This coming weekend, the 2019 Cannes Film Festival will hand out its annual awards, capped by the cover Palme d’Or prize. Taking this award can sometimes set a movie off on a path towards Oscar love. To be fair, Academy Award attention is hardly guaranteed when it comes to feted Cannes...
Headline in the New Cat Times: “Cannes Film Festival Bans Feline Actors!”“Eek, how did I not see this before we got on the plane?” squeals Siamese beauty Nico, stretched out on her seat on Air Felix. “You were too busy preening in the mirror,” says her housemate Chubbs. “We...
“Parasite,” an acerbic class satire from the director Bong Joon-ho(“Okja“), took the Palme d’Or at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival, marking the first time that the Palme has gone to a film from South Korea. At the awards ceremony, the jury president,Alejandro González Iñárritu, ...
Cannes 2019: South Korea’s Bong Joon-ho scoops Palme d’Or with ’Parasite’ (Source: CGTN)
French acting legend Alain Delon will receive this year's honorary Palme d'Or during the Cannes Film Festival.
Fremaux added that Delon “hesitated for a long time, having long been reluctant to [accept] this Palme d’Or because he thought he should only come to Cannes to celebrate the directors he had been working with. See full article at Variety Film + TV 4/17/2019 by Elsa Keslassy Variety ...
It's always a big surprise when a filmmaker's debut feature film lands in competition at Cannes, and an even bigger one for that film to go on to win the Palme d'Or. It's certainly not impossible to do so, but it last happened in 1989 with Steven ...