-IMDB Press Release-
IMDb, the #1 movie website in the world reveals the top 10 films ever to be screened in competition for a Palme d’Or at any of the previous Cannes Film Festivals, based on user votes on IMDb. Here are the results:
Top 10 Most Popular Cannes Films 1. Pulp Fiction 2. Inglourious Basterds 3. Sin City 4. No Country for Old Men 5. Shrek 6. Taxi Driver 7. El laberinto del fauno (Pan's Labyrinth) 8. Apocalypse Now 9. Drive 10. L.A. Confidential *Rankings determined by user votes on IMDb.
“IMDb users ranked Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction #1 amongst all of the films ever to compete for the Palme d’Or (the grand prize of Cannes) since the film festival began,” said Keith Simanton, IMDb’s managing editor. “Another Tarantino film he also wrote and directed, Inglourious Basterds, claimed the #2 slot on our user-selected list. Of the two, only 1994’s Pulp Fiction (#1) went on to win the coveted Palme d’Or prize. Two other films on our users’ top 10 list also won the Palme d’Or: Taxi Driver (#6) in 1976 and Apocalypse Now (#8), which had to share the prize with Volker Schlondorff’s The Tin Drum, in 1979.”
IMDb also announced the top 10 highest-grossing Palme d’Or winners of all-time (rankings determined by domestic box office gross), as follows:
Top 10 Highest Grossing Cannes Films:
1. Fahrenheit 9/11 ($119.2 million) 2. Pulp Fiction ($107.9 million) 3. Apocalypse Now ($83.5 million) 4. The Piano ($40.2 million) 5. All That Jazz ($37.8 million) 6. The Pianist ($32.6 million) 7. Taxi Driver ($28.3 million) 8. Sex, Lies, and Videotape ($24.7 million) 9. The Mission ($17.2 million) 10. Wild at Heart ($14.6 million) *Rankings determined by domestic box office gross.
-IMDB Press Release-
Edited by Vanessa McMahon