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Cannes Film Festival

Location Cannes, France

20 September 1946; 73 years ago (as
Founded
International Film Festival)
Awards Palme d'Or, Grand Prix
Website www.festival-cannes.com

Cannes seen from Le Suquet

The Cannes Festival (/kæn/; French: Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International
Film Festival (Festival international du film) and known in English as the Cannes Film
Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all
genres, including documentaries from all around the world. Founded in 1946, the invitation-only
festival is held annually (usually in May) at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès.[1]
On 1 July 2014, co-founder and former head of French pay-TV operator Canal+, Pierre Lescure,
took over as President of the Festival, while Thierry Frémaux became the General Delegate. The
board of directors also appointed Gilles Jacob as Honorary President of the Festival.[2][3]

It is one of the "Big Five" film festivals, alongside the Venice Film Festival in Italy, the Berlin
International Film Festival in Germany, the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada and
the Sundance Film Festival in the United States.[4][5][6] The Big Five are internationally acclaimed
for giving creators the artistic freedom to express themselves through film.[7] In 1951, FIAPF
formally accredited the festival.[8]

Contents
 1 History
o 1.1 The early years
o 1.2 1950s and 1960s
o 1.3 1970s and 1980s
o 1.4 1990s to present
o 1.5 2020 edition
 2 Controversies
 3 Festival team
 4 Programmes
 5 Juries
 6 Awards
 7 Impact
o 7.1 Cannes Film Festival in fiction
 8 See also
 9 References
 10 Further reading
 11 Media
 12 External links

History
The early years
Note from 1939 with the French Government's decision not to participate at the Venice Film
Festival anymore, but instead to host its own festival in Biarritz, Cannes or Nice

The Cannes Film Festival has its origins in 1938 when Jean Zay, the French Minister of National
Education, on the proposal of high-ranking official and historian Philippe Erlanger and film
journalist Robert Favre Le Bret decided to set up an international cinematographic festival. They
found the support of the Americans and the British.

Its creation can be largely attributed to the French desire to compete with the Venice Film
Festival, which at the time was the only international film festival and had shown a lack of
impartiality with its fascist bias during those years.[9] The political interference seemed evident in
the 1937 edition when Benito Mussolini meddled to ensure that French pacifist film La Grande
Illusion would not win.[10]

The last straw was in the 1938 event when Mussolini and Adolf Hitler respectively overruled the
jury's decision in order to award the Coppa Mussolini (Mussolini Cup) for the Best film to Italian
war film Luciano Serra, Pilot, produced under the supervission of Mussolini's son, and the
Coppa Mussolini for the Best foreign film to Olympia, a German documentary film about the
Berlin 1936 Summer Olympics produced in association with the Nazi Ministry of Public
Enlightenment and Propaganda despite the fact that the regulations at that time prohibited
awarding a documentary.

Outraged by the decision and as a measure of protest, the French, British, and American jury
members decided to withdrew from the festival with the intention of not returning.[11] This snub
encouraged the French to found a free festival. Thus, on May 31, 1939, the city of Cannes was
finally selected as the location for the festival over Biarritz and the town hall along with the
French government signed the International Film Festival’s official birth certificate with the
name of Le Festival International du Film.[12]

The reason for deciding Cannes was because of its touristic appeal as a French Riviera resort
town and also because the city hall offered to increase the municipality’s financial participation,
including the commitment of building a dedicated venue for the event. The first edition was
planned to be held from 1 to 20 September 1939 in an auditorium at the Municipal Casino and
Louis Lumière was going to be the honorary president. Its aim was "encouraging the
development of all forms of cinematographic art and foster a spirit of collaboration between
film-producing countries".[11]

Hollywood stars of the moment like Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Tyrone Power, Douglas
Fairbanks Jr., Mae West, Norma Shearer, Paul Muni, James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, and George
Raft arrived thanks to a Ocean liner chartered by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). On 31
August, the opening night gala took place with the private screening of the American film The
Hunchback of Notre Dame starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara and directed by
William Dieterle. The next day, on September 1, German troops invaded Poland. As a result, the
festival was postponed for 10 days and it would be resumed if the circumstances allowed it.[12]
However, the situation only worsened and on September 3, France and the United Kingdom
declared the war against Germany which sparked the Second World War. The French
government ordered a general mobilization and this prevented the festival from continuing so it
was finally cancelled.[13]

In 1946, the festival was relaunched and from 20 September to 5 October, 1946, twenty-one
countries presented their films at the First Cannes International Film Festival, which took place
at the former Casino of Cannes.[14] In 1947, amid serious problems of efficiency, the festival was
held as the "Festival du film de Cannes", where films from sixteen countries were presented. The
festival was not held in 1948 and 1950 due to budgetary problems.

