History MediaNotes / PalmeDOr

While there is no formal limit on the number of Palmes d'Or that can be won by a single director, no director has won more than two, an honor held by Alf Sjöberg, Creator/FrancisFordCoppola, Shohei Imamura, Emir Kusturica, Creator/KenLoach, Creator/MichaelHaneke, Creator/TheDardennes, and Bille August. Typically, the jury does not unanimously award the Palme d'Or; however, the most recent winner that got unanimous votes is Bong Joon-hoo's ''Parasite'' in 2019.[[note]]''Film/{{Parasite|2019}}'' is also a rare film to win both the Palme d'Or and the UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for best picture. The others are ''Film/TheLostWeekend'' and ''Film/{{Marty}}''.[[/note]]

Starting with 1952, the festival has also given out a Palme d'Or for short film. The time limit for short film is fifteen minutes (as opposed to the Oscars, where the time limit is 40 minutes).[[note]]That has not always been the case, as even the shortest cuts of 1953 winner ''Film/WhiteMane'' run a half hour.[[/note]] The Short Film Palme d'Or has been awarded to both live action and animated films, while no animated film has ever won the feature award. On occasion the festival has not given out a short film Palme d'Or, although that has not happened since 1971.

The Palme d'Or (English: Golden Palm) is the most prestigious award of the Cannes Film Festival. [[note]]There are twenty-two awards that can be won at the festival – eight for films that enter the main competition, three for films screened out of competition, and eleven awarded by independent entities – but the Palme d'Or is the one that constitutes "first place", along with the Grand Prix for "second place" and the Prix du Jury for "third place".[[/note]]

The Palme d'Or is awarded by the festival's jury to the director of the winning film.[[note]]The only exception to this occurred when the leads of ''Film/BlueIsTheWarmestColor'', Creator/LeaSeydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos, won. Along with the director of ''Film/ThePiano'', Jane Campion, and the director of ''Titane'', Julia Ducournau, they are the only women to have won the award.[[/note]] Usually there's only one winner but sometimes there are two, which are called "ex aequo", Latin for "equally placed." (This has happened seven times, the last of which was in 1997.) The only exception to the one-or-two rule occurred in 1946, when ''eleven'' films won a Grand Prix to make up for the lack of awards given during WWII.

* 2020: Awards cancelled due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic

* 2020: Awards cancelled due to the COVID-19 Pandemic

* 1980: ''WesternAnimation/SeasideWoman''

* 1968: No award given due to the disruption caused by the 1968 protests.
* 1969: ''Film/{{If}}''

* 1940-45: Not awarded due to WWII

* 2020: Awards cancelled due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic
* 2021: ''Titane''

* 2021: ''Film/{{Titane}}''

* 2021: ''Tian Xia Wu Ya''

The Palme d'Or is awarded by the festival's jury to the director of the winning film.[[note]]The only exception to this occurred when the leads of ''Film/BlueIsTheWarmestColor'', Creator/LeaSeydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos, won. Along with the director of ''Film/ThePiano'', Jane Campion, they are the only women to have won the award.[[/note]] Usually there's only one winner but sometimes there are two, which are called "ex aequo", Latin for "equally placed." (This has happened seven times, the last of which was in 1997.) The only exception to the one-or-two rule occurred in 1946, when ''eleven'' films won a Grand Prix to make up for the lack of awards given during WWII.

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!!Winners (shorts)

The Palme d'Or is awarded by the festival's jury to the director of the winning film.[[note]]The only exception to this occurred when the leads of ''Film/BlueIsTheWarmestColor'', Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos, won. Along with the director of ''Film/ThePiano'', Jane Campion, they are the only women to have won the award.[[/note]] Usually there's only one winner but sometimes there are two, which are called "ex aequo", Latin for "equally placed." (This has happened seven times, the last of which was in 1997.) The only exception to the one-or-two rule occurred in 1946, when ''eleven'' films won a Grand Prix to make up for the lack of awards given during WWII.

** ''Film/{{Missing}}''

* 2020: ''I'm Afraid to Forget Your Face''[[note]]While the main festival was cancelled, a mini-festival was held [[https://variety.com/2020/film/global/cannes-film-festival-special-cannes-october-official-selection-1234785279/ in October]] and the short film prize [[https://egyptindependent.com/egyptian-film-wins-a-golden-palm-at-the-2020-cannes-film-festival/ was awarded]][[/note]]

* 2020: Awards cancelled due to coronavirus

* 1957: ''Film/ABriefHistory''

* 1957: ''A Brief History''

* 1959: ''Butterflies Don't Live Here''

* 2020: ''I'm Afraid to Forget Your Face''

* 2020: Festival cancelled due to coronavirus

* 1955: ''Blinkety Blank''

* 2000: ''Shadows''