List Of Cannes Film Festival Records
List of Cannes Film Festival records.
This list is as current as of the 76th Cannes Film Festival held in May 2023.
Longest standing ovations
With 22 minutes, Pan's Labyrinth holds the record for longest standing ovation.
| Length | Film(s) | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 22 minutes | Pan's Labyrinth (2006) | |
| 20 minutes | Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) | |
| 18 minutes | Mud (2012) | |
| 17 minutes | The Neon Demon (2016) | |
| 15 minutes | The Paperboy (2012) Two Days, One Night (2014) Capernaum (2018) | |
| 14 minutes | Belle (2021) | |
| 13 minutes | Bowling For Columbine (2002) Mommy (2014) | |
| 12 minutes | The Artist (2011) Elvis (2022) Broker (2022) | |
| 11 minutes | Inglourious Basterds (2009) | |
| 10 minutes | The Beaver (2011) Rust and Bone (2012) Carol (2015) Macbeth (2015) Captain Fantastic (2016) BlacKkKlansman (2018) Arctic (2018) Close (2022) | |
| 9 minutes | The French Dispatch (2021) Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) | |
| 8 minutes | It's Only the End of the World (2016) La Belle Époque (2019) Matthias & Maxime (2019) Tori and Lokita (2022) Triangle of Sadness (2022) May December (2023) | |
| 7 minutes | The Tree (2010) Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) BAC Nord (2021) Holy Spider (2022) Hunt (2022) Jeanne du Barry (2023) |
Longest screening runtime
- The War (2007) – 870 minutes, split into four Special Screenings from 22 to 23 May 2007
Directors with multiple Palme d'Or wins
10 directors or co-directors have won the Palme d'Or twice. Three of these (‡) have won for consecutive films.
| Wins | Director(s) | Palme d'Or winners | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Alf Sjöberg | Torment (1946) and Miss Julie (1951) | |
| Francis Ford Coppola | The Conversation (1974) and Apocalypse Now (1979) | ||
| Bille August ‡ | Pelle the Conqueror (1988) and The Best Intentions (1992) | ||
| Emir Kusturica | When Father Was Away on Business (1985) and Underground (1995) | ||
| Shohei Imamura | The Ballad of Narayama (1983) and The Eel (1997) | ||
| Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne | Rosetta (1999) and The Child (2005) | ||
| Michael Haneke ‡ | The White Ribbon (2009) and Amour (2012) | ||
| Ken Loach | The Wind That Shakes The Barley (2006) and I, Daniel Blake (2016) | ||
| Ruben Östlund ‡ | The Square (2017) and Triangle of Sadness (2022) |
Directors with multiple Grand Prix wins
Four directors have won the Grand Prix twice.
| Wins | Director | Grand Prix winners | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Andrei Tarkovsky | Solaris (1972) and The Sacrifice (1986) | |
| Bruno Dumont | Humanité (1999) and Flanders (2006) | ||
| Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Uzak (2003) and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) | ||
| Matteo Garrone | Gomorrah (2008) and Reality (2012) |
Directors with multiple Best Director wins
Five directors have won two or more Best Director awards:
| Wins | Director | Films | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Joel Coen | Barton Fink (1991), Fargo (1996) and The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) | |
| 2 | René Clément | The Battle of the Rails (1946) and The Walls of Malapaga (1949) | |
| Sergei Yutkevich | Othello (1956) and Lenin in Poland (1966) | ||
| Robert Bresson | A Man Escaped (1957) and L'Argent (1983) | ||
| John Boorman | Leo the Last (1970) and The General (1998) |
Directors with most films in main competition
With fifteen films, Ken Loach holds the record for most films in main competition at Cannes.
