# The Palme d'Or winners of the 1990s

The films that won Cannes' top prize between 1990 and 1999, including the shared Palmes of 1993 and 1997.

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## Top 12

1. **Wild at Heart** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — David Lynch, 1990. Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern on the run.
2. **Barton Fink** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Joel and Ethan Coen, 1991. Also Best Director and Best Actor.
3. **The Best Intentions** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Bille August, 1992. Ingmar Bergman's parents, from his screenplay.
4. **Farewell My Concubine** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Chen Kaige, 1993 (shared). Half a century of two Peking opera actors.
5. **Pulp Fiction** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Quentin Tarantino, 1994. Intertwined crime stories in Los Angeles.
6. **Secrets & Lies** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Mike Leigh, 1996. An adopted Black woman finds her white birth mother.
7. **The Eel** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Shōhei Imamura, 1997 (shared). An ex-convict and his eel; Imamura's second Palme.
8. **Underground** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Emir Kusturica, 1995. Half a century of Yugoslavia in a cellar; the director's second Palme.
9. **Rosetta** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 1999. A teenager looking for work.
10. **The Piano** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Jane Campion, 1993 (shared). The first woman to win the Palme.
11. **Eternity and a Day** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Theo Angelopoulos, 1998. A dying poet and an Albanian boy.
12. **Taste of Cherry** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Abbas Kiarostami, 1997 (shared). A man looks for someone to bury him.

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