# The Palme d'Or winners of the 2000s

The ten films that won the Cannes Film Festival's top prize between 2000 and 2009.

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- Mar 27, 2023 · Wesley Campos Azevedo
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## Top 10

1. **The Pianist** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Roman Polanski, 2002. Władysław Szpilman in occupied Warsaw.
2. **The Class** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Laurent Cantet, 2008. A year in a Paris classroom.
3. **The White Ribbon** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Michael Haneke, 2009. Mysterious violence in a German village before World War I.
4. **Dancer in the Dark** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Lars von Trier, 2000. Björk as a nearly blind factory worker; she also won Best Actress.
5. **Elephant** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Gus Van Sant, 2003. A massacre at an American high school; also Best Director.
6. **Fahrenheit 9/11** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Michael Moore, 2004. A documentary against the Bush administration.
7. **The Child** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 2005. A young father sells his baby; the brothers' second Palme.
8. **The Wind That Shakes the Barley** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Ken Loach, 2006. The Irish War of Independence.
9. **4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Cristian Mungiu, 2007. An illegal abortion in Ceaușescu's Romania.
10. **The Son's Room** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Nanni Moretti, 2001. A family facing the death of their son.

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