List of Cannes Film Festival records
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List of Cannes Film Festival records. This list is as current as of the 79th Cannes Film Festival held in May 2026.
Longest standing ovations
With 22 minutes, Pan's Labyrinth (2006) holds the record for longest standing ovation.[1]
Longest screening runtime
Longest gap between first time in Official Selection and first Palme d'Or
42 years – Jean-Luc Godard's first film in Official Selection was How's it going, screened in the section Perspectives du Cinéma Français in 1976. He won his first and only Palme d'Or for The Image Book in 2018, which also marked the first time in the history of the festival that a director was awarded with a Palme d'Or Spéciale.[92]
Directing records
Directors with multiple Palme d'Or wins
10 directors or co-directors have won the Palme d'Or twice.[93] Three of these (‡) have won for consecutive films.
| Wins | Director(s) | Palme d'Or winners | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Alf Sjöberg | Torment (1946) and Miss Julie (1951) | [93] |
| Francis Ford Coppola | The Conversation (1974) and Apocalypse Now (1979) | [93] | |
| Bille August ‡ | Pelle the Conqueror (1988) and The Best Intentions (1992) | [93] | |
| Emir Kusturica | When Father Was Away on Business (1985) and Underground (1995) | [93] | |
| Shohei Imamura | The Ballad of Narayama (1983) and The Eel (1997) | [93] | |
| Dardenne brothers | Rosetta (1999) and The Child (2005) | [93] | |
| Michael Haneke ‡ | The White Ribbon (2009) and Amour (2012) | [93] | |
| Ken Loach | The Wind That Shakes The Barley (2006) and I, Daniel Blake (2016) | [93] | |
| Ruben Östlund ‡ | The Square (2017) and Triangle of Sadness (2022) | [93] | |
| Cristian Mungiu | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) and Fjord (2026) | ||
Directors with multiple Grand Prix wins
Four directors have won the Grand Prix twice.
| Wins | Director | Grand Prix winners | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Andrei Tarkovsky | Solaris (1972) and The Sacrifice (1986) | [94] |
| Bruno Dumont | Humanité (1999) and Flanders (2006) | [95] | |
| Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Uzak (2003) and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) | [96] | |
| Matteo Garrone | Gomorrah (2008) and Reality (2012) | [97] |
Directors with multiple Best Director wins
Five directors have won two or more Best Director awards:
| Wins | Director | Films | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Joel Coen | Barton Fink (1991), Fargo (1996) and The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) | [98] |
| 2 | René Clément | The Battle of the Rails (1946) and The Walls of Malapaga (1949) | [99] |
| Sergei Yutkevich | Othello (1956) and Lenin in Poland (1966) | [100] | |
| Robert Bresson | A Man Escaped (1957) and L'Argent (1983) | [101] | |
| John Boorman | Leo the Last (1970) and The General (1998) | [102] | |
| Paweł Pawlikowski | Cold War (2018) and Fatherland (2026) |
Directors with most films in main competition
With fifteen films, Ken Loach holds the record for most films in main competition at Cannes.[103]
- 15 films:
- 10 films:
- 9 films:
- 8 films:
- Ethan & Joel Coen[98][110]
- Ettore Scola[111]
- Hirokazu Kore-eda[112]
- Jean-Luc Godard[113]
- Jim Jarmusch[114]
- Marco Bellocchio[115]
- Marco Ferreri[116]
- Robert Altman[117]
- 7 films:
- Arnaud Desplechin[118]
- David Cronenberg[119]
- Hou Hsiao-hsien[120][121]
- Luis Buñuel[122]
- Michael Cacoyannis[123]
- Michael Haneke[124]
- Miklós Jancsó[125]
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan[96]
- Paolo Sorrentino[126]
- Pedro Almodóvar[127]
- Pietro Germi[128]
- 6 films:
- Alain Resnais[129]
- André Téchiné[130]
- Andrzej Wajda[131]
