Un Certain Regard#Prix Un Certain Regard winners

{{short description|Section of the Cannes Film Festival}}

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{{Infobox award

| name = Un Certain Regard

| image = Un certain regard logo.png

| image_upright = 0.8

| alt =

| caption = Un Certain Regard official logo

| date = 1978 - present

| country = France

| presenter = Cannes Film Festival

| holder = Diego Céspedes
The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (2025)

| year = 1998

| website = {{URL|https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/|festival-cannes.com}}

}}{{lang|fr|Un Certain Regard}} ({{IPA|fr|œ̃ sɛʁtɛ̃ ʁəɡaʁ|lang}}; 'A Certain Glance') is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's official selection. It is run at the {{lang|fr|salle}} Debussy, parallel to the competition for the {{lang|fr|Palme d'Or}}. This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob.

The section presents 20 films with unusual styles and non-traditional stories seeking international recognition.

At the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, Killer by Darezhan Omirbaev was named the first ever winner. While The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo by Diego Céspedes is the most recent winner.

Winners

In 1998, the {{lang|fr|Prix un certain regard}} was introduced to the section to recognize young talent and to encourage innovative and daring works by presenting one of the films with a grant to aid its distribution in France.{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.fr/index.php/en/festival/awards_UnCertainRegard |title=Festival de Cannes: Un Certain Regard Prize |work=festival-cannes.fr |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070522013502/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/index.php/en/festival/awards_UnCertainRegard |archive-date=22 May 2007 }} Since 2005, the prize consists of 30,000 financed by the Groupama GAN Foundation.[https://web.archive.org/web/20080411215612/http://www.fondation-groupama-gan.com/manifestations/calendrier-2008/detail-calendrier/article/Festival-de-Cannes/ 2008 Cannes Film Festival], {{lang|fr|Fondation Groupama GAN}}

File:Apichtpong Weerasethukal.jpg won for Blissfully Yours (2002)]]

File:Ousmane Sembène (1987) by Guenter Prust.jpg won for {{lang|wo|Moolaadé|italic=yes}} (2004) ]]

File:Yorgos Lanthimos, THE LOBSTER, Fantastic Fest 2015 -9674 (27161878820) (cropped).jpg won for Dogtooth (2009)]]

File:Hong Sang-soo Photo Call The Beach at Night Alone Berlinale 2017.jpg won for Hahaha (2010)]]

File:Mohammad Rasoulof at 2024 Cannes Film Festival (cropped).jpg won for A Man of Integrity (2017)]]

= 1990s =

class="wikitable"
YearEnglish TitleOriginal TitleDirector

!Production Country

1998

| Killer || {{lang|fr|Tueur à gages}}|| data-sort-value="Omirbaev" | Darezhan Omirbaev

|Kazakhstan, France

1999

| colspan="2" | Beautiful People|| data-sort-value="Dizdar" | Jasmin Dizdar

|United Kingdom, Bosnia and Herzegovina

= 2000s =

class="wikitable"
YearEnglish TitleOriginal TitleDirector

!Production Country

2000

| colspan="2" | Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her || data-sort-value="García" | Rodrigo García

|United States

2001

| Boyhood Loves || {{lang|fr|Amour d'enfance|nocat=true}} || data-sort-value="Caumon" | Yves Caumon

|France

2002

| Blissfully Yours || {{lang|th|สุดเสน่หา}} || data-sort-value="Weerasethakul" | Apichatpong Weerasethakul

|Thailand

2003

| data-sort-value="Best of Youth" | The Best of Youth || data-sort-value="meglio gioventù" | {{lang|it|La meglio gioventù}} || data-sort-value="Giordana" | Marco Tullio Giordana

|Italy

2004

| colspan="2" data-sort-value="Moolaade" | {{lang|wo|Moolaadé|italic=yes}} || data-sort-value="Sembene" | Ousmane Sembène

|Senegal

2005

| data-sort-value="Death of Mr Lazarescu" | The Death of Mr. Lazarescu || {{lang|ro|Moartea domnului Lăzărescu}} || data-sort-value="Puiu" | Cristi Puiu

