The Greatest American Movies

Blame Jonathan Rosenbaum. Everytime that old wizard posts anything on facebook I can't help but steal his ideas. This time it was a poll of his ten favourite American movies, and like his greatest living director list, it got me thinking. So I asked just about every badass cinephile I knew for the same list, not because I needed to know the greatest American movie, but because I wanted to hear the ways we agree and disagree. It was fascinating to hear everyone's answer. American had to mean something in particular in this case, so I narrowed the field to "American money." That included Hitchcock and Lang and the like, but cut out UK co-productions like Alien and Barry Lyndon, which I've included as phantom choices for those who couldn't live without them. I'm not a monster after all. Anyway, I hope you have fun perusing them. Feel free to post your own choices in the comments. I could go on for days about what I wanted to include but couldn't, as all of these guys could, I'm sure. Forgive us what we left behind. 

Damian Arlyn

City Lights
Pinocchio 
Citizen Kane
Psycho
Apocalypse Now
Manhattan
Die Hard
Unforgiven
Schindler's List
The Tree of Life


Noah Aust

Minnie & Moskowitz/A Woman Under The Influence
Synecdoche NY
Mulholland Dr.
Blade Runner
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Tree of Life
A Night At The Opera
The Wizard of Oz
12 Monkeys
The Conversation



Blake Backlash

Psycho
Letter From An Unknown Woman
Touch of Evil
Phantom of the Paradise
A Serious Man
Quiz Show
Carnival of Souls
Starship Troopers
The Parallax View
Blazing Saddles




Miriam Bale

"It's insane not to include Lewis, Ray, Lubitsch, & Hawks, the four greatest American directors. But with them, it's too difficult to choose one.”

Mean Streets
Magnificent Ambersons
Love Streams
Vertigo
A New Leaf
I Walked With A Zombie
Meet Me in St. Louis
Objective Burma!
Daughters of the Dust
Rushmore




Eric Barroso

Johnny Guitar
The Magnificent Ambersons
Thief
His Girl Friday/Only Angels Have Wings
Park Row
Mothlight
Sherlock, Jr.
Scorpio Rising
Fury
Night of the Hunter


Theodora Blasko

The Tree of Life
Pulp Fiction
Bringing Up Baby
The Royal Tenenbaums
All That Jazz
Rosemary’s Baby
No Country for Old Men
Zodiac 
Annie Hall 
Boogie Nights




Danny Bowes

Citizen Kane
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Singin' in the Rain
2001: A Space Odyssey
Vertigo
Blade Runner ('07 cut)
The Grapes of Wrath
Goodfellas
The Godfather
Network




Charles Bramesco

Boogie Nights
All About Eve
Dr. Strangelove
Sherlock Jr.
Taxi Driver
Vertigo
Lost Highway
Barton Fink
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm
Nashville


David Cairns

2001: A Space Odyssey
Rear Window
Out of the Past
Citizen Kane
The General
Paper Moon
Raging Bull
Harold & Maude
He Who Gets Slapped
The Apartment


Forrest Cardamenis

Meshes of the Afternoon
Dog Star Man
Killer of Sheep
Mulholland Dr.
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Tree of Life
Johnny Guitar
Meek's Cutoff
Safe
Do The Right Thing


Monica Castillo

Night of the Hunter
Singin' In The Rain
His Girl Friday
The Thing
Do The Right Thing
Annie Hall
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Our Hospitality
Jaws
Rosemary's Baby



Jaime N. Christley

Greed
Make Way For Tomorrow
Only Angels Have Wings
His Girl Friday
The Magnificent Ambersons
Vertigo
The Ladies Man
Blade Runner
White Dog
Schindler’s List




Sam Cohen

Thief
True Grit
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Badlands
Dead Man
All That Jazz
Spring Breakers
Manhattan
Blue Velvet
The Last Picture Show



Jake Cole

Monsieur Verdoux
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Bigger Than Life
A.I.
Opening Night
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Rio Bravo
Nashville
The King of Comedy
The Magnificent Ambersons


Olivia Collette

Moonstruck
Some Like It Hot
Alien
The Royal Tenenbaums
Pleasantville
Citizen Kane
Koyaanisqatsi
Lost In Translation
The Shining
L.A. Story



Adam Cook

Notorious
Age of Innocence
The Long Voyage Home
An American In Paris
Blackout
Love Streams
Heat
City Lights
Unforgiven
The Big Heat


Max Covill

2001: A Space Odyssey
The Godfather
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
Vertigo
Singin' In The Rain
Jaws
Badlands
Double Indemnity
Taxi Driver
City Lights



Fernando F. Croce

The Naked Kiss
Badlands
The Reckless Moment
Johnny Guitar
The Bowery
City Girl
Take Me To Town
The Patsy
Duel In The Sun
To Sleep With Anger



Greg Cwik

Apocalypse Now
Batman Returns
The Godfather
Goodfellas
Jaws
Mulholland Drive
Point Blank
Rosemary's Baby
There Will Be Blood
Vertigo
Phantom 11. Alien



Brian Darr

Intolerance
Docks of New York
Angel
King-Size Canary
The End
The Far Country
Hold Me While I'm Naked
Carrie
To Sleep With Anger
The Company




Abhimanyu Das

McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Apocalypse Now
Pulp Fiction
Blue Velvet
Blade Runner
Chinatown
Rear Window
RoboCop
Die Hard
The Godfather Part II


Diana Drumm

It Happened One Night
Gone with the Wind
Sunset Boulevard
Vertigo
Annie Hall
Badlands
Network
Dead Man
Closer
Laura
Phantom 11. 12 Years a Slave




Paul Duane

The Unknown 
Only Angels Have Wings
The Thing
Taxi Driver
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Detour 
Gun Crazy
The Producers
Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia
Rio Bravo


Tim Earle

Network
Citizen Kane
Fargo
Do the Right Thing
Saving Private Ryan
Goodfellas
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Team America, World Police
Fight Club
Synecdoche, New York


Tom Elrod

The Crowd
Modern Times
Fantasia
The Magnificent Ambersons
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
The Searchers
The Long Goodbye
E.T.
Ishtar
The Last Temptation of Christ





Alex Engquist

The Big Parade
Meshes of the Afternoon
The Magnificent Ambersons
Imitation of Life
Only Angels Have Wings
Window Water Baby Moving
Wanda
Nashville
Love Streams
Do The Right Thing
A.I.