- Ken Loach – 15 films
- Nanni Moretti – 11 films
- 9 films:
- 8 films:
- Ethan & Joel Coen
- Ettore Scola
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Jim Jarmusch
- Marco Bellocchio
- Marco Ferreri
- Robert Altman
- Wim Wenders
- 7 films:
- Arnaud Desplechin
- Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Hou Hsiao-hsien
- Luis Buñuel
- Michael Cacoyannis
- Michael Haneke
- Miklós Jancsó
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Pietro Germi
- 6 films:
- Alain Resnais
- André Téchiné
- Andrzej Wajda
- David Cronenberg
- Ingmar Bergman
- James Ivory
- Jerzy Skolimowski
- Karoly Makk
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Paolo Sorrentino
- Pedro Almodóvar
- René Clément
- Shōhei Imamura
- Vittorio De Sica
- 5 films:
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Aki Kaurismäki
- Bo Widerberg
- Clint Eastwood
- Emir Kusturica
- Jacques Audiard
- James Gray
- Mario Monicelli
- Mauro Bolognini
- Mike Leigh
- Olivier Assayas
- Shōhei Imamura
- Theo Angelopoulos
- 4 films:
- Amos Gitai
- Alf Sjöberg
- André Cayatte
- Asghar Farhadi
- Bertrand Tavernier
- Bruno Dumont
- Chen Kaige
- David Lynch
- Delbert Mann
- Dino Risi
- Elia Kazan
- Federico Fellini
- Francesco Rosi
- François Ozon
- Glauber Rocha
- Hong Sang-soo
- Jacques Becker
- Jerry Schatzberg
- John Boorman
- Joseph Losey
- Jules Dassin
- Ladislao Vajda
- Lindsay Anderson
- Matteo Garrone
- Martin Scorsese
- Márton Keleti
- Maurice Pialat
- Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
- Nagisa Ōshima
- Park Chan-wook
- Quentin Tarantino
- Raúl Ruiz
- Robert Bresson
- Roberto Gavaldón
- Roman Polanski
- Satyajit Ray
- Steven Soderbergh
- Todd Haynes
- Volker Schlöndorff
- Werner Herzog
- Wong Kar-wai
- Youssef Chahine
- 3 films:
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Bertrand Blier
- Claude Lelouch
- Costa-Gavras
- David Lean
- Edward Dmytryk
- Elio Petri
- Emilio Fernández
- Ermanno Olmi
- Gus Van Sant
- Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Jacques Rivette
- Jane Campion
- Jean Delannoy
- Jerry Schatzberg
- Joseph Losey
- Leos Carax
- Louis Malle
- Luis García Berlanga
- Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
- Patrice Chéreau
- Spike Lee
- Teinosuke Kinugasa
- Terrence Malick
- Vincente Minnelli
- Walter Salles
- Wes Anderson
- William Wyler
- Xavier Beauvois
- Xavier Dolan
Films with multiple wins
- 3 wins:
- Barton Fink (1991) – Palme d’Or, Best Director and Best Actor
- Humanité (1999) – Grand Prix, Best Actor and Best Actress
- The Piano Teacher (2001) – Grand Prix, Best Actor and Best Actress
Female directors who have won the Palme d'Or
Three female directors have won the Palme d'Or.
- Jane Campion for The Piano in 1993.
- Julia Ducournau for Titane in 2021.
- Justine Triet for Anatomy of a Fall in 2023.
Female directors in main competition in the same year
In 2023, seven female directors had films competing for the Palme d'Or.
| Year | Number of Female directors | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 7 | |
| 2022 | 5 | |
| 2011, 2019 & 2021 | 4 |
Actors with multiple Best Actor wins
Three actors have won the Best Actor award twice:
| Wins | Actor | Films | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Dean Stockwell | Compulsion (1959) and Long Day's Journey into Night (1962) | |
| Jack Lemmon | The China Syndrome (1979) and Missing (1982) | ||
| Marcello Mastroianni | The Pizza Triangle (1970) and Dark Eyes (1987) |
Actresses with multiple Best Actress wins
Four actresses have won the Best Actress award twice:
| Wins | Actress | Films | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Vanessa Redgrave | Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966) and Isadora (1969) | |
| Barbara Hershey | Shy People (1987) and A World Apart (1988) | ||
| Helen Mirren | Cal (1984) and The Madness of King George (1995) | ||
| Isabelle Huppert | Violette Nozière (1978) and The Piano Teacher (2001) |
Actors who have won the Palme d'Or
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.
Actors who have appeared in multiple Palme d'Or winners
Eighteen actors have appeared in multiple Palme d'Or winners.
