Can you name the winners of the first and second prizes at the Cannes Film Festival?

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PrizeFilmDirector (Year)
Grand Prix (1st)Cecil B. DeMille (1939)
Grand Prix (1st) (tie)Alf Sjoberg (1946)
Grand Prix (1st) (tie)Billy Wilder (1946)
Grand Prix (1st) (tie)Bodil Ipsen & Lau Lauritzen Jr. (1946)
Grand Prix (1st) (tie)David Lean (1946)
Grand Prix (1st) (tie)Emilio Fernandez (1946)
Grand Prix (1st) (tie)Chetan Anand (1946)
Grand Prix (1st) (tie)Fridrikh Ermler (1946)
Grand Prix (1st) (tie)Jean Delannoy (1946)
Grand Prix (1st) (tie)Leopold Lindtberg (1946)
Grand Prix (1st) (tie)Frantisek Cap (1946)
Grand Prix (1st) (tie)Roberto Rossellini (1946)
Grand Prix (1st)Carol Reed (1949)
Grand Prix (1st) (tie)Alf Sjoberg (1951)
Grand Prix (1st) (tie)Vittorio De Sica (1951)
Special Jury Prize (2nd)Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1951)
Grand Prix (1st) (tie)Orson Welles (1952)
Grand Prix (1st) (tie)Renato Castellani (1952)
Special Jury Prize (2nd)Andre Cayatte (1952)
Grand Prix (1st)Henri-Georges Clouzot (1953)
Grand Prix (1st)Teinosuke Kinugasa (1954)
Special Jury Prize (2nd)Rene Clement (1954)
Palme d'Or (1st)Delbert Mann (1955)
Special Jury Prize (2nd)Enrico Gras & Giorgio Moser (1955)
Palme d'Or (1st)Jacques Yves-Cousteau & Louis Malle (1956)
Special Jury Prize (2nd)Henri-Georges Clouzot (1956)
Palme d'Or (1st)William Wyler (1957)
Special Jury Prize (2nd) (tie)Andrzej Wajda (1957)
Special Jury Prize (2nd) (tie)Ingmar Bergman (1957)
Palme d'Or (1st)Mikhail Kalatozov (1958)
Special Jury Prize (2nd)Jacques Tati (1958)
Palme d'Or (1st)Marcel Camus (1959)
Special Jury Prize (2nd)Konrad Wolf (1959)
Palme d'Or (1st)Federico Fellini (1960)
Special Jury Prize (2nd) (tie)Michelangelo Antonioni (1960)
Special Jury Prize (2nd) (tie)Kon Ichikawa (1960)
Palme d'Or (1st) (tie)Henri Colpi (1961)
Palme d'Or (1st) (tie)Luis Bunuel (1961)
Special Jury Prize (2nd)Jerzy Kawalerowicz (1961)
Palme d'Or (1st)Anselmo Duarte (1962)
Special Jury Prize (2nd) (tie)Robert Bresson (1962)
Special Jury Prize (2nd) (tie)Michelangelo Antonioni (1962)
Palme d'Or (1st)Luchino Visconti (1963)
Special Jury Prize (2nd) (tie)Masaki Kobayashi (1963)
Special Jury Prize (2nd) (tie)Vojtech Jasny (1963)
Grand Prix (1st)Jacques Demy (1964)
Special Jury Prize (2nd)Hiroshi Teshigahara (1964)
Grand Prix (1st)Richard Lester (1965)
Special Jury Prize (2nd)Masaki Kobayashi (1965)
Grand Prix (1st)Claude Lelouch (1966)
Grand Prix (1st)Pietro Germi (1966)
Special Jury Prize (2nd)Lewis Gilbert (1966)
PrizeFilmDirector (Year)
Grand Prix (1st)Michelangelo Antonioni (1967)
Grand Prix Special (2nd) (tie)Joseph Losey (1967)
Grand Prix Special (2nd) (tie)Aleksander Petrovic (1967)
Grand Prix (1st)Lindsay Anderson (1969)
Grand Prix Special (2nd)Bo Widerberg (1969)
Grand Prix (1st)Robert Altman (1970)
Grand Prix Special (2nd)Elio Petri (1970)
Grand Prix (1st)Joseph Losey (1971)
Grand Prix Special (2nd) (tie)Dalton Trumbo (1971)
Grand Prix Special (2nd) (tie)Milos Forman (1971)
Grand Prix (1st) (tie)Elio Petri (1972)
Grand Prix (1st) (tie)Francesco Rosi (1972)
Grand Prix Special (2nd)Andrei Tarkovsky (1972)
Grand Prix (1st) (tie)Alan Bridges (1973)
Grand Prix (1st) (tie)Jerry Schatzberg (1973)
Grand Prix Special (2nd) (tie)Jean Eustache (1973)
Grand Prix Special (2nd) (tie)Rene Laloux (1973)
Grand Prix (1st)Francis Ford Coppola (1974)
Grand Prix Special (2nd)Pier Paolo Passolini (1974)
Palme d'Or (1st)Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina (1975)
Grand Prix Special (2nd)Werner Herzog (1975)
Palme d'Or (1st)Martin Scorsese (1976)
Grand Prix Special (2nd) (tie)Carlos Saura (1976)
