Best Director Award (Cannes Film Festival)

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The Best Director Award (French: Prix de la mise en scène) is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival. It was first awarded in 1946.

[edit] Award Winners

Year	Film	Director
1946	La Bataille du rail	René Clément
1947	no award this year
1948	festival not held
1949	The Walls of Malapaga	René Clément
1950	festival not held
1951	Los olvidados	Luis Buñuel
1952	Fanfan la Tulipe	Christian-Jaque
1953	no award this year
1954	no award this year
1955	Rififi	Jules Dassin
	Heroes of Shipka	Sergei Vasilyev
1956	Othello	Sergei Yutkevich
1957	A Man Escaped	Robert Bresson
1958	Brink of Life	Ingmar Bergman
1959	The 400 Blows	François Truffaut
1960	no award this year
1961	Chronicle of Flaming Years (Povest plamennykh let)	Yuliya Solntseva
1962	no award this year
1963	no award this year
1964	no award this year
1965	Forest of the Hanged (Padurea spânzuratilor)	Liviu Ciulei
1966	Lenin in Poland (Lenin v Polshe)	Sergei Yutkevich
1967	Ten Thousand Days (Tízezer nap)	Ferenc Kósa
1968	festival not held
1969	Antônio das Mortes	Glauber Rocha
	All My Compatriots	Vojtech Jasny
1970	Leo the Last	John Boorman
1971	no award this year
1972	Red Psalm (Még kér a nép)	Miklós Jancsó
1973	no award this year
1974	no award this year
1975	Orders	Michel Brault
	Section spéciale	Costa Gavras
1976	Brutti, sporchi e cattivi	Ettore Scola
1977	no award this year
1978	Empire of Passion	Nagisa Oshima
1979	Days of Heaven	Terrence Malick
1980	no award this year
1981	no award this year
1982	Fitzcarraldo	Werner Herzog
1983	L'Argent1	Robert Bresson
	Nostalghia1	Andrei Tarkovsky
1984	A Sunday in the Country	Bertrand Tavernier
1985	Rendez-vous	André Téchiné
1986	After Hours	Martin Scorsese
1987	Wings of Desire	Wim Wenders
1988	Sur	Fernando Solanas
1989	Time of the Gypsies	Emir Kusturica
1990	Taxi Blues	Pavel Lungin
1991	Barton Fink	Joel Coen
1992	The Player	Robert Altman
1993	Naked	Mike Leigh
1994	Caro diario	Nanni Moretti
1995	La Haine	Mathieu Kassovitz
1996	Fargo	Joel Coen
1997	Happy Together	Wong Kar-Wai
1998	The General	John Boorman
1999	All About My Mother	Pedro Almodóvar
2000	Yi Yi	Edward Yang
2001	The Man Who Wasn't There	Joel Coen
	Mulholland Drive	David Lynch
2002	Chi-hwa-seon	Im Kwon-taek
	Punch-Drunk Love	Paul Thomas Anderson
2003	Elephant	Gus Van Sant
2004	Exils	Tony Gatlif
2005	Caché	Michael Haneke
2006	Babel	Alejandro González Iñárritu
2007	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly	Julian Schnabel
2008	Üç Maymun	Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Note 1: This year the award name changed to Grand Prix du cinéma de creation.

[edit] Repeated winners

• Joel Coen (1991, 1996, 2001)
• René Clément (1946, 1949)
• Sergei Yutkevich (1956, 1966)
• Robert Bresson (1957, 1983)
• John Boorman (1970, 1998)

[edit] External links

• Cannes Film Festival official website
• Cannes Film Festival at IMDb.

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