|Romania

2006

| Luxury Car || 江城夏日 || data-sort-value="Chao" | Wang Chao

|China, France

2007

| colspan="2" | California Dreamin' || data-sort-value="Nemescu" | Cristian Nemescu

|Romania

2008

| colspan="2" | Tulpan || data-sort-value="Dvortsevoy" | Sergey Dvortsevoy

|Kazakhstan

2009

| Dogtooth || data-sort-value="Kynodontas" | {{lang|el|Κυνόδοντας}} || data-sort-value="Lanthimos" | Yorgos Lanthimos{{cite web |title=2009 awards / Un certain regard |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/2009/awardUnCertainRegard.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111113074618/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/2009/awardUnCertainRegard.html |archive-date=13 November 2011 |work=Cannes Film Festival |df=dmy}}{{cite news |last=Hernandez |first=Eugene |date=2009-05-23 |title="Dogtooth" Wins Top Cannes Un Certain Regard Prize |url=http://www.indiewire.com/article/dogtooth_wins_top_cannes_un_certain_regard_prize/ |access-date=2009-05-23 |work=IndieWIRE |publisher=www.indiewire.com}}

|Greece

= 2010s =

class="wikitable"
YearEnglish TitleOriginal TitleDirector

!Production Country

2010

| Hahaha || {{lang|ko|하하하}} || data-sort-value="Sang-soo" | Hong Sang-soo

| rowspan="2" |South Korea

rowspan="2" | 2011

| Arirang || {{lang|ko|아리랑}} || data-sort-value="Ki-duk" | Kim Ki-duk

Stopped on Track{{lang|de|Halt auf freier Strecke}}data-sort-value="Dresen" | Andreas Dresen

|Germany

2012

| After Lucia || {{lang|es|Después de Lucía}} || data-sort-value="Franco" | Michel Franco

|Mexico

2013

| data-sort-value="Missing Pic" | The Missing Picture || data-sort-value="Image manq" | {{lang|fr|L'image manquante}} || data-sort-value="Panh" | Rithy Panh

|Cambodia, France

2014

| White God || {{lang|hu|Fehér isten}} || data-sort-value="Mundruczó" | Kornél Mundruczó

|Hungary, Germany, Sweden

2015

| Rams || {{lang|is|Hrútar}} || data-sort-value="Hákonarson" | Grímur Hákonarson

|Iceland, Denmark, Poland, Norway

2016

| data-sort-value="Happiest Day" | The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki || {{lang|fi|Hymyilevä mies}} || data-sort-value="Kuosmanen" | Juho Kuosmanen

|Finland, Germany, Sweden

2017

| A Man of Integrity || {{lang|fa|لِرد|rtl=yes}} || data-sort-value="Rasoulof" | Mohammad Rasoulof

|Iran

2018

| Border || {{lang|sw|Gräns|rtl=yes}} || data-sort-value="Abbasi" | Ali Abbasi

|Sweden

2019

| The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão || A Vida Invisível de Eurídice Gusmão|| data-sort-value="Abbasi" | Karim Aïnouz

|Brazil

= 2020s =

class="wikitable"
YearEnglish TitleOriginal TitleDirector

!Production Country

2021

| Unclenching the Fists || Разжимая кулаки || Kira Kovalenko

|Russia

2022

| The Worst Ones || Les pires || Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret{{Cite web |date=27 May 2022 |title=Un Certain Regard Winners List 2022 |url=https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/press/press-releases/un-certain-regard-winners-list-2022/ |website=festival-cannes.com}}

|France

2023

| colspan="2" |How to Have Sex

|Molly Manning Walker{{Cite web |date=26 May 2023 |title=Un Certain Regard Winners List 2023 |url=https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/press/press-releases/un-certain-regard-winners-list-2023/ |website=festival-cannes.com}}

|United Kingdom

2024

|Black Dog

|狗阵

|Guan Hu

|China

2025

|The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo

|La misteriosa mirada del flamenco

|Diego Céspedes{{Cite web |last=Ntim |first=Zac |date=2025-05-23 |title=Chilean Drama ‘The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo’ Wins Top Un Certain Regard Prize — Cannes |url=https://deadline.com/2025/05/un-certain-regard-the-mysterious-gaze-of-the-flamingo-1236409662/ |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}}

