# The Palme d'Or winners of the 1980s

The films that won Cannes' top prize between 1980 and 1989, including the shared Palmes of 1980 and 1982.

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## Top 12

1. **All That Jazz** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — Bob Fosse, 1980 (shared). Fosse's autobiographical musical.
2. **Man of Iron** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Andrzej Wajda, 1981. Solidarity and the Gdańsk strikes.
3. **Yol** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Şerif Gören and Yılmaz Güney, 1982 (shared). Five Turkish prisoners on leave.
4. **Missing** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Costa-Gavras, 1982 (shared). An American disappears after the coup in Chile.
5. **Under the Sun of Satan** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Maurice Pialat, 1987. Gérard Depardieu as a tormented priest.
6. **When Father Was Away on Business** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Emir Kusturica, 1985. A boy in 1950s Yugoslavia.
7. **The Mission** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Roland Joffé, 1986. Jesuits in South America, with music by Ennio Morricone.
8. **Pelle the Conqueror** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Bille August, 1988. A Swedish boy and his father on a Danish farm; also an Oscar.
9. **Kagemusha** (0 · ▲3 ▼3) — Akira Kurosawa, 1980 (shared). A thief as a warlord's double.
10. **The Ballad of Narayama** (0 · ▲2 ▼2) — Shōhei Imamura, 1983. Elderly people carried up the mountain to die.
11. **Paris, Texas** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Wim Wenders, 1984. Harry Dean Stanton across the desert.
12. **Sex, Lies, and Videotape** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Steven Soderbergh, 1989. The debut that launched American independent cinema.

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