- Atom Egoyan[132]
- Jacques Audiard[133]
- James Gray[134]
- James Ivory[135]
- Jerzy Skolimowski[136]
- Jia Zhangke[137]
- Károly Makk[138]
- Michelangelo Antonioni[139]
- René Clément[99]
- Vittorio De Sica[140]
- 5 films:
- Abbas Kiarostami[141]
- Aki Kaurismäki[142]
- Alan Parker[143]
- Alexander Sokurov[144]
- Alf Sjöberg[145]
- Asghar Farhadi[146]
- Bo Widerberg[147]
- Chen Kaige[148]
- Clint Eastwood[149]
- Cristian Mungiu[150]
- Emir Kusturica[151]
- Ingmar Bergman[152]
- Manoel de Oliveira[153]
- Mario Monicelli[154]
- Mauro Bolognini[155]
- Mike Leigh[156]
- Naomi Kawase[b][158]
- Olivier Assayas[159]
- Shōhei Imamura[160]
- Theo Angelopoulos[161]
- 4 films:
- Alberto Lattuada[162]
- Aleksandar Petrović[163]
- Amos Gitai[164]
- André Cayatte[165]
- Andrea Arnold[166]
- Andrei Konchalovsky[167]
- Andrey Zvyagintsev[168]
- Arne Skouen[169]
- Bertrand Blier[170]
- Bertrand Tavernier[171]
- Bruce Beresford[172]
- Bruno Dumont[95]
- David Lynch[173]
- Delbert Mann[174]
- Dino Risi[175]
- Elia Kazan[176]
- Francesco Rosi[177]
- Francis Ford Coppola[178]
- François Ozon[179]
- Gus Van Sant[180]
- Hal Ashby[181]
- Hong Sang-soo[182]
- István Szabó[183]
- Jacques Becker[184]
- Jerry Schatzberg[185]
- John Boorman[102]
- Joseph Losey[186]
- Jules Dassin[187]
- Kirill Serebrennikov[188]
- Ladislao Vajda[189]
- Leopoldo Torre Nilsson[190]
- Lindsay Anderson[191]
- Louis Malle[192]
- Luis García Berlanga[193]
- Martin Scorsese[194]
- Márton Keleti[195]
- Matteo Garrone[97]
- Maurice Pialat[196]
- Michel Hazanavicius[197]
- Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina[198]
- Nagisa Ōshima[199]
- Park Chan-wook[200]
- Peter Greenaway[201]
- Quentin Tarantino[202]
- Raúl Ruiz[203]
- Robert Bresson[101]
- Roberto Gavaldón[204][205]
- Satyajit Ray[206]
- Sergei Loznitsa[207]
- Sergei Yutkevich[208]
- Sidney Lumet[209]
- Steven Soderbergh[210]
- Todd Haynes[211]
- Vojtěch Jasný[212]
- Volker Schlöndorff[213]
- Werner Herzog[214]
- Wes Anderson[215]
- Wong Kar-wai[216]
- Youssef Chahine[217]
Female directors who have won the Palme d'Or
Three female directors have won the Palme d'Or.
- Jane Campion for The Piano in 1993.[218]
- Julia Ducournau for Titane in 2021.[219]
- Justine Triet for Anatomy of a Fall in 2023.[220]
Female directors in main competition in the same year
In 2023, seven female directors had films competing for the Palme d'Or, a record that was matched in 2025.[221] The 2012 festival was the last edition to feature no female directors in the Official Competition, while the 2013 festival was the last to feature only one woman competing for the Palme d'Or.
Acting records
Actors with multiple Best Actor wins
Three actors have won the Best Actor award twice:
| Wins | Actor | Films | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Dean Stockwell | Compulsion (1959) and Long Day's Journey into Night (1962) | [223] |
| Jack Lemmon | The China Syndrome (1979) and Missing (1982) | [224] | |
| Marcello Mastroianni | The Pizza Triangle (1970) and Dark Eyes (1987) | [225] | |
Actresses with multiple Best Actress wins
Four actresses have won the Best Actress award twice:
| Wins | Actress | Films | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Vanessa Redgrave | Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966) and Isadora (1969) | [226] |
| Barbara Hershey | Shy People (1987) and A World Apart (1988) | [227] | |
| Helen Mirren | Cal (1984) and The Madness of King George (1995) | [228] | |
| Isabelle Huppert | Violette Nozière (1978) and The Piano Teacher (2001) | [229] | |
Actors who have appeared in multiple Palme d'Or winners
Eighteen actors have appeared in multiple Palme d'Or winners. Max von Sydow, Robert Duvall and Harvey Keitel are tied with three films each.
