List of Cannes Film Festival records

List of Cannes Film Festival records. This list is as current as of the 78th Cannes Film Festival held in May 2025.

Longest standing ovations

With 22 minutes, Pan's Labyrinth holds the record for longest standing ovation.

Length	Title
22 minutes	Pan's Labyrinth
20 minutes	Fahrenheit 9/11
19 minutes	Sentimental Value
18 minutes	Mud
17 minutes	The Neon Demon
15 minutes	Once Upon a Time in America The Paperboy Two Days, One Night Capernaum Happy as Lazzaro
14 minutes	Belle The Seed of the Sacred Fig
13 minutes	Bowling for Columbine Mommy The Secret Agent
12 minutes	The Artist Elvis Alpha The Little Sister
11 minutes	Inglourious Basterds The Substance The Count of Monte Cristo The Plague Romería
10 minutes	The Beaver Rust and Bone Carol Macbeth Captain Fantastic BlacKkKlansman Arctic Close Nouvelle Vague It Was Just an Accident A Private Life Woman and Child
9 minutes	All Is Lost Ice and the Sky The French Dispatch Killers of the Flower Moon La chimera Emilia Pérez Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 Parthenope The History of Sound Homebound
8 minutes	Clerks II It's Only the End of the World La Belle Époque Matthias & Maxime Tori and Lokita Triangle of Sadness May December The Surfer All We Imagine as Light Case 137
7 minutes	The Tree You Were Never Really Here Once Upon a Time in Hollywood BAC Nord Broker Holy Spider Hunt Jeanne du Barry Kennedy Bird Megalopolis The Apprentice Anora Motel Destino Bono: Stories of Surrender Pillion The Phoenician Scheme Fuori Resurrection
6 minutes	Good Time Bacurau Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Kinds of Kindness Highest 2 Lowest
5 minutes	Moulin Rouge! Inside Llewyn Davis Twin Peaks season 3 Annette Top Gun: Maverick Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny The Idol Eddington
4 minutes	Okja Showing Up Rumours

Longest screening runtime

The War – 870 minutes, split into four Special Screenings from 22 to 23 May 2007.

Longest gap between first time in official selection and first Palme d'Or

42 years – Jean-Luc Godard's first film in official selection was How's it going, screened in the section Perspectives du Cinéma Français in 1976. He won his first and only Palme d'Or for The Image Book in 2018, which also marked the first time in the history of the festival that a director was awarded with a Palme d'Or Spéciale.

Directors with multiple Palme d'Or wins

10 directors or co-directors have won the Palme d'Or twice. Three of these have won for consecutive films.

Wins	Director	Palme d'Or winners
2	Alf Sjöberg	Torment and Miss Julie
2	Francis Ford Coppola	The Conversation and Apocalypse Now
2	Bille August	Pelle the Conqueror and The Best Intentions
2	Emir Kusturica	When Father Was Away on Business and Underground
2	Shohei Imamura	The Ballad of Narayama and The Eel
2	Dardenne brothers	Rosetta and The Child
2	Michael Haneke	The White Ribbon and Amour
2	Ken Loach	The Wind That Shakes The Barley and I, Daniel Blake
2	Ruben Östlund	The Square and Triangle of Sadness
2	-	-	-

Directors with multiple Grand Prix wins

Four directors have won the Grand Prix twice.

Wins	Director	Grand Prix winners
2	Andrei Tarkovsky	Solaris and The Sacrifice
2	Bruno Dumont	Humanité and Flanders
2	Nuri Bilge Ceylan	Uzak and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
2	Matteo Garrone	Gomorrah and Reality

Directors with multiple Best Director wins

Five directors have won two or more Best Director awards:

Wins	Director	Films
3	Joel Coen	Barton Fink, Fargo and The Man Who Wasn't There
2	René Clément	The Battle of the Rails and The Walls of Malapaga
2	Sergei Yutkevich	Othello and Lenin in Poland
2	Robert Bresson	A Man Escaped and L'Argent
2	John Boorman	Leo the Last and The General

Directors with most films in main competition

With fifteen films, Ken Loach holds the record for most films in main competition at Cannes.

