Cannes International Film Festival / Palme d'Or - Best Short Film
With the Golden Palm for the best short film ( Palme d'or du court métrage ), the best short film in the competition is awarded at the annual Cannes Film Festival . The name has existed since 1955, before the Palme d'Or, as from 1964 to 1974, was known as the “Grand Prix of the International Film Festival” ( Grand Prix du Festival International du Film or Grand Prix ). Like the Golden Lion of the Venice Film Festival or the Golden Bear of the Berlinale , the motif was taken from the city arms of Cannes . A specially convened short film jury, which is usually composed of international filmmakers, votes on the award of the prize, which is presented to the winner in the form of a certificate.
Award winners
The works of French directors (13 wins) were most frequently awarded the Golden Palm for the best short film, followed by their colleagues from Hungary (5) and the USA (4 each). The Frenchman Albert Lamorisse was twice successful (1953 and 1956). The only filmmaker to date to have won both the Palme d'Or for the best short film and the best feature film is New Zealander Jane Campion . She triumphed in 1986 with the nine-minute An Exercise in Discipline - Peel and in 1993 with the later Oscar- winning historical drama Das Piano .
Three times in the past, the jury was unable to agree on a winning film. In the past, short film directors from German-language films could not prevail against the competition from foreign filmmakers.
| year | Movie title | Director | Length (in min.) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 * | Het schots is te boord | Herman van der Horst | 19 ' | |
| 1953 * | The white stallion (Crin-Blanc) | Albert Lamorisse | 47 ' | |
| 1954 | Prize not awarded | |||
| 1955 | Blinkity blank | Norman McLaren | 5 ' | |
| 1956 | The red balloon (Le ballon rouge) | Albert Lamorisse | 34 ' | |
| 1957 | Scurtă istorie | Ion Popescu-Gopo | 10 ' | |
| 1958 | La Seine a rencontré Paris | Joris Ivens | 30 ' | |
| La Joconde: Histoire d'une obsession | Henri Gruel | 20 ' | ||
| 1959 | Butterflies don't live here (Motyli tady Neziji) | Miro Bernat | 14 ' | |
| 1960 | Le sourire | Serge Bourguignon | 21 ' | |
| 1961 | La petite cuillère | Carlos Vilardebó | 11 ' | |
| 1962 | La rivière du hibou | Robert Enrico | 28 ' | |
| 1963 | On an alternating slope (A fleur d'eau) | Alexander J. Seiler | 12 ' | |
| Le haricot | Edmond Séchan | 17 ' | ||
| 1964 * | La douceur du village | François Reichenbach | 47 ' | |
| Le prix de la victoire | Nobuko Shibuya | not known | ||
| 1965 * | Nyitany | János Vadász | 9 ' | |
| 1966 * | Skaterdater | Noel Black | 17 ' | |
| 1967 * | Sky Over Holland | John Fernhout | 22 ' | |
| 1968 | Film festival canceled due to the May riots | |||
| 1969 * | Cîntecele Renasterii | Mirel Ilieșiu | not known | |
| 1970 * | The Magic Machines | Bob Curtis | not known | |
| 1971 | Prize not awarded | |||
| 1972 * | Le fusil à lunette | Jean Chapot | not known | |
| 1973 * | Balabok | Břetislav Pojar | 7 ' | |
| 1974 * | Island (Ostrow / Остров) | Fyodor Chitruk | 10 ' | |
| 1975 | Lautrec | Geoff Dunbar | 6 ' | |
| 1976 | Metamorphosis | Barry Greenwald | 11 ' | |
| 1977 | Küzdők | Marcell Jankovics | 3 ' | |
| 1978 | La traversée de l'Atlantique à la rame | Jean-François Laguionie | 24 ' | |
| 1979 | Harpya | Raoul Servais | 9 ' | |
| 1980 | Seaside woman | Oscar Grillo | 5 ' | |
| 1981 | Moto perpetuo | Béla Vajda | 8th' | |
| 1982 | Merlin ou le cours de l'or | Arthur Joffé | 17 ' | |
| 1983 | Je sais que j'ai tort mais demandez à mes copains ils disent la même chose | Pierre Levy | 10 ' | |
| 1984 | Le cheval de fer | Gérald Frydman | not known | |
| 1985 | Jenitba |
Slav Bakalov Rumen Petkov |
not known | |
| 1986 | An Exercise in Discipline - Peel | Jane Campion | 9 ' | |
| 1987 | palisade | Laurie McInnes | not known | |
| 1988 | Wykrutassy / Выкрутасы | Garri Bard | 10 ' | |
| 1989 | 50 ans | Gilles Carle | 3 ' | |
| 1990 | The lunch date | Adam Davidson | 12 ' | |
| 1991 | Z podniesionymi rękami | Mitko Panov | 6 ' | |
| 1992 | omnibus | Sam Karmann | 8th' | |
| 1993 | Coffee and cigarettes | Jim Jarmusch | 12 ' | |
| 1994 | El Heroe | Carlos Carrera | 5 ' | |
| 1995 | Gagarin / Гагарин | Alexei Charitidi | 3 ' | |
| 1996 | Szél | Marcell Iványi | 6 ' | |
| 1997 | ... Is It the Design on the Wrapper? | Tessa Sheridan | 8th' | |
| 1998 | L'Interview | Xavier Giannoli | 25 ' | |
| 1999 | When the day breaks |
Amanda Forbis Wendy Tilby |
10 ' | |
| 2000 | Anino | Raymond Red | 13 ' | |
| 2001 | Bean Cake | David Greenspan | 12 ' | |
| 2002 | Eső után | Péter Mészáros | 4 ' | |
| 2003 | Cracker bag | Glendyn Ivin | 15 ' | |
| 2004 | Trafic | Cătălin Mitulescu | 15 ' | |
| 2005 | Podorozhni | Igor Strembitsky | 10 ' | |
| 2006 | Sniffer | Bobbie Peers | 10 ' | |
| 2007 | Ver Llover | Elisa Miller | 14 ' | |
| 2008 | Megatron | Marian Crişan | 14 ' | |
| 2009 | arena | João Salaviza | 15 ' | |
| 2010 | Chienne d'histoire | Serge Avédikian | 15 ' | |
| 2011 | Cross country | Maryna Vroda | 15 ' | |
| 2012 | Sessiz-Be Deng | L. Rezan Yeşilbaş | 14 ' | |
| 2013 | safe | Moon Byoung-gon | 13 ' | |
| 2014 | Leidi | Simón Mesa Soto | 15 ' | |
| 2015 | Waves '98 | Ely Dagher | 15 ' | |
| 2016 | Timecode | Juanjo Giménez | 15 ' | |
| 2017 | 小城 二月 (Xiao cheng er yue) | Qiu Yang | 15 ' | |
| 2018 | All these creatures | Charles Williams | 13 ' | |
| 2019 | The distance between the sky and us (The Distance between us and the Sky) | Vasilis Kekatos | 9 ' | |
| 2020 | Film festival not held due to the COVID-19 pandemic . | |||
* = From 1946 to 1954 and from 1964 to 1974 the Grand Prix was awarded instead of the Golden Palm