# Jury Prize (Cannes Film Festival)

The Jury Prize (French: Prix du Jury) is an award of the Cannes Film Festival bestowed by the jury of the festival on one of the competing feature films. According to American film critic Dave Kehr, the award is "intended to recognize an original work that embodies the spirit of inquiry."

## History

The award was first presented in 1946. The prize was not awarded on 10 occasions (1947, 1949, 1953, 1967, 1974–79, 1981–82, 1984, and 2001). The festival was not held at all in 1948, 1950, and 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 20 occasions (1957, 1960, 1962–63, 1970–71, 1973, 1987, 1991–93, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2014, 2019, and 2021–22). Ken Loach and Andrea Arnold have won the most awards in this category, each winning three. Irma P. Hall is the only actress to win in this category, for her role in The Ladykillers (2004). Four directing teams have shared the award: Enrico Gras, Giorgio Moser and Leonardo Bonzi for Lost Continent (1955), Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud for Persepolis (2007), Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles for Bacurau (2019), and Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch for The Eight Mountains (2022). Samira Makhmalbaf was the first woman to have won the award, for 2000's Blackboards.
Since 1967, the official name of the award has been simply the Prix du Jury, but it has had two other names since its creation in 1946: the International Jury Prize, which was awarded for that year only, and the Prix spécial du Jury (1951–1967) that was given among other secondary prizes. In 1954, after facing much criticism about the whimsical nature of these awards, the Festival authorities decided to turn to a more traditional prize-giving arrangement. Since then, the Prix spécial du Jury reappeared only twice: Christopher Hampton won that award for Carrington along with the regular Prix du Jury given to Xavier Beauvois for Don't Forget You're Going to Die in 1995; and David Cronenberg won for Crash in 1996, which was the only prize allotted by the International Jury for that year.
British film academic Andrew M. Butler regards jury prizes such as Cannes' as a way of helping a film gain a distribution deal.