In 1949, the Palais des Festivals was expressly constructed for the occasion on the seafront
promenade of La Croisette, although its inaugural roof, while still unfinished, blew off during a
storm. In 1951, the festival was moved to spring to avoid direct competition with the Venice
Festival which was held in autumn.[13]

1950s and 1960s

During the early 1950s, the festival attracted a lot of tourism and press attention, with showbiz
scandals and high-profile personalities' love affairs. At the same time, the artistic aspect of the
festival started developing. Because of controversies over the selection of films, the Critics' Prize
was created for the recognition of original films and daring filmmakers. In 1954, the Special Jury
Prize was awarded for the first time. In 1955, the Palme d'Or was created, replacing the Grand
Prix du Festival which had been given until that year. In 1957, Dolores del Río was the first
female member of the jury for the official selection.[15]

In 1959, the Marché du Film (Film Market) was founded, giving the festival a commercial
character and facilitating exchanges between sellers and buyers in the film industry. Today it has
become the first international platform for film commerce. Still, in the 1950s, some outstanding
films, like Night and Fog in 1956 and Hiroshima, My Love in 1959 were excluded from the
competition for diplomatic concerns. Jean Cocteau, three times president of the jury in those
years, is quoted to have said: "The Cannes Festival should be a no man's land in which politics
has no place. It should be a simple meeting between friends."[16][17]
In 1962, the International Critics' Week was born, created by the French Union of Film Critics as
the first parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival. Its goal was to showcase first and second
works by directors from all over the world, not succumbing to commercial tendencies. In 1965
Olivia de Havilland was named the first female president of the jury, while the next year Sofia
Loren became president.[18]

The 1968 festival was halted on 19 May. Some directors, such as Carlos Saura and Miloš
Forman, had withdrawn their films from the competition. On 18 May filmmaker Louis Malle
along with a group of directors took over the large room of the Palais and interrupted the
projections in solidarity with students and labour on strike throughout France,[19] and in protest to
the eviction of the then President of the Cinémathèque Française. The filmmakers achieved the
reinstatement of the President, and they founded the Film Directors' Society (SRF) that same
year.[20] In 1969 the SRF, led by Pierre-Henri Deleau created the Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine
des Réalisateurs), a new non-competitive section that programs a selection of films from around
the world, distinguished by the independent judgment displayed in the choice of films.[21]

1970s and 1980s

During the 1970s, important changes occurred in the Festival. In 1972, Robert Favre Le Bret was
named the new President, and Maurice Bessy the General Delegate. He introduced important
changes in the selection of the participating films, welcoming new techniques, and relieving the
selection from diplomatic pressures, with films like MASH, and later Chronicle of the Years of
Fire marking this turn. In some cases, these changes helped directors like Tarkovski overcome
problems of censorship in their own country.[22] Also, until that time, the different countries
chose the films that would represent them in the festival. Yet, in 1972, Bessy created a
committee to select French films, and another for foreign films.[23]

In 1978, Gilles Jacob assumed the position of General Delegate, introducing the Caméra d'Or
award, for the best first film of any of the main events, and the Un Certain Regard section, for
the non-competitive categories. Other changes were the decrease of length of the festival down
to thirteen days, thus reducing the number of selected films; also, until that point the Jury was
composed by Film Academics, and Jacob started to introduce celebrities and professionals from
the film industry.[24]

In 1983, a new, much bigger Palais des Festivals et des Congrès was built to host the festival,
while the Directors' Fortnight remained in the old building. The new building was nicknamed
"The Bunker", provoking a lot of criticism, especially since it was hardly finished at the event
and several technical problems occurred.[25] In 1984 Pierre Viot replaced Robert Favre Le Bret as
President of the Festival.[26] In his term, the Festival started including films from more countries,
like Philippines, China, Cuba, Australia, India, New Zealand and Argentina. In 1987, for the first
time of the Festival, a red carpet was placed at the entrance of the Palais. In 1989, during the first
Cinéma & liberté forum, hundred directors from many countries signed a declaration "against all
forms of censorship still existing in the world".[27]
Stars posing for photographers are a part of Cannes folklore.

