Best Director Award (Cannes Film Festival)
List of winners

Best Director Award (Cannes Film Festival)

Section Title: List of winners
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Year	Director	Film	Original Title	Country

1940s

1946	René Clément	The Battle of the Rails	La Bataille du rail	France

1947	no award

1949	René Clément	The Walls of Malapaga	Au-delà des grilles	France

1950s

1951	Luis Buñuel	The Young and the Damned	Los Olvidados	Mexico

1952	Christian-Jaque	Fanfan la Tulipe	France

1953	no award

1954	no award

1955	Jules Dassin	Rififi	Du rififi chez les hommes	United States

Sergei Vasilyev	Heroes of Shipka	Герои Шипки (Geroi Shipki)	Soviet Union

1956	Sergei Yutkevich	Othello	Отелло	Soviet Union

1957	Robert Bresson	A Man Escaped or: The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth	Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut	France

1958	Ingmar Bergman	Brink of Life	Nära livet	Sweden

1959	François Truffaut	The 400 Blows	Les Quatre Cents Coups	France

1960s

1960	no award

1961	Yuliya Solntseva	The Story of the Flaming Years	Повесть пламенных лет (Povest plamennykh let)	Soviet Union

1962	no award

1963	no award

1964	no award

1965	Liviu Ciulei	Forest of the Hanged	Pădurea spânzuraților	Romania

1966	Sergei Yutkevich	Lenin in Poland	Ленин в Польше (Lenin v Polshe)	Soviet Union

1967	Ferenc Kósa	Ten Thousand Days	Tízezer nap	Hungary

1968	the festival was interrupted, no awards given

1969	Glauber Rocha	Antonio das Mortes	O Dragão da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro	Brazil

Vojtěch Jasný	All My Compatriots	Všichni dobří rodáci	Czechoslovakia

1970s

1970	John Boorman	Leo the Last	United Kingdom

1971	no award

1972	Miklós Jancsó	Red Psalm	Még kér a nép	Hungary

1973	no award

1974	no award

1975	Michel Brault	Orderers	Les Ordres	Canada

Costa Gavras	Special Section	Section spéciale	Greece

1976	Ettore Scola	Down and Dirty	Brutti, sporchi e cattivi	Italy

1977	no award

1978	Nagisa Oshima	Empire of Passion	愛の亡霊 (Ai no Bōrei)	Japan

1979	Terrence Malick	Days of Heaven	United States

1980s

1980	no award

1981	no award

1982	Werner Herzog	Fitzcarraldo	West Germany

1983	Robert Bresson	Money	L'Argent	France

Andrei Tarkovsky	Nostalgia	Nostalghia	Soviet Union

1984	Bertrand Tavernier	A Sunday in the Country	Un dimanche à la campagne	France

1985	André Téchiné	Rendez-vous	France

1986	Martin Scorsese	After Hours	United States

1987	Wim Wenders	Wings of Desire	Der Himmel über Berlin	West Germany

1988	Fernando Solanas	South	Sur	Argentina

1989	Emir Kusturica	Time of the Gypsies	Дом за вешање (Dom za vešanje)	Yugoslavia

1990s

1990	Pavel Lungin	Taxi Blues	Такси-блюз (Taksi-Blyuz)	Soviet Union

1991	Joel Coen	Barton Fink	United States

1992	Robert Altman	The Player	United States

1993	Mike Leigh	Naked	United Kingdom

1994	Nanni Moretti	Dear Diary	Caro diario	Italy

1995	Mathieu Kassovitz	Hate	La Haine	France

1996	Joel Coen	Fargo	United States

1997	Wong Kar-wai	Happy Together	春光乍洩	Hong Kong

1998	John Boorman	The General	United Kingdom

1999	Pedro Almodóvar	All About My Mother	Todo sobre mi madre	Spain

2000s

2000	Edward Yang	One One	Yi Yi	Taiwan

2001	Joel Coen	The Man Who Wasn't There	United States

David Lynch	Mulholland Drive	United States

2002	Im Kwon-taek	Painted Fire	Chi-hwa-seon	South Korea

Paul Thomas Anderson	Punch-Drunk Love	United States

2003	Gus Van Sant	Elephant	United States

2004	Tony Gatlif	Exiles	France

2005	Michael Haneke	Hidden	Caché	Austria

2006	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Babel	Mexico

2007	Julian Schnabel	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly	Le Scaphandre et le Papillon	United States

2008	Nuri Bilge Ceylan	Three Monkeys	Üç Maymun	Turkey

2009	Brillante Mendoza	Butchered	Kinatay	Philippines

2010s

2010	Mathieu Amalric	On Tour	Tournée	France

2011	Nicolas Winding Refn	Drive	Denmark

2012	Carlos Reygadas	Post Tenebras Lux	Mexico

2013	Amat Escalante	Heli	Mexico

2014	Bennett Miller	Foxcatcher	United States

2015	Hou Hsiao-hsien	The Assassin	刺客聶隱娘 (Cìkè Niè Yǐnniáng)	Taiwan

2016	Cristian Mungiu	Graduation	Bacalaureat	Romania

Olivier Assayas	Personal Shopper	France

2017	Sofia Coppola	The Beguiled	United States

2018	Paweł Pawlikowski	Cold War	Zimna wojna	Poland

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