Actors who have appeared in multiple award-winning films in the same year
- Francisco Rabal starred in both Viridiana (Palme d'Or) and The Hand in the Trap (F.I.P.R.E.S.C.I Award) in 1961.[240]
- Gian Maria Volonté starred in both The Working Class Goes to Heaven and The Mattei Affair, which shared the Palme d'Or (then-named Grand Prix International du Festival) in 1972.[238][239]
- Isabelle Adjani won the Best Actress award for both Quartet and Possession in 1981.[241]
- Sandra Hüller played a leading role in both Anatomy of a Fall (Palme d'Or), and The Zone of Interest (Grand Prix) in 2023.[220]
Actors who have appeared in most films in main competition
Isabelle Huppert holds the record as the actor or actress with the most films in main competition, with a total of 23.[229] Marcello Mastroianni is the male actor with the most films in main competition, with a total of 19.[225]
Actors who have appeared in multiple films in main competition in the same year
27 actors have appeared in multiple films in main competition in the same year. Annie Girardot, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Isabelle Huppert and Léa Seydoux tie for the record for the most films in competition with three films each; Girardot and Trintignant in 1969, Huppert in 1980 and Seydoux in 2021. Huppert also had two films in main competition in 2012 and 2015.
Actors who have appeared in Official Selection films for the most consecutive years
9 years – Marcello Mastroianni holds the record for most consecutive years in official selection. From 1977 to 1985, Mastroianni had at least one film in official selection.[225]
8 years – Marion Cotillard. From 2011 to 2018.[253]
7 years – Isabelle Huppert. From 1977 to 1983.[229]
Films with multiple wins from the Official Competition
- 3 wins:
- Barton Fink (1991) – Palme d’Or, Best Director and Best Actor[92]
- Humanité (1999) – Grand Prix, Best Actor and Best Actress[92]
- The Piano Teacher (2001) – Grand Prix, Best Actor and Best Actress[92]
- 2 wins:
- The Lost Weekend (1946) – Palme d'Or and Best Actor
- La symphonie pastorale (1946) – Palme d'Or and Best Actress
- María Candelaria (1946) – Palme d'Or and Best Cinematography
- La Bataille du rail (1946) – Jury Prize and Best Director
- The Walls of Malapaga (1949) – Best Director and Best Actress
- All About Eve (1951) – Jury Prize and Best Actress
- The Browning Version (1951) – Best Screenplay and Best Actor
- The Wages of Fear (1953) – Palme d'Or and Special Mention for Charles Vanel
- Come Back, Little Sheba (1958) – Award for Dramatic Film and Special Mention for Shirley Booth
- The Cranes Are Flying (1958) – Palme d'Or and Special Mention for Tatiana Samoilova
- Brink of Life (1958) – Best Director and Best Actress
- Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962) – Best Actor and Best Actress
- A Taste of Honey (1962) – Best Actor and Best Actress
- The Collector (1965) – Best Actor and Best Actress
- Z (1969) – Jury Prize and Best Actor
- La terrazza (1980) – Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress
- A Leap in the Dark (1980) – Best Actor and Best Actress
- Missing (1982) – Palme d'Or and Best Actor
- The Sacrifice (1986) – Grand Prix and Best Artistic Contribution
- A World Apart (1988) – Grand Prix and Best Actress[306]
- Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) – Palme d'Or and Best Actor
- The Best Intentions (1992) – Palme d'Or and Best Actress
- The Player (1992) – Best Director and Best Actor
- The Piano (1993) – Palme d'Or and Best Actress
- Naked (1993) – Best Director and Best Actor
- To Live (1994) – Grand Prix and Best Actor
- Queen Margot (1994) – Jury Prize and Best Actress
- Carrington (1995) – Jury Special Prize and Best Actor
- Secrets & Lies (1996) – Palme d'Or and Best Actress
- Rosetta (1999) – Palme d'Or and Best Actress
- Dancer in the Dark (2000) – Palme d'Or and Best Actress
- The Man Without a Past (2002) – Grand Prix and Best Actress
- Elephant (2003) – Palme d'Or and Best Director
- Uzak (2003) – Grand Prix and Best Actor
- The Barbarian Invasions (2003) – Best Screenplay and Best Actress
- The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) – Best Screenplay and Best Actor
- Volver (2006) – Best Screenplay and Best Actress
- Beyond the Hills (2012) – Best Screenplay and Best Actress
- The Salesman (2016) – Best Screenplay and Best Actor
- You Were Never Really Here (2017) – Best Screenplay and Best Actor
- Emilia Pérez (2024) – Jury Prize and Best Actress[307]
- The Secret Agent (2025) – Best Director and Best Actor[308]
Films that have won both the Palme d'Or and the Palm Dog Award
- Anatomy of a Fall won the Palme d'Or and the Palm Dog in 2023.[220][309]
Palme d'Or winning films nominated for the Best Picture Oscar
As of 2026, 20 Palme d'Or winning films have been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.
