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The Grand Prix is an award of the Cannes Film Festival

Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes International Film Festival , is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is among the world's most prestigious and publicized film festivals...

bestowed by the jury of the festival on one of the competing feature films. It is the second-most prestigious prize of the festival after the Palme d'Or

Palme d'Or

The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival and is presented to the director of the best feature film of the official competition. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee. From 1939 to 1954, the highest prize was the Grand Prix du Festival International du...

. Prior to its creation, the Special Jury Prize

Jury Prize (Cannes Film Festival)

The Jury Prize is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival. It is considered the third most prestigious prize at the film festival, after the Palme d'Or and the Grand Prix....

held the "second place".

Name

Since 1995, the official name of the award has been simply the Grand Prix, but it has had two other names since its creation in 1967: Grand Prix Spécial du Jury (1967-1988), and Grand Prix du Jury (1989-1994).

In addition, the award should not be confused with the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, which is the previous name of the Palme d'Or, the highest prize of the Cannes Film Festival.

Grand Prix Spécial du Jury

Year	Film	Director	Nationality of Director
1967 1967 Cannes Film Festival -Jury:Alessandro Blasetti Georges Lourau Sergei Bondarchuk René Bonnell Jean-Louis Bory Miklós Jancsó Claude Lelouch Shirley MacLaine...	Accident	Joseph Losey Joseph Losey Joseph Walton Losey was an American theater and film director. After studying in Germany with Bertolt Brecht, Losey returned to the United States, eventually making his way to Hollywood...
	I Even Met Happy Gypsies I Even Met Happy Gypsies I Even Met Happy Gypsies is a 1967 Yugoslav film by Serbian director Aleksandar Petrović. Its original Serbian title is Skupljači perja, which means The Feather Gatherers. The film is centered around Roma people's life in a village in northern Vojvodina, but it also deals with subtler themes such... (Skupljači perja)	Aleksandar Petrović
1969 1969 Cannes Film Festival The 22nd Cannes Film Festival was held on May 8 - 23, 1969. At this festival a new non-competitive section called "Directors' Fortnight" is added, in response to the cancellation of the 1968 festival.-Jury:*Luchino Visconti...	Ådalen 31 Ådalen 31 Ådalen 31 is a 1969 Swedish drama film directed by Bo Widerberg. It depicts the 1931 Ådalen shootings, in which Swedish military forces opened fire against labour demonstrators in the Swedish sawmill district of Ådalen killing five people, including a young girl.The film was X-rated in the United...	Bo Widerberg
1970 1970 Cannes Film Festival The 1970 Cannes Film Festival was the 23rd competition. This year, Robert Favre LeBret, the founder of the festival, decided not to include any films from Russia and Japan...	Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion is a 1970 Italian film crime drama directed by Elio Petri. It is a dramatic, psychological, black-humoured satire on corruption in high office, telling the story of a top police officer who kills his lover and then tests whether the police would charge ... (Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto)	Elio Petri
1971 1971 Cannes Film Festival - Jury :Michèle Morgan Pierre Billard Michael Birkett Anselmo Duarte István Gaál Sergio Leone Aleksandar Petrović Maurice Rheims *Erich Segal...	Johnny Got His Gun Johnny Got His Gun (film) Johnny Got His Gun is a 1971 anti-war film based on the novel of the same name written and directed by Dalton Trumbo and starring Timothy Bottoms, Jason Robards and Donald Sutherland with Diane Varsi...	Dalton Trumbo Dalton Trumbo James Dalton Trumbo was an American screenwriter and novelist, and one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry...