1990s to present

In 1998, Gilles Jacob created the last section of the Official Selection: la Cinéfondation, aiming
to support the creation of works of cinema in the world and to contribute to the entry of the new
scenario writers in the circle of the celebrities.[28] The Cinéfondation was completed in 2000 with
La Résidence, where young directors could refine their writing and screenplays, and in 2005
L'Atelier, which helps twenty directors per year with the funding of their films. Gilles Jacob was
appointed Honorary President in 2000, and in 2002, the Festival officially adopted the name
Festival de Cannes.[29][30]

During the 2000s, the Festival started focusing more on the technological advances taking place
in the film world, especially the digital techniques. In 2004 the restored historical films of the
Festival were presented as Cannes Classics, which included documentaries. In 2007 Thierry
Frémaux became General Delegate. In 2009 he extended the Festival in Buenos Aires, as La
Semana de Cine del Festival de Cannes, and in 2010 he created the Cannes Court Métrage for
the Short Film competition.

2020 edition

On March 20th 2020, organizers announced the postponement of the Cannes Film Festival 2020
due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[31] Spike Lee, director of “Do The Right Thing” and
“BlacKkKlansman,” had been chosen to the lead the jury panel. In 2019, the jury panel was lead
by Alejandro González Iñárritu, director of “Birdman”.[32]

Controversies
In recent years, a number of gender and sexual controversies has surrounded the Cannes Film
Festival. These include "Heelgate" in which numerous female attendees of a red carpet premiere
were stopped from entering in 2015 for wearing flat soled shoes instead of high heels.[33] The
incident caused numerous female celebrities to wear flat soled shoes or no shoes at all to other
red carpet premiers in a show of solidarity and protest.[34]

A number of high-profile directors and producers have also been accused of sexual harassment
and abuse at past festivals.[citation needed]
As a result of the past sexual controversies and the #MeToo movement that arose out of the
Harvey Weinstein scandal, in 2018, Cannes Film Festival officials announced the creation of a
telephone hotline during the festival in which victims could report incidents of sexual harassment
and other crimes.[35] The hotline is in collaboration with the French government.[36]

General Delegate Thierry Frémaux reportedly 'banned' selfies on the red carpet of the festival
back in 2015.[37]

In 2017, along with the 70th anniversary events of the Festival, the issue of changing the rules on
theatrical screening caused controversy.[38] In 2018, the enforcement of theatrical screening in
France resulted in Netflix withdrawing their films from the festival.[39]

Festival team
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Year President General Delegate General Secretary
1949 –
–
1952 Robert Favre Le Bret
1972 Robert Maurice Bessy Jean Touzet
1978 Favre Le Bret
1984
Gilles Jacob
1985 Pierre Viot Michel P. Bonnet
1991
General Director Artistic Delegate
2001
Véronique Cayla Thierry Frémaux
Gilles Jacob François
2005 Catherine Démier
Erlenbach
2007
2014 Thierry Frémaux
Pierre Lescure
2017

The President of the Festival, who represents the Festival in front of financial partners, the public
authorities and the media, is elected by the board of directors of the Festival, officially named the
"French Association of the Film Festival".

The Board is composed of authorities of the world of cinema, as well as of public authorities
which subsidize the event. The President has a renewable 3-year mandate and appoints the
members of his team, including the General Delegate, with the approval of the board of directors.
[40]
Sometimes a President, after his last term, becomes the Honorary President of the Festival.

The General Delegate is responsible for the coordination of the events. When Gilles Jacob
passed from General Delegate to the position of the President, in 2001, two new positions were
created to take over his former post, the General Director to oversee the smooth running of the
event, and the Artistic Director, responsible for the selection of films. However, in 2007, the
Artistic Director Thierry Frémaux, became again the General Delegate of the Festival.

