Short Film Palme d'Or

With the Golden Palm for Best Short Film ( Palme d'or du court métrage ) is the best short film was awarded a prize at the annually organized film festivals of Cannes. The term exists since 1955, previously was the Golden Palm, also known as 1964 to 1974, " Grand Prize of the International Film Festival " under the name of ( Grand Prix du Festival International du Film or Grand Prix). The design was taken from the coat of arms as the Cannes Golden Lion of the Venice Film Festival and the Golden Bear at the Berlinale. The awarding of the prize, which is awarded to the winner in the form of a certificate, right from a specially convened Short Film Jury, mostly composed of international filmmakers.

Award winners

The works of French directors were most often the Palme d'Or Award for the best short film (13 wins), followed by their colleagues from Hungary (5 ) and the USA (4 each ). Twice the Frenchman Albert Lamorisse (1953 and 1956 ) was successful. Now the only filmmaker who could both win the Palme d'Or for Best Short Film and for Best Feature Film, the New Zealander Jane Campion. They triumphed in 1986 with the nine-minute to Exercise in Discipline - Peel and later in 1993 with the Oscar-winning historical drama The Piano.

Three times in the past, the jury could not agree on a winning film. Short film directors from the German film could not prevail against the competition of foreign filmmakers in the past.

* = From 1946 to 1954, from 1964 to 1974 was awarded the Palme d'Or instead of Grand Prix

• Film Festival of Cannes