Autumn Faust

Resident Evil Extinction
The Blair Witch Project
A.I.
Inland Empire
Apocalypse Now
Spring Breakers
Meshes of the Afternoon
Do The Right Thing
The Evil Dead 2
The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eye



Veronika Ferdman

Limelight
Johnny Guitar
Wild at Heart
The Tree of Life
The Tarnished Angels
Heat
The Moderns
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Puce Moment





Kenji Fujishima

Vertigo

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Dawn of the Dead

The Crowd

The Conversation 

Killer of Sheep

Love Streams

Window Water Baby Moving

Mean Streets

Barry Lyndon

Felipe Furtado

Hatari!

Walden: Diaries, Notes & Sketches
Broken Blossoms
Wagon Master
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Make Way for Tomorrow
Two-Lane Blacktop
Hallejulah
Force of Evil
My Hustler

Jim Gabriel

The Crowd

Citizen Kane

Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

Meet Me In St. Louis

Bigger Than Life

The Wild Bunch

Nashville

All That Jazz

The Dante Quartet

The Tree of Life

CM Gardner

The Magnificent Ambersons

Only Angels Have Wings

Head

Female Trouble

Killer of Sheep

California Split

Nashville

The King of Comedy

Duck Amuck

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story

Sean Gilman

Fort Apache
Ruggles of Red Gap
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
Night of the Hunter
Slacker
Two Lane Blacktop
Do The Right Thing
The New World
Dead Man
High School

Robert Greene

Welfare/The Store

Love Streams

Salesman

3 Women

Frownland

Manhattan Murder Mystery/Stardust Memories

Imitation of Life

Miami Vice

Portrait of Jason

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

Tina Hassania

Love Streams
Do The Right Thing
The Shining
To Be Or Not To Be
Meshes of the Afternoon
Badlands
His Girl Friday
Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans
You've Got Mail
The Big Lebowski


Roderick Heath

Foolish Wives
The Seventh Victim
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome/Lucifer Rising
Hell To Eternity
The Hustler
Confessions of an Opium Eater
Marnie
The Color Purple
Kundun



Tony G. Huang

They Live By Night
Notorious
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
The Shop Around The Corner
The Last Detail
Rebel Without A Cause
Wind Across The Everglades
To Have and Have Not
Citizen Kane
Days of Heaven

Tucker Johnson

Apocalypse Now

Citizen Kane

There Will Be Blood

The Godfather

Jaws

Dr. Strangelove

Sweet Smell of Success

Pulp Fiction

Fargo

Zodiac

Alan Jones

"As an English-speaking Canadian, I largely absorbed American culture and entertainment as my own while I grew up. But the older I get, the more alien America seems to me, the more I realize that American myths are not my myths, and the more I realize that America (like any other place in the world) is a weird, special place with its own culture and idiosyncrasies, as well as its own demons. So that might be why my favourite "American films" tend to treat America as a strange and unique place rather than succumbing to the horseshit concept of American exceptionalism or attempting to universalize the American experience. To be honest, there are probably American productions I prefer to some of the movies below, but to me the words "American film" suggest a certain preoccupation with "America," so that's how I've written this list (sorry, Hitch!). Also, I like movies about teens."

Apocalypse Now
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Beach Blanket Bingo
The Breakfast Club
Chinatown
Do the Right Thing
Once Upon a Time in America
The Last Picture Show
Rebel Without a Cause
The Straight Story

Dan Khan

Dr. Strangelove

Casablanca

The Lady From Shanghai

Killing of a Chinese Bookie

Pulp Fiction

The Searchers

The Royal Tenenbaums

The Tree of Life

Bringing Up Baby

Down By Law

Danny King

Chilly Scenes of Winter
Cop
Fat City
Heaven’s Gate
Keane
Losing Ground
My Son John
The New Centurions
Pride of the Marines
Two Lovers


Ryland Walker Knight

The Awful Truth
His Girl Friday
The Birds
Wanda
Two-Lane Blacktop
A New Leaf
Bless Their Little Hearts
Love Streams
Inland Empire
The Master


Zach Lewis

Dr. Strangelove
Young Mr. Lincoln
North on Evers
Sunrise
The Black Book
Kiss Me Deadly
The Clock
The Addiction
Nothing But A Man
The Lusty Men




Mark Lukenbill

Two Lane Blacktop
Killer of Sheep
All that Heaven Allows
Sullivan's Travels
Paper Moon
The Night of the Hunter
The Long Goodbye
Mikey and Nicky
Elephant
Two Lovers


Noah Adrian Lyons

Sunset Blvd
Mulholland Dr.
Citizen Kane
2001: A Space Odyssey
Psycho
Meshes of the Afternoon
Do the Right Thing
Annie Hall
Taxi Driver
Lost in Translation




Lucas Mangum

Alien/Clockwork Orange
American Beauty
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
O, Brother Where Art Thou?
Big Trouble In Little China
Jaws
Terminator 2
Blade Runner



Calum Marsh

To Be or Not to Be
Ruggles of Red Gap
The Thin Man
The Palm Beach Story
Ball of Fire
Bitter Victory
Los Angeles Plays Itself
The Sweet Smell of Success
California Split
Ms. 45
Phantom 11: Barry Lyndon


Jake Mulligan

The Age of Innocence
The Best Years of Our Lives
Blow Out
It's Always Fair Weather
Jungle Fever
Monkey Business
Patty Hearst
Rolling Thunder
Unfaithfully Yours
You Only Live Once


Vikram Murthi

Double Indemnity
Night of the Hunter
Taxi Driver
2001: A Space Odyssey
Chinatown
Blue Collar
Something Wild
Blue Velvet
Pulp Fiction
Zodiac



Nick Newman

City Girl
You Only Live Once
Bigger Than Life
Rio Bravo
Nothing But a Man
Zapruder Film of the Kennedy Assassination
Days of Heaven
After Hours
Pulp Fiction
Inland Empire


Max B. O'Connell

Raging Bull
Vertigo
Manhattan
E.T.
Citizen Kane
On The Waterfront
There Will Be Blood
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Lady Eve
City Lights




John M. Oursler

Imitation of Life
King of Comedy
Nashville
The Exorcist
Opening Night
Safe
Mulholland Dr.
Cabaret
The Master
All About Eve



Michael Pattison

The French Connection
Singin' In The Rain
Deseret
Chinatown
North By Northwest
Rope
Southern Comfort
Blue Velvet
Die Hard
Heat


Cain Rodriguez

"I made this list to be representative of the American cinematic culture/landscape so I limited this list to American-directed films. These are films I love but not necessarily my favorites, this is a list I would give to someone who wanted to understand American culture"

The Godfather
12 Angry Men
All The President's Men
The Killing
Days of Heaven
Die Hard
Raising Arizona
Boogie Nights
Halloween