|Chile, France, Germany, Spain, Belgium

Other Awards

= 2000s =

class="wikitable"
YearAwardEnglish titleOriginal title

!Recipient

2000

|{{lang|fr|Mention spéciale}}|| Me You Them || {{lang|pt|Eu Tu Eles}}

|Andrucha Waddington

rowspan="2" | 2003

| {{lang|fr|Prix le premier regard}}The first glance prize|| data-sort-value="Thousand Months" | A Thousand Months || {{lang|fr|Mille mois}}

|Faouzi Bensaidi

{{lang|fr|Prix du jury}}

| Crimson Gold

{{lang|fa|طلای سرخ}}

|Jafar Panahi

rowspan="2" | 2004

| {{lang|fr|Prix du regard original}}Prize of the original glance|| colspan="2" | Whisky

|Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll

{{lang|fr|Prix du regard vers l'avenir}}Prize of the glance to the future

| Earth and Ashes

{{lang|prs|خاکستر و خاک}}

|Atiq Rahimi

rowspan="2" | 2005

| {{lang|fr|Prix de l'intimité}}Intimacy prize|| colspan="2" data-sort-value="Filmeur" | Le Filmeur

|Alain Cavalier

{{lang|fr|Prix de l'espoir}}Prize of hope

| colspan="2" | Delwende

|S. Pierre Yameogo

rowspan="4" | 2006

| {{lang|fr|Prix spécial du jury}}|| colspan="2" | Ten Canoes

|Rolf de Heer

{{lang|fr|Prix d'interprétation féminine}}Best actress award

| data-sort-value="Way I Spent" | The Way I Spent the End of the World

{{lang|ro|Cum mi-am petrecut sfârșitul lumii}}

|Dorotheea Petre

{{lang|fr|Prix d'interprétation masculine}}Best actor award

| data-sort-value="Violin" | The Violin

data-sort-value="Violin" | {{lang|es|El violín}}

|Ángel Tavira

{{lang|fr|Prix du président du jury}}Prize of the President of the jury

| Murderers

{{lang|fr|Meurtrières|nocat=true}}

|Patrick Grandperret

rowspan="2" | 2007

| {{lang|fr|Prix spécial du jury}}|| Actresses || {{lang|fr|Actrices}}

|Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi

{{lang|fr|Coup de cœur du jury}}Jury's hunch

| data-sort-value="Band's" | The Band's Visit

{{lang|he|ביקור התזמורת}}

|Eran Kolirin

rowspan="4" | 2008

| {{lang|fr|Prix du jury}}|| Tokyo Sonata || data-sort-value="Tokyo" | {{lang|ja|トウキョウソナタ}}

|Kiyoshi Kurosawa

{{lang|fr|Coup de cœur du jury}}

| Cloud 9

{{lang|de|Wolke Neun}}

|Andreas Dresen

{{lang|fr|Le K.O. du certain regard}}

| colspan="2" | Tyson

|James Toback

{{lang|fr|Prix de l'espoir}}

| colspan="2" | Johnny Mad Dog

|Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire

rowspan="3" | 2009

| {{lang|fr|Prix du jury}}|| Police, Adjective || {{lang|ro|Polițist, adjectiv}}

|Corneliu Porumboiu

rowspan="2" | {{lang|fr|Prix spécial du jury ex-aequo}}

| No One Knows About Persian Cats

{{lang|fa|کسی از گربه های ایرانی خبر نداره}}

|Bahman Ghobadi

Father of My Childrendata-sort-value="père de" | {{lang|fr|Le père de mes enfants}}

