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Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival is a prestigious international film festival. It has been held annually in Cannes, in the south of France, since 1946 with a few exceptions.

Given massive media exposure, the Festival is attended by many movie stars and is a popular venue for movie producers to launch their new films and attempt to sell their works to the distributors who come from all over the globe.

The most prestigious award given out at Cannes is the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) for the best film; this is sometimes shared by multiple films in one year. Winners:

Year	Film	Director	Country
1946	L'Épreuve[?] (Hets)	Alf Sjöberg[?]	Sweden
1946	The Lost Weekend	Billy Wilder	United States
1946	La Terre sera rouge[?]	Bodil Ipsen[?] & Lau Jr. Lauritzen[?]	Denmark
1946	Neecha Nagar[?]	Chetan Anand[?]	India
1946	Brève rencontre (Brief Encounter)	David Lean	United Kingdom
1946	Maria Candelaria[?]	Emilio Fernandez[?]	Mexico
1946	Le Tournant décisif[?]	Fridrikh Markovitch Ermler[?]	Soviet Union
1946	la Symphonie pastorale[?]	Jean Delannoy[?]	France
1946	la Dernière Chance[?]	Leopold Lintberg[?]	Switzerland
1946	les Hommes sans ailes[?]	M. Cap[?]	Czechoslovakia
1946	Rome ville ouverte[?]	Roberto Rossellini	Italy
1947	not awarded
1948	no festival that year
1949	The Third Man	Carol Reed	United Kingdom
1950	no festival that year
1951	Mademoiselle Julie[?]	Alf Sjöberg[?]	Sweden
1951	Miracle à Milan[?]	Vittorio De Sica	Italy
1952	Othello[?]	Orson Welles	United States
1952	Deux Sous d'espoir[?]	Renato Castellani[?]	Italy
1953	Le Salaire de la peur[?]	Henri Georges Clouzot[?]	France
1954	La Porte de l'enfer[?]	Teinosuke Kinugasa[?]	Japan
1955	Marty	Delbert Mann[?]	United States
1956	Le Monde du silence[?]	Jacques-Yves Cousteau & Louis Malle[?]	France
1957	La Loi du Seigneur (Friendly Persuasion)	William Wyler	United States
1958	Quand passent les cigognes[?]	Mikhaïl Kalatozov[?]	Soviet Union
1959	Orfeu Negro[?]	Marcel Camus	France
1960	la Dolce Vita[?]	Federico Fellini	Italy
1961	Une aussi longue absence[?]	Henri Colpi[?]	France
1961	Viridiana[?]	Luis Buñuel	Spain
1962	la Parole donnée[?]	Anselmo Duarte[?]	Brazil
1963	le Guépard[?]	Luchino Visconti	Italy
1964	les Parapluies de Cherbourg	Jacques Demy[?]	France
1965	le Knack... et comment l'avoir[?]	Richard Lester	United Kingdom
1966	Un homme et une femme[?]	Claude Lelouch[?]	France
1966	Ces messieurs dames[?]	Pietro Germi[?]	Italy
1967	Blow-Up[?]	Michelangelo Antonioni	Italy
1968	canceled due to May 1968 uprising in Paris
1969	If...	Lindsay Anderson	United Kingdom
1970	MASH*	Robert Altman	United States
1971	The Go-Between	Joseph Losey	United Kingdom
1972	La classe ouvrière va au paradis[?]	Elio Petri[?]	Italy
1972	l'Affaire Mattei[?]	Francesco Rosi[?]	Italy
1973	la Méprise[?]	Alan Bridges[?]	United Kingdom
1973	Scarecrow[?]	Jerry Schatzberg[?]	United States
1974	The Conversation	Francis Ford Coppola	United States
1975	Chronique des années de braise[?]	Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina[?]	Algeria
1976	Taxi Driver	Martin Scorsese	United States
1977	Padre padrone[?]	Paolo Taviani[?] & Vittorio Taviani[?]	Italy
1978	l'Arbre aux sabots[?]	Ermanno Olmi[?]	Italy
1979	Apocalypse Now	Francis Ford Coppola	United States
1979	le Tambour[?]	Volker Schlöndorff[?]	West Germany
1980	All That Jazz	Bob Fosse	United States
1980	Kagemusha[?]	Kurosawa Akira	Japan
1981	l'Homme de fer[?]	Andrzej Wajda	Poland
1982	Missing	Constantin Costa-Gavras	United States
1982	Yol[?]	Yilmaz Güney[?]	Turkey
1983	la Balade de Narayama[?]	Imamura Shohei[?]	Japan
1984	Paris, Texas	Wim Wenders	West Germany
1985	Otac na sluzbenom putu (When Father Was Away on Business)	Emir Kusturica[?]	Yugoslavia
1986	The Mission	Roland Joffé[?]	United Kingdom
1987	Sous le soleil de Satan[?] (Under the Sun of Satan)	Maurice Pialat	France
1988	Pelle erobreren[?] (Pelle the Conqueror)	Bille August	Denmark
1989	Sex, Lies and Videotape[?]	Steven Soderbergh	United States
1990	Wild at Heart	David Lynch	United States
1991	Barton Fink[?]	Joel Coen & Ethan Coen	United States
1992	Den Goda viljan[?] (The Best Intentions)	Bille August	Denmark
1993	Ba wang bie ji (Farewell My Concubine)	Chen Kaige[?]	China
1993	The Piano	Jane Campion[?]	New Zealand
1994	Pulp Fiction	Quentin Tarantino	United States
1995	Underground	Emir Kusturica[?]	Yugoslavia
1996	Secrets and Lies	Mike Leigh[?]	United Kingdom
1997	Ta'm e guilass[?] (Taste of Cherry)	Abbas Kiarostami[?]	Iran
1997	Unagi (The Eel)[?]	Imamura Shohei[?]	Japan
1998	Mia aiwniothta kai mia mera[?] (Eternity and a Day)	Theo Angelopoulos	Greece
1999	Rosetta	Luc Dardenne[?] & Jean-Pierre Dardenne[?]	Belgium
2000	Dancer in the Dark	Lars von Trier	Denmark
2001	La Stanza del figlio[?]	Nanni Moretti[?]	Italy
2002	The Pianist	Roman Polanski	France
2003	Elephant	Gus Van Sant	United States

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