Bill Ryan

Targets
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
The Exorcist
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Glengarry Glen Ross
Some Came Running
A Serious Man
In Harm's Way
This is Spinal Tap
The Shooting


Kristen Sales

The General
Young Mr. Lincoln
Citizen Kane
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Imitation of Life
The Wild Bunch
The Godfather
Nashville
Days of Heaven
Do The Right Thing


Michael Sicinski

Mothlight
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
2001: A Space Odyssey
Vertigo
What The Water Said Nos. 4-6
Imitation of Life
Kiss Me Deadly
Do The Right Thing
Side/Walk/Shuttle
Killer of Sheep




Michelle Siracusa

3:10 To Yuma
The New World
Sorcerer
Near Dark
Moonrise Kingdom
Hugo
The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
Rosemary's Baby
West Side Story
Wall*E


Andrew Skelton

The Gold Rush
My Darling Clementine
Only Angels Have Wings
Fury
In A Lonely Place
The Heartbreak Kid
Targets
Pickup on South Street
Singin' in the Rain
Safe



Justine A. Smith

Catch-22
The Awful Truth
Laura
Lost Highway
Eyes Wide Shut
Cluny Brown
Baby Doll
Some Like It Hot
The Searchers
Window Water Baby Moving




Colin Stacy

City Lights
Trouble in Paradise
The Apartment 
The Birds
His Girl Friday
Chinatown
Grey Gardens
Killer of Sheep
Eraserhead
Boogie Nights



Andreas Stoehr

The Big Parade 
The Scarlet Empress 
Bride of Frankenstein 
Meshes of the Afternoon 
Johnny Guitar 
All That Heaven Allows 
All My Life 
Nashville 
RoboCop 
Mulholland Dr. 




Tanner Tafelski

Bad Lieutenant 
How Green Was My Valley 
Notorious 
Dead Man 
The Thin Red Line 
Eraserhead 
3:10 to Yuma 
Naked Lunch 
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 
Landscape Suicide




Scout Tafoya

The New World
Punishment Park
Man In The Wilderness/The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
Leviathan
Killer of Sheep
Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia
Dawn of the Dead
Morocco
Love Streams
North By Northwest




Brian Tallerico

The Gold Rush
Fargo
Jaws
Zodiac
Night of the Hunter
The Searchers
Singin' in the Rain
Touch of Evil
The Tree of Life
Vertigo




Irina Trocan

The Long Goodbye
Anatomy of a Murder
High School
Rio Bravo
Sunset Boulevard
High Plains Drifter
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Design for Living
Stemple Pass
David Holzman’s Diary
Phantom 11. Barry Lyndon


Kyle Turner

Bringing Up Baby
Angels in America
Clue
Stranger Than Fiction
Paper Moon
The Silence of the Lambs
Mildred Pierce 
Design for Living
Fantasia
Frances Ha




Sean Van Deuren

My Dinner With Andre
Frances Ha
Badlands
Zodiac
Hannah and Her Sisters
All The President’s Men
Eyes Wide Shut
Singing In The Rain
Raging Bull
Punch-Drunk Love



Neil Young

American Graffiti 
Punch-Drunk Love
The Fog
Nashville
Casting A Glance
The Long Goodbye
Don't Look Back
The Elephant Man
Badlands
The Game

Hannibal, Season 3 Episode 2: Primavera

In many ways, Primavera is a companion piece to this season's first episode, "Antipasto". The first episode provides insight into Hannibal and Bedelia's flight across Europe and how they've been living since the massacre that concluded season two. This second episode does nearly the exact same thing but shifts its focus toward Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) and the thought-to-be deceased Abigail Hobbs (Kacey Rohl). We learn of the medical magic woven to keep Will alive but even though we're privy to the surgeon's workings, we get no further understanding of what really happens after season two's finale and have no idea of the fate's of either Jack Crawford (Laurence Fishburne) or Alana Bloom (Caroline Dhavernas). Once again though, Hannibal quickly reminds the audience that this series really doesn't care what the viewers want to know. In a show that's so heavily focused on murder investigations, it never gives in to the audience's desire for more information. It's a genius form of forcing the viewer into Will Graham's mind. This season only benefits by adopting the attitude of not caring one bit who it hurts. 

Tonally the episode is a mirror image of the premiere but presentation-wise it's anything but. Where "Antipasto" is elegant, clean, and arousing, "Primavera" is confused (in a good way), messy, and very distressing. The entire episode is handled as if through Will's own fractured psyche and it makes for some truly insane viewing. Will's visions take up enormous portions of the episode. One particular vision involves a shattering tea cup and I truly thought it was going to blow out my sound system. Sound design is often overlooked on television and Hannibal is a series that never underestimates the true power of using music and sound to jolt the viewer out of the comfort of their living room. 

The similarities continue in pairing a female figure alongside the male protagonist. The pairing in both cases is an odd one. Bedelia is Hannibal's hostage. So is Abigail, though not by Will's hand. Will and Abigail find themselves constantly bound together but where her exposure to Will keeps landing her in lethal situations Will needs her to be his muse. Since the series' first episode Abigail has always been the force driving Will forward. Being responsible for killing her father, Will sidesteps the fact that Garrett Jacob Hobbes was a psychopath and instead views his tie to Abigail as a life debt. Unfortunately Will's patronage has wound up getting Abigail's throat slit on two separate occasions now. 

Another great mirror in this episode is the introduction of Inspector Rinaldo Pazzi (played by Fortunato Cerlino, who I'm always happy to see after first meeting him in the Italian mob film, Gomorrah). Will meeting Pazzi is important and not just to forward the plot. Pazzi is a man obsessed, just like Will. They've both had significant brushes with Hannibal and both have allowed those brushes to consume their lives. Pazzi met Hannibal years and years ago as the hunch suspect to a murder as artfully composed as any in the series. Hannibal's youth was spent murdering and then arranging his victims into art pieces. The episode takes its title from Botticelli's Primavera and Hannibal arranges two people into the poses of Chloris and Zephyrus (close up here). This visual gives a great echo of a line from the premiere that I quoted in my last article. "You no longer have ethical concerns, Hannibal. Only aesthetical ones." It's appropriate that at this point in the series this is the earliest of Hannibal's deeds brought to light. Botticelli's painting represents the birth of spring so why not having Hannibal's first chronological murder be so tied to the birth of something? Even if that birth is that of a monster. Inspector Pazzi also allows for another tie to the first episode of this season. Pazzi is a constant reminder that Will must find Hannibal to achieve any kind of completeness in his life. When Hannibal and Bedelia met Dimmond (Tom Wisdom) in the premiere the same thing became true for our villain. Dimmond and Will bear VERY similar features and though Dimmond had never met Will, his face alone is a constant reminder that he needs Will just the same as Will needs Hannibal. The two of them will wander the cosmos forever, killing with intent or accidentally, until they find one another. 

