00:00I heard that the Cannes Film Festival has never awarded the Palme d'Or to a black director.
00:04Every day, I make a video about the Cannes Film Festival until Dailymotion invites me to
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00:11Apparently, no black director has ever won the Palme d'Or at Cannes.
00:15To be precise, the Palme d'Or rewards a film, but not officially a director.
00:20But the film cannot be separated from the director.
00:23If we're talking about the director of the winning film, then yes,
00:26There is no black director who has won the Palme d'Or for best feature film at Cannes.
00:31And it's quite amazing when you look at the names of the directors who have been at the Cannes Film Festival,
00:36such as Spike Lee, for example.
00:37Spike Lee was in competition with Do the Right Things in 1989.
00:41Today, the film is considered a major classic of American cinema.
00:45But in Cannes, he did not win the Palme d'Or.
00:47In fact, Do the Right Things is often cited as one of the big flops of Cannes
00:51because the film dealt directly with racism, police violence, and social anger,
00:55with an energy that American cinema had not often dared at this level.
00:59And almost 30 years later, Spike Lee returns with Black Hands Man.
01:03He won the grand prize in 2018, one of the festival's most important prizes.
01:07but not the Palme d'Or.
01:09So Cannes recognized Spike Lee, okay, but not with the top prize.
01:13However, Denzel Washington received a Palme d'Or in 2025.
01:18and it was an honorary Palme d'Or.
01:19But that has nothing to do with the Palme d'Or, the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
01:25So, to recap, no black director has ever received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
01:30And that's for a festival that presents itself as the pinnacle of world cinema.
01:36This is a huge topic.
01:37Let me know in the comments if you knew that.
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01:40Subtitling by Radio-Canada
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