Grand Prix Special (2nd) (tie)Eric Rohmer (1976)
Palme d'Or (1st)Paolo Taviani & Vittorio Taviani (1977)
Palme d'Or (1st)Ermanno Olmi (1978)
Grand Prix Special (2nd) (tie)Jerzy Skolimowski (1978)
Grand Prix Special (2nd) (tie)Marco Ferreri (1978)
Palme d'Or (1st) (tie)Francis Ford Coppola (1979)
Palme d'Or (1st) (tie)Volker Schlondorff (1979)
Grand Prix Special (2nd)Andrei Konchalovsky (1979)
Palme d'Or (1st) (tie)Bob Fosse (1980)
Palme d'Or (1st) (tie)Akira Kurosawa (1980)
Grand Prix Special (2nd)Alain Resnais (1980)
Palme d'Or (1st)Andrzej Wajda (1981)
Grand Prix Special (2nd)Alain Tanner (1981)
Palme d'Or (1st) (tie)Costa-Gavras (1982)
Palme d'Or (1st) (tie)Yilmaz Guney & Serif Goren (1982)
Grand Prix Special (2nd)Paolo Taviani & Vittorio Taviani (1982)
Palme d'Or (1st)Shohei Imamura (1983)
Grand Prix Special (2nd)Terry Jones (1983)
Palme d'Or (1st)Wim Wenders (1984)
Grand Prix Special (2nd)Marta Meszaros (1984)
Palme d'Or (1st)Emir Kusturica (1985)
Grand Prix Special (2nd)Alan Parker (1985)
Palme d'Or (1st)Roland Joffe (1986)
Grand Prix Special (2nd)Andrei Tarkovsky (1986)
Palme d'Or (1st)Maurice Pialat (1987)
Grand Prix Special (2nd)Tengiz Abuladze (1987)
Palme d'Or (1st)Bille August (1988)
Grand Prix Special (2nd)Chris Menges (1988)
Palme d'Or (1st)Steven Soderbergh (1989)
PrizeFilmDirector (Year)
Grand Prix (2nd) (tie)Giuseppe Tornatore (1989)
Grand Prix (2nd) (tie)Bertrand Blier (1989)
Palme d'Or (1st)David Lynch (1990)
Grand Prix (2nd) (tie)Idrissa Ouedraogo (1990)
Grand Prix (2nd) (tie)Kohei Oguri (1990)
Palme d'Or (1st)Joel Coen (1991)
Grand Prix (2nd)Jacques Rivette (1991)
Palme d'Or (1st)Bille August (1992)
Grand Prix (2nd)Gianni Amelio (1992)
Palme d'Or (1st) (tie)Chen Kaige (1993)
Palme d'Or (1st) (tie)Jane Campion (1993)
Grand Prix (2nd)Wim Wenders (1993)
Palme d'Or (1st)Quentin Tarantino (1994)
Grand Prix (2nd) (tie)Zhang Yimou (1994)
Grand Prix (2nd) (tie)Nikita Mikhalkov (1994)
Palme d'Or (1st)Emir Kusturica (1995)
Grand Prix (2nd)Theo Angelopoulos (1995)
Palme d'Or (1st)Mike Leigh (1996)
Grand Prix (2nd)Lars von Trier (1996)
Palme d'Or (1st) (tie)Abbas Kiarostami (1997)
Palme d'Or (1st) (tie)Shohei Imamura (1997)
Grand Prix (2nd)Atom Egoyan (1997)
Palme d'Or (1st)Theo Angelopoulos (1998)
Grand Prix (2nd)Roberto Benigni (1998)
Palme d'Or (1st)Luc Dardenne & Jean-Pierre Dardenne (1999)
Grand Prix (2nd)Bruno Dumont (1999)
Palme d'Or (1st)Lars von Trier (2000)
Grand Prix (2nd)Jiang Wen (2000)
Palme d'Or (1st)Nanni Moretti (2001)
Grand Prix (2nd)Michael Haneke (2001)
Palme d'Or (1st)Roman Polanski (2002)
Grand Prix (2nd)Aki Kaurismaki (2002)
Palme d'Or (1st)Gus Van Sant (2003)
Grand Prix (2nd)Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2003)
Palme d'Or (1st)Michael Moore (2004)
Grand Prix (2nd)Park Chan-wook (2004)
Palme d'Or (1st)Luc Dardenne & Jean-Pierre Dardenne (2005)
Grand Prix (2nd)Jim Jarmusch (2005)
Palme d'Or (1st)Ken Loach (2006)
Grand Prix (2nd)Bruno Dumont (2006)
Palme d'Or (1st)Cristian Mungiu (2007)
Grand Prix (2nd)Naomi Kawase (2007)
Palme d'Or (1st)Laurent Cantet (2008)
Grand Prix (2nd)Matteo Garrone (2008)
Palme d'Or (1st)Michael Haneke (2009)
Grand Prix (2nd)Jacques Audiard (2009)
Palme d'Or (1st)Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2010)
Grand Prix (2nd)Xavier Beauvois (2010)
Palme d'Or (1st)Terrence Malick (2011)
Grand Prix (2nd) (tie)Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2011)
Grand Prix (2nd) (tie)Luc Dardenne & Jean-Pierre Dardenne (2011)
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Cannes Film Festival Winners Quiz

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