	Taking Off Taking Off (film) Taking Off is a 1971 film comedy. It was Czech director Milos Forman's first American film. It tells the story of a group of parents whose children have run away from home...	Miloš Forman Miloš Forman Jan Tomáš Forman , better known as Miloš Forman , is a Czech-American director, screenwriter, professor, and an emigrant from Czechoslovakia. Two of his films, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus, are among the most celebrated in the history of film, both gaining him the Academy Award for...
1972 1972 Cannes Film Festival - Jury :Joseph Losey Bibi Andersson Georges Auric Erskine Caldwell Mark Donskoi Miloš Forman Giorgio Papi Jean Rochereau *Alain Tanner...	Solaris Solaris (1972 film) Solaris is a 1972 film adaptation of the novel Solaris , directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. The film is a meditative psychological drama occurring mostly aboard a space station orbiting the fictional planet Solaris. The scientific mission has stalled, because the scientist crew have fallen to... (Солярис, Solyaris)	Andrei Tarkovsky Andrei Tarkovsky Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director, widely regarded as one of the finest filmmakers of the 20th century....
1973 1973 Cannes Film Festival The 26th Cannes Film Festival was held on May 10–25, 1973. At this festival two new non-competitive sections were added: 'Étude et documents' and 'Perspectives du Cinéma Français' ....	The Mother and the Whore The Mother and the Whore The Mother and the Whore is a 1973 French film directed by Jean Eustache. Examing the relationship between three characters in a love triangle, it was Eustache's first feature film and is considered his masterpiece.-Plot:... (La Maman et la putain)	Jean Eustache Jean Eustache Jean Eustache was a French filmmaker. During his short career, he completed numerous shorts, in addition to a pair of highly regarded features, of which the first, The Mother and the Whore, is considered a key work of post-Nouvelle Vague French cinema.In his obituary for Eustache, the influential...
	Fantastic Planet Fantastic Planet Fantastic Planet is a 1973 animated science fiction film directed by René Laloux, production designed by Roland Topor, written by both of them and animated at Jiří Trnka Studio. The film was an international production between France and Czechoslovakia and was distributed in the United States by... (La Planète sauvage)	René Laloux René Laloux René Laloux was a French animator and film director.-Biography:He was born in Paris in 1929 and went to art school to study painting. After some time working in advertising, he got a job in a psychiatric institution where he began experimenting in animation with the interns...
1974 1974 Cannes Film Festival - Jury :René Clair Jean-Loup Dabadie Kenne Fant Félix Labisse Irwin Shaw Michel Soutter Monica Vitti Alexander Walker *Rostislav Yurenev -Feature film competition:...	Arabian Nights (Il fiore delle Mille e una notte)	Pier Paolo Pasolini Pier Paolo Pasolini Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual. Pasolini distinguished himself as a poet, journalist, philosopher, linguist, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, newspaper and magazine columnist, actor, painter and political figure...
1975 1975 Cannes Film Festival - Jury :Jeanne Moreau, President, actressAndré Delvaux, directorAnthony Burgess, writerFernando Rey, actorGeorge Roy Hill, directorGérard Ducaux-Rupp, producerLéa Massari, actressPierre Mazars, journalist*Pierre Salinger, writer...	The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser is a 1974 West German drama film written and directed by Werner Herzog about the legend of Kaspar Hauser. Its original German title is Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle, which means "Every man for himself and God against them all"... (Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle)	Werner Herzog Werner Herzog Werner Herzog Stipetić , known as Werner Herzog, is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and opera director.He is often considered as one of the greatest figures of the New German Cinema, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Werner...
