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, and it replaced the Special Jury Prize, which was considered a "second place" award until after this award was introduced.
History
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
| Year | Film | Original title | Director(s) | Country of origin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | ||||
| Awarded as "Grand Prix Spécial du Jury" | ||||
| 1967 | Accident # | Joseph Losey | United Kingdom | |
| I Even Met Happy Gypsies # | Skupljači perja | Aleksandar Petrović | Yugoslavia | |
| 1968 | Festival interrupted, no awards given that year because of the May 1968 events in France | |||
| 1969 | Ådalen 31 | Bo Widerberg | Sweden | |
| 1970s | ||||
| 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 | United States | ||
| 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 | |
| 1977 | No award given that year | |||
| 1978 | Bye Bye Monkey # | Ciao maschio | Marco Ferreri | Italy, France |
| The Shout # | Jerzy Skolimowski | United Kingdom | ||
| 1979 | Siberiade | Сибириада | Andrei Konchalovsky | Soviet Union |
| 1980s | ||||
| 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 | |
| Awarded as "Grand Prix du Jury" | ||||
| 1989 | Cinema Paradiso # | Nuovo Cinema Paradiso | Giuseppe Tornatore | Italy |
| Too Beautiful for You # | Trop belle pour toi | Bertrand Blier | France | |
| 1990s | ||||
| 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 | |
| Awarded as "Grand Prix" | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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, Italy |
| 2010s | ||||
| 2010 | Of Gods and Men | Des hommes et des dieux | Xavier Beauvois | France |
| 2011 | The Kid with a Bike # | Le Gamin au vélo | Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne | 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 | ||||
| 2020 | Festival not held, no awards given that year due to the COVID-19 pandemic | |||
| 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, Panama, United States | ||
- Notes
- # Denotes Ex-aequo win
Multiple winners
The following individuals received two Grand Prix awards:
| Wins | Director | Nationality | Films |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Andrei Tarkovsky | Soviet Union | Solaris (1972), The Sacrifice (1986) |
| Bruno Dumont | France | Humanité (1999), Flanders (2006) | |
| Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Turkey | Uzak (2003), Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) | |
| Matteo Garrone | Italy | Gomorrah (2008), Reality (2012) |
See also
References
- ^ "Awards at Cannes Film Festival". The Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
- ^ Jonathan Trevithick on Twitter: "Monty Python's Grand Prix Special du Jury for 'The Meaning of Life', awarded at Cannes"
- ^ Hollywood Flashback: Nicolas Cage First Came to Cannes in 1985 With 'Birdy' - The Hollywood Reporter
- ^ 'Inside Llewyn Davis' and 'Blue is the Warmest Color' Win Top Prizes at Cannes - ScreenCrush
- ^ Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman wins Grand Prix award from Cannes - Entertainment Weekly
External links
- Cannes Film Festival official website