|Mia Hansen-Løve

= 2010s =

class="wikitable"
YearAwardEnglish titleOriginal title

!Recipient

rowspan="2" | 2010

| {{lang|fr|Prix du jury}}|| October || {{lang|es|Octubre}}

|Daniel Vega, Diego Vega

{{lang|fr|Prix d’interprétation féminine}}

| data-sort-value="Lips" | The Lips

data-sort-value="Labios" | {{lang|es|Los Labios}}

|Adela Sánchez, Eva Bianco, Victoria Raposo

rowspan="2" | 2011

| {{lang|fr|Prix spécial du jury}}|| Elena

|Елена

|Andrey Zvyagintsev

{{lang|fr|Prix de la mise en scène}}

| Goodbye

{{lang|fa|به امید دیدار}}

|Mohammad Rasoulof

rowspan="4" |2012

| {{lang|fr|Mention spéciale}}|| Children of Sarajevo || Djeca

|Aida Begić

{{lang|fr|Prix spécial du Jury}}

| colspan="2" data-sort-value="Grand Soir" | Le grand soir

|Gustave Kervern, Benoît Delépine

rowspan="2" | {{lang|fr|Prix d'interprétation féminine}}

| colspan="2" | Laurence Anyways

|Suzanne Clément

Our Childrendata-sort-value="A Perdre" | {{lang|fr|À Perdre la Raison}}

|Emilie Dequenne

rowspan="4" |2013

| {{lang|fr|Prix spécial du jury}}|| Omar

| {{lang|ar|عمر}}

|Hany Abu-Assad

{{lang|fr|Prix de la mise en scène}}

| Stranger by the Lake

data-sort-value="Inconnu" | {{lang|fr|L'Inconnu du lac}}

|Alain Guiraudie

{{lang|fr|Prix un talent certain pour l'ensemble des comédiens}}

| The Golden Dream

{{lang|es|La jaula de oro}}

|Diego Quemada-Díez

{{lang|fr|Prix de l’avenir}}

| colspan="2" | Fruitvale Station

|Ryan Coogler

rowspan="4" |2014

| {{lang|fr|Prix du jury}}|| colspan="2" | Force Majeure

|Ruben Östlund

{{lang|fr|Prix spécial du certain regard}}

| data-sort-value="Salt of" | The Salt of the Earth

|Le sel de la terre

|Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado

{{lang|fr|Prix d'ensemble}}

| colspan="2" | Party Girl

|Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis

{{lang|fr|Prix du meilleur acteur}}{{cite web |date=24 May 2014 |title=Gulpilil wins a best actor award at Cannes Film Festival |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-24/david-gulpilil-wins-best-actor-award-at-cannes-film-festival/5475666 |access-date=27 January 2018 |website=Abc.net.au}}{{cite news |last=Bunbury |first=Stephanie |date=24 May 2014 |title=Australian actor David Gulpilil wins best actor award at Cannes Film Festival |url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/australian-actor-david-gulpilil-wins-best-actor-award-at-cannes-film-festival-20140524-zrmxa.html |access-date=27 January 2018 |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald}}

| colspan="2" | Charlie's Country

|David Gulpilil

rowspan="6" | 2015

| {{lang|fr|Prix du Jury}}|| data-sort-value="High Sun" | The High Sun || Zvizdan

|Dalibor Matanic

{{lang|fr|Prix de la mise-en-scene}}

| Journey to the Shore

data-sort-value="Kishibe" | {{lang|ja|岸辺の旅}}

|Kiyoshi Kurosawa

rowspan="3" | {{lang|fr|Prix avenir prometteur}}

| colspan="2" | The Fourth Direction

|Gurvinder Singh

colspan="2" | Masaan

|Neeraj Ghaywan

colspan="2" | Nahid

|Ida Panahandeh

{{lang|fr|Prix un certain talent}}

| data-sort-value="Treasure" | The Treasure

Comoara

|Corneliu Porumboiu

rowspan="4" |2016

| {{lang|fr|Prix du Jury}}|| Harmonium || data-sort-value="Fuchi" | {{lang|ja|淵に立つ}}

|Koji Fukada

{{lang|fr|Prix de la mise-en-scène}}

| colspan="2" | Captain Fantastic

|Matt Ross

{{lang|fr|Prix du meilleur scénario}}

| data-sort-value="Stopover" | The Stopover

Voir du pays

|Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin

{{lang|fr|Prix spécial du certain regard}}

| data-sort-value="Red Turtle" | The Red Turtle

data-sort-value="Tortue" | La Tortue rouge

|Michael Dudok de Wit

rowspan="4" |2017

| {{lang|fr|Prix du Jury}}|| April's Daughter || Las Hijas de Abril

|Michel Franco

{{lang|fr|Prix d'interprétation féminine}}

| colspan="2" | Fortunata

|Jasmine Trinca

{{lang|fr|Prix de la poésie du cinéma}}

| colspan="2" | Barbara

|Mathieu Amalric

{{lang|fr|Prix de la mise-en-scène}}

| colspan="2" | Wind River

|Taylor Sheridan

rowspan="4" |2018

| {{lang|fr|Prix du Jury}}|| The Dead and the Others || Chuva é Cantoria na Aldeia dos Mortos