Best Picture winners designated with ** two asterisks.
| Film |
|---|
| The Lost Weekend (1945) ** |
| Marty (1955) ** |
| Friendly Persuasion (1956) |
| M*A*S*H (1970) |
| The Conversation (1974) |
| Taxi Driver (1976) |
| Apocalypse Now (1979) |
| All That Jazz (1979) |
| Missing (1982) |
| The Mission (1986) |
| The Piano (1993) |
| Pulp Fiction (1994) |
| Secrets & Lies (1996) |
| The Pianist (2002) |
| The Tree of Life (2011) |
| Amour (2012) |
| Parasite (2019) ** |
| Triangle of Sadness (2022) |
| Anatomy of a Fall (2023) |
| Anora (2024) ** |
Films that have won both the Palme d'Or and the Best Picture Oscar
As of 2026, 4 films have won both the Palme d'Or and the Best Picture Oscar.
Films that have won both the Palme d'Or and the Best Foreign Language Oscar
As of 2026, 6 films have won both the Palme d'Or and the Best Foreign Language Oscar.
| Film | Ref(s) |
|---|---|
| Black Orpheus (1959) | [310] |
| A Man and a Woman (1966) | [310] |
| The Tin Drum (1979) | [310] |
| Pelle the Conqueror (1987) | [310] |
| Amour (2012) | [310] |
| Parasite (2019) | [310] |
Highest-grossing Palme d'Or winners
Parasite (2019) holds the record for highest-grossing Palme d'Or winner, with a worldwide box-office gross of $262 million.[312][313]
| Rank | Film | Worldwide box-office gross | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parasite (2019) | $262 million | [313] |
| 2 | Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) | $222.4 million | [314] |
| 3 | Pulp Fiction (1994) | $213.9 million | [315] |
| 4 | The Piano (1993) | $140 million | [316] |
| 5 | The Pianist (2002) | $120.1 million | [317] |
| 6 | Apocalypse Now (1979) | $104 million | [318] |
| 7 | M*A*S*H (1970) | $81.6 million | [319] |
| 8 | Shoplifters (2018) | $72.6 million | [320] |
| 9 | The Tree of Life (2011) | $61.7 million | [321] |
| 10 | Anora (2024) | $57.3 million | [322] |
| 11 | Secrets & Lies (1996) | $50 million | [323] |
| 12 | Dancer in the Dark (2000) | $45.6 million | [324] |
| 13 | All That Jazz (1979) | $37.8 million | [325] |
| 14 | Amour (2012) | $36.8 million | [326] |
| 15 | Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) | $36.7 million | [327] |
| 16 | Anatomy of a Fall (2023) | $36 million | [328] |
| 17 | Triangle of Sadness (2022) | $32.9 million | [329] |
| 18 | The Class (2008) | $29.3 million | [330] |
| 19 | Taxi Driver (1976) | $28.5 million | [331] |
| 20 | The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) | $25.7 million | [332] |
| 21 | Blowup (1966) | $20 million (or $120 million adjusted for inflation in 2007) |
[333] |
| 22 | La dolce vita (1961) | $19.6 million | [334] |
| 23 | The White Ribbon (2009) | $19.3 million | [335] |
| 24 | The Mission (1986) | $17.5 million | [336] |
| 25 | I, Daniel Blake (2016) | $15.6 million | [337] |
Cannes Film Festival firsts
- First woman and first actress to serve as jury president
- Olivia de Havilland in 1965.[338]
- First and only woman to serve as jury president twice
- Jeanne Moreau served as jury president in 1975 and 1995.[92]
- First and only actress to win the Best Actress award for two different films in the same year
- Isabelle Adjani won the Best Actress award for both Quartet and Possession in 1981.[92]
- First South American director to win the Palme d'Or
- Anselmo Duarte (from Brazil) for O Pagador de Promessas in 1962.[339]
- First African and Arab film to win the Palme d'Or
- Chronicle of the Years of Fire (from Algeria) in 1975.[340]
- First African and Arab director to win the Palme d'Or
- Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina (from Algeria) for Chronicle of the Years of Fire in 1975.[341]
- First Black actor to win the Best Actor award
- John Kitzmiller for Valley of Peace in 1957.[342]
- First Black actress and first South African to win the Best Actress award
- Linda Mvusi shared the Best Actress Award with her co-stars from A World Apart in 1988.[306][343]
- First and only actress to win the Best Actress award two years in a row
- Barbara Hershey won the Best Actress Award for Shy People in 1987 and for A World Apart in 1988 (shared with her co-stars).[306]
