<P> Les Cahiers du cinéma featured Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives on the cover of the June issue and listed it first on their famous annual Top Ten of 2010 . </P> <P> The film received a score of 2.4 / 4 at Screen International's annual Cannes Jury Grid, which polls international film critics from publications such as Sight & Sound, The Australian, Positif, L'Unita, Der Tagesspiegel among others . It was listed second on Film Comment magazine's Best Films of 2011 list . In the 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll, 8 critics voted for it as one of their 10 greatest films ever made; this ranked it at #202 in the finished list . Five directors also voted, making the film ranked at #132 in the directors' poll . In a 2016 BBC poll, critics voted the film the 37th greatest since 2000 . </P> <P> The film won the Palme d'Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival . It became the first Asian film to win the award since 1997 . Apichatpong Weerasethakul became the first Thai director to receive the award . The film was selected as the Thai entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards but it didn't make the final shortlist . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Award </Th> <Th> Date of ceremony </Th> <Th> </Th> <Th> Recipient (s) </Th> <Th> Result </Th> <Th> Ref (s) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Asian Film Awards </Td> <Td> 21 March 2011 </Td> <Td> Best Film </Td> <Td> Apichatpong Weerasethakul </Td> <Td> Won </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Cannes Film Festival </Td> <Td> 12--23 May 2010 </Td> <Td> Palme d'Or </Td> <Td> Won </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Chicago Film Critics Association </Td> <Td> 19 December 2011 </Td> <Td> Best Foreign Language Film </Td> <Td> Nominated </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Chicago International Film Festival </Td> <Td> 2011 </Td> <Td> International Film Poster Silver Plaque </Td> <Td> Chris Ware </Td> <Td> Won </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Dubai International Film Festival </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> Best Cinematographer </Td> <Td> Sayombhu Mukdeeprom and Yukontorn Mingmongkon </Td> <Td> Won </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Independent Spirit Awards </Td> <Td> 26 February 2011 </Td> <Td> Best Foreign Language Film </Td> <Td> Apichatpong Weerasethakul </Td> <Td> Nominated </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> London Film Critics' Circle </Td> <Td> 11 February 2011 </Td> <Td> Best Foreign Language Film </Td> <Td> Nominated </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Best Director </Td> <Td> Nominated </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Online Film Critics Society </Td> <Td> 2 January 2012 </Td> <Td> Best Foreign Language Film </Td> <Td> Nominated </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Toronto Film Critics Association </Td> <Td> 14 December 2010 </Td> <Td> Best Picture </Td> <Td> Runner - up </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Best Foreign Language Film </Td> <Td> Won </Td> </Tr> </Table>

Uncle boonmee who can recall his past life