Caméra d'Or

The Caméra d'Or ("Golden Camera") is an award of the Cannes Film Festival for the best first feature film presented in one of the Cannes selections (Official Selection, Directors' Fortnight or Critics' Week).

The prize was created in 1978 by Gilles Jacob, and is awarded during the festival's closing ceremony by an independent jury.

Criteria

The rules define first film as "the first feature film for theatrical screening (whatever the format; fiction, documentary or animation) of 60 minutes or more in length, by a director who has not made another film of 60 minutes or more in length and released theatrically." Directors who have previously made only student thesis films or TV films can still compete in this category. The stated aim is to reveal a film "whose qualities emphasize the need to encourage the director to undertake a second film."

Winners

Jim Jarmusch won for Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
Nana Dzhordzhadze won for Robinson Crusoe in Georgia (1987)
Mira Nair won for Salaam Bombay! (1988)
Ildikó Enyedi won for My 20th Century (1989)
Tran Anh Hung won for The Scent of Green Papaya (1993)
Jafar Panahi won for The White Balloon (1995)
Naomi Kawase won for Suzaku (1997)
Steve McQueen won for Hunger (2008)
Benh Zeitlin won for Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)

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2020s

Special Mention Winners (Mention Spéciale)

Some years, some films that didn't win the award have received a special mention for their outstanding quality as first features in Cannes. Also called Caméra d'Or — Mention or Caméra d'Or — Mention d'honneur.

References

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