The Cannes Movie Competition has a protracted and distinguished monitor document of spotlighting landmark works within the historical past of cinema with its highest honor, the Palme d’or.
The competition first gave out its highest honor in 1939, however the award hasn’t at all times been known as the Palme d’or, nor has it at all times been given to only one movie.
Initially, the award was dubbed the “Grand Prix du Competition Internationale du Movie,” a mouthful of a moniker with rather less luster than “Palme d’or.”
Within the many years because the award’s inception, Cannes has bounced forwards and backwards between the 2 designations. The highest award was known as the Palme d’or in 1955, when Delbert Mann’s Marty took the consideration. Then, in 1964, it grew to become the Grand Prix once more earlier than lastly settling in because the Palme d’or, which has been its title for the previous 45 years.
Whereas the fest’s high award was first given out 84 years in the past, there should not a good 84 recipients. Some years, like 2020, the occasion was canceled, and so no high honor was handed out. The explanations for canceling the fest have various via the many years, from a pandemic (in 2020), to WWII (1940-1945), to the Could 68 motion (1968), to inside budgetary woes (1948 & 1950).
Different years, the jury’s votes resulted in a tie, leading to a couple of movie receiving the award. Nonetheless different years, the jury gave out the highest trophy in numerous classes, resembling Disney’s Dumbo for Greatest Animation Design in 1947. A number of high awards have been additionally handed out in 1946 — 11, to be precise — after the fest had been darkish throughout the struggle.
Click on on the picture above for a chronological gallery of all 99 movies which have acquired Cannes’ highest honor.
