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Cannes Film Festival Palmes d'Or winners since 1975

A Palme d'Or trophy designed by Swiss Jeweller Chopard

From Mohammed Lakhdar Hamina's "Chronicle of the Years of Fire" to X's "X," these are the films and directors awarded the top prize at Cannes since 1975.

1975: "Chronicle of the Years of Fire" by Mohammed Lakhdar Hamina (Algeria)

1976: "Taxi Driver" - Martin Scorsese (US)

1977: "Padre Padrone" - Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (Italy)

1978: "The Tree of Wooden Clogs" - Ermanno Olmi (Italy)

1979: "Apocalypse Now" - Francis Ford Coppola (US) and "The Tin Drum" - Volker Schloendorff (West Germany)

1980: "Kagemusha" - Akira Kurosawa (Japan) and "All That Jazz" - Bob Fosse (US)

1981: "Man of Iron" - Andrzej Wajda (Poland)

1982: "Missing" - Costa Gavras (US) and "The Way" - Yilmaz Guney (Turkey)

1983: "The Ballad of Narayama" - Shohei Imamura (Japan)

1984: "Paris, Texas" - Wim Wenders (West Germany)

1985: "When Father Was Away on Business" - Emir Kusturica (Yugoslavia)

1986: "The Mission" - Roland Joffe (UK)

1987: "Under the Sun of Satan" - Maurice Pialat (France)

1988: "Pelle the Conqueror" - Bille August (Denmark)

1989: "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" - Steven Soderbergh (US)

1990: "Wild at Heart" - David Lynch (US)

1991: "Barton Fink" - Joel and Ethan Coen (US)

1992: "The Best Intentions" - Bille August (Denmark)

1993 "The Piano" - Jane Campion (New Zealand) and "Farewell My Concubine" - Chen Kaige (China)

1994: "Pulp Fiction" - Quentin Tarentino (US)

1995: "Underground" - Emir Kusturica

1996: "Secrets & Lies" - Mike Leigh (UK)

1997: "The Eel" - Shohei Imamura (Japan) and "Taste of Cherry" - Abbas Kiarostami (Iran)

1998: "Eternity and a Day" - Theo Angelopoulos (Greece)

1999: "Rosetta" - Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne (Belgium)

2000: "Dancer in the Dark" - Lars von Trier (Denmark)

2001: "The Son's Room" - Nanni Moretti (Italy)

2002: "The Pianist" - Roman Polanski (Poland)

2003: "Elephant" - Gus Van Sant (US)

2004: "Fahrenheit 9/11" - Michael Moore (US)

2005: "The Child" - Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (Belgium)

2006: "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" - Ken Loach (UK)

2007: "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" - Cristian Mungiu (Romania)

2008: "The Class" - Laurent Cantet (France)

2009: "The White Ribbon" - Michael Haneke (Austria)

2010: "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" - Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand)

2011: "The Tree of Life" - Terrence Malick (US)

2012: "Amour" - Michael Haneke (Austria)

2013: "Blue Is the Warmest Color" - Abdellatif Kechiche (France)

2014: "Winter Sleep" - Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey)

2015: "Dheepan" - Jacques Audiard (France)