List of Cannes Film Festival records

List of Cannes Film Festival records. This list is as current as of the 77th Cannes Film Festival held in May 2024.

Longest standing ovations
With 22 minutes, Pan's Labyrinth (2006) holds the record for longest standing ovation.

Longest screening runtime

 * The War (2007) – 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.

Directors with multiple Grand Prix wins
Four directors have won the Grand Prix twice.

Directors with multiple Best Director wins
Five directors have won two or more Best Director awards:

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
 * Nanni Moretti – 11 films


 * 9 films:
 * Carlos Saura
 * Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne
 * Lars von Trier


 * 8 films:
 * Ethan & Joel Coen
 * Ettore Scola
 * Jean-Luc Godard
 * Jim Jarmusch
 * Marco Bellocchio
 * Marco Ferreri
 * Robert Altman
 * Wim Wenders


 * 7 films:
 * Arnaud Desplechin
 * David Cronenberg
 * Hirokazu Kore-eda
 * Hou Hsiao-hsien
 * Luis Buñuel
 * Michael Cacoyannis
 * Michael Haneke
 * Miklós Jancsó
 * Nuri Bilge Ceylan
 * Paolo Sorrentino
 * Pietro Germi


 * 6 films:
 * Alain Resnais
 * André Téchiné
 * Andrzej Wajda
 * Ingmar Bergman
 * James Ivory
 * Jacques Audiard
 * Jerzy Skolimowski
 * Jia Zhangke
 * Karoly Makk
 * Michelangelo Antonioni
 * Pedro Almodóvar
 * René Clément
 * Shōhei Imamura
 * Vittorio De Sica


 * 5 films:
 * Abbas Kiarostami
 * Aki Kaurismäki
 * Bo Widerberg
 * Clint Eastwood
 * Emir Kusturica
 * James Gray
 * Mario Monicelli
 * Mauro Bolognini
 * Mike Leigh
 * Olivier Assayas
 * Paul Schrader
 * Shōhei Imamura
 * Theo Angelopoulos


 * 4 films:
 * Amos Gitai
 * Alf Sjöberg
 * André Cayatte
 * Asghar Farhadi
 * Bertrand Tavernier
 * Bruno Dumont
 * Chen Kaige
 * David Lynch
 * Delbert Mann
 * Dino Risi
 * Elia Kazan
 * Federico Fellini
 * Francesco Rosi
 * Francis Ford Coppola
 * François Ozon
 * Glauber Rocha
 * Hong Sang-soo
 * Jacques Becker
 * Jerry Schatzberg
 * John Boorman
 * Joseph Losey
 * Jules Dassin
 * Kirill Serebrennikov
 * Ladislao Vajda
 * Lindsay Anderson
 * Matteo Garrone
 * Martin Scorsese
 * Márton Keleti
 * Maurice Pialat
 * Michel Hazanavicius
 * Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
 * Nagisa Ōshima
 * Park Chan-wook
 * Quentin Tarantino
 * Raúl Ruiz
 * Robert Bresson
 * Roberto Gavaldón
 * Roman Polanski
 * Satyajit Ray
 * Steven Soderbergh
 * Todd Haynes
 * Volker Schlöndorff
 * Werner Herzog
 * Wong Kar-wai
 * Youssef Chahine
 * Andrea Arnold


 * 3 films:
 * Andrei Tarkovsky
 * Apichatpong Weerasethakul
 * Bertrand Blier
 * Claude Lelouch
 * Costa-Gavras
 * David Lean
 * Edward Dmytryk
 * Elio Petri
 * Emilio Fernández
 * Ermanno Olmi
 * Gus Van Sant
 * Henri-Georges Clouzot
 * Jacques Rivette
 * Jane Campion
 * Jean Delannoy
 * Jerry Schatzberg
 * Joseph Losey
 * Leos Carax
 * Louis Malle
 * Luis García Berlanga
 * Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
 * Patrice Chéreau
 * Spike Lee
 * Teinosuke Kinugasa
 * Terrence Malick
 * Vincente Minnelli
 * Walter Salles
 * Wes Anderson
 * William Wyler
 * Xavier Beauvois
 * Xavier Dolan
 * Christophe Honoré
 * Yorgos Lanthimos

