Jury Prize (Cannes Film Festival)

The Jury Prize (French: Prix du Jury) is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival, chosen by the Jury from the "official section" of movies at the festival.^[1] According to film critic Dave Kehr, the award is "intended to recognize an original work that embodies the spirit of inquiry."^[2]

History[]

In 1946, a prize named International Jury Prize was awarded for that year only.^[3] Starting from 1951, the Special Jury Prize (Prix spécial du Jury) was awarded 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.^[4] In 1967, with the creation of the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury, the second in importance prize after the Palme d'Or, the Special Jury Prize gave its place to the Jury Prize and has been awarded under this name since. Six times in the 1970s, three in the 1980s and in 2001, no Jury Prize was awarded. The Special Jury Prize reappeared only twice, once in 1995, given along with the Jury Prize, and once in 1996, as the only prize of the Jury.^[5]^[6]

UK directors Andrea Arnold and Ken Loach are tied for the record for most Jury Prizes. As of 2016 Arnold was awarded the prize for her films Red Road, Fish Tank, and American Honey, while Loach was awarded the prize for his films Hidden Agenda, Raining Stones, and The Angels' Share. Michelangelo Antonioni, René Clément, Masaki Kobayashi, Samira Makhmalbaf and Apichatpong Weerasethakul have each won the award twice.

Film academic Andrew M. Butler regards jury prizes such as Cannes' as a way of helping a film gain a distribution deal.^[7]

Winners[]

Year	Film	Original title	Director(s)	Country of origin
1940s
Awarded as "International Jury Prize"
1946	The Battle of the Rails	La Bataille du rail	René Clément	France
1947	No award given that year
1948	Festival not held, no awards given that year
1949	No award given that year
1950s
Awarded as "Special Jury Prize"
1950	Festival not held, no awards given that year
1951	All About Eve		Joseph L. Mankiewicz	United States
1952	We Are All Murderers	Nous sommes tous des assassins	André Cayatte	France
1953	No award given that year
1954	Knave of Hearts	Monsieur Ripois	André Cayatte	United Kingdom
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
1957	The Seventh Seal ^#	Det sjunde inseglet	Ingmar Bergman	Sweden
1958	Mon Oncle		Jacques Tati	France
1959	Stars	Sterne	Konrad Wolf	Bulgaria
1960s
Awarded as "Jury Prize"
1960	L'Avventura ^#		Michelangelo Antonioni	Italy
1960	Odd Obsession ^#	鍵	Kon Ichikawa	Japan
Awarded as "Special Jury Prize"
1961	Mother Joan of the Angels	Matka Joanna od Aniołów	Jerzy Kawalerowicz	Poland
1962	L'Eclisse ^#		Michelangelo Antonioni	Italy
1962	The Trial of Joan of Arc ^#	Procès de Jeanne d'Arc	Robert Bresson	France
1963	The Cassandra Cat ^#	Až přijde kocour	Vojtěch Jasný	Czechoslovakia
1963	Harakiri ^#	切腹	Masaki Kobayashi	Japan
1964	Woman in the Dunes	砂の女	Hiroshi Teshigahara	Japan
1965	Kwaidan	怪談	Masaki Kobayashi	Japan
1966	Alfie		Lewis Gilbert	United Kingdom
1967	No award given that year
1968	Festival interrupted, no awards given that year because of the May 1968 events in France
1969	Z		Costa-Gavras	France
1970s
1970	The Falcons ^#	Magasiskola	István Gaál	Hungary
1970	The Strawberry Statement ^#		Stuart Hagmann	United States
1971	Joe Hill ^#		Bo Widerberg	Sweden, United States
1971	Love ^#	Szerelem	Károly Makk	Hungary
1972	Slaughterhouse-Five		George Roy Hill	United States
1973	The Hourglass Sanatorium ^#	Sanatorium pod klepsydrą	Wojciech Has	Poland
1973	The Invitation ^#	L'Invitation	Claude Goretta	Switzerland
1974	No award given that year
1975	No award given that year
1976	No award given that year
1977	No award given that year
1978	No award given that year
1979	No award given that year
1980s
1980	The Constant Factor	Constans	Krzysztof Zanussi	Poland
1981	No award given that year
1982	No award given that year
1983	Kharij		Mrinal Sen	India
1984	No award given that year
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
1987	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
1990	Hidden Agenda		Ken Loach	United Kingdom
1991	Europa ^#		Lars von Trier	Denmark
1991	Out of Life ^#	Hors la vie	Maroun Bagdadi	France
1992	Dream of Light ^#	El sol del membrillo	Víctor Erice	Spain
1992	An Independent Life ^#	Самостоятельная жизнь	Vitali Kanevsky	France, Russia
1993	The Puppetmaster ^#	戲夢人生	Hou Hsiao-hsien	Taiwan
1993	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	France
1995	Carrington ^‡		Christopher Hampton	United Kingdom
1996	Crash ^‡		David Cronenberg	Canada, United Kingdom
1997	Western		Manuel Poirier	France
1998	Class Trip ^#	La classe de neige	Claude Miller	France
1998	Festen ^#		Thomas Vinterberg	Denmark
1999	The Letter	A Carta	Manoel de Oliveira	Portugal, France, Spain
2000s
2000	Blackboards ^#	تخته سیاه‎	Samira Makhmalbaf	Iran, Italy
2000	Songs from the Second Floor ^#	Sånger från andra våningen	Roy Andersson	Sweden, France
2001	No award given that year
2002	Divine Intervention	يد إلهية	Elia Suleiman	France, Morocco, Germany
2003	At Five in the Afternoon	پنج عصر‎	Samira Makhmalbaf	Iran, France
2004	The Ladykillers ^# ^*		Joel & Ethan Coen	United States
2004	Tropical Malady ^#	Sud pralad	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
2007	Silent Light ^#	Stellet Licht	Carlos Reygadas	Mexico, France, Netherlands
2008	Il divo		Paolo Sorrentino	Italy, France
2009	Fish Tank ^#		Andrea Arnold	United Kingdom
2009	Thirst ^#	박쥐	Park Chan-wook	South Korea
2010s
2010	A Screaming Man	Un homme qui crie	Mahamat-Saleh Haroun	France, Belgium, Chad
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
2014	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
2019	Les Misérables ^#		Ladj Ly	France
2020s
2020	Festival not held, no awards given that year due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021	Ahed's Knee ^#	הַבֶּרֶךְ	Nadav Lapid	France, Germany, Israel
2021	Memoria ^#		Apichatpong Weerasethakul	Colombia, Thailand, United Kingdom, Mexico, France

