List of Cannes Film Festival records. This list is as current as of the 79th Cannes Film Festival held in May 2026.
Longest standing ovations With 22 minutes, Pan's Labyrinth (2006) holds the record for longest standing ovation. Length Title 22 minutes Pan's Labyrinth (2006) 20 minutes Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) La bola negra (2026) 19 minutes Sentimental Value (2025) 18 minutes Mud (2012) 17 minutes The Neon Demon (2016) 15 minutesOnce Upon a Time in America (1984) The Paperboy (2012) Two Days, One Night (2014) Capernaum (2018) Happy as Lazzaro (2018) 14 minutes Belle (2021) The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024) 13 minutes Bowling for Columbine (2002) Mommy (2014) The Secret Agent (2025) 12 minutesThe Artist (2011) Elvis (2022) Alpha (2025) The Little Sister (2025) Her Private Hell (2026) Fjord (2026) 11 minutesInglourious Basterds (2009) The Substance (2024) The Count of Monte Cristo (2024)
The Apprentice (2024) The Plague (2025) Romería (2025) A Man of His Time (2026) 10 minutesThe Beaver (2011) Rust and Bone (2012) Carol (2015) Macbeth (2015) Captain Fantastic (2016) BlacKkKlansman (2018) Arctic (2018) Close (2022) Nouvelle Vague (2025) It Was Just an Accident (2025) A Private Life (2025) Woman and Child (2025)
9 minutes All Is Lost (2013) Ice and the Sky (2015) The French Dispatch (2021) Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) La chimera (2023) Emilia Pérez (2024) Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 (2024) Parthenope (2024) The History of Sound (2025) Homebound (2025) Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) 8 minutesClerks II (2006) It's Only the End of the World (2016) La Belle Époque (2019) Matthias & Maxime (2019) Tori and Lokita (2022) Triangle of Sadness (2022) May December (2023) The Surfer (2024) All We Imagine as Light (2024) Case 137 (2025) 7 minutesThe Tree (2010) You Were Never Really Here (2017) Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) BAC Nord (2021) Broker (2022) Holy Spider (2022) Hunt (2022) Jeanne du Barry (2023) Kennedy (2023) Bird (2024) Megalopolis (2024) The Apprentice (2024) Anora (2024) Motel Destino (2024) Bono: Stories of Surrender (2025) Pillion (2025) The Phoenician Scheme (2025) Fuori (2025) Resurrection (2025) Club Kid (2026) All of a Sudden (2026) Tangles (2026) Roma Elastica (2026) 6 minutesGood Time (2017) Bacurau (2019) Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) Kinds of Kindness (2024) Highest 2 Lowest (2025) Karma (2026) 5 minutesMoulin Rouge! (2001) Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) Twin Peaks season 3 (2017) Annette (2021) Top Gun: Maverick (2022) Anatomy of a Fall (2023) Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) The Idol (2023) Eddington (2025) 4 minutesOkja (2017) Showing Up (2022) Rumours (2024)
Longest screening runtime The War (2007) – 870 minutes, split into four Special Screenings from 22 to 23 May 2007.
Longest gap between first time in Official Selection and first Palme d'Or 42 years – Jean-Luc Godard's first film in Official Selection was How's it going, screened in the section in 1976. He won his first and only Palme d'Or for The Image Book in 2018, which also marked the first time in the history of the festival that a director was awarded with a .