The general secretary is responsible for the reception of works and other practical matters.

Programmes
The Cannes Film Festival is organised in various sections:[41]

 The Official Selection – The main event of the festival.

o In Competition – The films competing for the Palme d'Or. They are projected in
the Théâtre Lumière.
o Un Certain Regard – Films selected from cultures near and far; original and
different works. They are projected at the Salle Debussy.
o Out of Competition – These films are also projected in the Théâtre Lumière but
do not compete for the main prize.
o Special Screenings – The selection committee chooses for these films an
environment specially adapted to their particular identity.
o Cinéfondation – About fifteen shorts and medium-length motion pictures from
film schools over the world are presented at the Salle Buñuel.
o Short Films – The shorts competing for the Short Film Palme d'Or are presented
at Buñuel and Debussy theatres. There are approximately 10 films in this
competition.
o Cannes Classics – It celebrates the heritage of film, aiming to highlight works of
the past, presented with brand new or restored prints.
o Cinéma de la Plage – Screening of Cannes Classics and Out of Competition films
for the mass public on Macé beach, preceded by a programme dedicated to film
music.
 Parallel Sections – These are alternative programmes dedicated to discovering other
aspects of cinema.
o International Critics' Week – Since 1962, it has focused on discovering new
talents and showcasing first and second feature films by directors from all over
the world.
o Directors' Fortnight – Since 1969, it has cast its lot with the avant-garde, even as
it created a breeding ground where the Cannes Festival would regularly find its
prestigious auteurs.
o ACID (Association for Independent Cinema and its Distribution)
o Tous les Cinémas du Monde – It showcases the vitality and diversity of cinema
across the world. Each day, one country is invited to present a range of features
and shorts in celebration of its unique culture, identity and recent film works.
 Events
o Marché du Film – The busiest film market in the world.
o Masterclasses – Given in public by world-renowned filmmakers.
 o Tributes – Honors internationally renowned artists with the presentation of the
Festival Trophee following the screening of one of their films.
o Producers Network – An opportunity to make international co-productions.
o Exhibitions – Each year, an artist, a body of work or a cinematographic theme
becomes the focus of an exhibition that diversifies or illustrates the event's
programme.
o 60th Anniversary – Events organised in 2007 dedicated to the 60th anniversary of
the Festival.

Juries
Main article: List of Cannes Film Festival juries (Feature films)

Prior to the beginning of each event, the Festival's board of directors appoints the juries who hold
sole responsibility for choosing which films will receive a Cannes award. Jurors are chosen from
a wide range of international artists, based on their body of work and respect from their peers.[42]
The appointment of the President of the Jury is made following several annual management
proposals made in the fall and submitted to the Festival's board of directors for validation.[43]

 Feature Films – An international jury composed of a President and various film or art
personalities, who determine the prizes for the feature films in Competition.
 Cinéfondation and Short Films – Composed of a President and four film personalities. It
awards the Short Film Palme d'Or as well as the three best films of the Cinéfondation.
 Un Certain Regard – Composed of a President, journalists, students in cinema, and
industry professionals. It awards the Un Certain Regard Prize for best film and can,
moreover, honour two other films.
 Caméra d'Or – Composed of a President, as well as film directors, technicians, and
French and international critics. They award the best film in any category.

The jury meets annually at the historic Villa Domergue to select the winners.[44]

Awards

Palme d'Or awarded to Apocalypse Now at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival
In 2013, Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux became the first and only cast members to
receive the Palme d'Or for Blue Is the Warmest Colour in an "unprecedented move", alongside
the director Abdellatif Kechiche.

The most prestigious award given at Cannes is the Palme d'Or ("Golden Palm") for the best film.

