Best Director Award (Cannes Film Festival)

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Cannes Film Festival award directing award film award

The Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival is a prestigious prize presented annually to recognize the most outstanding directorial achievement among the films in the festival's official competition.

Aliases (4)

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Cannes Film Festival award → directing award → film award →
alsoKnownAs	Cannes Best Director Award → Prix de la mise en scène →
awardedFor	best directing in films in the official competition →
awardFor	best director →
awardType	competitive jury award →
country	France →
eligibility	feature films in the Cannes official competition →
field	cinema → film directing →
frequency	annual →
hasCategory	Awards established in 1946 → Cannes Film Festival awards → Film directing awards →
hasLanguage	English → French →
hasOfficialWebsite	https://www.festival-cannes.com/ →
inception	1946 →
isDistinctFrom	Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival) → Jury Prize (Cannes Film Festival) → Palme d'Or →
location	Cannes → Palais des Festivals et des Congrès →
notableRecipient	Alejandro González Iñárritu → Alfred Hitchcock → Bong Joon-ho → David Lynch → Ethan Coen → Ingmar Bergman → Jacques Audiard → Joel Coen → Ken Loach → Krzysztof Kieślowski → Lars von Trier → Martin Scorsese → Michael Haneke → Nuri Bilge Ceylan → Park Chan-wook → Paul Thomas Anderson → Pedro Almodóvar → Roman Polanski → Wim Wenders →
organizer	Festival de Cannes →
partOf	Official Selection awards (Cannes Film Festival) →
presentedAt	Cannes Film Festival closing ceremony →
presentedBy	Cannes Film Festival →
scope	international →
selectionProcess	jury decision →

Referenced by (12)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Alejandro G. Iñárritu ("Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award") → Fargo ("Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award") → François Truffaut ("Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award") → Pedro Almodóvar ("Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award") →	awardReceived
Best Director Award (Cannes Film Festival) ("Prix de la mise en scène") → Best Director Award (Cannes Film Festival) ("Cannes Best Director Award") →	alsoKnownAs
Gus Van Sant ("Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award") → Martin Scorsese ("Cannes Film Festival Best Director Award") →	notableAward
Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival) →	associatedWith
Jury Prize →	differentFrom
Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress ("Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director") →	hasRelatedAward
Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor ("Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director") →	relatedAward