Directing records Directors with multiple Palme d'Or wins 11 directors or co-directors have won the Palme d'Or twice. Three of these (‡) have won for consecutive films. Wins Director(s) Palme d'Or winners 2 Alf Sjöberg Torment (1946) and Miss Julie (1951) Francis Ford Coppola The Conversation (1974) and Apocalypse Now (1979) Bille August Pelle the Conqueror (1988) and The Best Intentions (1992) Emir Kusturica When Father Was Away on Business (1985) and Underground (1995) Shohei Imamura The Ballad of Narayama (1983) and The Eel (1997) Dardenne brothers Rosetta (1999) and The Child (2005) Michael Haneke The White Ribbon (2009) and Amour (2012) Ken Loach The Wind That Shakes The Barley (2006) and I, Daniel Blake (2016) Ruben Östlund The Square (2017) and Triangle of Sadness (2022) Cristian Mungiu4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) and Fjord (2026)
Directors with multiple Grand Prix wins Four directors have won the Grand Prix twice. Wins Director Grand Prix winners 2 Andrei Tarkovsky Solaris (1972) and The Sacrifice (1986) Bruno Dumont Humanité (1999) and Flanders (2006) Nuri Bilge Ceylan Uzak (2003) and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) Matteo Garrone Gomorrah (2008) and Reality (2012)
Directors with multiple Best Director wins Five directors have won two or more Best Director awards: Wins Director Films 3 Joel Coen Barton Fink (1991), Fargo (1996) and The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) 2 René Clément The Battle of the Rails (1946) and The Walls of Malapaga (1949) Sergei Yutkevich Othello (1956) and Lenin in Poland (1966) Robert Bresson A Man Escaped (1957) and L'Argent (1983) John Boorman Leo the Last (1970) and The General (1998) Paweł PawlikowskiCold War (2018) and Fatherland (2026)
Directors with most films in main competition With fifteen films, Ken Loach holds the record for most films in main competition at Cannes.
15 films: Ken Loach
10 films: Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne Wim Wenders
9 films: Carlos Saura Lars von Trier Nanni Moretti
8 films: Ethan & Joel Coen Ettore Scola Hirokazu Kore-eda Jean-Luc Godard Jim Jarmusch Marco Bellocchio Marco Ferreri Robert Altman
7 films: Arnaud Desplechin David Cronenberg Hou Hsiao-hsien Luis Buñuel Michael Cacoyannis Michael Haneke Miklós Jancsó Nuri Bilge Ceylan Paolo Sorrentino Pedro Almodóvar Pietro Germi
6 films: Alain Resnais André Téchiné Andrzej Wajda Atom Egoyan Jacques Audiard James Gray James Ivory Jerzy Skolimowski Jia Zhangke Károly Makk Michelangelo Antonioni René Clément Vittorio De Sica
5 films: Abbas Kiarostami Aki Kaurismäki Alan Parker Alexander Sokurov Alf Sjöberg Asghar Farhadi Bo Widerberg Chen Kaige Clint Eastwood Cristian Mungiu Emir Kusturica Ingmar Bergman Manoel de Oliveira Mario Monicelli Mauro Bolognini Mike Leigh Naomi Kawase Olivier Assayas Shōhei Imamura Theo Angelopoulos
4 films: Alberto Lattuada Aleksandar Petrović Amos Gitai André Cayatte Andrea Arnold Andrei Konchalovsky Andrey Zvyagintsev Arne Skouen Bertrand Blier Bertrand Tavernier Bruce Beresford Bruno Dumont David Lynch Delbert Mann Dino Risi Elia Kazan Francesco Rosi Francis Ford Coppola François Ozon Gus Van Sant Hal Ashby Hong Sang-soo István Szabó Jacques Becker Jerry Schatzberg John Boorman Joseph Losey Jules Dassin Kirill Serebrennikov Ladislao Vajda Leopoldo Torre Nilsson Lindsay Anderson Louis Malle Luis García Berlanga Martin Scorsese Márton Keleti Matteo Garrone Maurice Pialat Michel Hazanavicius Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina Nagisa Ōshima Park Chan-wook Peter Greenaway Quentin Tarantino Raúl Ruiz Robert Bresson Roberto Gavaldón Satyajit Ray Sergei Loznitsa Sergei Yutkevich Sidney Lumet Steven Soderbergh Todd Haynes Vojtěch Jasný Volker Schlöndorff Werner Herzog Wes Anderson Wong Kar-wai Youssef Chahine
Female directors who have won the Palme d'Or Three female directors have won the Palme d'Or. Jane Campion for The Piano in 1993. Julia Ducournau for Titane in 2021. Justine Triet for Anatomy of a Fall in 2023.