Hannibal, Season 3 Episode 1: Antipasto

Tucker Johnson's look into the series Hannibal continues with the start of season 3. Join him for a new season of disgusting wonder: 

When Hannibal first began in 2013, I honestly wasn't sure what to think. What I saw was a beautifully shot but formulaic monster of the week version of the Hannibal 'legend'. Luckily there was quite a lot more going on under Hannibal's skin and it didn't take long for me to realize that creator Bryan Fuller had a plan. Rather than pull a Game of Thrones and do a full service adaptation of the Thomas Harris novels that the titular character arose from, he instead decided to pull influences sporadically and create a world of pastiche that is far more interesting and appetizing than Harris, Jonathan Demme, Ridley Scott, Brett Ratner, or Peter Webber could ever hope to achieve. Only Michael Mann's Manhunter rivals this series for pure style but in a completely different way.

Arriving in the third season of Hannibal is like arriving in what I can only perceive were the most fragmented imaginings of Thomas Harris while he was dreaming up the novel Hannibal. We find ourselves subject to the gorgeous visuals that this series has made its name on, only aided by the fact that they are now shooting on location in Florence, Italy. The city lends itself well to the sometimes dream, sometimes nightmare that is Hannibal's time on the run from the FBI. In recent memory it's hard to think of another show that plays with time in such a way that viewers have absolutely no idea where or when they are throughout the episode yet can't ever bring themselves to let it bother them. Fuller approaches the story with the audience's apparent lack of concern with small details in mind. Last season ended with a series of escalating cliffhangers and it's almost laughable how little he deals with any of them in the first forty eight some-odd minutes of this season. In fact, we learn nothing of the fates of any characters that were at risk and instead spend the entire episode with either complete strangers to the series or with Hannibal (Mads Mikkelsen) and his former psychiatrist, Bedelia du Maurier (Gillian Anderson), the only two characters we knew to be alive at the end of last year's finale. And it doesn't matter one bit. Almost immediately this trip through Europe becomes more engrossing than almost anything this series has attempted before it and that's saying something.

I'm not quite sure how but Hannibal actually manages to achieve something that I feel the films were rarely able to achieve save for perhaps Demme's Silence of the Lambs and that is terror. But Fuller's series manages to bring on a fear far unlike anything the name Hannibal has ever been able to inspire before. The fear doesn't reside in the killings. Quite the opposite actually. The death, the gore, the corpses, all are absolutely gorgeous. As gorgeous as James Hawkinson's cinematography which I still argue rivals even Game of Thrones on its best day. No, the terror resides in Hannibal's manipulative psychology. Like the psychopaths in Michael Haneke's Funny Games, Hannibal's power seems to stem from the fact that he's in control. Always. That horrifying notion of is strengthened almost subconsciously when the editing of the episode takes of forwards and backward through time, completely out of the audiences understanding or control. Yet each time we're served up the same situation. A character we know, good or bad, is in front of Hannibal with a strong disadvantage. It is revealed that Bedelia had a patient die in her office and Hannibal appears as her salvation. And inversely, Dr. Abel Gideon (Eddie Izzard) has himself for dinner as Hannibal, playing chef, serves him his own leg slow cooked and falling off the femur.

Bedelia has an incredible line somewhere around the midpoint of the episode. She utters "You no longer have ethical concerns, Hannibal. Only aesthetical ones." No truer words were ever spoken about this series. It seems to have taken this episode to make it clear that Hannibal has been a dream since the beginning, disguised as a police drama with a little flair. But in a world where a frail old man can build a twenty foot tall totem pole out of human corpses without any help why on earth should we expect the writers to care one bit about the audience's suspension of disbelief. You either buy into the aesthetic or you change the channel. And after the first 48 minutes of this season, I'm certainly pleased I didn't change the channel.

Palm Adore

This is more about discovering my limitations as a cinephile than as a definitive ranking of anything, but I went through every year's crop of films and assigned prizes as if they were all competing at the Cannes Film Festival. This is maybe a little silly, but it was also fun. This stems from my constant frustration that the Palme is not routinely rewarded to the film that breaks the most ground for the art of cinema. Amour springs to mind. Fine enough movie (if you're into that sort of thing) but grammatically conventional. Remember that was the year Holy Motors played in competition. I added the Camera d'Or the year that Cannes did just to stop myself from going totally insane. And I'm playing by Cannes rules in that I'm trying not to give any one film two awards, which means compromise in categories. So, again, not a definitive ranking, just a game. Oh, and I'm starting arbitrarily in 1930.



1930

Palme d’Or: Morocco
Grand Prix: L'Age d'Or
Prix du Jury: Earth
Director: Josef Von Sternberg - The Blue Angel / Morocco
Actor: Lon Chaney - The Unholy Three
Actress: Pola Illéry - Under The Roofs of Paris
Screenplay: The Blue Angel



1931

Palme d’Or: M
Grand Prix: The 3 Penny Opera
Prix du Jury: Night Nurse
Director: Rene Clair - A Nous la Liberte
Actor: Ronald Colman - Arrowsmith
Actress: Dorothy Mackaill - Safe in Hell
Screenplay: Frankenstein



1932

Palme d’Or: Vampyr
Grand Prix: Freaks
Prix du Jury: The Most Dangerous Game
Director: Josef Von Sternberg - Shanghai Express
Actor: Charles Laughton - Island of Lost Souls
Actress: Jean Harlow - Red Dust
Screenplay: Trouble In Paradise



1933

Palme d’Or: Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Grand Prix: King Kong
Prix du Jury: Duck Soup
Director: Fritz Lang - Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Actor: Paul Robeson - Emperor Jones
Actress: Ruby Keeler - 42nd Street
Screenplay: The Emperor Jones



1934

Palme d’Or: The Black Cat
Grand Prix: Man of Aran
Prix du Jury: Dames
Director: Josef Von Sternberg - The Scarlet Empress
Actor: W.C. Fields - It's A Gift
Actress: Claudette Colbert - It Happened One Night
Screenplay: It Happened One Night


1935

Palme d’Or: La Bandera
Grand Prix: Top Hat
Prix du Jury: The Informer
Director: Karl Freund - Mad Love
Actor: Boris Karloff - The Black Room
Actress: Marlene Dietrich - The Devil is a Woman
Screenplay: A Night at the Opera



