Which 1960 film won the Palme d'Or at Cannes?

The 1960 film that won the Palme d'Or at Cannes was Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita.

Starring Marcello Mastroianni as journalist Marcello Rubini, the Italian film follows a week in the life of a disenchanted writer moving through Rome's celebrity culture, nightlife, and upper-class society. Its episodic structure and portrait of spiritual emptiness made it a defining work of European art cinema.

La Dolce Vita won the top prize at the 13th Cannes Film Festival, held in May 1960. The decision was controversial: the film's provocative subject matter divided audiences, while Michelangelo Antonioni's L'Avventura also attracted major attention. L'Avventura received the Special Jury Prize, not the Palme d'Or.

The title is often translated as “The Sweet Life,” though the film's mood is far more ambivalent than that phrase suggests. The movie also introduced the word “paparazzi” to international popular culture through the character Paparazzo, a photographer who follows celebrities.