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Directors with the Most Palme d'Or Wins
This list features directors with the most Palme d’Or wins at the Cannes Film Festival.
RANK | DIRECTOR | WINS | FILM(s) | COUNTRY |
1 | Alf Sjöberg | 2 | Torment (1946) Miss Julie (1951) | Sweden |
2 | Francis Ford Coppola | 2 | The Conversation (1974) Apocalypse Now (1979) | USA |
3 | Shōhei Imamura | 2 | The Ballad of Narayama (1983) The Eel (1997) | Japan |
4 | Emir Kusturica | 2 | When Father Was Away on Business (1985) Underground (1995) | Yugoslavia |
5 | Bille August | 2 | Pelle the Conqueror (1988) The Best Intentions (1992) | Denmark |
6 | Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne | 2 | Rosetta (1999) L’Enfant (2005) | Belgium |
7 | Ken Loach | 2 | The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) I, Daniel Blake (2016) | UK, Ireland |
8 | Michael Haneke | 2 | The White Ribbon (2009) Amour (2012) | Germany |
9 | Ruben Östlund | 2 | The Square (2017) Triangle of Sadness (2022) | Sweden |
10 | Cristian Mungiu | 2 | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) Fjord (2026) | Romania |
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