Jury Prize (Cannes Film Festival)
Jury Prize | |
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Prix du Jury (French) | |
![]() The 2024 recipient: Jacques Audiard | |
Country | France |
Presented by | Cannes Film Festival |
First award | 1946 |
Currently held by | Jacques Audiard Emilia Pérez (2024) |
Website | www |
The Jury Prize (French: Prix du Jury) is an award of the Cannes Film Festival bestowed by the jury of the festival on one of the competing feature films. According to American film critic Dave Kehr, the award is "intended to recognize an original work that embodies the spirit of inquiry."[1]
History

The award was first presented in 1946. The prize was not awarded on 10 occasions (1947, 1949, 1953, 1967, 1974–79, 1981–82, 1984, and 2001). The festival was not held at all in 1948, 1950, and 2020. In 1968, no awards were given as the festival was called off mid-way due to the May 1968 events in France. Also, the jury vote was tied, and the prize was shared by two films on 20 occasions (1957, 1960, 1962–63, 1970–71, 1973, 1987, 1991–93, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2014, 2019, and 2021–22). Ken Loach and Andrea Arnold have won the most awards in this category, each winning three. Irma P. Hall is the only actress to win in this category, for her role in The Ladykillers (2004). Four directing teams have shared the award: Enrico Gras, Giorgio Moser and Leonardo Bonzi for Lost Continent (1955), Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud for Persepolis (2007), Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles for Bacurau (2019), and Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch for The Eight Mountains (2022). Samira Makhmalbaf was the first woman to have won the award, for 2000's Blackboards.
Since 1967, the official name of the award has been simply the Prix du Jury, but it has had two other names since its creation in 1946: the International Jury Prize, which was awarded for that year only,[2] and the Prix spécial du Jury (1951–1967) that was given among other secondary prizes. In 1954, after facing much criticism about the whimsical nature of these awards, the Festival authorities decided to turn to a more traditional prize-giving arrangement.[3] Since then, the Prix spécial du Jury reappeared only twice: Christopher Hampton won that award for Carrington along with the regular Prix du Jury given to Xavier Beauvois for Don't Forget You're Going to Die in 1995; and David Cronenberg won for Crash in 1996, which was the only prize allotted by the International Jury for that year.[4][5]
British film academic Andrew M. Butler regards jury prizes such as Cannes' as a way of helping a film gain a distribution deal.[6]
Winners















1940s
Year | English Title | Original Title | Recipient | Production Country |
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1946 | The Battle of the Rails | La Bataille du rail | René Clément | France |
1950s
Year | English Title | Original Title | Recipient | Production Country |
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1951 | All About Eve | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | United States | |
1952 | We Are All Murderers | Nous sommes tous des assassins | André Cayatte | France |
1954 | Knave of Hearts | Monsieur Ripois | René Clément | |
1955 | Lost Continent | Continente perduto | Enrico Gras, Giorgio Moser & Leonardo Bonzi | Italy |
1956 | The Mystery of Picasso | Le mystère Picasso | Henri-Georges Clouzot | France |
1957 | Kanał | Andrzej Wajda | Poland | |
The Seventh Seal | Det sjunde inseglet | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden | |
1958 | Mon Oncle | Jacques Tati | France | |
1959 | Stars | Sterne | Konrad Wolf | East Germany |
1960s
Year | English Title | Original Title | Recipient | Production Country |
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1960 | L'Avventura | Michelangelo Antonioni | Italy | |
Odd Obsession | 鍵 | Kon Ichikawa | Japan | |
1961 | Mother Joan of the Angels | Matka Joanna od Aniołów | Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Poland |
1962 | L'Eclisse | Michelangelo Antonioni | Italy | |
The Trial of Joan of Arc | Procès de Jeanne d'Arc | Robert Bresson | France | |
1963 | The Cassandra Cat | Až přijde kocour | Vojtěch Jasný | Czechoslovakia |
Harakiri | 切腹 | Masaki Kobayashi | Japan | |
1964 | Woman in the Dunes | 砂の女 | Hiroshi Teshigahara | |
1965 | Kwaidan | 怪談 | Masaki Kobayashi | |
1966 | Alfie | Lewis Gilbert | United Kingdom | |
1969 | Z | Costa-Gavras | France |
1970s
Year | English Title | Original Title | Recipient | Production Country |
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1970 | The Falcons | Magasiskola | István Gaál | Hungary |
The Strawberry Statement | Stuart Hagmann | United States | ||
1971 | Joe Hill | Bo Widerberg | Sweden, United States | |
Love | Szerelem | Károly Makk | Hungary | |
1972 | Slaughterhouse-Five | George Roy Hill | United States | |
1973 | The Hourglass Sanatorium | Sanatorium pod klepsydrą | Wojciech Has | Poland |
The Invitation | L'Invitation | Claude Goretta | Switzerland | |
1974 | La prima Angélica | Carlos Saura | Spain |
1980s
Year | English Title | Original Title | Recipient | Production Country |
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1980 | The Constant Factor | Constans | Krzysztof Zanussi | Poland |
1983 | Kharij | খারিজ | Mrinal Sen | India |
1985 | Colonel Redl | Oberst Redl | István Szabó | Hungary, West Germany |
1986 | Thérèse | Alain Cavalier | France | |
1987 | Shinran: Path to Purity | 親鸞 白い道 | Rentarō Mikuni | Japan |
Yeelen | Souleymane Cissé | Mali | ||
