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Cannes Film Festival
Directors with the Most Best Director Wins
This list features directors with the most Best Director wins at the Cannes Film Festival.
RANK | DIRECTOR | WINS | FILMS |
1 | Joel Coen | 3 | Barton Fink (1991) Fargo (1996) The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) |
2 | René Clément | 2 | The Battle of the Rails (1946) The Walls of Malaga (1949) |
3 | Sergei Yutkevich | 2 | Othello (1956) Lenin in Poland (1966) |
4 | Robert Bresson | 2 | A Man Escaped (1957) L’Argent (1983) |
5 | John Boorman | 2 | Leo the Last (1970) The General (1998) |
References
Wikipedia contributors, 2025. List of Cannes Film Festival records. [online] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Cannes_Film_Festival_records#Directors_with_multiple_Best_Director_wins [Accessed 1 December 2025].
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