Palme d'Or (Redirected from Golden Palm)

Palme d'Or
LocationCannes
CountryFrance
Presented byCannes Film Festival
First awarded1955
Currently held byAnatomy of a Fall (2023)
Websitehttp://www.festival-cannes.com

The Palme d'Or (French pronunciation: [palm(ə) dɔʁ]; English: Golden Palm) is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the festival's organizing committee. Previously, from 1939 to 1954, the festival's highest prize was the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film. In 1964, the Palme d'Or was replaced again by the Grand Prix, before being reintroduced in 1975.

The Palme d'Or is widely considered one of the film industry's most prestigious awards.

History

The Commune of Cannes coat of arms

In 1954, the festival decided to present an award annually, titled the Grand Prix of the International Film Festival, with a new design each year from a contemporary artist. 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, evoking the famous legend of Saint Honorat and the palm trees lining the famous Promenade de la Croisette. The original design by Parisian jeweller Lucienne Lazon, inspired by a sketch by director Jean Cocteau, 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 was awarded to Delbert Mann for his film Marty. From 1964 to 1974, the festival temporarily resumed a Grand Prix. In 1975, the Palme d'Or was reintroduced and has since remained the festival's symbol, awarded each year to the director of the winning film, presented in a case of pure red Morocco leather lined with white suede.

Palme d'Or awarded to Apocalypse Now at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival

As of 2023, Jane Campion, Julia Ducournau, and Justine Triet are the only female directors to have won the Palme d'Or (for The Piano, Titane, and Anatomy of a Fall, respectively). However, in 2013, when Blue Is the Warmest Color won the Palme d'Or, the jury headed by Steven Spielberg awarded it to the film's actresses Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux, as well as the director Abdellatif Kechiche. This remains the only instance where multiple Palme d'Or trophies were presented. The jury decided to include the actresses in the recognition due to a Cannes policy that forbids the Palme d'Or-winning film from receiving any additional awards. This policy would have prevented the jury from acknowledging the actresses separately.

Regarding the unorthodox decision, Spielberg commented, "Had the casting been 3% wrong, [the film] wouldn't have worked like it did for us". Subsequently, Kechiche auctioned off his Palme d'Or trophy to fund his new feature film. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, he expressed dissatisfaction with the festival's decision to award multiple trophies, stating that he felt they had "publicly insulted" him. He added, "Liberating myself from this Palme d'Or is a way of washing my hands of this sorry affair".

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 has gradually transformed to become pyramidal in 1984. In 1992, Thierry de Bourqueney redesigned the Palme and its pedestal in hand-cut crystal. In 1997, Caroline Scheufele redesigned the statuette; since then, it has been manufactured by the Swiss jewellery firm Chopard. The palm is made from 4.16 oz (118 g) of 18-carat yellow gold while the branch's base forms a small heart. The Palme d'or rests on a dainty crystal cushion shaped like an emerald-cut diamond. A single piece of cut crystal forms a cushion for the palm, which is hand-cast into a wax mould and now presented in a case of blue Morocco leather. In 1998, Theo Angelopoulos was the first director to win the Palme d'or as it appears today, for his film Eternity and a Day.

The presentation of the 2014 Palme d'Or to Winter Sleep, a Turkish film by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, occurred during the 100th anniversary year of Turkish cinema. On receiving the award, Ceylan dedicated it to the "young people" involved in Turkey's ongoing political unrest, and the workers killed in the Soma mine disaster, which occurred on the day before the commencement of the awards event.

In 2017, the award was redesigned to celebrate the festival's 70th anniversary. The diamonds were provided by an ethical supplier certified by the Responsible Jewellery Council.

The 2020 Cannes Film Festival was cancelled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. 56 films were announced as official selections by the festival, but no awards were presented.

