Caméra d'Or
2009 Cannes Film Festival
Awarded for	Best first feature film
Presented by	Festival de Cannes
Country	France
Location	Cannes
First awarded	1978
Official Website	http://www.festival-cannes.com/

The Caméra d'Or ("Golden Camera") is an award of the Cannes Film Festival for the best first feature film presented in one of the Cannes' selections (Official Selection, Director's Fortnight or International Critic's Week).^[1] The prize, created in 1978 by Gilles Jacob^[2], is awarded during the Festival's Closing Ceremony by an independent jury^[3].

[edit] Caméra d'Or winners

Year	Film	Director
1978	The Illegal (Alambrista!)	Robert M. Young
1979	Northern Lights	John Hanson
1980	Adrien's Story (Histoire d'Adrien)	Jean-Pierre Denis
1981	Desperado City	Vadim Glowna
1982	Half a Life (Mourir à 30 ans)	Romain Goupil
1983	The Princess (Adj király katonát)	Pál Erdöss
1984	Stranger Than Paradise	Jim Jarmusch
1985	Oriane (Oriana)	Fina Torres
1986	Noir et Blanc	Claire Devers
1987	Robinson Crusoe in Georgia (Robinzoniada, anu chemi ingliseli Papa)	Nana Dzhordzhadze
1988	Salaam Bombay!	Mira Nair
1989	My 20th Century (Az én XX. századom)	Ildikó Enyedi
1990	Freeze-Die-Come to Life (Замри, умри, воскресни!)	Vitali Kanevsky
1991	Toto the Hero (Toto le Héros)	Jaco Van Dormael
1992	Mac	John Turturro
1993	The Scent of Green Papaya (Mùi đu đủ xanh)	Tran Anh Hung
1994	Coming to Terms with the Dead (Petits arrangements avec les morts)	Pascale Ferran
1995	White Balloon (بادکنک سفيد , Badkonake sefid)	Jafar Panahi
1996	Love Serenade	Shirley Barrett
1997	Moe no suzaku (萌の朱雀)	Naomi Kawase
1998	Slam	Marc Levin
1999	Throne of Death (Marana Simhasanam)	Murali Nair
2000	Djomeh	Hassan Yektapanah
	A Time for Drunken Horses (زمانی برای مستی اسب‌ها, Zamani barayé masti asbha)	Bahman Ghobadi
2001	Atanarjuat	Zacharias Kunuk
2002	Seaside (Bord de mer)	Julie Lopes-Curval
2003	Reconstruction	Christoffer Boe
2004	Or (My Treasure) (Or)	Keren Yedaya
2005	Me and You and Everyone We Know	Miranda July
	The Forsaken Land (Sulanga Enu Pinisa)	Vimukthi Jayasundara
2006	12:08 East of Bucharest (A fost sau n-a fost?)	Corneliu Porumboiu
2007	Jellyfish (Meduzot מדוזות)	Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen
2008	Hunger	Steve McQueen
2009	Samson and Delilah	Warwick Thornton

[edit] Caméra d'Or — Mention Spéciale

Some years, some films that didn't win the award have received a special mention for their outstanding quality as first features in Cannes. Also called Caméra d'Or — Mention or Caméra d'Or — Mention d'honneur.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Cannes Film Festival official website
• Cannes Film Festival at IMDb.