List of past Cannes best film winners

As the jury, headed by Hollywood titan Steven Spielberg, considers its verdict ahead of Sunday's closing ceremony, here is a list of past best film winners:

Once known as the Grand Prix, from 1975 the top award has been the "Palme d'Or" or Golden Palm.

1939: No prize as the festival was halted after 48 hours by Hitler's invasion of Poland.

1946: 11 films shared the top prize, including:

"Open City" by Roberto Rossellini

"Maria Candelaria" by Emilio Fernandez

"Brief Encounter" by David Lean

"The Lost Weekend" by Billy Wilder

1947: Six prizes including:

"Les Maudits" by Rene Clement

"Ziegfeld Follies" by Vincente Minnelli

"Dumbo" by Walt Disney

1949: "The Third Man" by Carol Reed

1951: "Miracle In Milan" by Vittorio de Sica

"Miss Julie" by Alf Sjoberg

1952: "Othello" by Orson Welles

"Due Soldi di Speranza" by Renato Castellani

1953: "The Wages of Fear" by Henri-Georges Clouzot

1954: "The Gate of Hell" (Jigokumon) by Teinosuke Kinugasa

1955: "Marty" by Delbert Mann

1956: "Le Monde du Silence" by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle

1957: "Friendly Persuasion" by William Wyler

1958: "The Cranes are Flying" by Mikhail Kalatoz

1959: "Black Orpheus" by Marcel Camus

1960: "La Dolce Vita" by Federico Fellini

1961: "Viridiana" by Luis Bunuel

"The Long Absence" by Henri Colpi

1962: "The Given Word" by Anselmo Duarte

1963: "The Leopard" by Luchino Visconti

1964: "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" by Jacques Demy

1965: "The Knack (...and How to Get It)" by Richard Lester

1966: "A Man and A Woman" by Claude Lelouch

"The Birds, the Bees and the Italians" by Pietro Germi

1967: "Blow-Up" by Michelangelo Antonioni

1968: Cancelled

1969: "If" by Lindsay Anderson

1970: "M*A*S*H" by Robert Altman

1971: "The Go-Between" by Joseph Losey

1972: "The Working Class Goes to Heaven" by Elio Petri

"The Mattei Affair" by Francesco Rosi

1973: "Scarecrow" by Jerry Schatzberg

"The Hireling" by Alan Bridges

1974: "The Conversation" by Francis Ford Coppola

1975: "Chronicle of the Years of Fire" by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina

1976: "Taxi Driver" by Martin Scorsese

1977: "Padre Padrone" by Paolo Taviani

1978: "The Tree of Wooden Clogs" by Ermanno Olmi

1979: "Apocalypse Now" by Francis Ford Coppola

"The Tin Drum" by Volker Schloendorff

1980: "Kagemusha" by Akira Kurosawa

"All That Jazz" by Bob Fosse

1981: "Man of Iron" by Andrzej Wajda

1982: "Missing" by Costa-Gavras

"Yol" by Yilmaz Guney

1983: "The Ballad of Narayama" by Shohei Imamura

1984: "Paris, Texas" by Wim Wenders

1985: "When Father Was Away on Business" by Emir Kusturica

1986: "The Mission" by Roland Joffe

1987: "Under the Sun of Satan" by Maurice Pialat

1988: "Pelle the Conqueror" by Bille August

1989: "Sex, Lies and Videotape" by Steven Soderbergh

1990: "Wild At Heart" by David Lynch

1991: "Barton Fink" by Joel and Ethan Coen

1992: "The Best Intentions" by Bille August

1993: "Farewell My Concubine" by Kaige Chen

"The Piano" by Jane Campion

1994: "Pulp Fiction" by Quentin Tarantino

1995: "Underground" by Emir Kusturica

1996: "Secrets & Lies" by Mike Leigh

1997: "The Eel" by Shohei Imamura

"Taste of Cherry" by Abbas Kiarostami

1998: "Eternity and a Day" by Theo Angelopoulos

1999: "Rosetta" by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

2000: "Dancer in the Dark" by Lars Von Trier

2001: "The Son's Room" by Nanni Moretti

2002: "The Pianist" by Roman Polanski

2003: "Elephant" by Gus Van Sant

2004: "Fahrenheit 9/11" by Michael Moore

2005: "The Child" by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

2006: "The Wind That Shakes The Barley" by Ken Loach

2007: "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" by Cristian Mungui

2008: "The Class" by Laurent Cantet

2009: "The White Ribbon" by Michael Haneke

2010: "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

2011: "The Tree of Life" by Terrence Malick