| 1946 | Georges Huisman
(France) | Iris Barry, Beaulieu, Antonin Brousil, J. H. J. De Jong, Don Tudor, Samuel Findlater, Sergei Gerasimov, Jan Korngold, Domingos Mascarenhas, Hugo Mauerhofer, Filippo Mennini, Moltke-Hansen, Fernand Rigot, Kjell Stromberg, Rodolfo Usigli, Youssef Wahbi, Helge Wamberg |
| 1947 | Georges Huisman
(France) | Raymond Borderie, Georges Carriere, Jean-François Chosson, Joseph Dotti, Escoute, Jean Grémillon, Maurice Hille, Robert Hubert, Alexandre Kamenka, Jean Mineur, Henri Moret, Jean Nery, Maurice Perisset, Georges Raguis, René Jeanne, Georges Rollin, Régis Roubin, Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon, Segalon, René Sylviano |
| 1949 | Georges Huisman
(France) | Suzanne Borel, Georges Charensol, Paul Colin, Roger Désormière, Jacques-Pierre Frogerais, Étienne Gilson, Paul Gosset, Georges Raguis, René Jeanne, Carlo Rim |
| 1951 | André Maurois
(France) | Suzanne Borel, Louis Chauvet, Evrard de Rouvre, Guy Desson, Jacques Ibert, Gaby Morlay, Georges Raguis, René Jeanne, Carlo Rim, Louis Touchages, Paul Vialar |
| 1952 | Maurice Genevoix
(France) | Tony Aubin, Pierre Billon, Suzanne Borel, Chapelain-Midy, Louis Chauvet, Evrard de Rouvre, Guy Desson, Gabrielle Dorziat, Jean Dréville, Jacques-Pierre Frogerais, André Lang, Jean Mineur, Raymond Queneau, Georges Raguis, Charles Vildrac |
| 1953 | Jean Cocteau
(France) | Louis Chauvet, Titina De Filippo, Guy Desson, Philippe Erlanger, Renée Faure, Jacques-Pierre Frogerais, Abel Gance, André Lang, Georges Raguis, Edward G. Robinson, Charles Spaak, Georges Van Parys |
| 1954 | Jean Cocteau
(France) | Jean Aurenche, André Bazin, Luis Buñuel, Henri Calef, Guy Desson, Philippe Erlanger, Michel Fourre-Cormeray, Jacques-Pierre Frogerais, Jacques Ibert, Georges Lamousse, André Lang, Noël-Noël, Georges Raguis |
| 1955 | Marcel Pagnol
(France) | Marcel Achard, Juan Antonio Bardem, André Dignimont, Jacques-Pierre Frogerais, Leopold Lindtberg, Anatole Litvak, Isa Miranda, Leonard Mosley, Jean Nery, Sergei Yutkevich |
| 1956 | Maurice Lehmann
(France) | Arletty, Louise de Vilmorin, Jacques-Pierre Frogerais, Henri Jeanson, Domenico Meccoli, Otto Preminger, James Quinn, Roger Regent, María Romero, Sergei Vasilyev |
| 1957 | André Maurois
(France) | Dolores del Río, Maurice Genevoix, Georges Huisman, Maurice Lehmann, Marcel Pagnol, Michael Powell, Jules Romains, George Stevens, Vladimir Volchek |
| 1958 | Marcel Achard
(France) | Tomiko Asabuki, Bernard Buffet, Jean de Baroncelli, Helmut Käutner, Dudley Leslie, Madeleine Robinson, Ladislao Vajda, Charles Vidor, Sergei Yutkevich, Cesare Zavattini |
| 1959 | Marcel Achard
(France) | Antoni Bohdziewicz, Michael Cacoyannis, Carlos Cuenca, Pierre Daninos, Julien Duvivier, Max Favalelli, Gene Kelly, Carlo Ponti, Micheline Presle, Sergei Vasilyev |
| 1960 | Georges Simenon
(Belgium) | Marc Allégret, Louis Chauvet, Diego Fabbri, Hidemi Ima, Grigori Kozintsev, Maurice Leroux, Max Lippmann, Henry Miller, Simone Renant, Ulyses Petit de Murat |
