Year Winner Us
1966 A Man and a Woman (France), Claude Lelouch *
  All That Jazz (United States), Bob Fosse *
  Apocalypse Now (United States), Francis Ford Coppola *
1991 Barton Fink (United States), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen *
1967 Blowup (Italy), Michelangelo Antonioni *
2000 Dancer in the Dark (Germany/The Netherlands/United States/United Kingdom/Denmark/France/Sweden/Finland/Iceland/Norway), Lars von Trier *
2003 Elephant (United States), Gus Van Sant *
1980 Kagemusha (Japan), Akira Kurosawa *
1960 La Dolce Vita (Italy), Federico Fellini *
1984 Paris, Texas (Germany/France), Wim Wenders *
1994 Pulp Fiction (United States), Quentin Tarantino *
1973 Scarecrow (United States), Jerry Schatzberg *
1989 sex, lies, and videotape (United States), Steven Soderbergh *
  Taste of Cherry (Iran), Abbas Kiarostami *
1976 Taxi Driver (United States), Martin Scorsese *
1974 The Conversation (United States), Francis Ford Coppola *
1963 The Leopard (France/Italy), Luchino Visconti *
1986 The Mission (United Kingdom), Roland Joffe *
2002 The Pianist (Poland), Roman Polanski *
1995 Underground (Yugoslavia/France), Emir Kusturica *
1961 Viridiana (Spain), Luis Bunuel *
1985 When Father Was Away on Business (Yugoslavia), Emir Kusturica *
1990 Wild at Heart (United States), David Lynch *
1970 M*A*S*H (United States), Robert Altman **
1982 Missing (United States), Costa-Gavras **
  A Long Absence (France/Italy), Henri Colpi  
1959 Black Orpheus (France), Marcel Camus  
1975 Chronicle of the Burning Years (Algeria), Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina  
1998 Eternity and a Day (Greece), Theo Angelopoulos  
  Farewell, My Concubine (China), Chen Kaige  
1968 Festival cancelled because of political unrest  
1957 Friendly Persuasion (United States), William Wyler  
1969 if... (United Kingdom), Lindsay Anderson  
1981 Man of Iron (Poland), Andrzej Wajda  
1955 Marty (United States), Delbert Mann  
1977 Padre Padrone (Italy), Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani  
1988 Pelle the Conqueror (Denmark), Bille August  
1999 Rosetta (Belgium/France), Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne  
1996 Secrets & Lies (United Kingdom), Mike Leigh  
1983 The Ballad of Narayama (Japan), Shohei Imamura  
1992 The Best Intentions (Sweden), Bille August  
  The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (France/Italy), Pietro Germi  
1958 The Cranes Are Flying (USSR), Mikhail Kalatozov  
1962 The Given Word (Brazil), Anselmo Duarte  
1971 The Go-Between (United Kingdom), Joseph Losey  
  The Hireling (United Kingdom), Alan Bridges  
1965 The Knack, and How to Get It (United Kingdom), Richard Lester  
1972 The Mattei Affair (Italy), Francesco Rosi  
1993 The Piano (Australia), Jane Campion  
1956 The Silent World (France), Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle  
2001 The Son's Room (Italy/France), Nanni Moretti  
1979 The Tin Drum (Germany), Volker Schlondorff  
1978 The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Italy), Ermanno Olmi  
1964 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (France), Jacques Demy  
1997 Unagi (Japan), Shohei Imamura  
1987 Under Satan's Sun (France), Maurice Pialat  
  Yol (Turkey), Yilmaz Guney, and Serif Goren