- First female director to win the Palme d'Or
- Jane Campion for The Piano in 1993.[218]
- First female director to win the Best Director award
- Yuliya Solntseva for Chronicle of Flaming Years in 1961.[344]
- First Latin American to win the Best Director award
- Glauber Rocha (from Brazil) for Antonio das Mortes in 1969.[345]
- First documentary to win the Palme d'Or
- The Silent World in 1956.[346]
- First Asian actress to win the Best Actress award
- Maggie Cheung (from China) for Clean in 2004.[347]
- First film to win three awards
- Barton Fink in 1991 (Palme d'Or, Best Director and Best Actor).[92]
- First Latin American to win the Best Actress award
- Norma Aleandro (from Argentina) for The Official Story in 1985.[348]
- First Brazilian to win the Best Actress award
- Fernanda Torres for Love Me Forever or Never in 1986.[349]
- First Korean film to win an award
- Painted Fire won the award for Best Director for Im Kwon-taek in 2002.[347]
- First actors to win the Palme d'Or
- In 2013, the Palme d'Or for the film Blue Is the Warmest Colour was shared between its director Abdellatif Kechiche and the film's two leading actresses, Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos. The first and only time the Palme d'Or was shared with the cast.[219]
- First female director to serve as jury president
- Jane Campion in 2014.[350]
- First Korean film to win the Palme d'or
- First black female director to compete for the Palme d'Or
- First black female director to win the Grand Prix
- First Black person to serve as jury president
- First Pakistani film to be screened in official selection
- Joyland screened in the Un Certain Regard section in 2022.[355]
- First Iranian actress to win the Best Actress award
- Zar Amir Ebrahimi for Holy Spider in 2022.[356]
- First company to win an honorary Palme d'Or
- Studio Ghibli in 2024.[357]
- First American female director to serve as jury president
- Greta Gerwig in 2024.[350]
- First trans actor to win an acting prize
- Karla Sofía Gascón shared the Best Actress award with her co-stars from Emilia Pérez in 2024.[358]
Age-related records
- Youngest Jury President
- Sophia Loren, age 31, in 1966.[350][g]
- Oldest Jury President
- René Clair, age 75, in 1974.
- Youngest Palme d'Or winner
- Louis Malle, age 24 (for The Silent World in 1956).[218]
- Oldest Palme d'Or winner
- Ken Loach, age 79 (for I, Daniel Blake in 2016).[359]
- Youngest Grand Prix winner
- Xavier Dolan, age 27 (for It's Only the End of the World in 2016).[359]
- Youngest Jury Prize winner
- Xavier Dolan, age 25 (for Mommy in 2014).[360]
- Oldest Jury Prize winner
- Jean-Luc Godard, age 83 (for Goodbye to Language in 2014).[360]
- Youngest Best Actress winner
- Jodhi May, age 12 (for A World Apart in 1988).[361]
- Oldest Best Actress winner
- Chus Lampreave, age 75 (for Volver in 2006).[362]
- Youngest Best Actor winner
- Yuya Yagira, age 14 (for Nobody Knows in 2004).[363]
- Oldest Best Actor winner
- Bruce Dern, age 76 (for Nebraska in 2013).[364]
See also
Notes
- Kawase had a 6th film, True Mothers (2020), chosen for the ceremonial "Official Selection" in 2020 when the festival was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and there was no competition.[157]
- Mari Törőcsik also acted in Trotta.
- As of 2026, the official website of the Cannes Film Festival only lists 8 films in main competition for Marion Cotillard, but she was also in the cast of My Sex Life... or How I Got into an Argument,[251] which was in the main competition in 1996.[252] This film is missing from her filmography on the official Cannes' website.
- Chloë Sevigny appeared in 8 films that were shown in main competition: Kids, Demonlover, Dogville, The Brown Bunny, Manderlay, Broken Flowers, Zodiac and The Dead Don't Die. The official website of the festival lists only 5 films in which she acted.
- Benoît Magimel also acted in La Haine (1995), which is not listed on the official website of the festival.
- In 2024, at age 40, Greta Gerwig became the youngest jury president since Sophia Loren in 1966.[350]