Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director

The Best Director Award (French: Prix de la mise en scène) is an award presented annually at the Cannes Film Festival since 1946. It is given for the best achievement in directing and is chosen by the International Jury from the films in the Competition slate at the festival.

Best Director Award
Prix de la mise en scène (French)
The 2022 recipient: Park Chan-wook
Awarded forBest Achievement in Direction
CountryFrance
Presented byCannes Film Festival
First awarded1946
Currently held byPark Chan-wook
Decision to Leave (2022)
Websitewww.festival-cannes.com/en/

At the 1st Cannes Film Festival held in 1946, René Clément was the first winner of this award for his work on The Battle of the Rails, and Park Chan-wook is the most recent winner in this category for his work on Decision to Leave at the 75th Cannes Film Festival in 2022.

History

The award was first presented in 1946. The prize was not awarded on 12 occasions (1947, 1953–54, 1960, 1962–64, 1971, 1973–74, 1977, and 1980). The festival was not held at all in 1948, 1950, and 2020. In 1968, no awards were given as the festival was called off mid-way due to the May 1968 events in France. Also, the jury vote was tied, and the prize was shared by two directors on seven occasions (1955, 1969, 1975, 1983, 2001–02, and 2016). Joel Coen of the Coen brothers has received the most awards in this category, with three. One directing team has shared the award: Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne for Young Ahmed (2019). Yuliya Solntseva was the first woman to have won the award, for 1961's Chronicle of Flaming Years.

The winner of the Best Director Award rarely wins the Palme d'Or, the main prize given at the festival, which is also awarded to the director of the winning film. This happened only twice: Joel Coen won both awards for Barton Fink in 1991;[1] and Gus Van Sant won for Elephant in 2003.[2]

Winners
Table key
# Indicates Ex-aequo winners
Year Director(s) Film Original title
1940s
1946 René Clément The Battle of the Rails La Bataille du rail
1947No award given that year
1948Festival not held, no awards given that year
1949 René Clément The Walls of Malapaga Au-delà des grilles
1950s
1950Festival not held, no awards given that year
1951 Luis Buñuel Los Olvidados
1952 Christian Jaque Fanfan la Tulipe
1953No award given that year
1954No award given that year
1955 Jules Dassin # Rififi Du rififi chez les hommes
Sergei Vasilyev # Heroes of Shipka Герои Шипки
1956 Sergei Yutkevich Othello Отелло
1957 Robert Bresson A Man Escaped or: The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut
1958 Ingmar Bergman Brink of Life Nära livet
1959 François Truffaut The 400 Blows Les Quatre Cents Coups
1960s
1960No award given that year
1961 Yuliya Solntseva Chronicle of Flaming Years Повесть пламенных лет
1962No award given that year
1963No award given that year
1964No award given that year
1965 Liviu Ciulei Forest of the Hanged Pădurea spânzuraților
1966 Sergei Yutkevich Lenin in Poland Ленин в Польше
1967 Ferenc Kósa Ten Thousand Days Tízezer nap
1968Festival interrupted, no awards given that year because of the May 1968 events in France
1969 Glauber Rocha # Antonio das Mortes O Dragão da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro
Vojtěch Jasný # All My Compatriots Všichni dobří rodáci
1970s
1970 John Boorman Leo the Last
1971No award given that year
1972 Miklós Jancsó Red Psalm Még kér a nép
1973No award given that year
1974No award given that year
1975 Michel Brault # Orders Les Ordres
Costa-Gavras # Special Section Section spéciale
1976 Ettore Scola Down and Dirty Brutti, sporchi e cattivi
1977No award given that year
1978 Nagisa Ōshima Empire of Passion 愛の亡霊
1979 Terrence Malick Days of Heaven
1980s
1980No award given that year
1981No award given that year
1982 Werner Herzog Fitzcarraldo
1983 Robert Bresson # L'Argent
Andrei Tarkovsky # Nostalghia
1984 Bertrand Tavernier A Sunday in the Country Un dimanche à la campagne
1985 André Téchiné Rendez-vous
1986 Martin Scorsese After Hours
1987 Wim Wenders Wings of Desire Der Himmel über Berlin
1988 Fernando Solanas Sur
1989 Emir Kusturica Time of the Gypsies Дом за вешање
1990s
1990 Pavel Lungin Taxi Blues Такси-блюз
1991 Joel Coen Barton Fink
1992 Robert Altman The Player
1993 Mike Leigh Naked
1994 Nanni Moretti Caro diario
1995 Mathieu Kassovitz La Haine
1996 Joel Coen Fargo
1997 Wong Kar-wai Happy Together 春光乍洩
1998 John Boorman The General
1999 Pedro Almodóvar All About My Mother Todo sobre mi madre
2000s
2000 Edward Yang Yi Yi 一 一
2001 Joel Coen # The Man Who Wasn't There
David Lynch # Mulholland Drive
2002 Paul Thomas Anderson # Punch-Drunk Love
Im Kwon-taek # Chi-hwa-seon 취화선
2003 Gus Van Sant Elephant
2004 Tony Gatlif Exils
2005 Michael Haneke Caché
2006 Alejandro González Iñárritu Babel
2007 Julian Schnabel The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Le Scaphandre et le Papillon
2008 Nuri Bilge Ceylan Three Monkeys Üç Maymun
2009 Brillante Mendoza Butchered Kinatay
2010s
2010 Mathieu Amalric On Tour Tournée
2011 Nicolas Winding Refn Drive
2012 Carlos Reygadas Post Tenebras Lux
2013 Amat Escalante Heli
2014 Bennett Miller Foxcatcher
2015 Hou Hsiao-hsien The Assassin 刺客聶隱娘
2016 Olivier Assayas # Personal Shopper
Cristian Mungiu # Graduation[3] Bacalaureat
2017 Sofia Coppola The Beguiled[4]
2018 Paweł Pawlikowski Cold War Zimna wojna
2019 Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne Young Ahmed Le Jeune Ahmed
2020s
2020Festival not held, no awards given that year due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Leos Carax Annette[5]
2022 Park Chan-wook Decision to Leave[6] 헤어질 결심

Multiple winners

The following individuals received two or more Best Director awards:

Wins Director Nationality Films
3 Joel Coen United States Barton Fink (1991),
Fargo (1996),
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
2 René Clément France The Battle of the Rails (1946),
The Walls of Malapaga (1949)
Sergei Yutkevich Soviet Union Othello (1956),
Lenin in Poland (1966)
Robert Bresson France A Man Escaped (1957),
L'Argent (1983)
John Boorman United Kingdom Leo the Last (1970),
The General (1998)

See also

References
  1. Coen brothers to jointly head Cannes jury - BBC News
  2. CANNES FILM FESTIVAL; Van Sant's 'Elephant' Receives Palme d'Or - New York Times
  3. Who Won and Who Lost at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival|Vogue
  4. Cannes 2017: Sofia Coppola Wins Best Director and Makes History|IndieWire
  5. Cannes Film Festival 2021: The List Of Winners - Forbes
  6. Tartaglione, Nancy (28 May 2022). "Cannes Film Festival Winners Announced – Live". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 28 May 2022.
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