|João Salaviza, Renée Nader Messora

{{lang|fr|Prix du meilleur acteur}}

| colspan="2" | Girl

|Victor Polster

{{lang|fr|Prix du scénario}}

| colspan="2" | Sofia

|Meryem Benm'Barek-Aloïsi

{{lang|fr|Prix de la mise-en-scène}}

| colspan="2" | Donbass

|Sergei Loznitsa

rowspan="5" |2019

| Jury Prize|| Fire Will Come || O que arde

|Oliver Laxe

{{lang|fr|Prix d'interprétation féminine}}

| colspan="1" | On a Magical Night

Chambre 212

|Chiara Mastroianni

{{lang|fr|Prix du meilleur directeur}}

| colspan="1" | Beanpole

Дылда

|Kantemir Balagov

{{lang|fr|Prix Coup de cœur du jury}}

| colspan="2" | The Climb

|Michael Angelo Covino

{{lang|fr|Prix spécial du jury}}

| colspan="2" | Liberté

|Albert Serra

= 2020s =

class="wikitable"
YearAwardEnglish titleOriginal title

!Recipient

rowspan="5" |2021

| Jury Prize|| Great Freedom || Große Freiheit

|Sebastian Meise

Ensemble Prize

| Good Mother

| {{lang|fr|Bonne Mère}}

|Hafsia Herzi

{{lang|fr|Prix de l'originalité}}

|Lamb

Dýrið

|Valdimar Jóhannsson

{{lang|fr|Prix du Courage}}

| colspan="2" |La Civil

|Teodora Mihai

{{lang|fr|Mention spéciale}}

|Prayers for the Stolen

Noche de fuego

|Tatiana Huezo

rowspan="6" | 2022

| Jury Prize|| colspan="2" | Joyland

|Saim Sadiq

Best Director

| colspan="2" | Metronom

|Alexandru Belc

rowspan="2" | Best Performance

| colspan="2" | Corsage

|Vicky Krieps

colspan="2" |Harka

|Adam Bessa

Best Screenplay

| colspan="2" | Mediterranean Fever

|Maha Haj

{{lang|fr|Coup de cœur}}

| colspan="2" | Rodeo

|Lola Quivoron

rowspan="5" |2023

|Jury Prize

|Hounds

|Les Meutes

|Kamal Lazraq

Best Director

|The Mother of All Lies

|{{lang|ar|كذب أبيض}}

|Asmae El Moudir

Freedom Prize

| colspan="2" |Goodbye Julia

|Mohamed Kordofani

Ensemble Prize

|The Buriti Flower

|Crowrã

|João Salaviza, Renée Nader Messora, Cast and Crew

New Voice Prize

| Omen

| Augure

| Baloji Tshiani

rowspan="7" |2024

|Jury Prize

|Souleymane's Story

|L'histoire de Souleymane

|Boris Lojkine

rowspan="2" |Best Director

| colspan="2" |The Damned

|Roberto Minervini

colspan="2" |On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

|Rungano Nyoni

rowspan="2" |Best Performance

| colspan="2" |The Shameless

|Anasuya Sengupta

Souleymane's Story

|L'histoire de Souleymane

|Abou Sangare

Youth Prize

|Holy Cow

|Vingt Dieux

|Louise Courvoisier

Special Mention

|Norah

|{{lang|ar|نورة}}

|Tawfik Alzaidi

rowspan="5" |2025

|Jury Prize

|A Poet

|Un Poeta

|Simón Mesa Soto

Best Director

| colspan="2" |Once Upon a Time in Gaza

|Tarzan and Arab Nasser

Best Screenplay

| colspan="2" |Pillion

|Harry Lighton

rowspan="1" |Best Actor

| colspan="2" |Urchin

|Frank Dillane

Best Actress

|I Only Rest in the Storm

|O Riso e a Faca

|Cleo Diára

References and notes

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