Best Director Award (Cannes Film Festival)
List of winners
Table:
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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