BEST DIRECTOR AWARD (CANNES FILM FESTIVAL)

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.

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Award Winners

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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'Argent'''	Robert Bresson
	'''Nostalghia'''	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	''''	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

This year the award name changed to ''Grand Prix du cinéma de creation''.

External links

★ Cannes Film Festival official website

★ Cannes Film Festival at IMDb.