## Winners

| Year | English Title | Original Title | Recipient | Production Country |
| 1946 | The Battle of the Rails | La Bataille du rail | René Clément | France |
| 1951 | All About Eve | All About Eve | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States |
| 1952 | We Are All Murderers | Nous sommes tous des assassins | André Cayatte | France |
| 1954 | Knave of Hearts | Monsieur Ripois | René Clément | France |
| 1955 | Lost Continent | Continente perduto | Enrico Gras, Giorgio Moser & Leonardo Bonzi | Italy |
| 1956 | The Mystery of Picasso | Le mystère Picasso | Henri-Georges Clouzot | France |
| 1957 | Kanał | Kanał | Andrzej Wajda | Poland |
| 1957 | The Seventh Seal | Det sjunde inseglet | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
| 1958 | Mon Oncle | Mon Oncle | Jacques Tati | France |
| 1959 | Stars | Sterne | Konrad Wolf | East Germany |
| 1960 | L'Avventura | L'Avventura | Michelangelo Antonioni | Italy |
| 1960 | Odd Obsession | 鍵 | Kon Ichikawa | Japan |
| 1961 | Mother Joan of the Angels | Matka Joanna od Aniołów | Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Poland |
| 1962 | L'Eclisse | L'Eclisse | Michelangelo Antonioni | Italy |
| 1962 | The Trial of Joan of Arc | Procès de Jeanne d'Arc | Robert Bresson | France |
| 1963 | The Cassandra Cat | Až přijde kocour | Vojtěch Jasný | Czechoslovakia |
| 1963 | Harakiri | 切腹 | Masaki Kobayashi | Japan |
| 1964 | Woman in the Dunes | 砂の女 | Hiroshi Teshigahara | Japan |
| 1965 | Kwaidan | 怪談 | Masaki Kobayashi | Japan |
| 1966 | Alfie | Alfie | Lewis Gilbert | United Kingdom |
| 1969 | Z | Z | Costa-Gavras | France |
| 1970 | The Falcons | Magasiskola | István Gaál | Hungary |
| 1970 | The Strawberry Statement | The Strawberry Statement | Stuart Hagmann | United States |
| 1971 | Joe Hill | Joe Hill | Bo Widerberg | Sweden, United States |
| 1971 | Love | Szerelem | Károly Makk | Hungary |
| 1972 | Slaughterhouse-Five | Slaughterhouse-Five | George Roy Hill | United States |
| 1973 | The Hourglass Sanatorium | Sanatorium pod klepsydrą | Wojciech Has | Poland |
| 1973 | The Invitation | L'Invitation | Claude Goretta | Switzerland |
| 1974 | La prima Angélica | La prima Angélica | Carlos Saura | Spain |
| 1980 | The Constant Factor | Constans | Krzysztof Zanussi | Poland |
| 1983 | Kharij | খারিজ | Mrinal Sen | India |
| 1985 | Colonel Redl | Oberst Redl | István Szabó | Hungary, West Germany |
| 1986 | Thérèse | Thérèse | Alain Cavalier | France |
| 1987 | Shinran: Path to Purity | 親鸞 白い道 | Rentarō Mikuni | Japan |
| 1987 | Yeelen | Yeelen | Souleymane Cissé | Mali |
| 1988 | A Short Film About Killing | Krótki film o zabijaniu | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Poland |
| 1989 | Jesus of Montreal | Jésus de Montréal | Denys Arcand | Canada |
| 1990 | Hidden Agenda | Hidden Agenda | Ken Loach | United Kingdom |
| 1991 | Europa | Europa | Lars von Trier | Denmark |
| 1991 | Out of Life | Hors la vie | Maroun Bagdadi | France |
| 1992 | Dream of Light | El sol del membrillo | Víctor Erice | Spain |
| 1992 | An Independent Life | Самостоятельная жизнь | Vitali Kanevsky | France, Russia |
| 1993 | The Puppetmaster | 戲夢人生 | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Taiwan |
| 1993 | Raining Stones | Raining Stones | Ken Loach | United Kingdom |
| 1994 | La Reine Margot | La Reine Margot | Patrice Chéreau | France |
| 1995 | Don't Forget You're Going to Die | N'oublie pas que tu vas mourir | Xavier Beauvois | France |
| 1995 | Carrington $^‡$ | Carrington $^‡$ | Christopher Hampton | United Kingdom |
| 1996 | Crash $^‡$ | Crash $^‡$ | David Cronenberg | Canada, United Kingdom |
| 1997 | Western | Western | Manuel Poirier | France |
| 1998 | The Celebration | Festen | Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark |
| 1998 | Class Trip | La classe de neige | Claude Miller | France |
| 1999 | The Letter | A Carta | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal, France, Spain |
| 2000 | Blackboards | تخته سیاه‎ | Samira Makhmalbaf | Iran, Italy |
| 2000 | Songs from the Second Floor | Sånger från andra våningen | Roy Andersson | Sweden, France |
| 2002 | Divine Intervention | يد إلهية | Elia Suleiman | Palestine, Morocco, France, Germany |
| 2003 | At Five in the Afternoon | پنج عصر‎ | Samira Makhmalbaf | Iran, France |
| 2004 | The Ladykillers * | The Ladykillers * | Irma P. Hall | United States |
| 2004 | Tropical Malady | สัตว์ประหลาด | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | France, Thailand |
| 2005 | Shanghai Dreams | 青红 | Wang Xiaoshuai | China |
| 2006 | Red Road | Red Road | Andrea Arnold | United Kingdom |
| 2007 | Persepolis | Persepolis | Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud | France |
| 2007 | Silent Light | Stellet Licht | Carlos Reygadas | Mexico, France, Netherlands |
| 2008 | Il divo | Il divo | Paolo Sorrentino | Italy, France |
| 2009 | Fish Tank | Fish Tank | Andrea Arnold | United Kingdom |
| 2009 | Thirst | 박쥐 | Park Chan-wook | South Korea |
| 2010 | A Screaming Man | Un homme qui crie | Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | Chad, France, Belgium |
| 2011 | Polisse | Polisse | Maïwenn | France |
| 2012 | The Angels' Share | The Angels' Share | Ken Loach | United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Italy |
| 2013 | Like Father, Like Son | そして父になる | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Japan |
| 2014 | Goodbye to Language | Adieu au Langage | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
| 2014 | Mommy | Mommy | Xavier Dolan | Canada |
| 2015 | The Lobster | The Lobster | Yorgos Lanthimos | Ireland, United Kingdom, France, Greece, Netherlands |
| 2016 | American Honey | American Honey | Andrea Arnold | United Kingdom, United States |
| 2017 | Loveless | Нелюбовь | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Russia, France, Belgium, Germany |
| 2018 | Capernaum | كفرناحوم | Nadine Labaki | Lebanon |
| 2019 | Bacurau | Bacurau | Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles | Brazil, France |
| 2019 | Les Misérables | Les Misérables | Ladj Ly | France |
| 2021 | Ahed's Knee | הברך | Nadav Lapid | France, Germany, Israel |
| 2021 | Memoria | Memoria | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Colombia, Thailand, United Kingdom, Mexico, France |
| 2022 | The Eight Mountains | Le otto montagne | Felix van Groeningen & Charlotte Vandermeersch | Italy, Belgium, France |
| 2022 | EO | IO | Jerzy Skolimowski | Poland, Italy |
| 2023 | Fallen Leaves | Kuolleet lehdet | Aki Kaurismäki | Finland |
| 2024 | Emilia Pérez | Emilia Pérez | Jacques Audiard | France, Mexico |

### Notes

    $^‡$ Awarded as "Special Jury Prize", a unique award not given annually but only at the request of the official jury.
    $^*$ The Jury Prize was specially awarded to Irma P. Hall for acting in The Ladykillers.

## Multiple winners

The following individuals received two or more Jury Prize awards:
| Number of Wins | Directors | Nationality | Films |
| 3 | Ken Loach | United Kingdom | Hidden Agenda (1990), Raining Stones (1993), The Angels' Share (2012) |
| 3 | Andrea Arnold | United Kingdom | Red Road (2006), Fish Tank (2009), American Honey (2016) |
| 2 | René Clément | France | The Battle of the Rails (1946), Knave of Hearts (1954) |
| 2 | Michelangelo Antonioni | Italy | L'Avventura (1960), L'Eclisse (1962) |
| 2 | Masaki Kobayashi | Japan | Harakiri (1963), Kwaidan (1965) |
| 2 | Samira Makhmalbaf | Iran | Blackboards (2000), At Five in the Afternoon (2003) |
| 2 | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand | Tropical Malady (2004), Memoria (2021) |