Films with multiple wins

 * 3 wins:
 * Barton Fink (1991) – Palme d’Or, Best Director and Best Actor
 * Humanité (1999) – Grand Prix, Best Actor and Best Actress
 * The Piano Teacher (2001) – Grand Prix, Best Actor and Best Actress


 * 2 wins:
 * A World Apart (1988) – Special Jury Prize and Best Actress
 * Emilia Pérez (2024) – Prix du Jury and Best Actress

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.

Actors with multiple Best Actor wins
Three actors have won the Best Actor award twice:

Actresses with multiple Best Actress wins
Four actresses have won the Best Actress award twice:

Actors who have appeared in multiple Palme d'Or winners
Eighteen actors have appeared in multiple Palme d'Or winners.

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

 * Francisco Rabal starred in both Viridiana (Palme d'Or) and The Hand in the Trap (F.I.P.R.E.S.C.I Award) in 1961.
 * Gian Maria Volonté starred in both The Working Class Goes to Heaven and The Mattei Affair, which shared the Palme d'Or (then-named Grand Prix International du Festival) 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 (Palme d'Or), and The Zone of Interest (Grand Prix) in 2023.

Actors who have appeared in most films in main competition
Isabelle Huppert holds the record as the actor 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.

Actors who have appeared in multiple films in main competition in the same year
26 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.

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 2024, 19 Palme d'Or winning films have been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.

Best Picture winners designated with ** two asterisks.

Films that have won both the Palme d'Or and the Best Picture Oscar
As of 2024, 3 films have won both the Palme d'Or and the Best Picture Oscar.

Films that have won both the Palme d'Or and the Best Foreign Language Oscar
As of 2024, 6 films have won both the Palme d'Or and the Best Foreign Language Oscar.

Highest-grossing Palme d'Or winners
Parasite (2019) holds the record for highest-grossing Palme d'Or winner, with a worldwide box-office gross of $262 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 person 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 (from Brazil) for O Pagador de Promessas in 1962.
 * First African and Arab film to win the Palme d'Or
 * Chronicle of the Years of Fire (from Algeria) in 1975.
 * First African and Arab director to win the Palme d'Or
 * Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina (from Algeria) 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 (shared with her co-stars).
 * 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 (from Brazil) 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 (from China) for Clean in 2004.
 * First film to win three awards
 * Barton Fink in 1991 (Palme d'Or, Best Director and Best Actor).
 * First Latin American to win the Best Actress award
 * Norma Aleandro (from Argentina) 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 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.
 * In 2024, at age 40, Greta Gerwig became the youngest jury president since Sophia Loren in 1966.
 * Youngest Palme d'Or winner
 * Louis Malle, age 24 (for The Silent World in 1956).
 * Oldest Palme d'Or winner
 * Ken Loach, age 79 (for I, Daniel Blake in 2016).
 * Youngest Grand Prix winner
 * Xavier Dolan, age 27 (for It's Only the End of the World in 2016).
 * Youngest Jury Prize winner
 * Xavier Dolan, age 25 (for Mommy in 2014).
 * Oldest Jury Prize winner
 * Jean-Luc Godard, age 83 (for Goodbye to Language in 2014).
 * Youngest Best Actress winner
 * Jodhi May, age 12 (for A World Apart in 1988).
 * Oldest Best Actress winner
 * Chus Lampreave, age 75 (for Volver in 2006).
 * Youngest Best Actor winner
 * Yuya Yagira, age 14 (for Nobody Knows in 2004).
 * Oldest Best Actor winner
 * Bruce Dern, age 76 (for Nebraska in 2013).