| 1961 | Jean Giono
(France) | Pedro Armendáriz, Luigi Chiarini, Tonino Delli Colli, Claude Mauriac, Édouard Molinaro, Jean Paulhan, Raoul Ploquin, Liselotte Pulver, Fred Zinnemann |
| 1962 | Tetsurō Furukaki
(Japan) | Sophie Desmarets, Jean Dutourd, Mel Ferrer, Romain Gary, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Ernst Krüger, Yuli Raizman, Mario Soldati, François Truffaut |
| 1963 | Armand Salacrou
(France) | Jacqueline Audry, Wilfrid Baumgartner, François Chavane, Jean De Baroncelli, Robert Hossein, Rostislav Yurenev, Kashiko Kawakita, Steven Pallos, Gian Luigi Rondi |
| 1964 | Fritz Lang
(Germany) | Joaquín Calvo-Sotelo, René Clément, Jean-Jacques Gautier, Alexandre Karaganov, Lorens Marmstedt, Geneviève Page, Raoul Ploquin, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Véra Volmane |
| 1965 | Olivia de Havilland
(United States) | Max Aub, Michel Aubriant, Rex Harrison, François Reichenbach, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Konstantin Simonov, Edmond Ténoudji, Jerzy Toeplitz |
| 1966 | Sophia Loren
(Italy) | Marcel Achard, Vinicius de Moraes, Tetsurō Furukaki, Maurice Genevoix, Jean Giono, Maurice Lehmann, Richard Lester, Denis Marion, André Maurois, Marcel Pagnol, Yuli Raizman, Armand Salacrou, Peter Ustinov |
| 1967 | Alessandro Blasetti
(Italy) | Sergei Bondarchuk, René Bonnell, Jean-Louis Bory, Miklós Jancsó, Claude Lelouch, Shirley MacLaine, Vincente Minnelli, Georges Neveux, Gian Luigi Rondi, Ousmane Sembène |
| 1968 | André Chamson
(France) | Claude Aveline, Boris von Borrezholm, Veljko Bulajić, Paul Cadeac d'Arbaud, Jean Lescure, Louis Malle, Jan Nordlander, Roman Polanski, Robert Rozhdestvensky, Monica Vitti, Terence Young |
| 1969 | Luchino Visconti
(Italy) | Chinghiz Aitmatov, Marie Bell, Jaroslav Boček, Veljko Bulajić, Stanley Donen, Jerzy Glucksman, Robert Kanters, Sam Spiegel |
| 1970 | Miguel Ángel Asturias
(Guatemala) | Guglielmo Biraghi, Kirk Douglas, Christine Gouze-Rénal, Vojtěch Jasný, Félicien Marceau, Sergey Obraztsov, Karel Reisz, Volker Schlöndorff |
| 1971 | Michèle Morgan
(France) | Pierre Billard, Michael Birkett, Anselmo Duarte, István Gaál, Sergio Leone, Aleksandar Petrović, Maurice Rheims, Erich Segal |
| 1972 | Joseph Losey
(Great Britain) | Bibi Andersson, Georges Auric, Erskine Caldwell, Mark Donskoy, Miloš Forman, Giorgio Papi, Jean Rochereau, Alain Tanner, Naoki Togawa |
| 1973 | Ingrid Bergman
(Sweden) | Jean Delannoy, Lawrence Durrell, Rodolfo Echeverria, Bolesław Michałek, François Nourissier, Leo Pestelli, Sydney Pollack, Robert Rozhdestvensky |
| 1974 | René Clair
(France) | Jean-Loup Dabadie, Kenne Fant, Félix Labisse, Irwin Shaw, Michel Soutter, Monica Vitti, Alexander Walker, Rostislav Yurenev |
| 1975 | Jeanne Moreau
(France) | Anthony Burgess, André Delvaux, Gérard Ducaux-Rupp, George Roy Hill, Léa Massari, Pierre Mazars, Fernando Rey, Pierre Salinger, Yuliya Solntseva |
| 1976 | Tennessee Williams
