The Cannes Film Festival
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The Cannes Film Festival is a prestigious international film festival. It has been held annually in Cannes, in the south of France, since 1946 with a few exceptions.Given massive media exposure, the Festival is attended by many movie stars and is a popular venue for movie producers to launch their new films and attempt to sell their works to the distributors who come from all over the globe.
The most prestigious award given out at Cannes is the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) for the best film; this is sometimes shared by multiple films in one year. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannes_Film_Festival
Film Festival [...]
A film festival is a mostly annual festival showcasing films, usually of a recent date, sometimes with a focus on a specific genre (e.g. animation) or subject (e.g. gay and lesbian film festivals).
The world's first major film festival was held in Venice in 1932; the other three major film festivals of the world (Cannes, Berlin and Locarno) date back to the 1940s and 1950s.
The festivals in Venice, Cannes, Berlin, Karlovy Vary and (since 2002) Locarno are listed as so-called "A festivals". New films may be screened at only one of these festivals. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_festival [Sept 2004]
Sundance to Sarajevo: Film Festivals and the World They Made - Kenneth Turan
Sundance to Sarajevo: Film Festivals and the World They Made - Kenneth Turan, University of California Press, hardback, ISBN 0520218671.Palme d'Or
Year Film Director Country 1946 L'Épreuve (Hets) Alf Sjöberg Sweden 1946 The Lost Weekend Billy Wilder United States 1946 La Terre sera rouge Bodil Ipsen & Lau Jr. Lauritzen Denmark 1946 Neecha Nagar Chetan Anand India 1946 Brève rencontre (Brief Encounter) David Lean United Kingdom 1946 Maria Candelaria Emilio Fernandez Mexico 1946 Le Tournant décisif Fridrikh Markovitch Ermler Soviet Union 1946 la Symphonie pastorale Jean Delannoy France 1946 la Dernière Chance Leopold Lintberg Switzerland 1946 les Hommes sans ailes M. Cap Czechoslovakia 1946 Rome ville ouverte Roberto Rossellini Italy 1947 not awarded 1948 no festival that year 1949 The Third Man Carol Reed United Kingdom 1950 no festival that year 1951 Mademoiselle Julie Alf Sjöberg Sweden 1951 Miracle à Milan Vittorio De Sica Italy 1952 Othello Orson Welles United States 1952 Deux Sous d'espoir Renato Castellani Italy 1953 Le Salaire de la peur Henri-Georges Clouzot France 1954 La Porte de l'enfer Teinosuke Kinugasa Japan 1955 Marty Delbert Mann United States 1956 Le Monde du silence Jacques-Yves Cousteau & Louis Malle France 1957 La Loi du Seigneur (Friendly Persuasion) William Wyler United States 1958 Quand passent les cigognes Mikhaïl Kalatozov Soviet Union 1959 Orfeu Negro Marcel Camus France 1960 la Dolce Vita Federico Fellini Italy 1961 Une aussi longue absence Henri Colpi France 1961 Viridiana Luis Buñuel Spain 1962 la Parole donnée Anselmo Duarte Brazil 1963 le Guépard Luchino Visconti Italy 1964 les Parapluies de Cherbourg Jacques Demy France 1965 le Knack... et comment l'avoir Richard Lester United Kingdom 1966 Un homme et une femme Claude Lelouch France 1966 Ces messieurs dames Pietro Germi Italy 1967 Blow-Up Michelangelo Antonioni Italy 1968 canceled due to May 1968 uprising in Paris 1969 If... Lindsay Anderson United Kingdom 1970 M*A*S*H Robert Altman United States 1971 The Go-Between Joseph Losey United Kingdom 1972 La classe ouvrière va au paradis Elio Petri Italy 1972 l'Affaire Mattei Francesco Rosi Italy 1973 la Méprise Alan Bridges United Kingdom 1973 Scarecrow Jerry Schatzberg United States 1974 The Conversation Francis Ford Coppola United States 1975 Chronique des années de braise Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina Algeria 1976 Taxi Driver Martin Scorsese United States 1977 Padre padrone Paolo Taviani & Vittorio Taviani Italy 1978 l'Arbre aux sabots Ermanno Olmi Italy 1979 Apocalypse Now Francis Ford Coppola United States 1979 le Tambour Volker Schlöndorff West Germany 1980 All That Jazz Bob Fosse United States 1980 Kagemusha Kurosawa Akira Japan 1981 l'Homme de fer Andrzej Wajda Poland 1982 Missing Costa-Gavras United States 1982 Yol Yilmaz Güney Turkey 1983 la Balade de Narayama Imamura Shohei Japan 1984 Paris, Texas Wim Wenders West Germany 1985 Otac na sluzbenom putu (When Father Was Away on Business) Emir Kusturica Yugoslavia 1986 The Mission Roland Joffé United Kingdom 1987 Sous le soleil de Satan (Under the Sun of Satan) Maurice Pialat France 1988 Pelle erobreren (Pelle the Conqueror) Bille August Denmark 1989 Sex, Lies and Videotape Steven Soderbergh United States 1990 Wild at Heart David Lynch United States 1991 Barton Fink Joel Coen & Ethan Coen United States 1992 Den Goda viljan (The Best Intentions) Bille August Denmark 1993 Ba wang bie ji (Farewell My Concubine) Chen Kaige China 1993 The Piano Jane Campion New Zealand 1994 Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino United States 1995 Underground Emir Kusturica Yugoslavia 1996 Secrets and Lies Mike Leigh United Kingdom 1997 Ta'm e guilass (Taste of Cherry) Abbas Kiarostami Iran 1997 Unagi (The Eel) Imamura Shohei Japan 1998 Mia aiwniothta kai mia mera (Eternity and a Day) Theo Angelopoulos Greece 1999 Rosetta Luc Dardenne & Jean-Pierre Dardenne Belgium 2000 Dancer in the Dark Lars von Trier Denmark 2001 La Stanza del figlio Nanni Moretti Italy 2002 The Pianist Roman Polanski France 2003 Elephant Gus Van Sant United Stateshttp://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannes_Film_Festival
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