Palme d'Or
The Palme d'Or (English: Golden Palm) is the highest prize awarded to competing films at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee. From 1939 to 1954, the highest prize was the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film.[1] From 1964 to 1974 it was replaced again by the Grand Prix du Festival.[2]
History
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The Commune of Cannes coat of arms
Until 1954, the Jury of the Festival de Cannes awarded a "Grand Prix of the International Film Festival" to the best film. The prize was redesigned each year by a different contemporary artist. At the end of 1954, the Festival's Board of Directors invited several jewellers to submit designs for a palm, in tribute to the coat of arms of the City of Cannes.[3] The original design by the jeweller Lucienne Lazon had the bevelled lower extremity of the stalk forming a heart, and the pedestal a sculpture in terracotta by the artist Sébastien.
In 1955, the first Palme d'Or in the history of the Festival was awarded to Delbert Mann for his film Marty. The Palme d'Or was established as the Festival's highest award until 1964, when the Festival temporarily resumed awarding a Grand Prix due to copyright problems with the Palm. In 1975, the Palme d'Or was reintroduced and became again the symbol of the Cannes Film Festival, awarded each and every year since to the director of the Best Feature Film of the Official Competition. The award was presented in a case of pure red Morocco leather, lined with white suede.
Since its reintroduction, the prize has been redesigned several times. At the beginning of the 1980s, the rounded shape of the pedestal, bearing the Palm, gradually transformed to become pyramidal in 1984. In 1992, Thierry de Bourqueney redesigned the Palm and its pedestal in hand-cut crystal. In 1997, the Palm was again modernised by Caroline Scheufele. The present Palm, made of 24-carat gold, is hand cast into a wax mould, then attached to a cushion of a single piece of cut crystal. The award is today presented in a case of blue Morocco leather.
Award winners
Grand Prix du Festival International du Film (1939-1954)
Palme d'Or (1955-1963)
Grand Prix du Festival International du Film (1964-1974)
Palme d'Or (1975-present)
*denotes first win
Repeat winners
- Alf Sjöberg (1946, 1951)
- Francis Ford Coppola (1974, 1979)
- Shohei Imamura (1983, 1997)
- Emir Kusturica (1985, 1995)
- Bille August (1988, 1992)
- Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne (1999, 2005)
See also
References
External links
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Palme d'Or winning films |
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| 1939-1959 |
Union Pacific (1939) · Torment (1946) · The Lost Weekend (1946) · The Red Meadows (1946) · Brief Encounter (1946) · Maria Candelaria (1946) · Neecha Nagar (1946) · The Turning Point (1946) · La Symphonie Pastorale (1946) · The Last Chance (1946) · Men Without Wings (1946) · Rome, Open City (1946) · The Third Man (1949) · Miss Julie (1951) · Miracle in Milan (1951) · The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (1952) · Two Cents Worth of Hope (1952) · The Wages of Fear (1953) · Gate of Hell (1954) · Marty (1955) · The Silent World (1956) · Friendly Persuasion (1957) · The Cranes Are Flying (1958) · Black Orpheus (1959)
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| 1960-1979 |
La Dolce Vita (1960) · The Long Absence (1961) · Viridiana (1961) · O Pagador de Promessas (1962) · The Leopard (1963) · The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) · The Knack …and How to Get It (1965) · A Man and a Woman (1966) · The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966) · Blow-Up (1967) · if.... (1969) · MASH (1970) · The Go-Between (1971) · The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1972) · The Mattei Affair (1972) · The Hireling (1973) · Scarecrow (1973) · The Conversation (1974) · Chronicle of the Years of Fire (1975) · Taxi Driver (1976) · Padre Padrone (1977) · The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978) · Apocalypse Now (1979) · The Tin Drum (1979)
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| 1980-1999 |
All That Jazz (1980) · Kagemusha (1980) · Man of Iron (1981) · Missing (1982) · Yol (1982) · The Ballad of Narayama (1983) · Paris, Texas (1984) · When Father Was Away on Business (1985) · The Mission (1986) · Under the Sun of Satan (1987) · Pelle the Conqueror (1988) · Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) · Wild at Heart (1990) · Barton Fink (1991) · The Best Intentions (1992) · Farewell My Concubine (1993) · The Piano (1993) · Pulp Fiction (1994) · Underground (1995) · Secrets & Lies (1996) · Taste of Cherry (1997) · The Eel (1997) · Eternity and a Day (1998) · Rosetta (1999)
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| 2000-2019 |
Dancer in the Dark (2000) · The Son's Room (2001) · The Pianist (2002) · Elephant (2003) · Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) · The Child (2005) · The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) · 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) · The Class (2008) · The White Ribbon (2009) · Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
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