1936

Palme d’Or: Follow The Fleet
Grand Prix: Things To Come
Prix du Jury: Fury
Director: Busby Berkeley - Gold Diggers of 1937
Actor: William Powell - My Man Godfrey
Actress: Sylvia Sidney - Sabotage
Screenplay: Dodsworth



1937

Palme d’Or: Grand Illusion
Grand Prix: Lost Horizon
Prix du Jury: The Hurricane
Director: Frank Borzage - History is Made at Night
Actor: Victor Moore - Make Way for Tomorrow
Actress: Beulah Bondi - Make Way For Tomorrow
Screenplay: Pepe le Moko


1938

Palme d’Or: Alexander Nevsky
Grand Prix: The Lady Vanishes
Prix du Jury: Bringing up Baby
Director: Marcel Carne - Port of Shadows
Actor: Cary Grant - Holiday
Actress: Simone Simon - La Bete Humaine
Screenplay: The Lady Vanishes


1939

Palme d’Or: Rules of the Game
Grand Prix: Young Mr. Lincoln
Prix du Jury: Only Angels Have Wings
Director: John Ford - Young Mr. Lincoln/Stagecoach
Actor: Jean Gabin - Daybreak
Actress: June Duprez - The Four Feathers
Screenplay: Jamaica Inn



1940

Palme d’Or: The Thief of Bagdad
Grand Prix: Fantasia 
Prix du Jury: Go West
Director: John Ford - The Long Voyage Home
Actor: Cary Grant - His Girl Friday
Actress: Rosalind Russell - His Girl Friday
Screenplay: The Philadelphia Story


1941

Palme d’Or: Citizen Kane 
Grand Prix: Swamp Water
Prix du Jury: The Lady Eve
Director: Michael Curtiz - The Sea Wolf
Actor: Walter Huston - The Devil & Daniel Webster
Actress: Veronica Lake - Sullivan’s Travels
Screenplay: The Maltese Falcon


1942

Palme d’Or: Casablanca
Grand Prix: Cat People
Prix du Jury: The Jungle Book
Director: Orson Welles - The Magnificent Ambersons
Actor: Humphrey Bogart - Casablanca
Actress: Simone Simon - Cat People
Screenplay: The Palm Beach Story


1943

Palme d’Or: Le Corbeau
Grand Prix: Cabin In The Sky
Prix du Jury: I Walked With A Zombie
Director: Carl Th. Dreyer - Day of Wrath
Actor: Henry Fonda - The Ox-Bow Incident
Actress: Theresa Wright - Shadow of a Doubt
Screenplay: The 7th Victim


1944

Palme d’Or: Ivan The Terrible 
Grand Prix: Curse of the Cat People
Prix du Jury: The Three Caballeros 
Director: Fritz Lang - Ministry of Fear
Actor: Peter Lorre & Sidney Greenstreet - The Mask of Dimitrios
Actress: Nina Foch - Return of the Vampire
Screenplay: Miracle of Morgan’s Creek


1945 

Palme d’Or: Leave Her To Heaven
Grand Prix: Children of Paradise
Prix du Jury: My Name Is Julia Ross
Director: Edgar Ulmer - Detour / John Brahm - Hangover Square
Actor: Boris Karloff - The Body Snatcher
Actress: Celia Johnson - Brief Encounter
Screenplay: Scarlet Street


1946

Palme d’Or: Beauty & The Beast
Grand Prix: My Darling Clementine
Prix du Jury: Notorious
Director: Orson Welles - The Stranger
Actor: Fredric March - The Best Years of Our Lives
Actress: Barbara Stanwyck - The Strange Loves of Martha Ivers
Screenplay: Bedlam



1947

Palme d’Or: Black Narcissus
Grand Prix: The Lady From Shanghai
Prix du Jury: Out Of The Past
Director: Robert Montgomery - Lady In The Lake
Actor: Hume Cronyn - Brute Force
Actress: Kathleen Byron - Black Narcissus
Screenplay: The Ghost & Mrs. Muir


1948 

Palme d’Or: The Red Shoes
Grand Prix: Unfaithfully Yours
Prix du Jury: Portrait of Jennie
Director: Andre De Toth - Pitfall
Actor: Robert Ryan - Act of Violence
Actress: Joan Fontaine - Letter From An Unknown Woman
Screenplay: Treasure of the Sierra Madra


1949

Palme d’Or: The Third Man
Grand Prix: The Small Back Room
Prix du Jury: Criss Cross
Director: Akira Kurosawa - Stray Dog
Actor: Claude Rains - The Passionate Friends
Actress: Jennifer Jones - We Were Strangers
Screenplay: Thieves Highway


1950

Palme d’Or: Rashomon
Grand Prix: Los Olvidados
Prix du Jury: Wagonmaster
Director: Michael Powell - Gone To Earth
Actor: Richard Widmark - Night And The City
Actress: Barbara Stanwyck - The Furies
Screenplay: In A Lonely Place


1951

Palme d’Or: Pandora & The Flying Dutchman
Grand Prix: The Prowler
Prix du Jury: On Dangerous Ground
Director: Michael Powell - Tales of Hoffmann
Actor: Robert Walker - Strangers on a Train
Actress: Katherine Hepburn - The African Queen
Screenplay: Ace In The Hole


1952

Palme d’Or: Forbidden Games
Grand Prix: Singin’ In The Rain
Prix du Jury: Ikiru
Director: Sam Fuller - Park Row
Actor: Robert Mitchum - The Lusty Men
Actress: Simone Signoret - Casque d’Or
Screenplay: Monkey Business


1953

Palme d’Or: Gate of Hell
Grand Prix: Ugetsu
Prix du Jury: The Man Between
Director: Roy Ward Baker - Inferno
Actor: Richard Widmark - Pick-Up On South Street
Actress: Harriett Andersson - Sawdust & Tinsel
Screenplay: The Wages of Fear


1954

Palme d’Or: Seven Samurai
Grand Prix: Sansho The Bailiff 
Prix du Jury: Godzilla
Director: Nicholas Ray - Johnny Guitar
Actor: James Mason - A Star Is Born
Actress: Jane Wyman - Magnificent Obsession
Screenplay: Rear Window


1955

Palme d’Or: Night of the Hunter
Grand Prix: Lola Montes
Prix du Jury: All That Heaven Allows
Director: Robert Aldrich - Kiss Me Deadly
Actor: James Dean - Rebel Without A Cause
Actress: Marilyn Monroe - The Seven Year Itch
Screenplay: It’s Always Fair Weather


