Cannes Film Fest:
Country Number of Wins
France 27
United States 22
13
Italy
United Kingdom
Germany (East and West) 10
5
Denmark
Japan
Sweden
Belgium 4
2
Soviet Union
Brazil
Yugoslavia
Poland
Austria
Spain
Turkey
1
Czechoslovakia
India
Mexico
Switzerland
Morocco
Algeria
Australia
Hong Kong
New Zealand
Iran
Greece
Ireland
Romania
Thailand
West Germany is included.
Multiple winners
Nine directors or director duos have won the award twice.
Three of them have won for consecutive films.
Number of Wins Directors Nationality Films
2 Alf Sjöberg Sweden Torment (1946),
Miss Julie (1951)
Francis Ford Coppola United States The Conversation (1974),
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Bille August ‡ Denmark Pelle the Conqueror (1988),
The Best Intentions (1992)
Emir Kusturica Yugoslavia When Father Was Away on Business (1985),
Underground (1995)
Shōhei Imamura Japan
The Ballad of Narayama (1983),
The Eel (1997)
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne Belgium
Rosetta (1999),, L’Enfant (2005)
Michael Haneke ‡ Austria
The White Ribbon (2009), Amour (2012)
Ken Loach United Kingdom
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006),
I, Daniel Blake (2016)
Ruben Östlund ‡ Sweden
The Square (2017),
Triangle of Sadness (2022)
Honorary Palme d’Or
In 1997, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Festival, the Cannes jury awarded a “Palme des Palmes” for the first time.
Year Recipient Profession Nationality of Recipient
1997 Ingmar Bergman Filmmaker Sweden
Since 2002 the festival began to award a non-competitive Honorary Palme d’Or to directors or actors who had achieved a notable body of work but who had never won a competitive Palme d’Or.[121]
Year Recipient Profession Nationality of Recipient
2002 Woody Allen[122] Filmmaker and actor United States
2003 Jeanne Moreau[ Actress France
2005 Catherine Deneuve
2007 Jane Fonda[125] Actress and producer United States
2008 Manoel de Oliveira[126] Filmmaker Portugal
2009 Clint Eastwood[127] Actor and filmmaker United States
2011 Jean-Paul Belmondo[128] Actor France
Bernardo Bertolucci[129] Filmmaker Italy
2015 Agnès Varda[130][131] Filmmaker France
2016 Jean-Pierre Léaud[132] Actor
2017 Jeffrey Katzenberg[133] Producer United States
2019 Alain Delon[134] Actor France
2021 Marco Bellocchio Filmmaker Italy
Jodie Foster Actress and filmmaker US
2022
Forest Whitaker Actor and producer
Tom Cruise[
2023
Michael Douglas
Harrison Ford
2024 Meryl Streep Actress
George Lucas Filmmaker and producer
Studio Ghibli Animation Studio