Notes: ^# Denotes Ex-aequo win; ^‡ Awarded as "Special Jury Prize", a unique award not given annually but only at the request of the official jury.; ^* Jury Prize for Acting awarded an actress Irma P. Hall.

References[]

^ "Cannes Film Festival". IMDb. IMDb.com, Inc. 1990–2017. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
^ 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.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.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.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^ Butler, Andrew M. (2002). "11. National Cinema". Film Studies. Oldacastle Books. p. 128. ISBN 184243828X.

External links[]

Cannes Film Festival official website
Cannes Film Festival at the Internet Movie Database

[1] "Cannes Film Festival". IMDb. IMDb.com, Inc. 1990–2017. Retrieved 1 June 2014.

[2] Kehr, Dave (1992). 45 Years: Cannes Festival International du Film. Museum of Modern Art. p. 15. OCLC 646921388.

[3] "Awards 1946 : All Awards (archived)". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 28 May 2017.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

[4] "The History of the Festival / The 50s". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 14 July 2017.

[5] "Awards 1995 : All Awards (archived)". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 3 January 2015. Retrieved 28 May 2017.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

[6] "Awards 1996 : All Awards (archived)". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 28 May 2017.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

[7] Butler, Andrew M. (2002). "11. National Cinema". Film Studies. Oldacastle Books. p. 128. ISBN 184243828X.

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Awards	Palme d'Or Short Film Palme d'Or Caméra d'Or Grand Prix Jury Prize Best Director Best Actor Best Actress Best Screenplay Un Certain Regard Cinéfondation
Awards given by independent entities	Prix de la FIPRESCI François Chalais Prize Trophée Chopard Vulcan Award L'Œil d'or France 4 Visionary Award Prize of the Ecumenical Jury Palm Dog Award Queer Palm Cannes Soundtrack Award Pierre Angénieux Excellens in Cinematography
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Directors' Fortnight International Critics' Week Marché du Film List of jury presidents List of jury members

show v t Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize
1946–1973	The Battle of the Rails (1946) All About Eve (1951) We Are All Murderers (1952) Knave of Hearts (1954) Lost Continent (1955) The Mystery of Picasso (1956) Kanał / The Seventh Seal (1957) Mon Oncle (1958) Stars (1959) L'Avventura / Odd Obsession (1960) Mother Joan of the Angels (1961) The Trial of Joan of Arc / L'Eclisse (1962) Harakiri / The Cassandra Cat (1963) Woman in the Dunes (1964) Kwaidan (1965) Alfie (1966) Z (1969) The Falcons / The Strawberry Statement (1970) Love / Joe Hill (1971) Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) The Hourglass Sanatorium / The Invitation (1973)
1980–2000	The Constant Factor (1980) Kharij (1983) Colonel Redl (1985) Thérèse (1986) Yeelen / Shinran: Path to Purity (1987) A Short Film About Killing (1988) Jesus of Montreal (1989) Hidden Agenda (1990) Europa / Out of Life (1991) Dream of Light / An Independent Life (1992) The Puppetmaster / Raining Stones (1993) La Reine Margot (1994) Don't Forget You're Going to Die / Carrington (1995) Crash (1996) Western (1997) Class Trip / Festen (1998) The Letter (1999) Blackboards / Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
2002–present	Divine Intervention (2002) At Five in the Afternoon (2003) Tropical Malady (2004) Shanghai Dreams (2005) Red Road (2006) Persepolis / Silent Light (2007) Il Divo (2008) Thirst / Fish Tank (2009) A Screaming Man (2010) Polisse (2011) The Angels' Share (2012) Like Father, Like Son (2013) Mommy / Goodbye to Language (2014) The Lobster (2015) American Honey (2016) Loveless (2017) Capernaum (2018) Bacurau / Les Misérables (2019) Ahed's Knee / Memoria (2021)

Jury Prize (Cannes Film Festival)

Contents

History[]

Winners[]

See also[]

References[]

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