As you may have seen on Twitter yesterday, I started posting the results of the Rewriting Cannes Film Festival History poll we ran. A huge thank you to those of you that participated in what was a monstrously extensive poll – covering all 72 Cannes competitions thus far.
The votes were tallied and produced some fascinating results. A select few films that originally won the Palme d’Or, were victorious again – like The Third Man, The Wages of Fear and Taxi Driver. Martin Scorsese actually scooped two Golden Palms according to your votes. As did Wim Wenders. Then there was Krzysztof Kieslowski and Michael Haneke who won three top prizes for their films.
Meanwhile, we rewrote Cannes history by awarding some refreshing choices for the Palme d’Or. These included Rififi, Pather Panchali, Walkabout, The Hour-Glass Sanatorium, Thérèse and Cyrano de Bergerac.
Multiple filmmakers also notched up double wins in the Best Director category – among them, Robert Bresson, Miklós Jancsó, David Lynch and a certain Lynne Ramsay. The biggest Best Director victor was Hou Hsiao-Hsien, who won 3 times but without a single Palme d’Or.
The likes of Jacques Tati, Éric Rohmer, Denys Arcand and Greek duo Yorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou, nabbed two wins for Best Screenplay. But it was the illustrious Joel and Ethan Coen that were voted to win the most Screenplay prizes with three.
Over to the Best Actor winners briefly. The late, great Max von Sydow joins French legend Jean-Louis Trintignant in winning no fewer than three prizes. In the Best Actress category, a bunch of leading ladies won the award twice – these included Bette Davis and Deborah Kerr. A sackful of French actresses also matched the double prize wins – Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Adjani, Juliette Binoche and Marion Cotillard, to name just four.
That’s enough for the statistical spoilers. Check out the entire winners list by scrolling through the aforementioned Twitter thread detailing the winners in all categories across 72 Cannes Film Festival events.
Remember when I said we could rewrite #CannesFilmFestival history?
— Robin Write 🏳️🌈 (@Filmotomy) May 31, 2020
And loads of you voted in that poll covering 72 years of the event?
Well, the results are in. Took me way too long. All category winners for all years revealed later today.#Cannes #FilmTwitter #film #movies pic.twitter.com/1HrARlgoPk