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Cannes Best Director Award

award given at the Cannes Film Festival
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Summary

Cannes Best Director Award is a Cannes Film Festival Awards[1]. It draws 201 Wikipedia views per month (cannes_film_festival_awards category, ranking #3 of 3).[2]

Key Facts

  • Cannes Best Director Award won the Pedro Almodóvar[3].
  • Cannes Best Director Award won the Alejandro González Iñárritu[4].
  • Cannes Best Director Award won the Sofia Coppola[5].
  • Cannes Best Director Award won the Nicolas Winding Refn[6].
  • Cannes Best Director Award won the Yuliya Solntseva[7].
  • Cannes Best Director Award won the John Boorman[8].
  • Cannes Best Director Award is in the country of France[9].
  • Cannes Best Director Award's instance of is recorded as Cannes Film Festival Awards[10].
  • Cannes Best Director Award's instance of is recorded as award for best direction[11].
  • Cannes Best Director Award's Commons category is recorded as Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director[12].
  • January 1, 1947 marks the founding of Cannes Best Director Award[13].
  • Cannes Best Director Award's official website is recorded as http://www.festival-cannes.com[14].
  • Cannes Best Director Award's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Best Director Award (Cannes Film Festival)[15].
  • Cannes Best Director Award's conferred by is recorded as Cannes Film Festival[16].
  • Cannes Best Director Award's category for recipients of this award is recorded as Category:Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director winners[17].

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When and Where

Cannes Best Director Award is in the country of France[9].

Context

Recorded instance of include Cannes Film Festival Awards[10] and award for best direction[11].

Why It Matters

Cannes Best Director Award draws 201 Wikipedia views per month (cannes_film_festival_awards category, ranking #3 of 3).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

FAQs

What awards did Cannes Best Director Award receive?

Honors received include Pedro Almodóvar[3], Alejandro González Iñárritu[4], Sofia Coppola[5], and Nicolas Winding Refn[6].

Related Entities

Alejandro González Iñárritu Andrei Tarkovsky Bertrand Tavernier Costa-Gavras Cristian Mungiu David Lynch Elephant Emir Kusturica Ettore Scola France François Truffaut Glauber Rocha Gus Van Sant Ingmar Bergman John Boorman Jules Dassin Leos Carax Luis Buñuel Martin Scorsese Mathieu Amalric Miklós Jancsó Nagisa Ōshima Nanni Moretti Nicolas Winding Refn Nostalghia Nuri Bilge Ceylan Olivier Assayas Park Chan-wook Paul Thomas Anderson Paweł Pawlikowski

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  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · NeverDoING · 2026-09-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official website → http://www.festival-cannes.com
    Inception → +1947-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Winner → Pedro Almodóvar, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Sofia Coppola +6
    Category for recipients of this award → Category:Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director winners
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Commons category: Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director"
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