The Film-Lover's Check List: Winning Films at the Cannes Film Festival

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Winning Films at the Cannes Film Festival

Grand Prize of the Festival

1946.	Brief Encounter (1945)
1946.	Torment (1944)
1946.	The Last Chance (1945)
1946.	The Lost Weekend (1945)
1946.	Portrait of Maria (1944)
1946.	Men Without Wings (1946)
1946.	Lowly City (1946)
1946.	Rome, Open City (1945)

1946.	Red Meadows (1945)
1946.	La Symphonie Pastorale (1946)
1946.	The Turning Point (1945)
*1947.	Ziegfeld Follies (1945)
*1947.	Dumbo (1941)
*1947.	Antoine and Antoinette (1947)
*1947.	Crossfire (1947)
*1947.	The Damned (1947)

1949.	The Third Man (1949)
1951.	Miss Julie (1951)
1951.	Miracle In Milan (1951)
1952.	Two Cents Worth of Hope (1952)
1952.	Othello (1952)
1953.	The Wages of Fear (1953)
1954.	Gate of Hell (1953)

Golden Palm

**1939.	Union Pacific (1939)
1955.	Marty (1955)
1956.	The Silent World (1956)
1957.	Friendly Persuasion (1956)
1958.	The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
1959.	Black Orpheus (1959)
1960.	La Dolce Vita (1960)
1961.	The Long Absence (1961)
1961.	Viridiana (1961)
1962.	Keeper of Promises (1962)
1963.	The Leopard (1963)
1964.	The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
1965.	The Knack...And How To Get It (1965)
1966.	The Birds, the Bees, and the Italians (1966)
1966.	A Man and a Woman (1966)
1967.	Blowup (1966)
1969.	If.... (1968)
1970.	MAS*H (1970)
1971.	The Go-Between (1970)
1972.	The Mattei Affair (1972)
1972.	The Working Class Goes To Heaven (1971)

1973.	The Hireling (1973)
1973.	Scarecrow (1973)
1974.	The Conversation (1974)
1975.	Chronicle of the Years of Fire (1975)
1976.	Taxi Driver (1976)
1977.	Father and Master (1977)
1978.	The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)
1979.	Apocalypse Now (1979)
1979.	The Tin Drum (1979)
1980.	All That Jazz (1979)
1980.	Kagemusha (1980)
1981.	Man of Iron (1981)
1982.	Missing (1982)
1982.	The Way (1982)
1983.	Ballad of Narayama (1983)
1984.	Paris, Texas (1984)
1985.	When Father Was Away On Business (1985)
1986.	The Mission (1986)
1987.	Under the Sun of Satan (1987)
1988.	Pelle the Conqueror (1987)
1989.	Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)

1990.	Wild At Heart (1990)
1991.	Barton Fink (1991)
1992.	The Best Intentions (1992)
1993.	Farewell My Concubine (1993)
1993.	The Piano (1993)
1994.	Pulp Fiction (1994)
1995.	Underground (1995)
1996.	Secrets & Lies (1996)
1997.	Taste of Cherry (1997)
1997.	The Eel (1997)
1998.	Eternity and a Day (1998)
1999.	Rosetta (1999)
2000.	Dancer In the Dark (2000)
2001.	The Son's Room (2001)
2002.	The Pianist (2002)
2003.	Elephant (2003)
2004.	Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
2005.	L'Enfant (2005)
2006.	The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

The Grand Prize of the Festival was the top prize for films in competition at Cannes from the festival's beginning in 1946 up until 1954. The Golden Palm has been the top prize from 1955 until the present. When more than one film is given for a particular year, it is the result of a tie between several movies for the award. The festival was not held in 1948 or 1950 due to lack of funds, and was canceled in 1968 because of nationwide strikes and demonstrations in France.

* At the 1947 festival, prizes were given for specific categories: "Ziegfeld Follies" won for Best Musical Comedy, "Dumbo" won for Best Animation Design, "Antoine and Antoinette" won for Best Psychological and Love Film, "Crossfire" won for Best Social Film, and "The Damned" won for Best Adventure and Crime Film.

** The first Cannes festival was scheduled for 1939, but the outbreak of World War II prevented it. In 2002, a festival jury chose retrospectively a winner from the films that would have competed in 1939.