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
2025 recipient: Joachim Trier
Country	France
Presented by	Cannes Film Festival
First award	1967
Currently held by	Joachim Trier Sentimental Value (2025)
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

Joseph Losey won for Accident (1967)

Andrei Tarkovsky won twice for Solaris (1972) and The Sacrifice (1986)

Pier Paolo Pasolini won for Arabian Nights (1974)

Éric Rohmer won for The Marquise of O (1976)

Idrissa Ouedraogo won for Tilaï (1990)

Zhang Yimou won for To Live (1994)

Bruno Dumont won twice for Humanité (1999) and Flanders (2006)

Nuri Bilge Ceylan won twice for Uzak (2003) and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)

Matteo Garrone won twice for Gomorrah (2008) and Reality (2012)

Spike Lee won for BlacKkKlansman (2018)

Asghar Farhadi won for A Hero (2021)

Claire Denis won for Stars at Noon (2022)

1960s

Year	English title	Original title	Director	Production country
1967	Accident		Joseph Losey	United Kingdom
	I Even Met Happy Gypsies	Skupljači perja	Aleksandar Petrović	Yugoslavia
1969	Ådalen 31		Bo Widerberg	Sweden

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	Italy
1971	Johnny Got His Gun		Dalton Trumbo	United States
	Taking Off		Miloš Forman
1972	Solaris	Солярис	Andrei Tarkovsky	Soviet Union
1973	The Mother and the Whore	La Maman et la putain	Jean Eustache	France
1974	Arabian Nights	Il fiore delle Mille e una notte	Pier Paolo Pasolini	Italy, France
1975	The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser	Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle	Werner Herzog	West Germany
1976	Cría Cuervos		Carlos Saura	Spain
	The Marquise of O	Die Marquise von O...	Éric Rohmer	France, West Germany
1978	Bye Bye Monkey	Ciao maschio	Marco Ferreri	Italy, France
	The Shout		Jerzy Skolimowski	United Kingdom
1979	Siberiade	Сибириада	Andrei Konchalovsky	Soviet Union

1980s

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

1990s

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

2000s

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

2010s

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

2020s

Year	English title	Original title	Director	Production country
2021	Compartment No. 6	Hytti nro 6	Juho Kuosmanen	Finland, Germany, Estonia, Russia
	A Hero	قهرمان	Asghar Farhadi	Iran, France
2022	Close		Lukas Dhont	Belgium, Netherlands, France
	Stars at Noon		Claire Denis	France
2023	The Zone of Interest		Jonathan Glazer	United Kingdom, Poland
2024	All We Imagine as Light	പ്രഭയായ് നിനച്ചതെല്ലം	Payal Kapadia	India, France, Italy, Netherlands, Luxembourg
2025	Sentimental Value	Affeksjonsverdi	Joachim Trier	Norway, France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom

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