List of past Cannes best film winners

The credits have rolled on the 20 films in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 66th Cannes Film Festival. 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