1976 1976 Cannes Film Festival The 29th Cannes Film Festival was held on May 13-28, 1976. A new section, 'L'Air du temps', which is non-competitive and focuses on contemporary subjects, is introduced at this festival and discontinued after the next.- Jury :...	Cría cuervos Cria Cuervos Cría cuervos is a 1976 Spanish film directed by Carlos Saura. The film is an allegorical drama about an eight year old girl dealing with loss. Highly acclaimed, it received the Special Jury Prize Award at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...	Carlos Saura Carlos Saura Carlos Saura Atarés is a Spanish film director and photographer.-Early life:Born into a family of artists , he developed his artistic sense in childhood as a photography enthusiast.He obtained his directing diploma in Madrid in 1957 at the Institute of Cinema Research and Studies...
	The Marquise of O	Éric Rohmer Éric Rohmer Éric Rohmer was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter and teacher. A figure in the post-war New Wave cinema, he was a former editor of Cahiers du cinéma....
1978 1978 Cannes Film Festival The 31st Cannes Film Festival was held on May 16-30. This festival saw the introduction of a new non-competitive section, 'Un Certain Regard', which replaces 'Les Yeux Fertiles' , 'L'Air du temps' and 'Le Passé composé'.- Jury :*Alan J...	The Shout The Shout The Shout is a 1978 British horror film directed by Jerzy Skolimowski, based on a short story by Robert Graves which was adapted for the screen by Michael Austin...	Jerzy Skolimowski Jerzy Skolimowski Jerzy Skolimowski is a Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor. A graduate of the prestigious National Film School in Łódź, Skolimowski has directed more than twenty films since his 1960 début Oko wykol...
	Bye Bye Monkey Bye Bye Monkey Bye Bye Monkey is a 1978 film, directed by Marco Ferreri and starring Gérard Depardieu, Marcello Mastroianni, James Coco and Geraldine Fitzgerald. It is about a man who brings King Kong's orphaned son to the city to raise it. It was filmed in English and shot in Long Island, New York... (Ciao maschio)	Marco Ferreri
1979 1979 Cannes Film Festival - Jury :Françoise Sagan Sergio Amidei Rodolphe-Maurice Arlaud Luis García Berlanga Maurice Bessy Paul Claudon Jules Dassin Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács...	Siberiade Siberiade Siberiade is a 1979 epic Soviet film in four parts, spanning much of the 20th century. The leading roles were played by the celebrated Soviet actors Nikita Mikhalkov and Lyudmila Gurchenko... (Сибириада, Sibiriada)	Andrei Konchalovsky Andrei Konchalovsky Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky is a Soviet-American and Russian film director, film producer and screenwriter....
1980 1980 Cannes Film Festival The 33rd Cannes Film Festival was held on May 9-23. The showing of Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker is interrupted by an electricians strike.- Jury :Kirk Douglas Ken Adam Robert Benayoun Veljko Bulajić...	Mon oncle d'Amérique Mon oncle d'Amérique Mon oncle d'Amérique is a 1980 French film directed by Alain Resnais.- Plot :The didactic film is built around the ideas of French physician, writer and philosopher Henri Laborit, who plays himself in the film...	Alain Resnais Alain Resnais Alain Resnais is a French film director whose career has extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included Nuit et Brouillard , an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps.He began...
1981 1981 Cannes Film Festival - Jury :Jacques Deray Ellen Burstyn Jean-Claude Carrière Robert Chazal Attilio D'Onofrio Christian Defaye Carlos Diegues Antonio Gala...	Les Années lumière	Alain Tanner	Switzerland
1982 1982 Cannes Film Festival - Jury :Giorgio Strehler Jean-Jacques Annaud Suso Cecchi d'Amico Geraldine Chaplin Gabriel García Márquez Florian Hopf Sidney Lumet Mrinal Sen...	The Night of the Shooting Stars The Night of the Shooting Stars The Night of the Shooting Stars is a 1982 Italian fantasy war drama film directed by Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani. It was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Special Grand Prix.... (La Notte di San Lorenzo)	Paolo and Vittorio Taviani Paolo and Vittorio Taviani Paolo and Vittorio Taviani are noted Italian film directors and screenwriters...
