# The Cannes top prize winners of the 1950s

The films that won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival from 1951 to 1959, called the Palme d'Or from 1955. There was no festival in 1950.

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## Top 11

1. **Miss Julie** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Alf Sjöberg, 1951 (shared). From Strindberg's play.
2. **Miracle in Milan** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Vittorio De Sica, 1951 (shared). A fable about Milan's poor.
3. **The Wages of Fear** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1953. Two trucks loaded with nitroglycerine.
4. **Gate of Hell** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1954. A Japanese samurai drama in colour.
5. **Othello** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Orson Welles, 1952 (shared). Shot in Essaouira, it competed under the Moroccan flag.
6. **Two Cents Worth of Hope** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Renato Castellani, 1952 (shared). A comedy from southern Italy.
7. **Marty** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Delbert Mann, 1955. The first Palme d'Or; a lonely butcher in New York.
8. **The Silent World** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle, 1956. A documentary of the deep sea.
9. **Friendly Persuasion** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — William Wyler, 1957. A Quaker family during the American Civil War.
10. **The Cranes Are Flying** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Mikhail Kalatozov, 1958. A love torn apart by war in Moscow.
11. **Black Orpheus** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Marcel Camus, 1959. The Orpheus myth at the Rio carnival.

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