The Coen Brothers won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival on this day in 1991 for 'Barton Fink'. The film also won awards for best actor (John Turturro) and best director (Joel Coen).

A triple win at Cannes was extremely rare and worried that it could set a precedent, which would undervalue other films, Cannes decided that after 1991, movies would be limited to a maximum of two awards.