Ken Loach – 15 films

; 10 films:

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Films with multiple wins

3 wins:

* Barton Fink – Palme d’Or, Best Director and Best Actor
* Humanité – Grand Prix, Best Actor and Best Actress
* The Piano Teacher – Grand Prix, Best Actor and Best Actress2 wins:
* The Lost Weekend – Palme d'Or and Best Actor
* La symphonie pastorale – Palme d'Or and Best Actress
* María Candelaria – Palme d'Or and Best Cinematography
* La Bataille du rail – Jury Prize and Best Director
* The Walls of Malapaga – Best Director and Best Actress
* All About Eve – Jury Prize and Best Actress
* The Browning Version – Best Screenplay and Best Actor
* The Wages of Fear – Palme d'Or and Special Mention for Charles Vanel
* Come Back, Little Sheba – Award for Dramatic Film and Special Mention for Shirley Booth
* Brink of Life – Best Director and Best Actress
* Long Day's Journey Into Night – Best Actor and Best Actress
* A Taste of Honey – Best Actor and Best Actress
* The Collector – Best Actor and Best Actress
* Z – Jury Prize and Best Actor
* La terrazza – Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress
* A Leap in the Dark – Best Actor and Best Actress
* Missing – Palme d'Or and Best Actor
* The Sacrifice – Grand Prix and Best Artistic Contribution
* A World Apart – Grand Prix and Best Actress
* Sex, Lies, and Videotape – Palme d'Or and Best Actor
* The Best Intentions – Palme d'Or and Best Actress
* The Player – Best Director and Best Actor
* The Piano – Palme d'Or and Best Actress
* Naked – Best Director and Best Actor
* To Live – Grand Prix and Best Actor
* Queen Margot – Jury Prize and Best Actress
* Carrington – Jury Special Prize and Best Actor
* Secrets & Lies – Palme d'Or and Best Actress
* Rosetta – Palme d'Or and Best Actress
* Dancer in the Dark – Palme d'Or and Best Actress
* The Man Without a Past – Grand Prix and Best Actress
* Elephant – Palme d'Or and Best Director
* Uzak – Grand Prix and Best Actor
* The Barbarian Invasions – Best Screenplay and Best Actress
* The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada – Best Screenplay and Best Actor
* Volver – Best Screenplay and Best Actress
* Beyond the Hills – Best Screenplay and Best Actress
* The Salesman – Best Screenplay and Best Actor
* You Were Never Really Here – Best Screenplay and Best Actor
* All We Imagine as Light - Grand Prix and Prix des Cinémas Art et Essai – Special Mention
* Emilia Pérez – Jury Prize and Best Actress
* The Secret Agent – Best Director and Best Actor

Female directors who have won the Palme d'Or

Three female directors have won the Palme d'Or.

Jane Campion for The Piano in 1993.
Julia Ducournau for Titane in 2021.
Justine Triet for Anatomy of a Fall in 2023.

Female directors in main competition in the same year

In 2023, seven female directors had films competing for the Palme d'Or.

Year	Number of Female directors
2023, 2025	7
2022	5
2011, 2019, 2021, 2024	4

Actors with multiple Best Actor wins

Three actors have won the Best Actor award twice:

Wins	Actor	Films
2	Dean Stockwell	Compulsion and Long Day's Journey into Night
2	Jack Lemmon	The China Syndrome and Missing
2	Marcello Mastroianni	The Pizza Triangle and Dark Eyes

Actresses with multiple Best Actress wins

Four actresses have won the Best Actress award twice:

Wins	Actress	Films
2	Vanessa Redgrave	Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment and Isadora
2	Barbara Hershey	Shy People and A World Apart
2	Helen Mirren	Cal and The Madness of King George
2	Isabelle Huppert	Violette Nozière and The Piano Teacher

Actors who have appeared in multiple Palme d'Or winners

Eighteen actors have appeared in multiple Palme d'Or winners. Max von Sydow, Robert Duvall and Harvey Keitel are tied with three films each.

