List of Cannes Film Festival records. This list is as current as of the 76th Cannes Film Festival held in May 2023.
With 22 minutes, Pan's Labyrinth holds the record for longest standing ovation. [1]
10 directors or co-directors have won the Palme d'Or twice. [25] Three of these (‡) have won for consecutive films.
Wins | Director(s) | Palme d'Or winners | Ref(s) |
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2 | Alf Sjöberg | Torment (1946) and Miss Julie (1951) | [25] |
Francis Ford Coppola | The Conversation (1974) and Apocalypse Now (1979) | [25] | |
Bille August ‡ | Pelle the Conqueror (1988) and The Best Intentions (1992) | [25] | |
Emir Kusturica | When Father Was Away on Business (1985) and Underground (1995) | [25] | |
Shohei Imamura | The Ballad of Narayama (1983) and The Eel (1997) | [25] | |
Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne | Rosetta (1999) and The Child (2005) | [25] | |
Michael Haneke ‡ | The White Ribbon (2009) and Amour (2012) | [25] | |
Ken Loach | The Wind That Shakes The Barley (2006) and I, Daniel Blake (2016) | [25] | |
Ruben Östlund ‡ | The Square (2017) and Triangle of Sadness (2022) | [25] | |
Four directors have won the Grand Prix twice.
Wins | Director | Grand Prix winners | Ref(s) |
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2 | Andrei Tarkovsky | Solaris (1972) and The Sacrifice (1986) | [26] |
Bruno Dumont | Humanité (1999) and Flanders (2006) | [27] | |
Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Uzak (2003) and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) | [28] | |
Matteo Garrone | Gomorrah (2008) and Reality (2012) | [29] | |
Five directors have won two or more Best Director awards:
Wins | Director | Films | Ref(s) |
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3 | Joel Coen | Barton Fink (1991), Fargo (1996) and The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) | [30] |
2 | René Clément | The Battle of the Rails (1946) and The Walls of Malapaga (1949) | [31] |
Sergei Yutkevich | Othello (1956) and Lenin in Poland (1966) | [32] | |
Robert Bresson | A Man Escaped (1957) and L'Argent (1983) | [33] | |
John Boorman | Leo the Last (1970) and The General (1998) | [34] |
With fifteen films, Ken Loach holds the record for most films in main competition at Cannes. [35]
Three female directors have won the Palme d'Or.
In 2023, seven female directors had films competing for the Palme d'Or. [157]
Year | Number of Female directors | Ref(s) |
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2023 | 7 | [157] |
2022 | 5 | [158] |
2011, 2019 & 2021 | 4 | [158] |
Three actors have won the Best Actor award twice:
Wins | Actor | Films | Ref(s) |
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2 | Dean Stockwell | Compulsion (1959) and Long Day's Journey into Night (1962) | [159] |
Jack Lemmon | The China Syndrome (1979) and Missing (1982) | [160] | |
Marcello Mastroianni | The Pizza Triangle (1970) and Dark Eyes (1987) | [161] | |
Four actresses have won the Best Actress award twice:
Wins | Actress | Films | Ref(s) |
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2 | Vanessa Redgrave | Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966) and Isadora (1969) | [162] |
Barbara Hershey | Shy People (1987) and A World Apart (1988) | [163] | |
Helen Mirren | Cal (1984) and The Madness of King George (1995) | [164] | |
Isabelle Huppert | Violette Nozière (1978) and The Piano Teacher (2001) | [165] | |
In 2013, the Palme d'Or for the film Blue Is the Warmest Colour was shared between its director Abdellatif Kechiche and the film's two leading actresses, Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos. The only time the Palme d'Or was shared with the cast. [155]
Eighteen actors have appeared in multiple Palme d'Or winners.
Isabelle Huppert holds the record for the most films in main competition with a total of 22. [165]
20 actors have appeared in multiple films in main competition in the same year. Annie Girardot, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Isabelle Huppert and Léa Seydoux tie for the record for the most films in competition with three films each; Girardot and Trintignant in 1969, Huppert in 1980 and Seydoux in 2021. Huppert also had two films in main competition in 2012 and 2015.
As of 2024, 19 Palme d'Or winning films have been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.
Best Picture winners designated with ** two asterisks.
Film |
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The Lost Weekend (1945) ** |
Marty (1955) ** |
Friendly Persuasion (1956) |
M*A*S*H (1970) |
The Conversation (1974) |
Taxi Driver (1976) |
Apocalypse Now (1979) |
All That Jazz (1979) |
Missing (1982) |
The Mission (1986) |
The Piano (1993) |
Pulp Fiction (1994) |
Secrets & Lies (1996) |
The Pianist (2002) |
The Tree of Life (2011) |
Amour (2012) |
Parasite (2019) ** |
Triangle of Sadness (2022) |
Anatomy of a Fall (2023) |
As of 2024, 3 films have won both the Palme d'Or and the Best Picture Oscar.
Film | Ref(s) |
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The Lost Weekend (1945) | [218] |
Marty (1955) | [218] |
Parasite (2019) | [218] |
As of 2024, 6 films have won both the Palme d'Or and the Best Foreign Language Oscar.
Film | Ref(s) |
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Black Orpheus (1959) | [218] |
A Man and a Woman (1966) | [218] |
The Tin Drum (1979) | [218] |
Pelle the Conqueror (1987) | [218] |
Amour (2012) | [218] |
Parasite (2019) | [218] |
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