Winners

Year English Title Original title Director(s) Production Country Ref.
1939 The inaugural Cannes Film Festival was to have been held in 1939, but was cancelled due to the outbreak of the Second World War. The festival was not inaugurated until after the conclusion of the war. Sixty-three years later, the organizers of the 2002 festival assembled a jury of six members, including Dieter Kosslick and Alberto Barbera, to watch seven of the twelve features which had been entered into the 1939 competition, namely: Goodbye, Mr. Chips, La Loi du Nord, Lenin in 1918, The Four Feathers, The Wizard of Oz, Union Pacific, and Boefje. Union Pacific by Cecil B. DeMille was retrospectively voted the winner of the 1939 Palme d'Or.
Awarded as "Grand Prix du Festival International du Film"
1946 Brief Encounter David Lean United Kingdom
The Last Chance Die Letzte Chance Leopold Lindtberg Switzerland
The Lost Weekend Billy Wilder United States
María Candelaria Emilio Fernández Mexico
Men Without Wings Muži bez křídel František Čáp Czechoslovakia
Neecha Nagar Chetan Anand India
Pastoral Symphony La symphonie pastorale Jean Delannoy France
The Red Meadows De røde enge Bodil Ipsen & Lau Lauritzen, Jr. Denmark
Rome, Open City Roma, città aperta Roberto Rossellini Italy
Torment Hets Alf Sjöberg Sweden
The Turning Point Великий перелом Fridrikh Ermler Soviet Union
Awarded as "Grand Prix"
1947 Antoine and Antoinette (Best Psychological & Love Film) Antoine et Antoinette Jacques Becker France
Crossfire (Best Social Film) Edward Dmytryk United States
The Damned (Best Adventure & Crime Film) Les Maudits René Clément France
Dumbo (Best Animation Design) Ben Sharpsteen United States
Ziegfeld Follies (Best Musical Comedy) Vincente Minnelli
1948 Festival cancelled
1949 The Third Man Carol Reed United Kingdom
1950 Festival cancelled
1951 Miracle in Milan Miracolo a Milano Vittorio De Sica Italy
Miss Julie Fröken Julie Alf Sjöberg Sweden
1952 Othello Orson Welles Italy, Morocco
Two Cents Worth of Hope Due soldi di speranza Renato Castellani Italy
1953 The Wages of Fear Le salaire de la peur Henri-Georges Clouzot France
1954 Gate of Hell 地獄門 Teinosuke Kinugasa Japan
Awarded as "Palme d'Or"
1955 Marty § Delbert Mann United States
1956 The Silent World Le monde du silence Jacques Cousteau & Louis Malle France
1957 Friendly Persuasion William Wyler United States
1958 The Cranes Are Flying Летят журавли Mikhail Kalatozov Soviet Union
1959 Black Orpheus § Orfeu Negro Marcel Camus France, Brazil
1960 La Dolce Vita § Federico Fellini Italy
1961 The Long Absence § Une aussi longue absence Henri Colpi France
Viridiana § Luis Buñuel Spain
1962 O Pagador de Promessas § Anselmo Duarte Brazil
1963 The Leopard § Il gattopardo Luchino Visconti Italy
Awarded as "Grand Prix du Festival International du Film"
1964 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Les parapluies de Cherbourg Jacques Demy France
1965 The Knack ...and How to Get It Richard Lester United Kingdom
1966 The Birds, the Bees and the Italians Signore e signori Pietro Germi Italy
A Man and a Woman Un homme et une femme Claude Lelouch France
1967 Blowup Michelangelo Antonioni United Kingdom
1968 The festival was cancelled midway through to show solidarity with the students and workers who were demonstrating in what became known as the May 68 movement.
1969 If.... Lindsay Anderson United Kingdom
1970 MASH Robert Altman United States
1971 The Go-Between Joseph Losey United Kingdom
1972 The Mattei Affair § Il caso Mattei Francesco Rosi Italy
The Working Class Goes to Heaven § La classe operaia va in paradiso Elio Petri
1973 The Hireling Alan Bridges United Kingdom
Scarecrow Jerry Schatzberg United States
1974 The Conversation Francis Ford Coppola
Awarded as "Palme d'Or"
1975 Chronicle of the Years of Fire Chronique des années de braise Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina Algeria
1976 Taxi Driver Martin Scorsese United States
1977 Padre Padrone Paolo and Vittorio Taviani Italy
1978 The Tree of Wooden Clogs § L'albero degli zoccoli Ermanno Olmi
1979 Apocalypse Now Francis Ford Coppola United States
The Tin Drum Die Blechtrommel Volker Schlöndorff West Germany, France
1980 All That Jazz Bob Fosse United States
Kagemusha 影武者 Akira Kurosawa Japan
1981 Man of Iron Człowiek z żelaza Andrzej Wajda Poland
1982 Missing § Costa-Gavras United States
Yol § Yılmaz Güney & Şerif Gören Turkey
1983 The Ballad of Narayama 楢山節考 Shohei Imamura Japan
1984 Paris, Texas § Wim Wenders West Germany, France
1985 When Father Was Away on Business § Отац на службеном путу Emir Kusturica Yugoslavia
1986 The Mission Roland Joffé United Kingdom
1987 Under the Sun of Satan § Sous le soleil de Satan Maurice Pialat France
1988 Pelle the Conqueror Pelle Erobreren Bille August Denmark
1989 Sex, Lies, and Videotape Steven Soderbergh United States
1990 Wild at Heart David Lynch
1991 Barton Fink § Joel Coen
1992 The Best Intentions Den goda viljan Bille August Denmark, Sweden
1993 Farewell My Concubine 霸王別姬 Chen Kaige Hong Kong
The Piano Jane Campion New Zealand, Australia, France
1994 Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino United States
1995 Underground Подземље Emir Kusturica Yugoslavia
1996 Secrets & Lies Mike Leigh France, United Kingdom
1997 The Eel うなぎ Shohei Imamura Japan
Taste of Cherry طعم گيلاس Abbas Kiarostami Iran
1998 Eternity and a Day § Μια αιωνιότητα και μια μέρα Theo Angelopoulos Greece
1999 Rosetta § Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne Belgium
2000 Dancer in the Dark Lars von Trier Denmark
2001 The Son's Room La stanza del figlio Nanni Moretti Italy
2002 The Pianist Roman Polanski Poland, France, Germany, United Kingdom
2003 Elephant Gus Van Sant United States
2004 Fahrenheit 9/11 Michael Moore
2005 L'Enfant Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne Belgium, France
2006 The Wind That Shakes the Barley § Ken Loach Ireland, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany
2007 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days 4 luni, 3 săptămâni și 2 zile Cristian Mungiu Romania
2008 The Class § Entre les murs Laurent Cantet France
2009 The White Ribbon Das weiße Band, Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte Michael Haneke Germany, Austria, France
2010 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives ลุงบุญมีระลึกชาติ Apichatpong Weerasethakul Thailand, France, Germany
2011 The Tree of Life Terrence Malick United States
2012 Amour Michael Haneke France, Germany, Austria
2013 Blue Is the Warmest Colour § La Vie d'Adèle: Chapitres 1 et 2 Abdellatif Kechiche France, Belgium, Spain
2014 Winter Sleep Kış Uykusu Nuri Bilge Ceylan Turkey, France, Germany
2015 Dheepan Jacques Audiard France
2016 I, Daniel Blake Ken Loach United Kingdom
2017 The Square Ruben Östlund Sweden, Germany, France, Denmark
2018 Shoplifters 万引き家族 Hirokazu Kore-eda Japan
2019 Parasite § 기생충 Bong Joon-ho South Korea
2020 Festival cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 56 films were announced as official selections by the festival, but no awards were presented.
2021 Titane Julia Ducournau France, Belgium
2022 Triangle of Sadness Ruben Östlund Sweden
2023 Anatomy of a Fall Anatomie d'une chute Justine Triet France
Notes
§ Denotes unanimous win

