1996 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or Winner
![Secrets & Lies Mike Leigh](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/secrets-and-lies-mike-leigh-image.jpg)
Secrets & Lies
Mike Leigh
A successful black woman discovers that her birth mother is an underprivileged white woman, but the woman denies it. As emotions run high, everyone’s secrets are exposed.
1996 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or Nominees
![A Self-Made Hero Jacques Audiard](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/a-self-made-hero-jacques-audiard-image.jpg)
A Self-Made Hero
Jacques Audiard
![Breaking the Waves Lars von Trier](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/breaking-the-waves-lars-von-trier-image.jpg)
Breaking the Waves
Lars von Trier
![Crash David Cronenberg](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/crash-david-cronenberg-image.jpg)
Crash
David Cronenberg
![Drifting Clouds Aki Kaurismäki](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/drifting-clouds-aki-kaurismaki-image.jpg)
Drifting Clouds
Aki Kaurismäki
![Earth Julio Medem](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/earth-julio-medem-image.jpg)
Earth
Julio Medem
![Fargo Joel Coen](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/fargo-joel-coen-ethan-coen-image.jpg)
Fargo
Joel Coen
![Goodbye, South, Goodbye Hsiao-Hsien Hou](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/goodbye-south-goodbye-hsiao-hsien-hou-image.jpg)
Goodbye, South, Goodbye
Hsiao-Hsien Hou
![Kansas City Robert Altman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/kansas-city-robert-altman-image.jpg)
Kansas City
Robert Altman
![La seconda volta Mimmo Calopresti](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/la-seconda-volta-mimmo-calopresti-image.jpg)
La seconda volta
Mimmo Calopresti
![My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument Arnaud Desplechin](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/my-sex-life...-or-how-i-got-into-an-argument-arnaud-desplechin-image.jpg)
My Sex Life… or How I Got Into an Argument
Arnaud Desplechin
![Po di Sangui Flora Gomes](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/po-di-sangui-flora-gomes-image.jpg)
Po di Sangui
Flora Gomes
![Ridicule Patrice Leconte](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ridicule-patrice-leconte-image.jpg)
Ridicule
Patrice Leconte
![Stealing Beauty Bernardo Bertolucci](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/stealing-beauty-image.jpg)
Stealing Beauty
Bernardo Bertolucci
![Temptress Moon Kaige Chen](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/temptress-moon-kaige-chen-image.jpg)
Temptress Moon
Kaige Chen
![The Eighth Day Jaco Van Dormael](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-eighth-day-jaco-van-dormael-image.jpg)
The Eighth Day
Jaco Van Dormael
![The Quiet Room Rolf de Heer](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-quiet-room-rolf-de-heer-image.jpg)
The Quiet Room
Rolf de Heer
![The Sunchaser Michael Cimino](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-sunchaser-michael-cimino-image.jpg)
The Sunchaser
Michael Cimino
![The Van Stephen Frears](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-van-stephen-frears-image.jpg)
The Van
Stephen Frears
![Thieves André Téchiné](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/thieves-image.jpg)
Thieves
André Téchiné
![Three Lives and Only One Death Raoul Ruiz](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/three-lives-and-only-one-death-raoul-ruiz-image.jpg)
Three Lives and Only One Death
Raoul Ruiz
![Too Late Lucian Pintilie](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/too-late-lucian-pintilie-image.jpg)