Female directors in main competition in the same year In 2023, seven female directors had films competing for the Palme d'Or, a record that was matched in 2025. The 2012 festival was the last edition to feature no female directors in the Official Competition, while the 2013 festival was the last to feature only one woman competing for the Palme d'Or. Year Number of Female directors 2023, 2025 7 2022, 2026 5 2011, 2019, 2021, 2024 4 1974, 1981, 1989, 1993, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2016, 2017, 2018 3 1946, 1954, 1962, 1979, 1984, 1988, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2008, 2014, 2015 2
Acting records Actors with multiple Best Actor wins Three actors have won the Best Actor award twice: Wins Actor Films 2 Dean Stockwell Compulsion (1959) and Long Day's Journey into Night (1962) Jack Lemmon The China Syndrome (1979) and Missing (1982) Marcello Mastroianni The Pizza Triangle (1970) and Dark Eyes (1987)
Actresses with multiple Best Actress wins Four actresses have won the Best Actress award twice: Wins Actress Films 2 Vanessa Redgrave Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966) and Isadora (1969) Barbara Hershey Shy People (1987) and A World Apart (1988) Helen Mirren Cal (1984) and The Madness of King George (1995) Isabelle Huppert Violette Nozière (1978) and The Piano Teacher (2001)
Actors who have appeared in multiple Palme d'Or winners Eighteen actors have appeared in multiple Palme d'Or winners. Max von Sydow, Robert Duvall and Harvey Keitel are tied with three films each. Actor Number Palme d'Or winners 3Miss Julie (1951), Pelle the Conqueror (1987), The Best Intentions (1992) M*A*S*H (1970), The Conversation (1974), Apocalypse Now (1979) Taxi Driver (1976), The Piano (1993), Pulp Fiction (1994) 2The Third Man (1949), Othello (1951)La Dolce Vita (1960), A Man and a Woman (1966) Scarecrow (1973), The Conversation (1974) The Conversation (1974), Apocalypse Now (1979)Taxi Driver (1976), The Mission (1986)Paris, Texas (1984), Wild at Heart (1990)Barton Fink (1991), Pulp Fiction (1994)When Father Was Away on Business (1985), Underground (1995)When Father Was Away on Business (1985), Underground (1995)The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), Dancer in the Dark (2000) Padre Padrone (1977), The Son's Room (2001) Rosetta (1999), L'Enfant (2005) Rosetta (1999), L'Enfant (2005) A Man and a Woman (1966), Amour (2012) The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1972) and The Mattei Affair (1972) (ex-aequo)
Actors who have appeared in multiple award-winning films in the same year Francisco Rabal starred in both Viridiana (Palme d'Or) and The Hand in the Trap (F.I.P.R.E.S.C.I Award) in 1961. Gian Maria Volonté starred in both The Working Class Goes to Heaven and The Mattei Affair, which shared the Palme d'Or (then-named Grand Prix International du Festival) in 1972. Isabelle Adjani won the Best Actress award for both Quartet and Possession in 1981. Sandra Hüller played a leading role in both Anatomy of a Fall (Palme d'Or), and The Zone of Interest (Grand Prix) in 2023.
Actors who have appeared in most films in main competition Isabelle Huppert holds the record as the actor or actress with the most films in main competition, with a total of 23. Marcello Mastroianni is the male actor with the most films in main competition, with a total of 19. Actor Number of films Isabelle Huppert 23 Marcello Mastroianni 19 Gérard Depardieu14 Jean-Louis Trintignant Catherine Deneuve Michel Piccoli 13 Mathieu Amalric12 Nanni Moretti Francisco Rabal11 Gian Maria Volonté Mari Törőcsik Tilda Swinton Léa Seydoux Stefania Sandrelli 10 Annie Girardot9 Louis Garrel Marion Cotillard Ugo Tognazzi Chiara Mastroianni Charlotte Rampling8 Chloë Sevigny Emmanuelle Devos Geraldine Chaplin Greta Scacchi John Turturro Juliette Binoche Lambert Wilson Sean Penn Vincent Lindon Benicio del Toro Alain Delon7 Claudia Cardinale Gong Li Harvey Keitel Jeanne Moreau Jérémie Renier Robert Duvall Vanessa Redgrave Willem Dafoe André Dussollier6 Andréa Ferréol Anouk Aimée Benoît Magimel Isabelle Adjani Jean Bouise Jean-Paul Belmondo Joaquin Phoenix Philippe Noiret Romy Schneider Valeria Bruni Tedeschi Nicole Garcia Penélope Cruz Vincent Cassel Emmanuelle Béart5 Gaspard Ulliel Javier Bardem Max von Sydow Nicole Kidman Sandra Hüller Sophia Loren Emmanuelle Bercot4 Julianne Moore Kristen Stewart Stellan Skarsgård Sissy Spacek
Actors who have appeared in multiple films in main competition in the same year