1956

Palme d’Or: The Searchers
Grand Prix: The Killing
Prix du Jury: Moby Dick
Director: Lionel Rogosin - On The Bowery 
Actor: James Mason - Bigger Than Life
Actress: Marilyn Monroe - Bus Stop
Screenplay: Written On The Wind


1957

Palme d’Or: Paths of Glory
Grand Prix: The Seventh Seal
Prix du Jury: Kanal 
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov - The Cranes Are Flying
Actor: Victor Sjöström - Wild Strawberries
Actress: Giulietta Masina - Nights of Cabiria
Screenplay: Sweet Smell of Success


1958

Palme d’Or: Mon Oncle
Grand Prix: Vertigo
Prix du Jury: Ashes & Diamonds
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita - The Ballad of Nayarama
Actor: Robert Taylor - Party Girl
Actress: Jeanne Moreau - The Lovers
Screenplay: The Revenge of Frankenstein


1959

Palme d’Or: Letter Never Sent
Grand Prix: Day of the Outlaw
Prix du Jury: Hiroshima Mon Amour
Director: Alfred Hitchcock - North By Northwest
Actor: Tatsuya Nakadai - The Human Condition / Odd Obsession
Actress: Katherine Hepburn - Suddenly Last Summer
Screenplay: Jakten


1960

Palme d’Or: L’Avventura
Grand Prix: La Dolce Vita
Prix du Jury: Home From The Hill
Director: Iosef Kheifits - The Lady With The Dog
Actor: Toshiro Mifune - The Bad Sleep Well
Actress: Edith Scob - Eyes Without A Face
Screenplay: The Ninth Circle


1961

Palme d’Or: Last Year At Marienbad
Grand Prix: Viridiana
Prix du Jury: Il Posto
Director: Allen Baron - Blast of Silence
Actor: Marcella Mastroianni - Divorce Italian Style
Actress: Anna Karina - A Woman Is A Woman
Screenplay: The Innocents


1962

Palme d’Or: L’Eclisse
Grand Prix: Cleo From 5 to 7
Prix du Jury: Ivan’s Childhood
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci - La Commare Secca
Actor: Peter O’Toole - Lawrence of Arabia
Actress: Anna Karina - Vivre Sa Vie
Screenplay: The Exterminating Angels


1963

Palme d’Or: 8 1/2
Grand Prix: Contempt
Prix du Jury: An Actor’s Revenge / Youth of the Beast
Director: Ermanno Olmi - I Fidanzati
Actor: Richard Harris - This Sporting Life
Actress: Tippi Hedren - The Birds
Screenplay: High & Low


1964

Palme d’Or: Soy Cuba
Grand Prix: Red Desert
Prix du Jury: Onibaba
Director: Masahiro Shinoda - Pale Flower
Actor: Stanley Baker - Zulu
Actress: Yumiko Nogawa - Gate of Flesh
Screenplay:  Woman In The Dunes


1965

Palme d’Or: Chimes At Midnight 
Grand Prix: Le Bonheur
Prix du Jury: Faster, Pussycat, Kill! Kill!
Director: Federico Fellini - Juliet of the Spirits
Actor: Lou Castel - Fists In The Pocket
Actress: Catherine Deneuve - Repulsion
Screenplay: The Hill


1966  

Palme d’Or: Blow-Up
Grand Prix: Tokyo Drifter
Prix du Jury: Battle of Algiers
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville - Le Deuxieme Souffle
Actor: Tatsuya Nakadai - Sword of Doom
Actress: Jeanne Moreau - Mademoiselle 
Screenplay: The Pornographers


1967

Palme d’Or: Point Blank
Grand Prix: Marketa Lazarova
Prix du Jury: The Red & The White
Director: Joseph Losey - Accident
Actor: Jo Shishido - Branded To Kill
Actress: Nadine Nortier - Mouchette
Screenplay: Japan’s Longest Day


1968 

Palme d’Or: Kuroneko
Grand Prix: 2001: A Space Oddysey
Prix du Jury: Head
Director: Lindsay Anderson - If….
Actor: Peter O’Toole - The Lion In Winter
Actress: Mia Farrow - Rosemary’s Baby
Screenplay: Kill! 


1969

Palme d’Or: Mr. Freeddom
Grand Prix: The Wild Bunch
Prix du Jury: Army of Shadows
Director: Teruo Ishii - Horrors of Malformed Men
Actor: Peter Cushing - Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
Actress: Maria Callas - Medea 
Screenplay: Play Dirty


1970

Palme d’Or: The Conformist
Grand Prix: Le Cercle Rouge
Prix du Jury: Zabriskie Point
Director: Jaromil Jires - Valerie & Her Week of Wonders
Actor: Alan Arkin - Catch-22
Actress: Lynn Redgrave - The Last of the Mobile Hot Shots
Screenplay: The Landlord


1971

Palme d’Or: The Devils
Grand Prix: McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Prix du Jury: Punishment Park
Director: Richard C. Sarafian - Man In The Wilderness/Vanishing Point
Actor: Walter Matthau - A New Leaf
Actress: Jane Fonda - Klute
Screenplay: The Last Picture Show


1972

Palme d’Or: Cries & Whispers 
Grand Prix: Solaris
Prix du Jury: Fat City
Director: Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather
Actor: Peter O’Toole - The Ruling Class
Actress: Patty Duke - You’ll Like My Mother
Screenplay: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 


1973

Palme d’Or: Touki Bouki
Grand Prix: The Mansion of Madness
Prix du Jury: The Friends of Eddie Coyle 
Director: William Friedkin - The Exorcist
Actor: Robert Ryan - The Iceman Cometh
Actress: Tatum O’Neil - Paper Moon
Screenplay: The Last Detail


1974

Palme d’Or: The Conversation
Grand Prix: Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia
Prix du Jury: Sweet Movie
Director: Robert Bresson - Lancelot Du Lac
Actor: Elliott Gould & George Segal - California Split
Actress: Madeleine Kahn - Young Frankenstein
Screenplay: Edvard Munch


1975

Palme d’Or: Maitresse
Grand Prix: The Passenger
Prix du Jury: Salo
Director: Robert Mulligan - The Nickel Ride
Actor: Al Pacino - Dog Day Afternoon
Actress: Delphine Seyreig - Jeanne Dielman
Screenplay: Shivers


1976

Palme d’Or: Private Vices, Public Virtues
Grand Prix: Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Prix du Jury: Who Can Kill A Child? 
Director: Alan Pakula - All The President’s Men
Actor: Peter Falk & John Cassavettes - Mikey & Nicky
Actress: Jodie Foster - The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane
Screenplay: The Winds of Autumn