(United States) | Jean Carzou, Mario Cecchi Gori, Costa-Gavras, András Kovács, Lorenzo López Sancho, Charlotte Rampling, Georges Schehadé, Mario Vargas Llosa |
| 1977 | Roberto Rossellini
(Italy) | N'Sougan Agblemagnon, Anatole Dauman, Jacques Demy, Carlos Fuentes, Benoîte Groult, Pauline Kael, Marthe Keller, Yuri Ozerov |
| 1978 | Alan J. Pakula
(United States) | Franco Brusati, François Chalais, Michel Ciment, Claude Goretta, Andrei Konchalovsky, Harry Saltzman, Liv Ullmann, Georges Wakhévitch |
| 1979 | Françoise Sagan
(France) | Sergio Amidei, Rodolphe-Maurice Arlaud, Luis García Berlanga, Maurice Bessy, Paul Claudon, Jules Dassin, Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács, Robert Rozhdestvensky, Susannah York |
| 1980 | Kirk Douglas
(United States) | Ken Adam, Robert Benayoun, Veljko Bulajić, Leslie Caron, Charles Champlin, André Delvaux, Albina du Boisrouvray, Gian Luigi Rondi, Michael Spencer |
| 1981 | Jacques Deray
(France) | Ellen Burstyn, Jean-Claude Carrière, Robert Chazal, Attilio d'Onofrio, Christian Defaye, Carlos Diegues, Antonio Gala, Andrey Petrov, Douglas Slocombe |
| 1982 | Giorgio Strehler
(Italy) | Jean-Jacques Annaud, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Geraldine Chaplin, Gabriel García Márquez, Florian Hopf, Sidney Lumet, Mrinal Sen, Claude Soulé, René Thenevet |
| 1983 | William Styron
(United States) | Henri Alekan, Yvonne Baby, Sergei Bondarchuk, Youssef Chahine, Souleymane Cissé, Gilbert De Goldschmidt, Mariangela Melato, Karel Reisz, Lia van Leer |
| 1984 | Dirk Bogarde
(Great Britain) | Franco Cristaldi, Michel Deville, Stanley Donen, Istvan Dosai, Arne Hestenes, Isabelle Huppert, Ennio Morricone, Jorge Semprún, Vadim Yusov |
| 1985 | Miloš Forman
(Czech Republic) | Néstor Almendros, Jorge Amado, Mauro Bolognini, Claude Imbert, Sarah Miles, Michel Perez, Mo Rothman, Francis Veber, Edwin Zbonek |
| 1986 | Sydney Pollack
(United States) | Charles Aznavour, Sônia Braga, Lino Brocka, Tonino Delli Colli, Philip French, Alexandre Mnouchkine, István Szabó, Danièle Thompson, Alexandre Trauner |
| 1987 | Yves Montand
(France) | Theodoros Angelopoulos, Gérald Calderon, Danièle Heymann, Elem Klimov, Norman Mailer, Nicola Piovani, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jeremy Thomas |
| 1988 | Ettore Scola
(Italy) | Claude Berri, William Goldman, Nastassja Kinski, George Miller, Robby Müller, Héctor Olivera, David Robinson, Yelena Safonova, Philippe Sarde |
| 1989 | Wim Wenders
(Germany) | Héctor Babenco, Claude Beylie, Renée Blanchar, Silvio Clementelli, Georges Delerue, Sally Field, Christine Gouze-Rénal, Peter Handke, Krzysztof Kieślowski |
| 1990 | Bernardo Bertolucci
(Italy) | Fanny Ardant, Bernard Blier, Françoise Giroud, Aleksei German, Christopher Hampton, Anjelica Huston, Mira Nair, Sven Nykvist, Hayao Shibata |
| 1991 | Roman Polanski
(Poland) | Férid Boughedir, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Ménégoz, Natalya Negoda, Alan Parker, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Hans Dieter Seidel, Vittorio Storaro, Vangelis |