1983 1983 Cannes Film Festival - Jury :William Styron Henri Alekan Yvonne Baby Sergei Bondarchuk Youssef Chahine Souleymane Cissé Gilbert de Goldschmidt Mariangela Melato *Karel Reisz...	Monty Python's The Meaning of Life	Terry Jones Terry Jones Terence Graham Parry Jones is a Welsh comedian, screenwriter, actor, film director, children's author, popular historian, political commentator, and TV documentary host. He is best known as a member of the Monty Python comedy team....
1984 1984 Cannes Film Festival - Jury :Dirk Bogarde Franco Cristaldi Michel Deville Stanley Donen Istvan Dosai Arne Hestenes Isabelle Huppert Ennio Morricone...	Diary for my Children Diary for My Children Diary for My Children is a 1984 Hungarian drama film directed by Márta Mészáros. It was entered into the 1984 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury.-Cast:* Zsuzsa Czinkóczi - Juli* Teri Földi - Magda...	Márta Mészáros Márta Mészáros Márta Mészáros is a Hungarian film director. She worked as an English Teachersmeaning? filmmaker in the 1960s, but in the following decade began making films drawing on the oppression of both state and gender...
1985 1985 Cannes Film Festival -Jury:Miloš Forman Claude Imbert Edwin Zbonek Francis Veber Jorge Amado Mauro Bolognini Michel Perez Mo Rothmann Néstor Almendros Sarah Miles...	Birdy Birdy (film) Birdy is a 1984 American film directed by Alan Parker and starring Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage. It is based on the novel of the same name by William Wharton.- Synopsis :...	Alan Parker Alan Parker Sir Alan William Parker, CBE is an English film director, producer, writer and actor. He has been active in both the British cinema and American cinema and was a founding member of the Directors Guild of Great Britain.-Life and career:...
1986 1986 Cannes Film Festival - Jury :Sydney PollackAlexandre MnouchkineAlexandre TraunerCharles AznavourDanièle ThompsonIstván SzabóLino BrockaPhilip FrenchSonia BragaTonino Delli Colli-Feature film competition:* After Hours by Martin Scorsese...	The Sacrifice The Sacrifice The Sacrifice is a 1986 film, and the final film by Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky, who died shortly after completing it.-Synopsis:... (Offret)	Andrei Tarkovsky Andrei Tarkovsky Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director, widely regarded as one of the finest filmmakers of the 20th century....
1987 1987 Cannes Film Festival - Jury :Yves MontandDanièle HeymannElem KlimovGérald CalderonJeremy ThomasJerzy SkolimowskiNicola PiovaniNorman Mailer*Theo Angelopoulos-Feature film competition:...	Repentance Monanieba Repentance is a Georgian film directed by Tengiz Abuladze. The movie was made in 1984, but its release was banned in the Soviet Union for its semi-allegorical critique of Stalinism. It premiered at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival, winning the FIPRESCI Prize, Grand Prize of the Jury, and the Prize... (მონანიება, Monanieba)	Tengiz Abuladze Tengiz Abuladze Tengiz Abuladze was a Georgian film director.Abuladze studied theatre direction at the Shota Rustaveli Theatre Institute, Tbilisi, Georgia, and filmmaking at the VGIK in Moscow. He graduated VGIK in 1952 and in 1953 he joined Gruziya-film as a director...
1988 1988 Cannes Film Festival - Jury :Ettore ScolaClaude BerriDavid RobinsonYelena SafonovaGeorge MillerHector OliveraNastassja KinskiPhilippe SardeRobby MullerWilliam Goldman-Feature film competition:* A World Apart by Chris Menges...	A World Apart A World Apart (film) A World Apart is a 1988 anti-Apartheid drama, written by Shawn Slovo and directed by Chris Menges. It is based on the lives of Slovo's parents, Ruth First and Joe Slovo. The film was a co-production between companies from the UK and Zimbabwe, where the movie was filmed...	Chris Menges Chris Menges Chris Menges BSC, ASC, is an English cinematographer and film director. He is a member of both the American and British Societies of Cinematographers.-Life and career:...

