Cannes Film Festival
Cannes, France
Notes
- The festival takes place since 1946.
- In the years before 1955 the main festival award was named 'Grand Prix du Festival International du Film'.
- The current form of the Golden Palm has been used since 1997 and has been designed by Caroline Scheufele-Gruosi, CEO of Chopard.
Awards
'La Chance de Cannes' Award
20th Anniversary Prize
25th Anniversary Prize
30th Anniversary Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
35th Anniversary Prize
40th Anniversary Prize
45th Anniversary Prize
50th Anniversary Prize
55th Anniversary Prize
60th Anniversary Prize
70th Anniversary Prize
75th Anniversary Prize
ACID Award
AFCAE Award
ARTE International Prize
American Pavillon's Emerging Filmmaker Showcase
Arab Critic Award
Audience Award
Award
- In the earlier days of the festival (40's/50's) a variety of different and partly 'exotic' awards (e.g. Award for Best Poetic Humor) had been given. As these were numerous, but short-lived, they are summarized here and the award names are taken as award's category.
Award of the City of Rome
Award of the Youth
- The Award of the Youth (Prix de la jeunesse) is acknowledged to be an official festival award since 1993.
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Art Direction
Best Artistic Contribution
Best Cinematography
Best Director
- The 'Prix de la mise en scène' was changed to the 'Grand prix du cinéma de création' in 1983, but only for that particular year.
Best Film for the Youth
Best First Work
Best Music
Best Screenplay
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
C.I.C.A.E. Award
C.I.C.A.E. Award - Special Mention
CST Artist - Technician Prize
CST Young Film Technician Award
Canal+ Award
Cannes Junior Award
Cannes Soundtrack Award
Cannes XR x VeeR Future Award
Carosse d'Or
Chopard Trophy
Cinefondation Award
Cinefondation Award - Special Mention
Cinema Prize of the French National Education System
Cinémas de Recherche - Special Mention
- The award is given in the Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) section of the festival.
Critics Week - Special Mention
Critics Week Grand Prize
Critics' Week Grand Prize
DVD Design Award
DVD Heritage Award
Discovery Award
Discovery Award - Special Mention
Doc Alliance Selection Award
FIFA Award
FIPRESCI Prize
FIPRESCI Prize - Special Award
FIPRESCI Prize - Special Mention
Festival Trophy
France 4 Visionary Award
France Culture Award
- Originally a domestic honor only, the international category has been introduced in 2001.
- The award is given on occasion of the festival, but rewards two films, which have been released in France in the past year.
François Chalais Award
- The award is named in honor of the French film critic François Chalais and was created by his wife Mei Chen Chalais.
François Chalais Award - Special Mention
French Touch Prize of the Critics' Week Jury
Gan Foundation Support for Distribution
Gary Cooper Award
Golden Camera
Golden Camera - Special Mention
Golden Coach
- The statuette is inspired by the Commedia dell'arte characters of Jean Renoir's classic film and has been created by painter-sculptor Lili Le Gouvello.
Golden Eye
Golden Eye - Special Mention
Golden Palm
Grand Golden Rail
- The award is given in the critics week section (La Semaine de la Critique) of the festival.
Grand Prix International du Film Scientifique - Court Métrage
Grand Prize of the Festival
- The Grand Prize of the Festival was the predecessor of the Golden Palm.
Grand Prize of the Jury
- The Grand Jury Prize is considered to be the 'second best' after the Golden Palm.
Gras Savoye Award
- The award is predecessor to the Unifrance Short Film Grand Prize.
Gras Savoye Award - Special Mention
Hohoa Award
Honorary Golden Palm
Illy Prize
Illy Prize - Special Mention
International Grand Prize of the Association of Film Authors
International Jury Prize
International Peace Award
International Prize
Jury Prize
Jury Prize - Short Film
Jury Special Prize
- The Jury is given some freedom to give one or two special prizes.
Kering Women in Motion Award
Kering Women in Motion Young Talent Award
Kodak Short Film Award
Kodak Short Film Award - Special Mention
Label Europa Cinemas
- The "Label Europa Cinemas" is an intiative of the Association "Europa Cinemas" which supports European films, their distribution in Europe and raises awareness about them amongst the public and in the media. In cooperation with the Label, each year a European film in the "Semaine des Réalisateurs" at Cannes, since 2004, during the "Venice Days" in Venice, and since 2005 in the "Panorama" section of the Berlin International Film Festival, a jury of five member cinema operators presents the award to a European film.
Le Premier Regard Award
Leitz Cine Discovery Prize
Louis Roederer Foundation Rising Star Award
Mercedes-Benz Award
NFB Online Short Film Competition
Nikon Discovery Award
Norman McLaren Award
OCIC Award
OCIC Award - Special Mention
Palm Dog
Palm Dog - Jury Prize
Palm Dog - Special Mention
Palm DogManitarian Award
Palm of the Palms
- On occasion the 50th edition of the festival a special jury of all the living winners of the Golden Palm voted on this award given to a director chosen from all those in competition in any year of the festival who never won the Golden Palm.