Actor	Number	Palme d'Or winners
	3	Miss Julie, Pelle the Conqueror, The Best Intentions
	3	MASH, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now*
	3	Taxi Driver, The Piano, Pulp Fiction
	2	The Third Man, Othello
	2	La Dolce Vita, A Man and a Woman
	2	Scarecrow, The Conversation
	2	The Conversation, Apocalypse Now
	2	Taxi Driver, The Mission	-
	2	Paris, Texas, Wild at Heart
	2	Barton Fink, Pulp Fiction
	2	When Father Was Away on Business, Underground
	2	When Father Was Away on Business, Underground
	2	The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Dancer in the Dark
	2	Padre Padrone, The Son's Room
	2	Rosetta, L'Enfant
	2	Rosetta, L'Enfant
	2	A Man and a Woman, Amour
	2	The Working Class Goes to Heaven and The Mattei Affair

Actors who have appeared in multiple award-winning films in the same year

Francisco Rabal starred in both Viridiana and The Hand in the Trap in 1961.
Gian Maria Volonté starred in both The Working Class Goes to Heaven and The Mattei Affair, which shared the Palme d'Or in 1972.
Isabelle Adjani won the Best Actress award for both Quartet and Possession in 1981.
Sandra Hüller played a leading role in both Anatomy of a Fall, and The Zone of Interest in 2023.

Actors who have appeared in most films in main competition

Isabelle Huppert holds the record as the actor or actress with the most films in main competition, with a total of 22. Marcello Mastroianni is the male actor with the most films in main competition, with a total of 19.

Actor	Number of films
Isabelle Huppert	22
Marcello Mastroianni	19
Gérard Depardieu	14
Jean-Louis Trintignant	14
Michel Piccoli	13
Catherine Deneuve	12
Mathieu Amalric	12
Francisco Rabal	11
Gian Maria Volonté	11
Mari Törőcsik	11
Tilda Swinton	11
Stefania Sandrelli	10
Annie Girardot	9
Léa Seydoux	9
Louis Garrel	9
Marion Cotillard	9
Ugo Tognazzi	9
Chiara Mastroianni	9
Charlotte Rampling	8
Chloë Sevigny	8
Emmanuelle Devos	8
Geraldine Chaplin	8
Greta Scacchi	8
John Turturro	8
Juliette Binoche	8
Lambert Wilson	8
Sean Penn	8
Vincent Lindon	8
Benicio del Toro	8
Alain Delon	7
Claudia Cardinale	7
Gong Li	7
Harvey Keitel	7
Jeanne Moreau	7
Jérémie Renier	7
Robert Duvall	7
Vanessa Redgrave	7
Willem Dafoe	7
André Dussollier	6
Andréa Ferréol	6
Anouk Aimée	6
Benoît Magimel	6
Isabelle Adjani	6
Jean Bouise	6
Jean-Paul Belmondo	6
Joaquin Phoenix	6
Philippe Noiret	6
Romy Schneider	6
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi	6
Nicole Garcia	6
Vincent Cassel	6
Emmanuelle Béart	5
Gaspard Ulliel	5
Max von Sydow	5
Nicole Kidman	5
Sophia Loren	5
Julianne Moore	4
Kristen Stewart	4
Stellan Skarsgård	4
Sissy Spacek	4

Actors who have appeared in multiple films in main competition in the same year

27 actors have appeared in multiple films in main competition in the same year. Annie Girardot, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Isabelle Huppert and Léa Seydoux tie for the record for the most films in competition with three films each; Girardot and Trintignant in 1969, Huppert in 1980 and Seydoux in 2021. Huppert also had two films in main competition in 2012 and 2015.

