Cannes Film Festival
The International Film Festival of Cannes are among the world's most important film festivals. It has been held annually since 1946 in May on the Côte d' Azur. Main venue in Cannes is the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès.
The last Film Festival took place from 15th to May 26th 2013. President of the Jury was the American filmmaker Steven Spielberg. The Palme d'Or went to the movie Blue is a warm color of Abdellatif Kechiche.
History
The film festival were designed at the initiative of the French education and culture minister Jean Zay. Originally planned for the year 1939, they could be held due to World War II for the first time in 1946. 1948 and 1950 fell from the festival due to funding problems.
1955 the best movie was first awarded the Palme d'Or. Designed by the French jeweler Lucienne Lazon trophy replaced the previously awarded " Grand Prix" from.
As a result of the Paris May riots, the festival was canceled on May 19, 1968. Already on the eve of Louis Malle had resigned as a member of the jury. Malle, François Truffaut, Claude Berri, Jean -Gabriel Albicocco, Claude Lelouch, Roman Polanski and Jean -Luc Godard invaded the Great Hall of the Palais des Festivals and demanded the interruption of the demonstration as an expression of solidarity with the striking workers and students. The action was seen as a response to the recently being dismissal of Henri Langlois as director of the Cinémathèque française.
On the occasion of 50th Cannes Film Festival Ingmar Bergman Award presence of numerous previous winners with the " Palm of Palms ".
Today, Cannes is one of the most important and most prestigious film festivals in the world.
Competitions and awards
The film awards at the International Film Festival are awarded annually by a newly formed international jury, consisting mainly of filmmakers. The main prize is the Golden Palm ( Palme d' Or), with the best film of the competition will be awarded. More awarded by the jury for the overall film prices are ( in descending order ) of the Grand Prize of the Jury ( Grand prix du jury ), the Jury Prize ( Prix du Jury ) and the (not necessarily every year award ) Special Jury Prize. There are also prize in the individual categories of female performers, male actor, director and screenwriter.
The trophies are made and donated by the Swiss jeweler Chopard in Geneva. Chopard also gives the jewelry for the celebrities.
Other juries draw here also made films in competition. Most importantly the FIPRESCI Prize of the International Critics ( Prix de la FIPRESCI ) and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury are ( Prix du Jury oecuménique ).
In addition to the main competition there from festival site is still the short film competition with the Palme d'Or for short films ( Palme d'Or du court métrage ), competition Cinéfondation, will be awarded in the work of film students, and the Un Certain Regard, in which for In 1998, the Prix Un Certain Regard will be given.
Finally, as part of the international film festival run both the Association of Directors Société des Réalisateurs de Films with their La Fortnight and the Critics Organization Syndicat français de la critique de cinéma with their La Semaine Internationale de la Critique own independent parallel event by where also a number of prizes will be awarded. The award since 1978 Golden Camera ( Camera d' Or) for a first work serves as a clamp, as the winners by a panel of representatives of the three event support is selected from the competition programs of all three parallel events.
The main awards:
Honors
In Cannes also great artists to be honored. For 1985, the master director François Truffaut, who was expelled in 1958 as the critics in Cannes, because his reports were felt to be too critical. A year later, he received the Director Award for his first novel They kissed and they beat him. After the May riots in Paris with colleagues Truffaut boycotted the film festival, which is why 1968 could not take place. One year after Truffaut's death gathered Jeanne Moreau in his Cannes Stars (Jean -Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Fanny Ardant ) on stage and presented a Hommage à François Truffaut, Claude de Givray has filmed as Vivement Truffaut.
Another prize is the Prix Orange, which is awarded annually since 1960 by the press to an actor or an actress. Prize winners were, inter alia, Annie Girardot (1961 ), remote Andel (1964 ), Philippe Noiret (1972 ), Claude Jade ( 1975) and Jean Marais (1998). The Commission Supérieure Technique de l' Image et du Son (CST ) awards for outstanding artistic and technical achievements since 1951, the Prix Vulcain de l'artiste technicien.