Palme d'Or
Palme d'Or - Best Short Film
Palme d'Or Spéciale
Palme de Whiskers
Perspectives du Cinéma Award
Perspectives du Cinéma Award - Special Mention
Pierre Angénieux ExcelLens in Cinematography
Pierre Angénieux Tribute
Prix France Musique (Original Film Score)
Prix Grand Cru
Prix Regards Jeune
Prix de la citoyenneté
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Award
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention
Queer Palm
Queer Palm - Short Film
Queer Palm - Special Mention
Regard Hope Award
Regard Intimity Award
Regard Knockout Award
Regard Original Award
Regards Jeunes Prize
SACD Award
SACD Grand Prize
SACD Prize
SACD Prize (Directors' Fortnight)
SACD Prize (Directors' Fortnight) - Special Mention
SACD Prize - Special Mention
SACD Screenwriting Award
SACD Short Film Award
- The award is given in the Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) section of the festival.
SFR Prize
- The award is given in the Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) section of the festival.
Short Film - Special Mention
Small Golden Rail
Special Award
Special Award of the Youth
Special Distinction
Special Mention
Séance "Coup de coeur"
Technical Grand Prize
Technical Grand Prize - Special Mention
UCMF Film Music Award
Un Certain Regard - A Certain Talent Prize
Un Certain Regard - Avenir Prize
Un Certain Regard - Best Actor
Un Certain Regard - Best Actress
Un Certain Regard - Best Director
Un Certain Regard - Best Performance
Un Certain Regard - Directing Prize
Un Certain Regard - Ensemble Prize
Un Certain Regard - Freedom Prize
Un Certain Regard - Jury Coup de Coeur
Un Certain Regard - New Voice Prize
Un Certain Regard - Poetry of Cinema Award
Un Certain Regard - Prize of Courage
Un Certain Regard - Prize of Originality
Un Certain Regard - Prize of the Jury President
Un Certain Regard - Screenplay Prize
Un Certain Regard - Special Distinction of the Jury
Un Certain Regard - Special Jury Prize
Un Certain Regard Award
Un Certain Regard Award - Special Mention
Un Certain Regard Jury Prize
Un Regard Neuf Short Film Prize
Unifrance Short Film Grand Prize
- The award is successor to the Gras Savoye Award.
Vulcain Prize for the Technical Artist
Vulcain Prize for the Technical Artist - Special Mention
Young Cinema Award
Young Critics Award
Historical Timeline
1939
- The first Cannes Film Festival had been planned for 1939. It had to be canceled, because World War II broke out. For its 55th anniversary in 2002 the festival decided to screen 12 films from the original selection, seven of which would be "in competition" and be retrospectively judged by a contemporary jury.
1959
- The atomic bombs of 1945 are still taboo as a subject. Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour (1959) is excluded from the official selection in order not to upset the US government.
1964
- The name of the festival's grand prix 'Golden Palm' is abandoned and changed to 'Grand Prix International du Festival'. (It will be called 'Golden Palm' again from 1975.)
1966
- The Grand Prix is named 'Grand prix du vingtième anniversaire du Festival international du film' for the festival's 20th anniversary.
- A new non-competitive festival section called "Directors' Fortnight" is created.
1973
- A new non-competitive and informative festival section called 'Étude et documents' is created.
- Another non-competitive festival section called 'Perspectives du Cinéma Français' is initiated by the French Film Directors' Society (1973-1991).
1975
- The name of the festival's grand prix is again changed to 'Golden Palm' after it had been abandoned in 1964.
- A new non-competitive festival section called 'Les Yeux Fertiles' is created, focusing on films dealing with other arts (1975-1977).
- A day before the festival opens a bomb is found in the Palais. The 'People's Struggle Against the Perversion of Humanity', is never heard of again.
1976
- A new non-competitive festival section called 'L'Air du temps' is created, focusing on films dealing with contemporary subjects (1976-1977).
1977
- A new non-competitive festival section called 'Le Passé composé' is created, solely for compilations. It will be celebrated in 1977 only.
1978
- A new non-competitive festival section called 'Un Certain Regard' is created replacing the sections 'Les Yeux Fertiles' (1975-1977), 'L'Air du temps' (1976-1977) and 'Le Passé composé' (1977).
1980
- The surprise film, Tarkovsky's Stalker (1979), is interrupted due to strikes held by the electricians.
1982
- The festival poster is designed by Federico Fellini.
1983
- The festival poster is designed by Akira Kurosawa.
1990
- The retrospectives are introduced, from 1992 on called 'Cinéma de toujour'.
1992
- The retrospectives become an official name: 'Cinéma de toujour'.
- The section formerly known as 'Perspectives du Cinéma Français' (1973-1991) is renamed to 'Cinémas en France'.
1998
- The festival will have a short film jury from now on.
2002
- The winning film for the first festival, which actually was canceled in 1939 due to the beginning of World War II, was decided on retrospectively by a jury in 2002.
2004
- For the first time in the history of the festival, president Gilles Jacob gave the jury an opportunity to explain their Golden Palm choices.