{"id":1798,"date":"2008-05-24T21:38:04","date_gmt":"2008-05-24T20:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2008-05-26T00:48:25","modified_gmt":"2008-05-25T23:48:25","slug":"cannes-2008-previous-winners-of-the-palme-dor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/05\/24\/cannes-2008-previous-winners-of-the-palme-dor\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannes 2008: Previous Winners of the Palme d’Or"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Tomorrow night this year’s winner of the Palme d’Or<\/a><\/strong> will be announced at the Cannes Film Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When the festival began in 1939 the top prize at the festival was known as the Grand Prix<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But in 1955 the Festival started to award the best film a golden palm, in tribute to the coat of arms of the City of Cannes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here is a list of winners since 1955:<\/p>\n

1955 \tMarty<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Delbert Mann)
\n1956 The Silent World<\/a><\/strong> (Dir. Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle)
\n1957 Friendly Persuasion<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. William Wyler)
\n1958 The Cranes Are Flying<\/a><\/strong> (Dir. Mikhail Kalatozov)
\n1959 Black Orpheus<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Marcel Camus)
\n1960 La dolce vita<\/a><\/strong> (Dir. Federico Fellini)
\n1961 The Long Absence<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Henri Colpi) and Viridiana<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Luis Bu\u00f1uel)
\n1962 O Pagador de Promessas<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Anselmo Duarte)
\n1963 The Leopard<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Luchino Visconti)<\/p>\n

From 1964 to 1974 the festival temporarily resumed awarding the Grand Prix, due to ‘copyright<\/a> problems’\u00a0 with the Palm:<\/p>\n

1964 \tThe Umbrellas of Cherbourg<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Jacques Demy)
\n1965 \tThe Knack \u2026and How to Get It<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Richard Lester)
\n1966 A Man and a Woman<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Claude Lelouch) and The Birds, the Bees and the Italians<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Pietro Germi)
\n1967 Blow-Up<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni)
\n1968 \tCancelled due to events of May 1968<\/a>
\n1969 If….<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Lindsay Anderson)
\n1970 MASH<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Robert Altman)
\n1971 The Go-Between<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Joseph Losey)
\n1972 The Working Class Goes to Heaven<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Elio Petri) and The Mattei Affair<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Francesco Rosi)
\n1973 The Hireling<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Alan Bridges) and Scarecrow<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Jerry Schatzberg)
\n1974 \tThe Conversation<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Francis Ford Coppola)<\/p>\n

From 1975 to the present, the award switched back to the Palme we all know and love:<\/p>\n

1975 Chronicle of the Years of Fire<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina)
\n1976 Taxi Driver<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Martin Scorsese)
\n1977 Padre Padrone<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani)
\n1978 The Tree of Wooden Clogs<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Ermanno Olmi)
\n1979 Apocalypse Now<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Francis Ford Coppola) and The Tin Drum<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Volker Schl\u00f6ndorff)
\n1980 All That Jazz<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Bob Fosse) and Kagemusha<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Akira Kurosawa)
\n1981 \tMan of Iron<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Andrzej Wajda)
\n1982 Missing<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Costa-Gavras) and The Way<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Y\u0131lmaz G\u00fcney and \u015eerif G\u00f6ren)
\n1983 \tThe Ballad of Narayama<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Shohei Imamura)
\n1984 Paris, Texas<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Wim Wenders)
\n1985 When Father Was Away on Business<\/a><\/strong> (Dir Emir Kusturica)
\n1986 The Mission<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Roland Joff\u00e9)
\n1987 \tUnder the Sun of Satan<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Maurice Pialat)
\n1988 Pelle the Conqueror<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Bille August)
\n1989 sex, lies, and videotape<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Steven Soderbergh)
\n1990 Wild at Heart<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. David Lynch)
\n1991 Barton Fink<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)
\n1992 \tThe Best Intentions<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Bille August)
\n1993 Farewell My Concubine<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Chen Kaige) and The Piano<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Jane Campion)
\n1994 Pulp Fiction<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Quentin Tarantino)
\n1995 Underground<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Emir Kusturica)
\n1996 \tSecrets & Lies<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Mike Leigh)
\n1997 Taste of Cherry<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Abbas Kiarostami) and The Eel<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Shohei Imamura)
\n1998 Eternity and a Day<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Theo Angelopoulos)
\n1999 Rosetta<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
\n2000 Dancer in the Dark<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Lars von Trier)
\n2001 The Son’s Room<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Nanni Moretti)
\n2002 The Pianist<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Roman Polanski)
\n2003 Elephant<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Gus Van Sant)
\n2004 Fahrenheit 9\/11<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Michael Moore)
\n2005 The Child<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
\n2006 The Wind That Shakes the Barley<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Ken Loach)
\n2007 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days<\/strong><\/a> (Dir. Cristian Mungiu)
\n2008 The Class<\/strong><\/a> (Entre les Murs) (Dir. Laurent Cantet<\/a>)<\/p>\n

> Official site of the Cannes Film Festival<\/a>
\n> IMDb section for the Palme d’Or Winners<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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