In 1955, the award was awarded for the first time. Since then, many major Directors have registered in the list of winners – including only one woman. 70 Years Of Cannes: Our Review.
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Ten memorable winner of the Palme d’or
Paris, Texas (1984)
In 1979, Volker Schlöndorff for his film adaptation of “The tin drum”, the first Golden palm had brought to Germany. In 1984, Wim moved to Wenders. “Paris, Texas” conquered the audience and the Jury by storm and gave the “New German cinema” worldwide fame and recognition. Here is Nastassja Kinski played on the side of Harry Dean Stanton – the role of your life.
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Ten memorable winner of the Palme d’or
Blue is the warmest color (2013)
Four years ago, the Film “Blue is a warm colour is enthusiastic” the festival audience. The French Director Abdellatif Kechiche told the love story of two young women to such an extent that the Jury awarded the Palme d’or only to the Director, as is usually the case, but also the two great Actresses Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos.
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Ten memorable winner of the Palme d’or
The white ribbon (2009)
The unanimous opinion of the Jury was, as in 2009, “The white ribbon” was awarded. The Munich-born Austrian Michael Haneke received the prize for a Film that managed to bring the oppressive atmosphere in a small North German village prior to the outbreak of the First world war firmly on the canvas. Haneke then got 2012 a Golden palm for his Drama “love”.
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Ten memorable winner of the Palme d’or
Pulp Fiction (1994)
As a cinematic Sensation, in 1994, the second feature film by American Director Quentin Tarantino was celebrated. Complex, ironic and playful told, “Pulp Fiction” a new Note in the modern American narrative cinema. The Film gained quick cult Chara hangover, and influenced many Directors and screenwriters in the world.
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Ten memorable winner of the Palme d’or
The Piano (1993)
A year earlier, it had been made in the awarding of the Palme d’or is also a Sensation. However, you would have wished for earlier. For your melancholic told emigrants drama about a mute pianist in Jane Campion’s got the gold palm. The new Zealand Director was the first woman to receive this important award in Cannes.
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Ten memorable winner of the Palme d’or
Wild at Heart (1990)
The awarding of the Palme d’or in 1990, was controversial. David Lynch’s wild Road Movie in which some of the brutalities are seen on the screen, and the different Genres meshed, split the Jury. The Italian Director Bernardo Bertolucci, at that time President of the Jury, was finally. And so, at Heart, prepared “Wild” the audience on Directors such as Quentin Tarantino.
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Ten memorable winner of the Palme d’or
Yol – The Road (1982)
That Cannes is not only American and Western European art of film, proved to be the Festival in 1982. With “Yol – The road” was first considered a Turkish Film with the price. Şerif Gören was at the shooting for Director-screenwriter Yılmaz Güney stepped in. Güney was forced to flee in 1981 for political reasons from his home. In 1984 the Director died in French exile.
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Ten memorable winner of the Palme d’or
Viridiana (1961)
The great Spanish-Mexican Director Luis Buñuel received the 1961 Golden palm for “Viridiana”. Only three days after he had received in Cannes the prize, was forbidden to “Viridiana” in Spain. The censors of the Franco regime were disturbed by the anti-clerical and anti-bourgeois attitude of the Director. Today Viridiana “” as a memorable masterpiece in the history of cinema.
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Ten memorable winner of the Palme d’or
Apocalypse Now (1979)
In 1979, a thought should be born of worthy competition. Because the Jury could not reach their President, the French writer Françoise Sagan, on a movie, there were two Golden palm trees. In addition to Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam Film “Apocalypse Now” was also considered, Volker Schlöndorff for his literary adaptation of “The tin drum” with the highest Festival honor.
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Ten memorable winner of the Palme d’or
Taxi Driver (1976)
In the best case, Cannes has shown with his decisions for the Palme d’or greater aesthetic developments of world cinema. In 1970, the Jury of tact demonstrated with the award for the anti-war Comedy “MASH”. Six years later, Martin Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver” with Jodie Foster and Robert De Niro the price. Both films are for the “New Hollywood”, the departure of the US cinemas.
