Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival)

The Grand Prix is an award of the Cannes Film Festival 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.

Grand Prix
Payal Kapadia won in 2024.
CountryFrance
Presented byCannes Film Festival
First award1967
Currently held byPayal Kapadia
All We Imagine as Light (2024)
Websitewww.festival-cannes.com/en/

History

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Prize official logo

The award was first presented in 1967. The prize was not awarded in 1977. The festival was not held at all in 2020. In 1968, no awards were given as the festival was called off mid-way due to the May 1968 events in France.

Also, the jury vote was tied, and the prize was shared by two films on 10 occasions (1967, 1971, 1976, 1978, 1989, 1990, 1994, 2011, and 2021–22). Andrei Tarkovsky, Bruno Dumont, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, and Matteo Garrone have won the most awards in this category, each winning twice. Three directing teams have shared the award: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani for The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982), Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne for The Kid with a Bike (2011), and Joel and Ethan Coen for Inside Llewyn Davis (2013). Márta Mészáros was the first woman to have won the award, for 1984's Diary for My Children.

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: the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury (1967–1988) and the Grand Prix du Jury (1989–1994).

In addition, the award should not be confused with the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film (1939–1954; 1964–1974), which was the highest prize of the festival and a precursor to the Palme d'Or.[1]

Winners

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1960s

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Year English Title Original Title Director Production Country
1967 Accident Joseph Losey  
I Even Met Happy Gypsies Skupljači perja Aleksandar Petrović  
1969 Ådalen 31 Bo Widerberg  

1970s

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Year English Title Original Title Director Production Country
1970 Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto Elio Petri  
1971 Johnny Got His Gun Dalton Trumbo  
Taking Off Miloš Forman
1972 Solaris Солярис Andrei Tarkovsky  
1973 The Mother and the Whore La Maman et la putain Jean Eustache  
1974 Arabian Nights Il fiore delle Mille e una notte Pier Paolo Pasolini   /  
1975 The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle Werner Herzog  
1976 Cría Cuervos Carlos Saura  
The Marquise of O Die Marquise von O... Éric Rohmer   /  
1978 Bye Bye Monkey Ciao maschio Marco Ferreri   /  
The Shout Jerzy Skolimowski  
1979 Siberiade Сибириада Andrei Konchalovsky  

1980s

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Year English Title Original Title Director Production Country
1980 My American Uncle Mon oncle d'Amérique Alain Resnais  
1981 Light Years Away Les Années lumière Alain Tanner   /  
1982 The Night of the Shooting Stars La Notte di San Lorenzo Paolo and Vittorio Taviani  
1983 Monty Python's The Meaning of Life Terry Jones[2]  
1984 Diary for My Children Napló gyermekeimnek Márta Mészáros  
1985 Birdy Alan Parker[3]  
1986 The Sacrifice Offret Andrei Tarkovsky   /   /  
1987 Repentance მონანიება Tengiz Abuladze  
1988 A World Apart Chris Menges   /  
1989 Cinema Paradiso Nuovo Cinema Paradiso Giuseppe Tornatore  
Too Beautiful for You Trop belle pour toi Bertrand Blier  

1990s

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Year English Title Original Title Director Production Country
1990 The Sting of Death 死の棘 Kōhei Oguri  
Tilaï Idrissa Ouedraogo   /  ,   /   /  
1991 La Belle Noiseuse Jacques Rivette   /  
1992 The Stolen Children Il Ladro di bambini Gianni Amelio  
1993 Faraway, So Close! In weiter Ferne, so nah! Wim Wenders  
1994 Burnt by the Sun Утомлённые солнцем Nikita Mikhalkov   /  
To Live 活着 Zhang Yimou  
1995 Ulysses' Gaze To Vlemma tou Odyssea Theo Angelopoulos  
1996 Breaking the Waves Lars von Trier   /  
1997 The Sweet Hereafter Atom Egoyan  
1998 Life Is Beautiful La vita è bella Roberto Benigni  
1999 Humanité Bruno Dumont  

2000s

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Year English Title Original Title Director Production Country
2000 Devils on the Doorstep 鬼子来了 Jiang Wen  
2001 The Piano Teacher La Pianiste Michael Haneke   /   /  
2002 The Man Without a Past Mies vailla menneisyyttä Aki Kaurismäki  
2003 Uzak Nuri Bilge Ceylan  
2004 Oldboy 올드보이 Park Chan-wook  
2005 Broken Flowers Jim Jarmusch   /  
2006 Flanders Bruno Dumont  
2007 The Mourning Forest 殯の森 Naomi Kawase  
2008 Gomorrah Gomorra Matteo Garrone  
2009 A Prophet Un prophète Jacques Audiard  

2010s

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Year English Title Original Title Director Production Country
2010 Of Gods and Men Des hommes et des dieux Xavier Beauvois  
2011 The Kid with a Bike Le Gamin au vélo Dardenne brothers   /  
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da Nuri Bilge Ceylan   /   /  
2012 Reality Matteo Garrone   /  
2013 Inside Llewyn Davis Joel & Ethan Coen[4]   /   /  
2014 The Wonders Le meraviglie Alice Rohrwacher   /   /  
2015 Son of Saul Saul fia László Nemes  
2016 It's Only the End of the World Juste la fin du monde Xavier Dolan   /  
2017 BPM (Beats per Minute) 120 battements par minute Robin Campillo  
2018 BlacKkKlansman Spike Lee[5]  
2019 Atlantics Atlantique Mati Diop   /   /  

2020s

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Year English Title Original Title Director Production Country
2021 Compartment No. 6 Hytti nro 6 Juho Kuosmanen   /   /   /  
A Hero قهرمان Asghar Farhadi   /  
2022 Close Lukas Dhont   /   /  
Stars at Noon Claire Denis  
2023 The Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer   /  
2024 All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia   /   /   /   /  

Multiple winners

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The following individuals received two or more Grand Prix awards:

Number of Wins Directors Nationality Films Ref(s)
2 Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet Union Solaris (1972),
The Sacrifice (1986)
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Bruno Dumont France Humanité (1999),
Flanders (2006)
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Nuri Bilge Ceylan Turkey Uzak (2003),
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
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Matteo Garrone Italy Gomorrah (2008),
Reality (2012)
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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Awards at Cannes Film Festival". The Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
  2. ^ Jonathan Trevithick on Twitter: "Monty Python's Grand Prix Special du Jury for 'The Meaning of Life', awarded at Cannes"
  3. ^ Hollywood Flashback: Nicolas Cage First Came to Cannes in 1985 With 'Birdy' - The Hollywood Reporter
  4. ^ 'Inside Llewyn Davis' and 'Blue is the Warmest Color' Win Top Prizes at Cannes - ScreenCrush
  5. ^ Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman wins Grand Prix award from Cannes - Entertainment Weekly
  6. ^ "Andrei Tarkovsky". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  7. ^ "Bruno Dumont". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  8. ^ "Nuri Bilge Ceylan". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
  9. ^ "Matteo Garrone". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
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