Grand Prix du Jury

Year	Film	Director
1989 1989 Cannes Film Festival - Jury :Wim Wenders Christine Gouze-RenalClaude BeylieGeorges DelerueHector BabencoKrzysztof KieślowskiPeter HandkeRenée BlancharSally FieldSilvio Clementelli-Feature film competition:* Chimère by Claire Devers...	Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso)	Giuseppe Tornatore Giuseppe Tornatore -Life and career:Born in Bagheria near Palermo, Tornatore developed an interest in acting and the theatre from at least the age of 16 and put on works by Luigi Pirandello and Eduardo De Filippo.He worked initially as a freelance photographer...
	Too Beautiful for You Trop belle pour toi Too Beautiful for You is a 1989 French comedy film-drama film written and directed by Bertrand Blier. It tells the story of Bernard , a well established BMW car dealer in the South of France, is cheating on his beautiful wife with his ordinary looking temporary secretary .-Cast :* Gérard... (Trop belle pour toi)	Bertrand Blier Bertrand Blier Bertrand Blier is a French screenwriter and film director.Born in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. He is the son of Bernard Blier....
1990 1990 Cannes Film Festival - Jury :Bernardo Bertolucci Alexei Guerman Anjelica Huston Bertrand Blier Christopher HamptonFanny Ardant Françoise Giroud Hayao Shibata Mira Nair Sven Nykvist...	The Law Tilaï Tilaï is a 1990 award-winning Burkinabé drama film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Idrissa Ouedraogo. It premiered at the 1990 Toronto Film Festival.-Plot:... (Tilaï)	Idrissa Ouedraogo Idrissa Ouedraogo Idrissa Ouedraogo is a film director from Burkina Faso. He is best known for his films Yaaba and Tilaï.-Biography:...
	The Sting of Death The Sting of Death is a 1990 Japanese film directed by Kôhei Oguri. It tells the story of a writer with a wandering eye and his jealous wife.-Cast:Keiko Matsuzaka as MihoIttoku Kishibe as ToshioMidori Kiuchi as KunikoTakenori Matsumura as Shinichi*Yuri Chikamori as Maya... (死の棘, Shi no Toge)	Kôhei Oguri Kôhei Oguri is a Japanese film director and screenwriter.-Career:Born in Gunma, Oguri first became a freelance assistant director after graduating from Waseda University. He made his directorial debut in 1981 with Muddy River, which earned him both a Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year and a citation...
1991 1991 Cannes Film Festival - Jury :Roman Polanski Férid Boughedir Whoopi Goldberg Margaret Menegoz Natalia Negoda Alan Parker Jean-Paul Rappeneau Hans Dieter Seidel *Vittorio Storaro...	La Belle Noiseuse La Belle Noiseuse La Belle Noiseuse is a 1991 film directed by Jacques Rivette and starring Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, and Emmanuelle Béart. Its title means "The Beautiful Troublemaker"...	Jacques Rivette Jacques Rivette Jacques Rivette is a French film director. His most well known films include Celine and Julie Go Boating, La Belle Noiseuse and the cult film Out 1....
1992 1992 Cannes Film Festival - Jury :Gérard Depardieu John Boorman Carlo Di Palma Jamie Lee Curtis Joële Van Effenterre Lester James Peries Nana Djordjadze Pedro Almodóvar *René Cleitman...	The Stolen Children The Stolen Children The Stolen Children is a 1992 Italian film directed by Gianni Amelio. It tells the story of a policeman who bonds with two children as he escorts them to an orphanage.-Cast:* Enrico Lo Verso - Antonio* Valentina Scalici - Rosetta... (Il Ladro di bambini)	Gianni Amelio Gianni Amelio Gianni Amelio is an Italian film director.-Biography:Amelio was born in San Pietro di Magisano, province of Catanzaro, Calabria. His father moved to Argentina soon after his birth. He spent his youth and adolescence with his mother and his grandmother...
1993 1993 Cannes Film Festival - Jury :* Louis Malle * Claudia Cardinale * Inna Churikova * Judy Davis * Abbas Kiarostami * Emir Kusturica * William Lubtchansky * Tom Luddy * Gary Oldman * Augusto M...	Faraway, So Close! Faraway, So Close! Faraway, So Close! is a 1993 film by German director Wim Wenders. The screenplay is by Wenders, Richard Reitinger and Ulrich Zieger. The film is a sequel to Wenders' 1987 film Wings of Desire. Actors Otto Sander and Bruno Ganz reprise their roles as angels visiting earth. The film also stars... (In weiter Ferne, so nah!)	Wim Wenders Wim Wenders Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer.-Early life:Wenders was born in Düsseldorf. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine and philosophy in Freiburg and Düsseldorf...
1994 1994 Cannes Film Festival The 1994 Cannes Film Festival started on 12 May and ran until 23 May. The Palme d'Or went to the American film Pulp Fiction directed by Quentin Tarantino.-Official Selection:Clint Eastwood Catherine Deneuve...	To Live (活着, huó zhe)	Zhang Yimou Zhang Yimou Zhang Yimou is a Chinese film director, producer, writer and actor, and former cinematographer. He is counted amongst the Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers, having made his directorial debut in 1987 with Red Sorghum....
	Burnt by the Sun Burnt by the Sun Burnt by the Sun is a 1994 film by Russian director and actor Nikita Mikhalkov. The film depicts the story of a senior Red Army officer and his family during the Great Purge of the late 1930s in the Stalinist Soviet Union... (Утомлённые солнцем, Utomlyonnye solntsem)	Nikita Mikhalkov Nikita Mikhalkov Nikita Sergeyevich Mikhalkov is a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, actor, and head of the Russian Cinematographers' Union.Mikhalkov was born in Moscow into the distinguished, artistic Mikhalkov family. His great grandfather was the imperial governor of Yaroslavl, whose mother was a Galitzine princess...