1988 | A Short Film About Killing | Krótki film o zabijaniu | Krzysztof Kieślowski | Poland |
1989 | Jesus of Montreal | Jésus de Montréal | Denys Arcand | Canada |
1990s
Year | English Title | Original Title | Recipient | Production Country |
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1990 | Hidden Agenda | Ken Loach | United Kingdom | |
1991 | Europa | Lars von Trier | Denmark | |
Out of Life | Hors la vie | Maroun Bagdadi | France | |
1992 | Dream of Light | El sol del membrillo | Víctor Erice | Spain |
An Independent Life | Самостоятельная жизнь | Vitali Kanevsky | France, Russia | |
1993 | The Puppetmaster | 戲夢人生 | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Taiwan |
Raining Stones | Ken Loach | United Kingdom | ||
1994 | La Reine Margot | Patrice Chéreau | France | |
1995 | Don't Forget You're Going to Die | N'oublie pas que tu vas mourir | Xavier Beauvois | |
Carrington ‡ | Christopher Hampton | United Kingdom | ||
1996 | Crash ‡ | David Cronenberg | Canada, United Kingdom | |
1997 | Western | Manuel Poirier | France | |
1998 | The Celebration | Festen | Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark |
Class Trip | La classe de neige | Claude Miller | France | |
1999 | The Letter | A Carta | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal, France, Spain |
2000s
Year | English Title | Original Title | Recipient | Production Country |
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2000 | Blackboards | تخته سیاه | Samira Makhmalbaf | Iran, Italy |
Songs from the Second Floor | Sånger från andra våningen | Roy Andersson | Sweden, France | |
2002 | Divine Intervention | يد إلهية | Elia Suleiman | Palestine, Morocco, France, Germany |
2003 | At Five in the Afternoon | پنج عصر | Samira Makhmalbaf | Iran, France |
2004 | The Ladykillers * | Irma P. Hall | United States | |
Tropical Malady | สัตว์ประหลาด | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | France, Thailand | |
2005 | Shanghai Dreams | 青红 | Wang Xiaoshuai | China |
2006 | Red Road | Andrea Arnold | United Kingdom | |
2007 | Persepolis | Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud | France | |
Silent Light | Stellet Licht | Carlos Reygadas | Mexico, France, Netherlands | |
2008 | Il divo | Paolo Sorrentino | Italy, France | |
2009 | Fish Tank | Andrea Arnold | United Kingdom | |
Thirst | 박쥐 | Park Chan-wook | South Korea |
2010s
Year | English Title | Original Title | Recipient | Production Country |
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2010 | A Screaming Man | Un homme qui crie | Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | Chad, France, Belgium |
2011 | Polisse | Maïwenn | France | |
2012 | The Angels' Share | Ken Loach | United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Italy | |
2013 | Like Father, Like Son | そして父になる | Hirokazu Kore-eda | Japan |
2014 | Goodbye to Language | Adieu au Langage | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
Mommy | Xavier Dolan | Canada | ||
2015 | The Lobster | Yorgos Lanthimos | Ireland, United Kingdom, France, Greece, Netherlands | |
2016 | American Honey | Andrea Arnold | United Kingdom, United States | |
2017 | Loveless | Нелюбовь | Andrey Zvyagintsev | Russia, France, Belgium, Germany |
2018 | Capernaum | كفرناحوم | Nadine Labaki | Lebanon |
2019 | Bacurau | Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles | Brazil, France | |
Les Misérables | Ladj Ly | France |
2020s
Year | English Title | Original Title | Recipient | Production Country |
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2021 | Ahed's Knee | הברך | Nadav Lapid | France, Germany, Israel |
Memoria | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Colombia, Thailand, United Kingdom, Mexico, France | ||
2022 | The Eight Mountains | Le otto montagne | Felix van Groeningen & Charlotte Vandermeersch | Italy, Belgium, France |
EO | IO | Jerzy Skolimowski | Poland, Italy | |
2023 | Fallen Leaves | Kuolleet lehdet | Aki Kaurismäki | Finland |
2024 | Emilia Pérez | Jacques Audiard | France |
- Notes
- ‡ Awarded as "Special Jury Prize", a unique award not given annually but only at the request of the official jury.
- * The Jury Prize was specially awarded to Irma P. Hall for acting in The Ladykillers.
Multiple winners
The following individuals received two or more Jury Prize awards:
Number o Wins | Directors | Nationality | Films |
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3 | Ken Loach | United Kingdom | Hidden Agenda (1990), Raining Stones (1993), The Angels' Share (2012) |
Andrea Arnold | Red Road (2006), Fish Tank (2009), American Honey (2016) | ||
2 | René Clément | France | The Battle of the Rails (1946), Knave of Hearts (1954) |
Michelangelo Antonioni | Italy | L'Avventura (1960), L'Eclisse (1962) | |
Masaki Kobayashi | Japan | Harakiri (1963), Kwaidan (1965) | |
Samira Makhmalbaf | Iran | Blackboards (2000), At Five in the Afternoon (2003) | |
Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand | Tropical Malady (2004), Memoria (2021) |
See also
References
- ^ Kehr, Dave (1992). 45 Years: Cannes Festival International du Film. Museum of Modern Art. p. 15. OCLC 646921388.
- ^ "Awards 1946 : All Awards (archived)". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "The History of the Festival / The 50s". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
- ^ "Awards 1995 : All Awards (archived)". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 3 January 2015. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Awards 1996 : All Awards (archived)". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ Butler, Andrew M. (2002). "11. National Cinema". Film Studies. Oldacastle Books. p. 128. ISBN 184243828X.