1977

Palme d’Or: Sorcerer
Grand Prix: The Devil, Probably
Prix du Jury: Eraserhead
Director: Larisa Shepitko - The Ascent
Actor: John Amplas - Martin
Actress: Gena Rowlands - Opening Night
Screenplay: Providence


1978

Palme d’Or: Killer of Sheep
Grand Prix: Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Prix du Jury: Dawn of the Dead
Director: Terrence Malick - Days of Heaven
Actor:  Fabrice Luchini - Perceval Le Gallois
Actress: Liv Ulmman & Ingrid Bergman - Autumn Sonata 
Screenplay: The Long Weekend
Camera d’Or: Blue Collar


1979

Palme d’Or: Apocalypse Now
Grand Prix: Nosferatu
Prix du Jury: The Brood
Director: Bob Fosse - All That Jazz
Actor: Ken Watanabe - Vengeance Is Mine
Actress: Sally Field - Norma Rae
Screenplay: Life of Brian
Camera d’Or: Mad Max


1980

Palme d’Or: Berlin Alexanderplatz
Grand Prix: Heaven’s Gate
Prix du Jury: Kagemusha
Director: Dario Argento - Inferno
Actor: Bob Hoskins - The Long Good Friday
Actress: Adrienne Barbeau - The Fog
Screenplay: The Stunt Man
Camera d’Or: The Ninth Configuration


1981

Palme d’Or: Thief
Grand Prix: The Loveless
Prix du Jury: Raiders of the Lost Ark
Director: Tobe Hooper - Funhouse
Actor: Peter Falk - …All The Marbles
Actress: Divine - Polyester
Screenplay: Road Games
Camera d’Or: The Evil Dead


1982

Palme d’Or: Fanny & Alexander 
Grand Prix: Blade Runner
Prix du Jury: The Thing
Director: Tobe Hooper - Poltergeist / Michelangelo Antonioni - Identification of a Woman
Actor: Paul Newman - The Verdict
Actress: Jessica Lange - Frances
Screenplay: Britannia Hospital
Camera d’Or: Diner


1983

Palme d’Or: El Sur
Grand Prix: L’Argent
Prix du Jury: Midnite Spares
Director: John Carpenter - Christine
Actor: Mickey Rourke - Rumble Fish
Actress: Sandrine Bonnaire - A Nos Amours
Screenplay: The Right Stuff
Camera d’Or: The Hunger


1984

Palme d’Or: Stop Making Sense
Grand Prix: Stranger Than Paradise
Prix du Jury: Blood Simple
Director: Russell Mulcahy - Razorback
Actor: Harry Dean Stanton - Paris, Texas
Actress: Karen Allen - Starman
Screenplay: Repo Man
Camera d’Or: This is Spinal Tap


1985

Palme d’Or: Brazil
Grand Prix: To Live And Die in L.A.
Prix du Jury: Runaway Train
Director: Paul Schrader - Mishima
Actor: Tatsuya Nakadai - Ran
Actress: Jennifer Jason Leigh - Flesh + Blood
Screenplay: Return of the Living Dead
Camera d’Or: Blood Simple


1986

Palme d’Or: Caravaggio
Grand Prix: Blue Velvet
Prix du Jury: Down By Law
Director: Michael Mann - Manhunter
Actor: Jeff Goldblum - The Fly
Actress: Beatrice Dalle - Betty blue
Screenplay: Hannah & Her Sisters
Camera d’Or: Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer


1987

Palme d’Or: Au Revoir Les Enfants
Grand Prix: Ishtar
Prix du Jury: Yeelen
Director: Katheryn Bigelow - Near Dark
Actor: Bruno Ganz & Peter Falk - Wings of Desire
Actress: Holly Hunter - Raising Arizona
Screenplay: Hope & Glory
Camera d’Or: Withnail & I


1988

Palme d’Or: Distant Voices, Still Lives
Grand Prix: Ghosts….of the Civil Dead
Prix du Jury: Another Woman
Director: Tony Randel - Hellbound
Actor: Jeremy Irons - Dead Ringers
Actress: Cyndi Lauper - Vibes
Screenplay: Midnight Run
Camera d’Or: Tales From The Gimli Hospital


1989

Palme d’Or: The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, Her Lover
Grand Prix: Visitor to a Museum
Prix du Jury: Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade
Director: Krzystof Kieslowski - The Decalogue
Actor: Daniel-Day Lewis - My Left Foot
Actress: Bulle Ogier - Gang of Four
Screenplay: Crimes & Misdemeanors
Camera d’Or: UHF


1990

Palme d’Or: Close-Up
Grand Prix: Wild At Heart
Prix du Jury: Tilai
Director: Abel Ferrara - King of New York
Actor: Jason Patric - After Dark My Sweet
Actress: Meg Ryan - Joe Versus The volcano
Screenplay: Goodfellas
Camera d’Or: Mortu Nega


1991

Palme d’Or: Lovers on the Bridge
Grand Prix: Double Life of Veronique
Prix du Jury: My Own Private Idaho 
Director: Terry Gilliam - The Fisher King
Actor: Anthony Hopkins - Silence of the Lambs
Actress: Susan Sarandon & Geena Davis - Thelma & Louise
Screenplay: The People Under The Stairs
Camera d’Or: No Skin Off My Ass


1992

Palme d’Or: The Long Day Closes
Grand Prix: Bad Lieutenant
Prix du Jury: Last of the Mohicans
Director: Francis Ford Coppola - Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Actor: Clint Eastwood - Unforgiven
Actress: Sheryl Lee - Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Screenplay: Diggstown
Camera d’Or: Alien³ 


1993

Palme d’Or: Schindler’s List
Grand Prix: The Age of Innocence
Prix du Jury: Body Snatchers
Director: James Ivory - Remains of the Day
Actor: David Thewlis - Naked
Actress: Juliet Binoche - Blue
Screenplay: King of the Hill
Camera d’Or: Clean, Shaven


1994

Palme d’Or: The Hudsucker Proxy
Grand Prix: Ashes of Time
Prix du Jury: Super 8 1/2
Director: James Grey - Little Odessa
Actor: Johnny Depp - Ed Wood
Actress: Kate Winslet & Melanie Lynskey - Heavenly Creatures
Screenplay: Pulp Fiction
Camera d’Or: Shallow Grave


1995

Palme d’Or: 12 Monkeys
Grand Prix: Fallen Angels
Prix du Jury: Dead Man
Director: David Fincher - Seven 
Actor: Anthony Hopkins - Nixon
Actress: Emma Thompson - Sense & Sensibility 
Screenplay: Land & Freedom
Camera d’Or: Toy Story