Actors who have appeared in multiple award-winning films in the same year
- Francisco Rabal starred in both Viridiana (Palme d'Or) and The Hand in the Trap (F.I.P.R.E.S.C.I Award) in 1961.
- Gian Maria Volonté starred in both The Working Class Goes to Heaven and The Mattei Affair, which shared the Palme d'Or (then-named Grand Prix International du Festival) in 1972.
- Isabelle Adjani won the Best Actress award for both Quartet and Possession in 1981.
- Sandra Hüller played a leading role in both Anatomy of a Fall (Palme d'Or), and The Zone of Interest (Grand Prix) in 2023.
Actors who have appeared in most films in main competition
Isabelle Huppert holds the record for the most films in main competition with a total of 22.
Actors who have appeared in multiple films in main competition in the same year
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.
Films that have won both the Palme d'Or and the Palm Dog Award
- Anatomy of a Fall won the Palme d'Or and the Palm Dog in 2023.
Palme d'Or winning films nominated for the Best Picture Oscar
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 |
|---|
| 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) |
Films that have won both the Palme d'Or and the Best Picture Oscar
As of 2024, 3 films have won both the Palme d'Or and the Best Picture Oscar.
| Film | Ref(s) |
|---|---|
| The Lost Weekend (1945) | |
| Marty (1955) | |
| Parasite (2019) |
Films that have won both the Palme d'Or and the Best Foreign Language Oscar
As of 2024, 6 films have won both the Palme d'Or and the Best Foreign Language Oscar.
| Film | Ref(s) |
|---|---|
| Black Orpheus (1959) | |
| A Man and a Woman (1966) | |
| The Tin Drum (1979) | |
| Pelle the Conqueror (1987) | |
| Amour (2012) | |
| Parasite (2019) |
Most consecutive years in official selection
- Marion Cotillard – 7 years. From 2011 to 2018, Cotillard had at least one film in official selection.
Cannes Film Festival firsts
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- First and only actress to win the Best Actress award for two different films in the same year
- Isabelle Adjani won the Best Actress award for both Quartet and Possession in 1981.
- First South American director to win the Palme d'Or
- Anselmo Duarte (from Brazil) for O Pagador de Promessas in 1962.
- First African and Arab film to win the Palme d'Or
- Chronicle of the Years of Fire (from Algeria) in 1975.
- First African and Arab director to win the Palme d'Or
- Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina (from Algeria) for Chronicle of the Years of Fire in 1975.
- First female director to win the Palme d'Or
- Jane Campion for The Piano in 1993.
- First female director to win the Best Director award
- Yuliya Solntseva for Chronicle of Flaming Years in 1961.
- First Latin American to win the Best Director award
- Glauber Rocha (from Brazil) for Antonio das Mortes in 1969.
- First film to win three awards
- Barton Fink in 1991 (Palme d'Or, Best Director and Best Actor).
- First Latin American to win the Best Actress award
- Norma Aleandro (from Argentina) for The Official Story in 1985.
- First black female director to compete for the Palme d'Or
- First black female director to win the Grand Prix
- First Pakistani film to be screened in official selection
- Joyland screened in the Un Certain Regard section in 2022.
- First Iranian actress to win the Best Actress award
- Zar Amir Ebrahimi for Holy Spider in 2022.
Age-related records
- Youngest Palme d'Or winner
- Louis Malle, age 24 (for The Silent World in 1956).
- Oldest Palme d'Or winner
- Ken Loach, age 79 (for I, Daniel Blake in 2016).
- Youngest Grand Prix winner
- Xavier Dolan, age 27 (for It's Only the End of the World in 2016).
- Youngest Jury Prize winner
- Xavier Dolan, age 25 (for Mommy in 2014).
- Oldest Jury Prize winner
- Jean-Luc Godard, age 83 (for Goodbye to Language in 2014).
- Youngest Best Actress winner
- Jodhi May, age 12 (for A World Apart in 1988).
- Oldest Best Actress winner
- Chus Lampreave, age 75 (for Volver in 2006).
- Youngest Best Actor winner
- Yuya Yagira, age 14 (for Nobody Knows in 2004).
- Oldest Best Actor winner
- Bruce Dern, age 76 (for Nebraska in 2013).
See also
References
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