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Cannes Film Festival
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Cannes Film Festival

International film festival held every year in Cannes, France.

The first festival was held in 1946. The main award is the Palme d'Or (known as the Grand Prix until 1955) for best film. Other awards are made for direction, best screenplay, female performance, and male performance, and there are additional awards, including the Grand Jury Prize, the Special Jury Prize, the critics' award, and the Palme d'Or for Best Short Film.

The festival is run by the Association Française du Festival International du Film, created in 1946 with the support of the of the French ministries of culture and foreign affairs.



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Writing throughout the chain in her May 26, 2003 wrap, Monk wrote: "At times, over the course of this marathon movie schmooze that was largely viewed as the worst Cannes festival ever, it really did feel like cinema was dead.
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