Number	Actor	Year	Films in Official Competition
3	Annie Girardot	1969	It Rains in My Village, Metti, una sera a cena, and Dillinger is Dead
3	Jean-Louis Trintignant	1969	My Night at Maud's, Metti, una sera a cena, and Z
3	Isabelle Huppert	1980	The Heiresses, Loulou, and Every Man for Himself
3	Léa Seydoux	2021	France, The Story of My Wife and The French Dispatch
2	Ingrid Bergman	1946	Gaslight and Notorious
2	Francisco Rabal	1961	The Hand in the Trap and Viridiana
2	Jean-Paul Belmondo	1961	Two Women and The Lovemakers
2	Jean-Paul Belmondo	1962	The Female: Seventy Times Seven and L'Eclisse
2	Jeanne Moreau	1966	Chimes at Midnight and Mademoiselle
2	Marcello Mastroianni	1970	Leo the Last and The Pizza Triangle
2	Gian Maria Volonté	1972	The Working Class Goes to Heaven and The Mattei Affair
2	Gérard Depardieu	1980	Loulou and My American Uncle
2	Isabelle Adjani	1981	Quartet and Possession
2	Nicole Garcia	1981	Les Uns et les Autres and Beau Pere
2	Jeanne Moreau	1991	Anna Karamazoff and The Suspended Step of the Stork
2	Catherine Deneuve	1999	Time Regained and Pola X
2	Chloë Sevigny	2003	Dogville and The Brown Bunny	-
2	Yoo Ji-tae	2004	Woman Is the Future of Man and Old Boy
2	Chloë Sevigny	2005	Broken Flowers and Manderlay	-
2	Isabelle Huppert	2012	Amour and In Another Country
2	Isabelle Huppert	2015	Louder Than Bombs and Valley of Love
2	Matthew McConaughey	2012	Mud and The Paperboy
2	Rachel Weisz	2015	Youth and The Lobster
2	Vincent Cassel	2015	Mon Roi and Tale of Tales
2	Marion Cotillard	2016	From the Land of the Moon and It's Only the End of the World
2	Nicole Kidman	2017	The Beguiled and The Killing of a Sacred Deer
2	Colin Farrell	2017	The Beguiled and The Killing of a Sacred Deer
2	Tilda Swinton	2021	Memoria and The French Dispatch
2	Anders Danielsen Lie	2021	Bergman Island and The Worst Person in The World
2	Sandra Hüller	2023	Anatomy of a Fall and The Zone of Interest
2	Margaret Qualley	2024	The Substance and Kinds of Kindness
2	Josh O'Connor	2025	The History of Sound and The Mastermind

Films that have won both the Palme d'Or and the Palm Dog Award

Anatomy of a Fall won the Palme d'Or and the Palm Dog in 2023.

Palme d'Or winning films nominated for the Best Picture Oscar

As of 2025, 20 Palme d'Or winning films have been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.
Best Picture winners designated with ** two asterisks.

Film

The Lost Weekend **

Marty **

Friendly Persuasion

M*A*S*H

The Conversation

Taxi Driver

Apocalypse Now

All That Jazz

Missing

The Mission

The Piano

Pulp Fiction

Secrets & Lies

The Pianist

The Tree of Life

Amour

Parasite **

Triangle of Sadness

Anatomy of a Fall

Anora **

Films that have won both the Palme d'Or and the Best Picture Oscar

As of 2025, 4 films have won both the Palme d'Or and the Best Picture Oscar.

Film
The Lost Weekend
Marty
Parasite
Anora

Films that have won both the Palme d'Or and the Best Foreign Language Oscar

As of 2025, 6 films have won both the Palme d'Or and the Best Foreign Language Oscar.

Film
Black Orpheus
A Man and a Woman
The Tin Drum
Pelle the Conqueror
Amour
Parasite

Highest-grossing Palme d'Or winners

Parasite holds the record for highest-grossing Palme d'Or winner, with a worldwide box-office gross of $262 million.

Rank	Film	Worldwide box-office gross
1	Parasite	$262 million
2	Fahrenheit 9/11	$222.4 million
3	Pulp Fiction	$213.9 million
4	The Piano	$140 million
5	The Pianist	$120.1 million
6	Apocalypse Now	$104 million
7	MASH*	$81.6 million
8	Shoplifters	$72.6 million
9	The Tree of Life	$61.7 million
10	Anora	$59.6 million
11	Secrets & Lies	$50 million
12	Dancer in the Dark	$45.6 million
13	All That Jazz	$37.8 million
14	Amour	$36.8 million
15	Sex, Lies, and Videotape	$36.7 million
16	Anatomy of a Fall	$36 million
17	Triangle of Sadness	$32.9 million
18	The Class	$29.3 million
19	Taxi Driver	$28.5 million
20	The Wind That Shakes the Barley	$25.7 million
21	Blowup	$20 million
22	La dolce vita	$19.6 million
23	The White Ribbon	$19.3 million
24	The Mission	$17.5 million
25	I, Daniel Blake	$15.6 million

Most consecutive years in official selection

9 years – Marcello Mastroianni holds the record for most consecutive years in official selection. From 1977 to 1985, Mastroianni had at least one film in official selection.
8 years – Marion Cotillard. From 2011 to 2018.
7 years – Isabelle Huppert. From 1977 to 1983.