During the 2018 closing ceremony, the jury awarded a "Special Palme d'Or" for the first time ever. Even though the award was not intended to be an "Honorary Palme d'Or" to Jean-Luc Godard, the move was made as an homage to his career, and as an award to the film itself as well.

Year English Title Original Title Director Production Country Ref(s)
2018 The Image Book Le Livre d'image Jean-Luc Godard Switzerland

Multiple winners

Ten directors or co-directors have won the award twice. Three of them () have won for consecutive films.

Honorary Palme d'Or

In 1997, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Festival, the Cannes jury awarded a "Palme des Palmes" for the first time.

Year Recipient Profession Nationality of Recipient
1997 Ingmar Bergman Filmmaker Sweden

In 2002 the festival began to sporadically award a non-competitive Honorary Palme d'Or to directors or actors who had achieved a notable body of work but who had never won a competitive Palme d'Or.

Year Recipient Profession Nationality of Recipient
2002 Woody Allen Filmmaker and Actor United States
2003 Jeanne Moreau Actress France
2005 Catherine Deneuve
2007 Jane Fonda United States
2008 Manoel de Oliveira Filmmaker Portugal
2009 Clint Eastwood Actor and Director United States
2011 Jean-Paul Belmondo Actor France
Bernardo Bertolucci Filmmaker Italy
2015 Agnès Varda Filmmaker France
2016 Jean-Pierre Léaud Actor
2017 Jeffrey Katzenberg Producer United States
2019 Alain Delon Actor France
2021 Marco Bellocchio Filmmaker Italy
Jodie Foster Actress and Director United States
2022 Forest Whitaker Actor, Producer, and Director
Tom Cruise Actor and Producer
2023 Michael Douglas Actor and Producer
Harrison Ford Actor

See also


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