The Cannes Film Festival (French: le Festival international du film de Cannes or simply le Festival de Cannes), founded in 1939, is one of the world's oldest, most influential and prestigious film festivals. The private festival is held annually (usually in the month of May) at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, in the resort town of Cannes, in the south of France.
The 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival will be held 14 to May 25 2008
At the end of the year 1938, shocked by the interference of the fascist governments of Germany and Italy in the selection of films for the Mostra de Venise, Jean Zay, the French Minister of National Education, decided, on the proposal of Philippe Erlanger, to create an international cinematographic festival in Cannes (Pronounced Kahn). In June 1939, Louis Lumière agreed to be the president of the first festival, set to begin on 1 September 1939. The declaration of war against Germany by France and the United Kingdom on 3 September 1939, however, postponed the festival's première.
The festival was relaunched in 1946 and held from 20 September 1946 to 5 October 1946 in the old casino in Cannes.
The festival was not held in 1948 or 1950 on account of budgetary problems. In 1949 the Palais des Festivals was inaugurated. The original Palais was replaced by a new one in 1983.
The 1968 festival was halted on 19 May 1968. The day before, Louis Malle (president of the jury), François Truffaut, Claude Berri, Jean-Gabriel Albicocco, Claude Lelouch, Roman Polanski and Jean-Luc Godard took over the large room of the Palais and interrupted the projection of film in solidarity with students and labour on strike throughout France.
At the 25th Cannes International Film Festival, in 1971, Charlie Chaplin was awarded the Legion of Honour by French Minister of Culture Jacques Duhamel, and a dozen directors were honoured by the festival, including Orson Welles (who was not present), Luis Bunuel, Federico Fellini, William Wyler, Rene Clement, Michaelangelo Antonioni, Lindsay Anderson, Vojtech Jasny, Masaki Kobayashi and Robert Bresson.[1]
The 59th Cannes Film Festival was held from 17 to 28 May 2006. The Hong Kong director Wong Kar-Wai was the president of the jury for feature films. He was also the first Chinese president in the Festival's history. Wong Kar-Wai won the Best Director award in 1997 for the film "Happy Together".
The most prestigious award given out at Cannes is the Palme d'Or ("Golden Palm") for the best film. The jury of the festival, made of a small international selection of film professionals, grants other awards, including the Grand Prix ("Grand Prize") — the second most prestigious award.
One of the very famous Russian actriss Samoilova left her palm prints of the memory alley near the Palace immortalized impact of Russian cinematograph in the World History.
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