Directors of Palme d'Or winners

Japanese filmmaker (1910–1998)

Italian filmmaker (1920–1993)

Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American filmmaker, actor, and author. His films are characterized by graphic violence, extended dialogue often featuring much profanity, and references to popular culture. His work has earned a cult following alongside critical and commercial success; he has been named by some as the most influential director of his generation and has received numerous awards and nominations, including two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. His films have grossed more than $1.9 billion worldwide.

Martin Charles Scorsese is an American filmmaker. One of the major figures of the New Hollywood era, he is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential directors in the history of cinema. He has received many accolades, including an Academy Award, four BAFTA Awards, three Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and three Golden Globe Awards. He has been honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1997, the Film Society of Lincoln Center tribute in 1998, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2007, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2010, and the BAFTA Fellowship in 2012. Five of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".

American actor and filmmaker (1915–1985)

French-Polish filmmaker (born 1933)

David Keith Lynch was an American filmmaker, producer, actor, painter, and musician. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, with his films often characterized by a distinctive surrealist sensibility that gave rise to the adjective "Lynchian". In a career spanning more than five decades, he received numerous accolades, including an Academy Honorary Award, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival, a Palme d'Or and Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival, two César Awards, and a (posthumous) Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement, in addition to nominations for four Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, and nine Primetime Emmy Awards.

French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)

American filmmaker (born 1939)

Spanish-Mexican filmmaker (1900–1983)

Italian film director (1901-1974)

Danish film director and screenwriter (born 1956)

Serbian and French film director, screenwriter, writer, actor and musician

Austrian-born American filmmaker and screenwriter (1906-2002)

Italian film director and screenwriter (1912–2007)

German filmmaker (born 1945)

Polish film director (1926–2016)

American filmmaker (born 1963)

American filmmaker and author (born 1954)

Swiss-German-American director and producer (1902–1981)

Italian director (1906–1976)

Italian film director (1906–1977)

Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer (1940-2016)

American filmmaker (1925–2006)

American film director, producer and actor (1881–1959)

Austrian film director and screenwriter (born 1942)

British film director (1908–1991)

South Korean filmmaker (born 1969)

American film director, producer, photographer and musician (born 1952)

Iranian film director

French film director (1901–1999)

American film director and screenwriter (born 1943)

American choreographer, dancer, and director (1927–1987)

French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer (born 1937)

English film director and screenwriter (born 1936)

New Zealand film director, screenwriter and producer (born 1954)

American stage and film director (1903-1986)

French film director, screenwriter, and producer (1932-1995)

Greek film director, screenwriter and film producer (1935–2012)

Konstantinos "Kostas" Gavras (; born 12 February 1933), known professionally as Costa-Gavras, is a Greek-French film director, screenwriter, and producer who lives and works in France. He is known for political films, such as the political thriller Z (1969), which won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and Missing (1982), for which he won the Palme d'Or and an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Most of his films have been made in French, but six have been in English, including Hanna K.

French film director and screenwriter (born 1952)

French film director (1931-1990)

Italian film director (1922–2015)

Turkish film director and producer (born 1959)

French film director, screenwriter and producer (1907–1977)

English film director (1906–1976)

English writer and director (born 1943)

French film director and screenwriter (1913–1996)

Romanian film director, screenwriter and film producer (born 1968)

American film director

Italian screenwriter, film director, and actor (born 1953)

Japanese film director, producer, screenplay writer and film editor (born 1962)

Tunisian-French film director

German film director, screenwriter and film producer (born 1939)

Swedish film director and screenwriter (born 1974)

Turkish film director, scenarist, novelist and actor (1937-1984)

Chinese film director and screenwriter

Japanese film director (1926-2006)

Italian screenwriter, director, actor (1914–1974)

British feature-film, theatre and documentary director and film critic (1923-1994)