Grand Prix

Year	Film	Director
1995 1995 Cannes Film Festival -Jury:Jeanne Moreau Gianni Amelio Jean-Claude Brialy Nadine Gordimer Gaston Kabore Michele-Ray Gavras Emilio Garcia Riera Philippe Rousselot *John Waters...	Ulysses' Gaze Ulysses' Gaze Ulysses' Gaze is a 1995 Greek film directed by Theo Angelopoulos. The actor Gian Maria Volonté died during the filming. He was replaced by Erland Josephson.-Plot:... (To Vlemma tou Odyssea)	Theo Angelopoulos Theo Angelopoulos Theodoros Angelopoulos is a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer.-Life:Angelopoulos studied law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, but after his military service went to Paris to attend the Sorbonne. He soon dropped out to study film at the IDHEC before returning...
1996 1996 Cannes Film Festival -Jury:Francis Ford Coppola Nathalie Baye Greta Scacchi, actrice Michael Ballhaus Henry Chapier Atom Egoyan Eiko Ishioka Krzysztof Piesiewicz *Antonio Tabucchi...	Breaking the Waves Breaking the Waves Breaking the Waves is a 1996 film directed by Lars von Trier and starring Emily Watson. Set in the Scottish Highlands in the early 1970s, it tells the story of an unusual young woman, Bess McNeill, and of the love she has for Jan, her husband. The film is an international co-production led by Lars...	Lars von Trier Lars von Trier Lars von Trier is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He is closely associated with the Dogme 95 collective, although his own films have taken a variety of different approaches, and have frequently received strongly divided critical opinion....
1997 1997 Cannes Film Festival -Jury:Isabelle Adjani Gong Li Mira Sorvino Paul Auster Tim Burton Luc Bondy Patrick Dupond Mike Leigh Nanni Moretti Michael Ondaatje -Feature film competition:...	The Sweet Hereafter The Sweet Hereafter (film) The Sweet Hereafter is a 1997 Canadian film written and directed by Atom Egoyan. It is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Russell Banks.-Plot:...	Atom Egoyan Atom Egoyan Atom Egoyan, OC is a critically acclaimed Armenian-Canadian stage director and film director. Egoyan made his career breakthrough with Exotica...
1998 1998 Cannes Film Festival The 51st Cannes Film Festival was held on May 13-24, 1998. The Palme d'Or went to the Greek film Mia aioniotita kai mia mera by Theo Angelopoulos.- Jury :Martin Scorsese Alain Corneau *Chiara Mastroianni...	Life Is Beautiful Life Is Beautiful Life Is Beautiful is a 1997 Italian film which tells the story of a Jewish Italian, Guido Orefice , who must employ his fertile imagination to help his family during their internment in a Nazi concentration camp.At the 71st Academy Awards in 1999, Benigni won the Academy Award for Best Actor and... (La vita è bella)	Roberto Benigni Roberto Benigni Roberto Remigio Benigni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director of film, theatre and television.- Early years :...
1999 1999 Cannes Film Festival The 52nd Cannes Film Festival was held on May 12-23, 1999. The Palme d'Or went to the French-Belgian film Rosetta by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne.-Jury:* David Cronenberg * André Téchiné * Barbara Hendricks...	Humanité Humanité Humanité is a 1999 film directed by Bruno Dumont. It tells the story of a detective who has lost touch with his emotions, and who investigates the murder of a little girl.-Plot:...	Bruno Dumont Bruno Dumont Bruno Dumont is a French film director. To date, he has directed five feature films, all of which border somewhere between realistic drama and the avant-garde. His films have won several awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Two of Dumont's films have won the Grand Prix award: both L'Humanité and...
2000 2000 Cannes Film Festival The 2000 Cannes Film Festival started on May 14 and ran until May 25. The Palme d'Or went to the Danish film Dancer in the Dark by Lars von Trier.-Jury:* Luc Besson, President * Jonathan Demme * Nicole Garcia...	Devils on the Doorstep (鬼子来了)	Jiang Wen Jiang Wen Jiang Wen is a Chinese film actor and director. As a director, he is sometimes grouped with the "sixth generation" that emerged in the 1990s. Jiang is also well known internationally as an actor, having starred with Gong Li in Zhang Yimou's debut film Red Sorghum...
