3 TIMES THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL AWARDED THE GOLDEN PALM TO THE SAME DIRECTOR TWICE

The Cannes Film Festival is the most popular in the world!

One of the most coveted and prestigious film festivals globally is the Cannes Film Festival. Each year it celebrates excellence in films from around the world and is highly regarded as the high temple of art cinema. It is also one of the oldest film festivals in the world other than the Venice International Film Festival. All the greats in cinema have either been to Cannes or have won an award there and even many major film movements had their first taste of global recognition in Cannes, like the Italian NeoRealist movement and even the French New Wave itself gained widespread notoriety after Francois Truffaut won the best Director. Yet the film festival's top prize the golden palm is highly regarded as the highest honour in cinema and a very few directors have won it even fewer have won it twice. This list includes those rare filmmakers who have been awarded the golden palm twice. The honour is extremely rare because the film festival has been in existence only for 73 years and the films shown here included the works of masters of the craft.

Francis Ford Coppola

A legend of new Hollywood cinema Italian American director is most famous for the Godfather films, yet he didn’t win the Golden Palm for any of those, this goes to show the genuine greatness of his work and the sheer depth of this filmography the first film his to win the golden Palm was Gene Hackman starter The Conversation which was about surveillance and the other was his magnum Opus set the backdrop of the Vietnam War Apocalypse Now during which Francis lost 50 pounds and had the lead actor Martin Sheen a heart attack!

Shohei Imamura

Perhaps not as popular as other Japanese directors like Kurosawa or Ozu, Shohei Imamura has had a career that stretches for more than 40 years, in his prolific career he has made everything from documentaries to thrillers. He is also one of the rare directors to have won the golden palm twice, once for his intimate film Ballad of Narayama and then many years later for his tale of colourful characters called The Eel.

Emir Kusturica

Inspired by the work of Fellini, Emir Kusturica's work can be described only as chaos on camera; he is also called the Fellini of the Balkans. Emir is also one of those rare filmmakers who have managed to win the golden palm twice. The first time he won the Golden Palm was for only his second feature film When Father was Away on Business and then later for his ground-breaking satire Underground, he is the only Eastern European filmmaker on this list and was born in Sarajevo.