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Each year, prior to the beginning of each event, the Cannes Film Festival board of directors appoints the juries who hold sole responsibility for choosing which films will receive an award. [1] Jurors are chosen from a wide range of international artists, based on their body of work and respect from their peers.
Cannes seen from Le Suquet. The Cannes Film Festival (/ k æ n /; French: Festival de Cannes [fɛstival də kan]), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (Festival international du film), is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries, from all around the world.
42 years – Jean-Luc Godard's first film in official selection was How's it going, screened in the section Perspectives du Cinéma Français in 1976. He won his first and only Palme d'Or for The Image Book in 2018, which also marked the first time in the history of the festival that a director was awarded with a Palme d'Or Spéciale.
The Caméra d'Or ("Golden Camera") is an award of the Cannes Film Festival for the best first feature film presented in one of the Cannes' selections (Official Selection, Directors' Fortnight or International Critics' Week).
The 72nd annual Cannes Film Festival took place from 14 to 25 May 2019. [3] Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu served as jury president for the main competition. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho won the Palme d'Or , the festival's top prize, for the drama film Parasite ; Bong became the first Korean to win the award.
The 73rd annual Cannes Film Festival was scheduled to take place from 12 to 23 May 2020. [2] On 13 January 2020, Spike Lee was named as the president of the Jury. [ 3 ] However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in France , festival management announced on 14 April 2020 that the festival could not be held in its "original form", with alternative ...
The 74th annual Cannes Film Festival took place from 6 to 17 July 2021, [1] after having been originally scheduled from 11 to 22 May 2021. [2] American filmmaker Spike Lee was invited to be the president of the jury for the main competition for the festival, after the COVID-19 pandemic in France scuttled plans to have him head the jury of the 2020 Cannes Film Festival. [3]
Un Certain Regard (French: [œ̃ sɛʁtɛ̃ ʁəɡaʁ]; 'A Certain Glance') is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's official selection. It is run at the salle Debussy, parallel to the competition for the Palme d'Or.