And yet that doesn’t mean it’s impervious to criticism or that it’s even held up in the 15 years since it first arrived on the Croisette. The accolades for Michael Moore’s 2004 documentary are extensive: a reportedly 20-minute long standing ovation at Cannes, the highest box office take ever for a doc, Moore’s first (and, so far, only) Palme d’Or win. Ever since 1955, the Cannes Film Festival has assembled a discerning jury of A-listers to bestow this honor on an exclusive Competition section featuring some of the greatest auteurs the medium has known. ![]() But for countless filmmakers and cinephiles around the world, the Palme d’Or comes out ahead. Of course, annual awards hype tends to drive the perception that the Oscar is the highest award in the film community. “Parasite” and “Titane” are two of the most critically acclaimed Palme winners in some time. (Other times the festival was canceled was in 1948 and ’50, due to budgetary problems, and of course during World War II.) And though a selection was announced and laurel leaves allowed to be used in the marketing for those films, no Palme d’Or was awarded. ![]() The planned 2020 edition of the festival was one of the countless events postponed due to the pandemic. Who would have known when we made the below list of every Palme d’Or winner ranked that the next three years would see only two additions to the list? For the first time since 1968, when the festival, in solidarity with the May 68 movement, was last canceled, Cannes didn’t happen.
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