Cannes Film Festival : Award for Best Director

= Festival de Cannes : Prix de la mise en scène

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| Top | Palme d'Or　Feature Film - Short Film - d'honneur | Director |

• 1st 1946 René Clément "The Battle of the Rails(La Bataille du rail)"
• 2nd 1947 No Award
• 3rd 1949 René Clément "The Walls of Malapaga(Au-delà des grilles)"
• 4th 1951 Luis Buñuel "The Young and the Damned(Los Olvidados)"
• 5th 1952 Christian-Jaque "Fanfan la Tulipe"
• 6th 1953 No Award
• 7th 1954 No Award
• 8th 1955 Jules Dassin "Rififi" / Sergei Vasilyev "Heroes of Shipka(Geroite na Shipka)"
• 9th 1956 Sergei Yutkevich "Othello"
• 10th 1957 Robert Bresson "A Man Escaped"
• 11th 1958 Ingmar Bergman "Brink of Life(Nära livet)"
• 12th 1959 François Truffaut "The 400 Blows(Les Quatre Cents Coups)"
• 13th 1960 No Award
• 14th 1961 Yuliya Solntseva "Chronicle of Flaming Years(Povest plamennykh let)"
• 15th 1962 No Award
• 16th 1963 No Award
• 17th 1964 No Award
• 18th 1965 Liviu Ciulei "Forest of the Hanged(Pădurea spânzuraţilor)"
• 19th 1966 Sergei Yutkevich "Lenin in Poland(Lenin v Polshe)"
• 20th 1967 Ferenc Kósa "Ten Thousand Days(Tízezer Nap)"
• 21st 1968 No Award
• 22nd 1969 Glauber Rocha "Antonio das Mortes(O Dragão da Maldade Contra o Santo Guerreiro)" / Vojtěch Jasný "All My Compatriots(Vsichni Dobrí Rodáci)"
• 23rd 1970 John Boorman "Leo the Last"
• 24th 1971 No Award
• 25th 1972 Miklós Jancsó "Red Psalm(Még kér a nép)"
• 26th 1973 No Award
• 27th 1974 No Award
• 28th 1975 Michel Brault "Les Ordres" / Costa-Gavras "Section spéciale"
• 29th 1976 Ettore Scola "Down and Dirty(Brutti, sporchi e cattivi)"
• 30th 1977 No Award
• 31st 1978 Nagisa Oshima "Empire of Passion(L'Empire de la passion)"
• 32nd 1979 Terrence Malick "Days of Heaven"
• 33rd 1980 No Award
• 34th 1981 No Award
• 35th 1982 Werner Herzog "Fitzcarraldo"
• 36th 1983 Andrei Tarkovsky "Nostalghia" / Robert Bresson "L'Argent"
• 37th 1984 Bertrand Tavernier "A Sunday in the Country(Un dimanche à la campagne)"
• 38th 1985 André Téchiné "Rendez-vous"
• 39th 1986 Martin Scorsese "After Hours"
• 40th 1987 Wim Wenders "Wings of Desire(Der Himmel über Berlin)"
• 41st 1988 Fernando Solanas "Sur"
• 42nd 1989 Emir Kusturica "Time of the Gypsies(Dom za vešanje)"
• 43rd 1990 Pavel Lungin "Taxi Blues(Taksi-Blyuz)"
• 44th 1991 Joel David Coen & Ethan Jesse Coen "Barton Fink"
• 45th 1992 Robert Altman "The Player"
• 46th 1993 Mike Leigh "Naked"
• 47th 1994 Nanni Moretti "Dear Diary(Caro diario)"
• 48th 1995 Mathieu Kassovitz "La Haine"
• 49th 1996 Joel David Coen & Ethan Jesse Coen "Fargo"
• 50th 1997 Kar-wai Wong "Happy Together(Chun gwong cha sit)"
• 51st 1998 John Boorman "The General"
• 52nd 1999 Pedro Almodóvar "All About My Mother(Todo sobre mi madre)"
• 53rd 2000 Edward Yang "Yi Yi"
• 54th 2001 Joel David Coen & Ethan Jesse Coen "The Man Who Wasn't There" / David Lynch "Mulholland Drive"
• 55th 2002 Kwon-taek Im "Painted Fire(Chi-hwa-seon)"
• 56th 2003 Paul Thomas Anderson "Punch-Drunk Love"
• 57th 2004 Tony Gatlif "Exils"
• 58th 2005 Michael Haneke "Caché"
• 59th 2006 Alejandro González Iñárritu "Babel"
• 60th 2007 Julian Schnabel "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"
• 61st 2008 Nuri Bilge Ceylan "Three Monkeys(Üç Maymun)"
• 62nd 2009 Brillante Mendoza "Kinatay"
• 63rd 2010 Mathieu Amalric "On Tour"
• 64th 2011 Nicolas Winding Refn "Drive"
• 65th 2012 Carlos Reygadas "Post Tenebras Lux"
• 66th 2013 Amat Escalante "Heli"
• 67th 2014 Bennett Miller "Foxcatcher"
• 68th 2015 Hsiao-Hsien Hou "The Assassin"
• 69th 2016 Cristian Mungiu "Graduation(Bacalaureat)" / Olivier Assayas "Personal Shopper"