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Ten memorable winner of the Palme d’or
Paris, Texas (1984)
In 1979, Volker Schlöndorff for his film adaptation of “The tin drum”, the first Golden palm had brought to Germany. In 1984, Wim moved to Wenders. “Paris, Texas” conquered the audience and the Jury by storm and gave the “New German cinema” worldwide fame and recognition. Here is Nastassja Kinski played on the side of Harry Dean Stanton – the role of your life.
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Ten memorable winner of the Palme d’or
Blue is the warmest color (2013)
Four years ago, the Film “Blue is a warm colour is enthusiastic” the festival audience. The French Director Abdellatif Kechiche told the love story of two young women to such an extent that the Jury awarded the Palme d’or only to the Director, as is usually the case, but also the two great Actresses Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos.
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Ten memorable winner of the Palme d’or
The white ribbon (2009)
The unanimous opinion of the Jury was, as in 2009, “The white ribbon” was awarded. The Munich-born Austrian Michael Haneke received the prize for a Film that managed to bring the oppressive atmosphere in a small North German village prior to the outbreak of the First world war firmly on the canvas. Haneke then got 2012 a Golden palm for his Drama “love”.
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Ten memorable winner of the Palme d’or
Pulp Fiction (1994)
As a cinematic Sensation, in 1994, the second feature film by American Director Quentin Tarantino was celebrated. Complex, ironic and playful told, “Pulp Fiction” a new Note in the modern American narrative cinema. The Film gained quick cult Chara hangover, and influenced many Directors and screenwriters in the world.
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Ten memorable winner of the Palme d’or
The Piano (1993)
A year earlier, it had been made in the awarding of the Palme d’or is also a Sensation. However, you would have wished for earlier. For your melancholic told emigrants drama about a mute pianist in Jane Campion’s got the gold palm. The new Zealand Director was the first woman to receive this important award in Cannes.
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Ten memorable winner of the Palme d’or
Wild at Heart (1990)
The awarding of the Palme d’or in 1990, was controversial. David Lynch’s wild Road Movie in which some of the brutalities are seen on the screen, and the different Genres meshed, split the Jury. The Italian Director Bernardo Bertolucci, at that time President of the Jury, was finally. And so, at Heart, prepared “Wild” the audience on Directors such as Quentin Tarantino.
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Ten memorable winner of the Palme d’or
Yol – The Road (1982)
That Cannes is not only American and Western European art of film, proved to be the Festival in 1982. With “Yol – The road” was first considered a Turkish Film with the price. Şerif Gören was at the shooting for Director-screenwriter Yılmaz Güney stepped in. Güney was forced to flee in 1981 for political reasons from his home. In 1984 the Director died in French exile.
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Ten memorable winner of the Palme d’or
Viridiana (1961)
The great Spanish-Mexican Director Luis Buñuel received the 1961 Golden palm for “Viridiana”. Only three days after he had received in Cannes the prize, was forbidden to “Viridiana” in Spain. The censors of the Franco regime were disturbed by the anti-clerical and anti-bourgeois attitude of the Director. Today Viridiana “” as a memorable masterpiece in the history of cinema.
-
Ten memorable winner of the Palme d’or
Apocalypse Now (1979)
In 1979, a thought should be born of worthy competition. Because the Jury could not reach their President, the French writer Françoise Sagan, on a movie, there were two Golden palm trees. In addition to Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam Film “Apocalypse Now” was also considered, Volker Schlöndorff for his literary adaptation of “The tin drum” with the highest Festival honor.
-
Ten memorable winner of the Palme d’or
Taxi Driver (1976)
In the best case, Cannes has shown with his decisions for the Palme d’or greater aesthetic developments of world cinema. In 1970, the Jury of tact demonstrated with the award for the anti-war Comedy “MASH”. Six years later, Martin Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver” with Jodie Foster and Robert De Niro the price. Both films are for the “New Hollywood”, the departure of the US cinemas.
If you look on the victory of the most important film festivals in the world – Berlin, Cannes and Venice – lists and so on. Cannes has really considered a lot of the great masterpieces of film history, the Palme d’or: movies, lingers in the memory and in the memory of the cinema spectator have dug. Lions and bears in Gold, were, however, again and again to works that are today largely forgotten. The remained in Cannes for the exception.
Palm list shines
It is, therefore, proof for the claim that Cannes is the most important film festival in the world, so it is a list, this alone Palm.
