Another great Cannes lineup is upon us. This year you can count on having some new films by such auteurs as Winding Refn, The Coen Brothers, Polanski, Payne, Soderbergh, Gray and Farhadi. The big Prize is the Palme D'Or and it probably is the most prestigious film festival prize in the world. Below is the competition and after that are recent Palme D'Or winners.
Competition:
2012 Amour
2011 The Tree Of life
2010 Uncle Boonmee
2009 The White Ribbon
2008 The Class
2007 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days
2006 The Wind That Shakes The Barley
2005 The Child
2004 Fahrenheit 9/11
2003 Elephant
2002 The Pianist
2001 The Son's Room
2000 Dancer In The Dark
Competition:
- Only God Forgives – Nicolas Winding Refn
- Inside Llewyn Davis – Ethan & Joel Coen
- Borgman – Alex Van Warmerdam
- Venus in Fur – Roman Polanski
- Nebraska – Alexander Payne
- Jeune et jolie – François Ozon
- La grande bellezza (The Great Beauty) – Paolo Sorrentino
- Behind The Candelabra – Steven Soderbergh
- Wara No Tate (Shield of Straw) – Takashi Miike
- La vie d’Adèle – Abdellatif Kechiche
- Soshite Chich Ni Naru (Like Father, Like Son) - Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Tian Zhy Ding – Zhangke Jia
- Grisgris – Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
- The Immigrant – James Gray
- Le Passé – Asghar Farhadi
- Heli – Amat Escalante
- Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian) – Arnaud Desplechin
- Michael Kohlhaas – Arnaud des Pallières
- Un Château en Italie – Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi
2012 Amour
2011 The Tree Of life
2010 Uncle Boonmee
2009 The White Ribbon
2008 The Class
2007 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days
2006 The Wind That Shakes The Barley
2005 The Child
2004 Fahrenheit 9/11
2003 Elephant
2002 The Pianist
2001 The Son's Room
2000 Dancer In The Dark
The short version: "Woman Unknown" was a compromise. The jury deadlocked over "Possible Love" and "NAZA," not able to com to terms, fell back on their #3, May el-Toukhy's film.