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.
Country	France
Presented by	Cannes Film Festival
First award	1967
Currently held by	Payal Kapadia All We Imagine as Light (2024)
Website	www.festival-cannes.com/en/

History

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

1960s

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)	[6]
	Bruno Dumont	France	Humanité (1999), Flanders (2006)	[7]
	Nuri Bilge Ceylan	Turkey	Uzak (2003), Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)	[8]
	Matteo Garrone	Italy	Gomorrah (2008), Reality (2012)	[9]

See also

• Palme d'Or
• Jury Prize