Cannes Film Festival firsts

First woman and first actress to serve as jury president

* Olivia de Havilland in 1965.First and only woman to serve as jury president twice
* Jeanne Moreau served as jury president in 1975 and 1995.First and only actress to win the Best Actress award for two different films in the same year
* Isabelle Adjani won the Best Actress award for both Quartet and Possession in 1981.First South American director to win the Palme d'Or
* Anselmo Duarte for O Pagador de Promessas in 1962.First African and Arab film to win the Palme d'Or
* Chronicle of the Years of Fire in 1975.First African and Arab director to win the Palme d'Or
* Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina for Chronicle of the Years of Fire in 1975.First Black actor to win the Best Actor award
* John Kitzmiller for Valley of Peace in 1957.First Black actress and first South African to win the Best Actress award
* Linda Mvusi shared the Best Actress Award with her co-stars from A World Apart in 1988.First and only actress to win the Best Actress award two years in a row
* Barbara Hershey won the Best Actress Award for Shy People in 1987 and for A World Apart in 1988.First female director to win the Palme d'Or
* Jane Campion for The Piano in 1993.First female director to win the Best Director award
* Yuliya Solntseva for Chronicle of Flaming Years in 1961.First Latin American to win the Best Director award
* Glauber Rocha for Antonio das Mortes in 1969.First documentary to win the Palme d'Or
* The Silent World in 1956.First Asian actress to win the Best Actress award
* Maggie Cheung for Clean in 2004.First film to win three awards
* Barton Fink in 1991.First Latin American to win the Best Actress award
* Norma Aleandro for The Official Story in 1985.First Brazilian to win the Best Actress award
* Fernanda Torres for Love Me Forever or Never in 1986.First Korean film to win an award
* Painted Fire won the award for Best Director for Im Kwon-taek in 2002.First actors to win the Palme d'Or
* In 2013, the Palme d'Or for the film Blue Is the Warmest Colour was shared between its director Abdellatif Kechiche and the film's two leading actresses, Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos. The first and only time the Palme d'Or was shared with the cast.First female director to serve as jury president
* Jane Campion in 2014.First Korean film to win the Palme d'or
* Parasite in 2019.First black female director to compete for the Palme d'Or
* Mati Diop for Atlantics in 2019.First black female director to win the Grand Prix
* Mati Diop for Atlantics in 2019.First Black person to serve as jury president
* Spike Lee in 2021.First Pakistani film to be screened in official selection
* Joyland screened in the Un Certain Regard section in 2022.First Iranian actress to win the Best Actress award
* Zar Amir Ebrahimi for Holy Spider in 2022.First company to win an honorary Palme d'Or
* Studio Ghibli in 2024.First American female director to serve as jury president
* Greta Gerwig in 2024.First trans actor to win an acting prize
* Karla Sofía Gascón shared the Best Actress award with her co-stars from Emilia Pérez in 2024.

Age-related records

Youngest Jury President

* Sophia Loren, age 31, in 1966.Oldest Jury President
* René Clair, age 75, in 1974.Youngest Palme d'Or winner
* Louis Malle, age 24.Oldest Palme d'Or winner
* Ken Loach, age 79.Youngest Grand Prix winner
* Xavier Dolan, age 27.Youngest Jury Prize winner
* Xavier Dolan, age 25.Oldest Jury Prize winner
* Jean-Luc Godard, age 83.Youngest Best Actress winner
* Jodhi May, age 12.Oldest Best Actress winner
* Chus Lampreave, age 75.Youngest Best Actor winner
* Yuya Yagira, age 14.Oldest Best Actor winner
* Bruce Dern, age 76.