Catherine Deneuve
Jane Fonda	Actress and producer	United States
Manoel de Oliveira	Filmmaker	Portugal
Clint Eastwood	Actor and filmmaker	United States
Jean-Paul Belmondo	Actor	France
Bernardo Bertolucci	Filmmaker	Italy
Agnès Varda	Filmmaker	France
Jean-Pierre Léaud	Actor
Jeffrey Katzenberg	Producer	United States
Alain Delon	Actor	France
Marco Bellocchio	Filmmaker	Italy
Jodie Foster	Actress and filmmaker	United States
Forest Whitaker	Actor and producer
Tom Cruise
Michael Douglas
Harrison Ford
Meryl Streep	Actress
George Lucas	Filmmaker and producer
Studio Ghibli	Animation studio	Japan
Robert De Niro	Actor and producer	United States
Denzel Washington	Actor, director, and producer	United States

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