List of Cannes Film Festival records. This list is as current as of the 78th Cannes Film Festival held in May 2025.
With 22 minutes, Pan's Labyrinth (2006) holds the record for longest standing ovation.
42 years â Jean-Luc Godard's first film in official selection was How's it going, screened in the section in 1976. He won his first and only Palme d'Or for The Image Book in 2018, which also marked the first time in the history of the festival that a director was awarded with a .
10 directors or co-directors have won the Palme d'Or twice. Three of these (<sup>â¡</sup>) have won for consecutive films.
Four directors have won the Grand Prix twice.
Five directors have won two or more Best Director awards:
With fifteen films, Ken Loach holds the record for most films in main competition at Cannes.
Three female directors have won the Palme d'Or.
In 2023, seven female directors had films competing for the Palme d'Or, a record that was matched in 2025. The 2012 festival was the last edition to feature no female directors in the Official Competition, while the 2013 festival was the last to feature only one women competing for the Palme d'Or.
Three actors have won the Best Actor award twice:
Four actresses have won the Best Actress award twice:
Eighteen actors have appeared in multiple Palme d'Or winners. Max von Sydow, Robert Duvall and Harvey Keitel are tied with three films each.
Isabelle Huppert holds the record as the actor or actress with the most films in main competition, with a total of 22. Marcello Mastroianni is the male actor with the most films in main competition, with a total of 19.
27 actors have appeared in multiple films in main competition in the same year. Annie Girardot, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Isabelle Huppert and Léa Seydoux tie for the record for the most films in competition with three films each; Girardot and Trintignant in 1969, Huppert in 1980 and Seydoux in 2021. Huppert also had two films in main competition in 2012 and 2015.
As of 2025, 20 Palme d'Or winning films have been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar.
Best Picture winners designated with ** two asterisks.
As of 2025, 4 films have won both the Palme d'Or and the Best Picture Oscar.
As of 2025, 6 films have won both the Palme d'Or and the Best Foreign Language Oscar.
Parasite (2019) holds the record for highest-grossing Palme d'Or winner, with a worldwide box-office gross of $262 million.
9 years â Marcello Mastroianni holds the record for most consecutive years in official selection. From 1977 to 1985, Mastroianni had at least one film in official selection.
8 years â Marion Cotillard. From 2011 to 2018.
7 years â Isabelle Huppert. From 1977 to 1983.