2001 2001 Cannes Film Festival The 2001 Cannes Film Festival started on May 14 and ran until May 25. The Palme d'Or went to the Italian film The Son's Room by Nanni Moretti.-Jury:* Liv Ullmann, President * Mimmo Calopresti * Charlotte Gainsbourg...	The Piano Teacher The Piano Teacher The Piano Teacher is a 2001 film directed by Michael Haneke, starring Isabelle Huppert and Benoît Magimel. The film is based on the novel Die Klavierspielerin by Elfriede Jelinek who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004.- Plot :... (La Pianiste)	Michael Haneke Michael Haneke Michael Haneke is a German born Austrian filmmaker and writer best known for his bleak and disturbing style. His films often document problems and failures in modern society. Haneke has worked in television‚ theatre and cinema. He is also known for raising social issues in his work...
2002 2002 Cannes Film Festival The 2002 Cannes Film Festival started on 15 May and ran until 26 May. The Palme d'Or went to the Polish-French-German-British co-produced film The Pianist directed by Roman Polanski.-Jury:* David Lynch * Sharon Stone* Michelle Yeoh...	The Man Without a Past The Man Without a Past The Man Without a Past is a 2002 Finnish comedy-drama film directed by Aki Kaurismäki and starring Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen and Juhani Niemelä. It is the second installment in Kaurismäki's Finland trilogy, the other two films being Drifting Clouds and Lights in the Dusk... (Mies vailla menneisyyttä)	Aki Kaurismäki Aki Kaurismäki -Career:After studying Media Studies at the University of Tampere, Aki Kaurismäki started his career as a co-director in the films of his elder brother Mika Kaurismäki. His debut as an independent director was Crime and Punishment , Dostoyevsky's famous crime story set in modern-day Helsinki...
2003 2003 Cannes Film Festival The 2003 Cannes Film Festival started on May 14 and ran until May 25. The Palme d'Or went to the American film Elephant by Gus Van Sant.-Jury:* Patrice Chéreau, President * Aishwarya Rai * Meg Ryan * Karin Viard...	Uzak	Nuri Bilge Ceylan Nuri Bilge Ceylan Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a Turkish photographer and film director. He is married to the filmmaker, photographer, and actress Ebru Ceylan, his co-star in İklimler .-Life:Ceylan learned photography at age 15, and developed an interest in film at 22....
2004 2004 Cannes Film Festival The 2004 Cannes Film Festival started on May 12 and ran until May 23. The Palme d'Or went to the American film Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore.-Jury:* Quentin Tarantino, President * Emmanuelle Béart * Edwidge Danticat * Tilda Swinton...	Oldboy Oldboy Oldboy is a 2003 South Korean film directed by Park Chan-wook. It is based on the Japanese manga of the same name written by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya. Oldboy is the second installment of The Vengeance Trilogy, preceded by Sympathy for Mr... (올드보이)	Park Chan-wook Park Chan-wook Park Chan-wook is a South Korean film director, screenwriter, producer, and former film critic. One of the most acclaimed and popular filmmakers in his native country, Park is most known for his films Joint Security Area, Thirst and what has become known as The Vengeance Trilogy, consisting of...
2005 2005 Cannes Film Festival The 2005 Cannes Film Festival started on May 11 and ran until May 22. Twenty movies from 13 countries were selected to compete. The awards were announced on May 21...	Broken Flowers Broken Flowers Broken Flowers is a 2005 French/American comedy-drama film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch and produced by Jon Kilik and Stacey Smith. The film focuses on an aging "Don Juan" who embarks on a cross-country journey to track down four of his former lovers after receiving an anonymous letter...	Jim Jarmusch Jim Jarmusch James R. "Jim" Jarmusch is an American independent film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, editor and composer. Jarmusch has been a major proponent of independent cinema, particularly during the 1980s and 1990s.-Early life:...
