Stage and Screen
Cannes Film Festival Best Director Winners
The Festival, known officially as the Festival de Cannes, is a world festival for the motion picture industry, held annually in the city of Cannes on the French Riviera.
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Luis Bunuel (born 1900, died 1983)
Spanish actor, writer, composer, director and producer.
- Winner of the 1951 Cannes Film Festival Best Director award, for Los Olvidados
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Christian-Jaque (born 1904)
French writer and director.
- Winner of the 1952 Cannes Film Festival Best Director award, for Fanfan the Tulip
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Sergei Vasilyev
Writer and director.
- Winner of the 1955 Cannes Film Festival Best Director award, for Heroes of Shipka
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Jules Dassin (born 1911)
American actor, writer, director and producer.
- Winner of the 1955 Cannes Film Festival Best Director award, for Rififi
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Robert Bresson (born 1907)
French writer and director. He trained as a painter before moving to films.
- Winner of the 1957 Cannes Film Festival Best Director award, for A Man Escaped
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Liviu Ciulei
Actor and director.
- Winner of the 1965 Cannes Film Festival Best Director award, for The Forest of Hanged Men
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Ferenc Kósa
Writer and director.
- Winner of the 1967 Cannes Film Festival Best Director award, for Ten Thousand Days
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Glauber Rocha (born 1938, died 1981)
Brazilian writer, director and composer.
- Winner of the 1969 Cannes Film Festival Best Director award, for Antonio das Mortes
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Vojtech Jasny
Writer and director.
- Winner of the 1969 Cannes Film Festival Best Director award, for All My Countrymen
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John Boorman (born 1933)
English actor, writer, director and producer.
- Winner of the 1970 Cannes Film Festival Best Director award, for Leo the Last
- Winner of the 1998 Cannes Film Festival Best Director for The General
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Miklós Jancsó (born 1921)
Hungarian actor, writer, director and producer.
- Winner of the 1972 Cannes Film Festival Best Director award, for Red Psalm
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Michel Brault
Cinematographer, director and writer.
- Winner of the 1975 Cannes Film Festival Best Director award, for Les Ordres
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Ettore Scola (born 1931)
Italian writer, editor and director.
- Winner of the 1976 Cannes Film Festival Best Director award, for Brutti, Sporchi e Cattivi
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Nagisa Oshima (born 1932)
Japanese actor, writer and director.
- Winner of the 1978 Cannes Film Festival Best Director award, for Empire of Passion
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Terrence Malick (born 1943)
American actor, writer, director and producer.
- Winner of the 1979 Cannes Film Festival Best Director award, for Days of Heaven
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Werner Herzog (born 1942)
German actor, writer, composer, director and producer.
- Winner of the 1982 Cannes Film Festival Best Director award, for Fitzcarraldo
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Martin Scorsese (born 1942)
American actor, writer, editor, director and producer.
- Winner of the 1986 Cannes Film Festival Best Director award, for After Hours
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Wim Wenders (born 1945)
German actor, editor, cinematographer, director and producer.
- Winner of the 1987 Cannes Film Festival Best Director award, for Wings of Desire
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Fernando E. Solanas
Writer, cinematographer, composer, director and producer
- Winner of the 1988 Cannes Film Festival Best Director award, for South
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Emir Kusturica (born 1954)
Actor, writer and director, born in Sarajevo.
- Winner of the 1989 Cannes Film Festival Best Director award, for Time of the Gypsies
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Pavel Lungin
Writer and director.
- Winner of the 1990 Cannes Film Festival Best Director award, for Taxi Blues
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Joel Coen (born 1954)
American actor, writer, director.
- Winner of the 1991 Cannes Film Festival Best Director award, for Barton Fink
- Winner of the 1996 Cannes Film Festival Best Director award for Fargo
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Robert Altman (born 1925)
American actor, writer, editor, director and producer.
- Winner of the 1992 Cannes Film Festival Best Director award, for The Player
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Mike Leigh (born 1943)
English writer and director.
- Winner of the 1993 Cannes Film Festival Best Director award, for Naked
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Nanni Moretti (born 1953)
Italian actor, writer, director and producer.
- Winner of the 1994 Cannes Film Festival Best Director award, for Caro Diario
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Mathieu Kassovitz (born 1967)
French actor, writer, editor and director.
- Winner of the 1995 Cannes Film Festival Best Director award, for Hate
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Ingmar Bergman (born 1918)
Swedish actor, writer, director, cinematographer and producer.
- Winner of the 1958 Cannes Film Festival Best Director award, for Brink of Life
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Sergei Yutkevich (born 1904, died 1985)
Russian writer, director and producer.
- Winner of the 1956 and 1966 Cannes Film Festival Best Director awards, for Othello and Lenin in Poland
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Costa-Gavras
Actor, writer and director.
- Winner of the 1975 Cannes Film Festival Best Director award, for Special Section
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Bertrand Tavernier (born 1941)
French actor, director, writer and producer.
- Winner of the 1984 Cannes Film Festival Best Director award, for A Sunday in the Country
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René Clément (born 1913, died 1996)
French writer and director.
- Winner of the 1946 and 1949 Cannes Film Festival Best Director awards, for La Bataille du Rail and The Walls of Malapaga
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François Truffaut (born 1932, died 1984)
French actor, writer, director and producer.
- Winner of the 1959 Cannes Film Festival Best Director award, for The 400 Blows
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André Téchiné (born 1943)
French director and writer.
- Winner of the 1985 Cannes Film Festival Best Director award, for Rendez-Vous
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Wong Kar-Wei
Chinese screenwriter and director.
- Winner of the 1997 Cannes Film Festival Best Director award, for Happy Together
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Pedro Almodóvar (born 1949)
Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor
- 1999 Cannes Festival Best Director award for the movie ''''All About Mother''''
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Edward Yang (born 1947)
Chinese born electrical engineer and film maker
- Winner of the 2000 Cannes Film Festival Best Director award, for Yi Yi
Cannes Film Festival Best Director Winners
The Festival, known officially as the Festival de Cannes, is a world festival for the motion picture industry, held annually in the city of Cannes on the French Riviera.
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Julia Solntseva
Director.
- Winner of the 1961 Cannes Film Festival Best Director award, for Story of the Flaming Years
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