| 1992 | Gérard Depardieu
(France) | Pedro Almodóvar, John Boorman, René Cleitman, Jamie Lee Curtis, Carlo Di Palma, Nana Jorjadze, Lester James Peries, Serge Toubiana, Joële Van Effenterre |
| 1993 | Louis Malle
(France) | Claudia Cardinale, Judy Davis, Abbas Kiarostami, Emir Kusturica, William Lubtchansky, Tom Luddy, Gary Oldman, Augusto M. Seabra, Inna Churikova |
| 1994 | Clint Eastwood
(United States) | Catherine Deneuve, Pupi Avati, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Kazuo Ishiguro, Alexander Kaidanovsky, Marie-Françoise Leclère, Shin Sang-ok, Lalo Schifrin, Alain Terzian |
| 1995 | Jeanne Moreau
(France) | Gianni Amelio, Jean-Claude Brialy, Emilio García Riera, Nadine Gordimer, Gaston Kaboré, Michèle Ray-Gavras, Philippe Rousselot, John Waters, Maria Zvereva |
| 1996 | Francis Ford Coppola
(United States) | Michael Ballhaus, Nathalie Baye, Henry Chapier, Atom Egoyan, Eiko Ishioka, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Greta Scacchi, Antonio Tabucchi, Anh Hung Tran |
| 1997 | Isabelle Adjani
(France) | Paul Auster, Luc Bondy, Tim Burton, Patrick Dupond, Li Gong, Mike Leigh, Nanni Moretti, Michael Ondaatje, Mira Sorvino |
| 1998 | Martin Scorsese
(United States) | Kaige Chen, Alain Corneau, Chiara Mastroianni, Lena Olin, Winona Ryder, MC Solaar, Zoé Valdés, Sigourney Weaver, Michael Winterbottom |
| 1999 | David Cronenberg
(Canada) | Dominique Blanc, Doris Dörrie, Jeff Goldblum, Barbara Hendricks, Holly Hunter, George Miller, Maurizio Nichetti, Yasmina Reza, André Téchiné |
| 2000 | Luc Besson
(France) | Jonathan Demme, Nicole Garcia, Jeremy Irons, Mario Martone, Patrick Modiano, Arundhati Roy, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Kristin Scott Thomas, Barbara Sukowa |
| 2001 | Liv Ullmann
(Norway) | Mimmo Calopresti, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Terry Gilliam, Mathieu Kassovitz, Sandrine Kiberlain, Philippe Labro, Julia Ormond, Moufida Tlatli, Edward Yang |
| 2002 | David Lynch
(United States) | Bille August, Christine Hakim, Claude Miller, Raúl Ruiz, Walter Salles, Sharon Stone, Régis Wargnier, Michelle Yeoh |
| 2003 | Patrice Chéreau
(France) | Erri De Luca, Jiang Wen, Aishwarya Rai, Jean Rochefort, Meg Ryan, Steven Soderbergh, Danis Tanović, Karin Viard |
| 2004 | Quentin Tarantino
(United States) | Emmanuelle Béart, Edwidge Danticat, Tsui Hark, Benoît Poelvoorde, Jerry Schatzberg, Tilda Swinton, Kathleen Turner, Peter von Bagh |
| 2005 | Emir Kusturica (Serbia) | Fatih Akın, Javier Bardem, Nandita Das, Salma Hayek, Benoît Jacquot, Toni Morrison, Agnès Varda, John Woo |
| 2006 | Wong Kar-wai
(Hong Kong) | Monica Bellucci, Helena Bonham Carter, Samuel L. Jackson, Patrice Leconte, Lucrecia Martel, Tim Roth, Elia Suleiman, Zhang Ziyi |
| 2007 | Stephen Frears
(Great Britain) | Marco Bellocchio, Maggie Cheung, Toni Collette, Maria de Medeiros, Orhan Pamuk, Michel Piccoli, Sarah Polley, Abderrahmane Sissako |