 Competition
o Palme d'Or – Golden Palm
o Grand Prix – Grand Prize of the Festival
o Prix du Jury – Jury Prize
o Palme d'Or du court métrage – Best Short Film
o Prix d'interprétation féminine – Best Actress
o Prix d'interprétation masculine – Best Actor
o Prix de la mise en scène – Best Director
o Prix du scénario – Best Screenplay
 Other Sections
o Prix Un Certain Regard – Young talent, innovative and audacious works
o Cinéfondation prizes – Student films
o Caméra d'Or – It rewards the best first film of the Festival, choosing among the
debutants' works among the Official Selection, the Directors' Fortnight and the
International Critics' Week selections.
 Given by Independent Entities
o FIPRESCI Prize – The International Federation of Film Critics awards prizes to
films from the main competition section, Un Certain Regard and parallel sections
o Directors' Fortnight Prizes
o Prix Vulcain – Awarded to a technical artist by the CST
o International Critics' Week Prizes
o Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
o François Chalais Prize
o L'Œil d'or – Best documentary film
o Trophée Chopard
o Palm Dog – Best canine performance[45]
 o Queer Palm – Best LGBT-related films[46]
o Cannes Soundtrack Award
o Pierre Angénieux Excellens in Cinematography

Impact
The festival has become an important showcase for European films. Jill Forbes and Sarah Street
argue in European Cinema: An Introduction (ISBN 0333752104), that Cannes
"became...extremely important for critical and commercial interests and for European attempts to
sell films on the basis of their artistic quality" (page 20).[47] Forbes and Street also point out that,
along with other festivals such as the Venice Film Festival and Berlin International Film
Festival, Cannes offers an opportunity to determine a particular country's image of its cinema
and generally foster the notion that European cinema is "art" cinema.[47]

Additionally, given massive media exposure, the non-public festival is attended by many stars
and is a popular venue for film producers to launch their new films and to attempt to sell their
works to the distributors who come from all over the globe.

Cannes Film Festival in fiction

Though most of the media attention the festival receives is journalistic in nature, the festival has
been explored from the standpoint of fiction by novelists over the years.

J. G. Ballard’s Super-Cannes is about the European elite who live in a closed society by the
festival. Michael Grothaus’ Epiphany Jones is a social satire about the festival and film industry
and explores sex trafficking that occurs during the festival. The book was named one of the best
Hollywood novels of all time by Entertainment Weekly.[48] Iain Johnstone’s Cannes: The Novel
is a dystopian tale about terrorists holding the festival hostage.

In addition to fictional works, the festival has been examined in contexts ranging from the
cultural to the historical in a host of non-fiction books.[49]

See also
 Directors' Fortnight
 International Critics' Week
 List of Cannes Film Festival jury presidents
 List of Cannes Film Festival juries (Feature films)
 Marché du Film

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 Ford, Rebecca; Roxborough, Scott (17 May 2017). "Why Awards Hopefuls Are Losing
Confidence in Cannes Debuts". The Hollywood Reporter.
 Mumford, Gwilym (17 May 2017). "Concrete flowerpots and drone killers: Cannes opens
with beefed-up security". The Guardian.

Books

 Craig, Benjamin (2018). Cannes: A Festival Virgin's Guide (7 ed.). Cinemagine Media
Publishing. ISBN 978-1999996109.
 Bart, Peter; The Editors of Variety (1997). Cannes: Fifty Years of Sun, Sex & Celluloid:
Behind the Scenes at the World's Most Famous Film Festival. Miramax Books.
ISBN 978-0786882953.
 Beauchamp, Cari; Behar, Henri (1992). Hollywood on the Riviera: The Inside Story of
the Cannes Film Festival. William Morrow and Company. ISBN 978-0688110079.
 Jungen, Christian (2015). Hollywood in Canne$: The History of a Love-Hate
Relationship (Film Culture in Transition). Amsterdam University Press. ISBN 978-
9089645661.

Media
 Footage from the 1946 Cannes Film Festival
 Retrospective footage of the Festival presented by INA in 2007

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cannes Film Festival.

 Cannes Film Festival official website (in English)

 Cannes Film Festival at the Internet Movie Database
 The History of the Festival at the official website
 Festival de Cannes at the official website of tourism in France 2017 (in French)
 Cannes – A Festival Virgin's Guide – Detailed festival history and information for
attendees
 Radio France Internationale coverage of the Cannes Film Festival 2017 (in English)
 Cannes Film Festival unofficial blog
 Cannes Film Festival: A Potted History
 Cannes Film Festival at Curlie