1996

Palme d’Or: Crash
Grand Prix: Trainspotting
Prix du Jury: Fargo
Director: Steven Soderbergh - Schizolopolis
Actor: Philip Baker Hall - Hard Eight
Actress: Maggie Cheung - Irma Vep
Screenplay: The Bird Cage
Camera d’Or: Bottle Rocket


1997

Palme d’Or: Taste of Cherry
Grand Prix: The Sweet Hereafter
Prix du Jury: L.A. Confidential
Director: David Lynch - Lost Highway
Actor: Burt Reynolds - Boogie Nights
Actress: Joan Allen - The Ice Storm
Screenplay: Wings of the Dove
Camera d’Or: Mouse Hunt


1998

Palme d’Or: Khrustyalov, My Car! 
Grand Prix: Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas
Prix du Jury: Buffalo ’66
Director: Steven Soderbergh - Out of Sight
Actor: Peter Mullan - My Name is Joe
Actress: Jennifer Connely - Dark City
Screenplay: Rushmore
Camera d’Or: Pi


1999

Palme d’Or: Pola X
Grand Prix: Topsy-Turvy
Prix du Jury: Eyes Wide Shut
Director: Martin Scorsese - Bringing Out The Dead
Actor: Denis Lavant - Beau Travail
Actress: Sigourney Weaver - Galaxy Quest
Screenplay: The Insider
Camera d’Or: The Iron Giant


2000

Palme d’Or: In Vanda’s Room
Grand Prix: Together
Prix du Jury: Chicken Run
Director: Wong Kar-Wai - In The Mood For Love
Actor: Javier Bardem - Before Night Falls
Actress: Sylvie Testud - Murderous Maids
Screenplay: Together
Camera d’Or: Sexy Beast


2001

Palme d’Or: Y Tu Mama Tambien
Grand Prix: The Devil’s Backbone
Prix du Jury: The Royal Tenenbaums
Director: Robert Altman - Gosford Park
Actor: Lee Kang-Sheng - What Time Is It There?
Actress: Isabelle Huppert - The Piano Teacher
Screenplay: Mulholland Drive
Camera d’Or: Frailty


2002

Palme d’Or: 28 Days Later
Grand Prix: The Pianist
Prix du Jury: Ten
Director: Claire Denis - Friday Night 
Actor: Kurt Russell - Dark Blue
Actress: Samantha Morton - Morvern Callar
Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson - Punch Drunk-Love
Camera d’Or: Jackass: The Movie


2003

Palme d’Or: Elephant
Grand Prix: Down With Love
Prix du Jury: Coffee & Cigarettes
Director: Takashi Miike - Gozu
Actor: Russell Crowe - Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World
Actress: Eva Green - The Dreamers
Screenplay: Intolerable Cruelty 
Camera d’Or: Shattered Glass


2004

Palme d’Or: Birth
Grand Prix: The Aviator
Prix du Jury: L’Intrus
Director: Cate Shortland - Somersault
Actor: Bill Murray - The Life Aquatic
Actress: Julie Delpy - Before Sunset
Screenplay: Anatomy of Hell
Camera d’Or: Innocence


2005

Palme d’Or: The New World
Grand Prix: Broken Flowers
Prix du Jury: Lady Vengeance
Director: Tsai Ming-Liang - The Wayward Cloud
Actor: John Jarratt - Wolf Creek
Actress: Gretchen Mol - The Notorious Bettie Page
Screenplay: Brick
Camera d’Or: The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada


2006

Palme d’Or: Inland Empire
Grand Prix: Big Bang Love: Juvenile A
Prix du Jury: The Wind That Shakes The Barley
Director: Sofia Coppola - Marie Antoinette
Actor: Clive Owen - Children of Men
Actress:  Ivana Baquero - Pan’s Labyrinth
Screenplay: Offside
Camera d’Or: Red Road


2007

Palme d’Or: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Grand Prix: Zodiac
Prix du Jury: Paranoid Park
Director: Andrew Dominik - The Assassnation of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
Actor: Daniel-Day Lewis - There Will Be Blood
Actress: Pauline Acquart, Louise Blachère & Adèle Haenel - Water Lilies
Screenplay: Youth Without Youth
Camera d’Or: Water Lilies 


2008

Palme d’Or: Un Lac
Grand Prix: Let The Right One In 
Prix du Jury: Hunger
Director: Matteo Garrone - Gomorrah
Actor: Joaquin Phoenix - Two Lovers
Actress: Arta Dobroshi - Lorna’s Silence
Screenplay: Synecdoche, New York
Camera d’Or: The Escapist


2009

Palme d’Or: White Material
Grand Prix: Lourdes
Prix du Jury: Vincere
Director: Luca Guadanino - I Am Love
Actor: Edward Hogg - White Lightnin’
Actress: Julie Sokolowski - Hadewijch
Screenplay: The City of Life & Death
Camera d’Or: Hierro


2010

Palme d’Or: The Sleeping Beauty 
Grand Prix: Tuesday, After Christmas
Prix du Jury: On Tour
Director: Takashi Miike - 13 Assassins
Actor: Casey Affleck - The Killer Inside Me
Actress: Ellen Barkin - Shit Year
Screenplay: NEDS
Camera d’Or: Two Gates of Sleep


2011

Palme d’Or: The Tree of Life
Grand Prix: The Deep Blue Sea
Prix du Jury: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Director: Bertrand Bonello - House of Tolerance
Actor: Muhammet Uzuner - Once Upon A Time In Anatolia
Actress: Anna Paquin - Margaret
Screenplay: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Camera d’Or: Two Years At Sea (if this is a technicality fault, then it goes to Coriolanus)


2012

Palme d’Or: Holy Motors / Leviathan
Grand Prix: Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari
Prix du Jury: Aurora
Director: Marco Bellocchio - Dormant Beauty
Actor: Joaquin Phoenix & Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Master
Actress: Melanie Lynskey - Hello I Must Be Going
Screenplay: You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
Camera d’Or: The Man With The Iron Fists


2013

Palme d’Or: Hard To Be A God
Grand Prix:  A Touch of Sin
Prix du Jury: A Field In England
Director: James Gray - The Immigrant
Actor: Oscar Isaac - Inside Llewyn Davis
Actress: Scarlett Johansen - Under The Skin
Screenplay: Computer Chess
Camera d’Or: Manakamana


2014

Palme d’Or: Actress
Grand Prix: Pasolini
Prix du Jury: Jauja
Director: Jennifer Kent - The Babadook
Actor: David Oyelowo - Selma
Actress: Nina Hoss - Phoenix
Screenplay: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Camera d’Or: Over The Garden Wall