| 2008 | Sean Penn
(United States) | Jeanne Balibar, Rachid Bouchareb, Sergio Castellitto, Alfonso Cuarón, Alexandra Maria Lara, Natalie Portman, Marjane Satrapi, Apichatpong Weerasethakul |
| 2009 | Isabelle Huppert
(France) | Asia Argento, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, James Gray, Hanif Kureishi, Lee Chang-dong, Shu Qi, Sharmila Tagore, Robin Wright |
| 2010 | Tim Burton
(United States) | Alberto Barbera, Kate Beckinsale, Emmanuel Carrère, Benicio del Toro, Alexandre Desplat, Víctor Erice, Shekhar Kapur, Giovanna Mezzogiorno |
| 2011 | Robert De Niro
(United States) | Olivier Assayas, Martina Gusmán, Mahamat Saleh Haroun, Jude Law, Nansun Shi, Uma Thurman, Johnnie To, Linn Ullmann |
| 2012 | Nanni Moretti
(Italy) | Hiam Abbass, Andrea Arnold, Emmanuelle Devos, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Diane Kruger, Ewan McGregor, Alexander Payne, Raoul Peck |
| 2013 | Steven Spielberg
(United States) | Daniel Auteuil, Vidya Balan, Naomi Kawase, Nicole Kidman, Ang Lee, Cristian Mungiu, Lynne Ramsay, Christoph Waltz |
| 2014 | Jane Campion
(New Zealand) | Gael García Bernal, Carole Bouquet, Sofia Coppola, Willem Dafoe, Jeon Do-yeon, Leila Hatami, Nicolas Winding Refn, Jia Zhangke[2] |
| 2015 | Joel and Ethan Coen
(United States) | Xavier Dolan, Jake Gyllenhaal, Rossy de Palma, Sophie Marceau, Sienna Miller, Rokia Traoré, Guillermo del Toro |
| 2016 | George Miller
(Australia) | Arnaud Desplechin, Kirsten Dunst, Valeria Golino, Mads Mikkelsen, László Nemes, Vanessa Paradis, Katayoon Shahabi, Donald Sutherland |
| 2017 | Pedro Almodóvar
(Spain) | Maren Ade, Jessica Chastain, Fan Bingbing, Agnès Jaoui, Park Chan-wook, Will Smith, Paolo Sorrentino, Gabriel Yared |
| 2018 | Cate Blanchett
(Australia) | Chang Chen, Ava DuVernay, Robert Guédiguian, Khadja Nin, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, Denis Villeneuve, Andrey Zvyagintsev |
| 2019 | Alejandro González Iñárritu
(Mexico) | Enki Bilal, Robin Campillo, Maimouna N'Diaye, Elle Fanning, Yorgos Lanthimos, Paweł Pawlikowski, Kelly Reichardt, Alice Rohrwacher |
| 2020 | Spike Lee
(United States) | Festival cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2021 | Spike Lee[3]
(United States) | Mati Diop, Mylène Farmer, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jessica Hausner, Mélanie Laurent, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Tahar Rahim, Song Kang-ho |
| 2022 | Vincent Lindon[4]
(France) | Asghar Farhadi, Rebecca Hall, Ladj Ly, Jeff Nichols, Deepika Padukone, Noomi Rapace, Joachim Trier, Jasmine Trinca |
| 2023 | Ruben Östlund[5]
(Sweden) | Maryam Touzani, Denis Ménochet, Rungano Nyoni, Brie Larson, Paul Dano, Atiq Rahimi, Damián Szifrón, Julia Ducournau |
| 2024 | Greta Gerwig[6]
(United States) | J. A. Bayona, Ebru Ceylan, Pierfrancesco Favino, Lily Gladstone, Eva Green, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Nadine Labaki, Omar Sy |