2006 2006 Cannes Film Festival The 2006 Cannes Film Festival ran from May 17, 2006 to May 28, 2006. Twenty films from eleven countries were in competition for the Palme d'Or. The President of the Official Jury was Wong Kar-wai, the first Chinese director to preside over the jury....	Flanders Flanders (film) Flanders is a 2006 French film written and directed by Bruno Dumont. It tells the story of Demester, a man whose girlfriend cheats on him out of frustration with his lack of emotion...	Bruno Dumont Bruno Dumont Bruno Dumont is a French film director. To date, he has directed five feature films, all of which border somewhere between realistic drama and the avant-garde. His films have won several awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Two of Dumont's films have won the Grand Prix award: both L'Humanité and...
2007 2007 Cannes Film Festival The 2007 Cannes Film Festival, the sixtieth, ran from 16 to 27 May 2007. Wong Kar-wai's My Blueberry Nights opened the festival, and Denys Arcand's The Age of Ignorance closed...	The Mourning Forest The Mourning Forest The Mourning Forest is an 2007 Japanese film directed by Naomi Kawase. It won the Grand prix at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. It tells the story of a nurse who is grieving for her dead child... (殯の森, Mogari no Mori)	Naomi Kawase
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2010 2010 Cannes Film Festival The 63rd annual Cannes Film Festival was held from May 12 to May 23, 2010, in Cannes, France. The Cannes Film Festival, hailed as being one of the most recognized and prestigious film festivals worldwide, was founded in 1946. It consists of having films screened in and out of competition during the...	Of Gods and Men Of Gods and Men (film) Of Gods and Men is a 2010 French drama film directed by Xavier Beauvois, starring Lambert Wilson and Michael Lonsdale. Its original French title is Des hommes et des dieux, which means "Of Men and of Gods" and refers to a verse from the Bible shown at the beginning of the film... (Des hommes et des dieux)	Xavier Beauvois Xavier Beauvois Xavier Beauvois is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. His film Don't Forget You're Going to Die was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize....
2011 2011 Cannes Film Festival The 64th annual Cannes Film Festival was held from May 11 to May 22, 2011. American actor Robert De Niro served as the president of the jury for the main competition and French filmmaker Michel Gondry headed the jury for the short film competition...	Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is a 2011 Turkish drama film, co-written and directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan based on the true experience of one of the film's writers, telling the story of a group of men who search for a dead body on the Anatolian steppe... (Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da)	Nuri Bilge Ceylan Nuri Bilge Ceylan Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a Turkish photographer and film director. He is married to the filmmaker, photographer, and actress Ebru Ceylan, his co-star in İklimler .-Life:Ceylan learned photography at age 15, and developed an interest in film at 22....
	The Kid with a Bike The Kid with a Bike The Kid with a Bike is a 2011 drama film written and directed by the Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, starring Cécile de France and Thomas Doret. Set in Seraing, it tells the story of an 11-year-old boy who turns to a woman after his father has abandoned him. The film was produced... (Le Gamin au Vélo)	Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne Dardenne brothers Brothers Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne are a Belgian filmmaking duo...

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