Large post-war cinema: Rossellini’s harrowing Film “Rome, open city”
Palm trees, it is only since 1955. Before – the Festival took place for the first time in 1946 – was awarded a “Great price”. Also had weight. Only the winner could not go at that time with the pretty trophy home. Until 1955, French artist had designed the main price individually. After that, there was always a palm tree in Gold, based on the coat of arms of the French Mediterranean city. In 2017, by the way, it is open on the occasion of a round anniversary in addition, with 167 diamonds.
Rossellini, Reed and Lean
In the first two years of the Festival the award has been fragmented in many cases, several movies awarded. Including works such as Roberto Rossellini’s neorealist Drama “Rome, open city” and David Lean’s Melodrama “brief Encounter were mostly”. In 1949, there was only one price, the Carol Reeds was later to become a classic of advanced Film “The third man”.
The first “real” Palme d’or went to 1955 in the United States in Director Delbert Mann’s Film “Marty”. The was a worldwide success, but is now hardly known – and thus one of the few palm winner, the is only a terrific reminder. A year later, the Jury came to President Maurice Lehmann, a French theatre size, with a fist-thick Surprise: was Awarded “The silent world” by underwater pioneer Jacques-Yves Cousteau and a young Director Louis Malle a documentary.
Orson Welles, here as a cast member in “The third man”, repeated later as a Director of a palm tree
It should take almost half a century, until a documentary in Cannes was awarded to “Fahrenheit 9/11” by Michael Moore in 2004.
The list of winners in the decades after the Duo Cousteau/Malle is very prominent: Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti, Michelangelo Antonioni, Francesco Rosi and the Taviani brothers were, among other things, in the first decades of the strength of Italian cinema.
Large French went away empty-handed
Also France was awarded in the home, of course, several times: Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jacques Demy, Claude Lelouch entered in the list of winners. Strikingly, however, the more famous colleague Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol conquered never a Golden palm. Due to a lack of presence of the French Directors don’t can your are the. In the competition, especially many of the indigenous productions. More the international Jury, the don’t want to leave the suspicion that here there is a Bonus for the hosts.
Gorgeous Catherine Deneuve charming: in the Film “The umbrellas of Cherbourg”, of the won in 1964
Also the UK was there with winners, such as Richard Lester, Joseph Losey, Mike Leigh and Ken Loach on several occasions, when it was at the end of the festival to the prices. Eastern Europe, captured the Golden palm in 1958 with “The cranes are flying” by M. Kalatozov (USSR), 1981 “man Of iron” by Andrzej Wajda (Poland) and in 1985 with “dad is on a business trip” by Emir Kusturica (Yugoslavia).
Germany won twice the Palme
Germany is twice immortalized on the winners list of Cannes with Volker Schlöndorff (“The tin drum,” 1979) and Wim Wenders (“Paris, Texas”, 1984). Japanese Directors and conquered the palms several times, here are cash belonged to your like Teinosuke Kinugasa (“gate of hell” 1954), and Akira Kurosawa (“Kagemusha”, 1980) the Lucky ones.
Legend of Japanese cinema: Akira Kurosawa
And of course some of these Golden palm trees were also in the United States: Orson Welles took in 1951 for his “Othello” and, later, William Wyler, Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese. Surprising, but not necessarily earned, was in 1989, the award for “Sex, lies, and videotape” by Steven Soderberg.
To China as one of the coveted awards went. Chen Kaige won the prize in 1993 for his impressive epic “farewell my concubine”, in 2010, the Thai Apichatpong Weerasethakul with “Uncle Boonmee followed recalls his past life”. Also, a number of small cinema Nations could perpetuate in Cannes: Golden palm went to Belgium and Greece, Romania and Turkey, as well as Spain and Scandinavia.
Popular price: Here 2014 pride of the Turkish Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan presented to him
Bear for lesser-known cinema Nations
Countries in other continents remained at the win awards in Cannes is the exception: Brazil won in 1962, Algeria in 1975, and Iran in 1997. This is the cinema of the regions, the Berlinale looked at later, more intense and conquered with the award of the Golden bear on new and lesser-known cinema Nations, at least on this field, some of the merits.
To the international appreciation of the Palme d’or, neither bear nor lion came up over the decades. So you may be these days excited to see who wins in the Year 2017 for the main festival prize in the world of cinema. 19 films and their Directors are allowed to make use of hope.