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Jury Prize (Cannes Film Festival)

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The Jury Prize (French: Prix du Jury) is an award of the Cannes Film Festival bestowed by the jury of the festival on one of the competing feature films. According to American film critic Dave Kehr, the award is "intended to recognize an original work that embodies the spirit of inquiry."[1]

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The award was first presented in 1946. The prize was not awarded on 10 occasions (1947, 1949, 1953, 1967, 1974–79, 1981–82, 1984, and 2001). The festival was not held at all in 1948, 1950, and 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 21 occasions (1957, 1960, 1962–63, 1970–71, 1973, 1987, 1991–93, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2021–22, and 2025). Ken Loach and Andrea Arnold have won the most awards in this category, each winning three. Irma P. Hall is the only actress to win in this category, for her role in The Ladykillers (2004). Four directing teams have shared the award: Enrico Gras, Giorgio Moser and Leonardo Bonzi for Lost Continent (1955), Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud for Persepolis (2007), Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles for Bacurau (2019), and Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch for The Eight Mountains (2022). Samira Makhmalbaf was the first woman to have won the award, for 2000's Blackboards.

Since 1967, the official name of the award has been simply the Prix du Jury, but it has had two other names since its creation in 1946: the International Jury Prize, which was awarded for that year only,[2] and the Prix spécial du Jury (1951–1967) that was given among other secondary prizes. In 1954, after facing much criticism about the whimsical nature of these awards, the Festival authorities decided to turn to a more traditional prize-giving arrangement.[3] Since then, the Prix spécial du Jury reappeared only twice: Christopher Hampton won that award for Carrington along with the regular Prix du Jury given to Xavier Beauvois for Don't Forget You're Going to Die in 1995; and David Cronenberg won for Crash in 1996, which was the only prize allotted by the International Jury for that year.[4][5]

British film academic Andrew M. Butler regards jury prizes such as Cannes' as a way of helping a film gain a distribution deal.[6]

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Joseph L. Mankiewicz won for All About Eve (1951)
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Andrzej Wajda won for Kanał (1957)
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Jacques Tati won for Mon Oncle (1958)
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Michelangelo Antonioni won twice for L'Avventura (1960) and L'Eclisse (1962)
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Masaki Kobayashi won for Kwaidan (1965)
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Souleymane Cissé won for Yeelen (1987)
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Ken Loach won three times for Hidden Agenda (1990), Raining Stones (1993) and The Angels' Share (2012)
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Hou Hsiao-hsien won for The Puppetmaster (1993)
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Manoel de Oliveira won for The Letter (1999)
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Samira Makhmalbaf won twice for Blackboards (2000) and At Five in the Afternoon (2003)
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul won twice for Tropical Malady (2004) and Memoria (2021)
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Andrea Arnold won three times for Red Road (2006), Fish Tank (2009) and American Honey (2016)
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Jean-Luc Godard won for Goodbye to Language (2014)
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Andrey Zvyagintsev won for Loveless (2017)
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Jerzy Skolimowski won for EO (2022)
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Aki Kaurismäki won for Fallen Leaves (2023)

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Notes
Awarded as "Special Jury Prize", a unique award not given annually but only at the request of the official jury.
* The Jury Prize was specially awarded to Irma P. Hall for acting in The Ladykillers.
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Multiple winners

The following individuals received two or more Jury Prize awards:

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