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Jury Prize (Cannes Film Festival)
The Jury Prize () is an award of the Cannes Film Festival bestowed by the jury of the festival on one of the competing feature films. According to American film critic Dave Kehr, the award is "intended to recognize an original work that embodies the spirit of inquiry." History The award was first presented in 1946. The prize was not awarded on 10 occasions (1947, 1949, 1953, 1967, 1974–79, 1981–82, 1984, and 2001). The festival was not held at all in 1948, 1950, and 2020. In 1968, no awards were given as the festival was called off mid-way due to the May 68, May 1968 events in France. Also, the jury vote was tied and the prize was shared by two films on 21 occasions (1957, 1960, 1962–63, 1970–71, 1973, 1987, 1991–93, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2021–22, and 2025). Ken Loach and Andrea Arnold have won the most awards in this category, each winning three. Irma P. Hall is the only actress to win in this category, for her role in ''The Ladykillers (2004 film) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Laxe
Óliver Laxe Coro (; born 11 April 1982) is a French-born Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor of Galicians, Galician ancestry. His feature directorial debut, ''You All Are Captains'', premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, where it received the International Federation of Film Critics, FIPRESCI Prize in the ''Directors' Fortnight, Quinzaine des Réalisateurs''. His third feature, ''Fire Will Come'', was selected for the ''Un Certain Regard'' section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, earning the Jury Prize. His fourth feature, ''Sirât'', premiered in Competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival and won the Jury Prize (Cannes Film Festival), Jury Prize. Early life Laxe was born in Paris to Galicians, Galician emigrants. His parents met at Bataclan (theatre), Bataclan at a dance party for emigrants. Laxe's maternal family comes from Vilela, Navia de Suarna, Province of Lugo, Lugo. He has a brother, Felipe, who works as a film producer and often collaborates on his fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giorgio Moser
Giorgio Moser (9 October 1923 – 25 September 2004) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed seven films between 1954 and 1996. Selected filmography * '' Romulus and the Sabines'' (1945) * '' Lost Continent'' (1955) *''Un reietto delle isole'' (based on by Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, ; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Poles in the United Kingdom#19th century, Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the Eng ...'s novel '' An Outcast of the Islands'') (with Maria Carta) (1980) References External links * 1923 births 2004 deaths Italian film directors 20th-century Italian screenwriters Italian male screenwriters People from Trento 20th-century Italian male writers {{Italy-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xavier Beauvois
Xavier Beauvois (; born 20 March 1967) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. Career His film '' Don't Forget You're Going to Die'' was entered into the 1995 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Jury Prize. His film '' Of Gods and Men'' received the Grand Prix and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. The film was also selected as France's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. His 2014 film '' La Rançon de la gloire'' was selected to compete for the Golden Lion The Golden Lion () is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is regarded as one of the film industry's most prestigious and distinguished prizes. In 1970, a ... at the 71st Venice International Film Festival. Personal life He is married to film editor Marie-Julie Maille. They have two so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrington (film)
''Carrington'' is a 1995 British biographical film written and directed by Christopher Hampton about the life of the English painter Dora Carrington (1893–1932), who was known simply as "Carrington". The screenplay is based on '' Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography'', the 1967–68 two-volume biography of writer and critic Lytton Strachey (1880–1932) by Michael Holroyd. Plot summary The film, starring Emma Thompson in the title role, focuses on her unusual relationship with the author Lytton Strachey, played by Jonathan Pryce, as well as with other members of the Bloomsbury Group. The film is divided into six chapters. # ''Lytton & Carrington 1915'': During the Great War, Lytton Strachey is travelling to the country and staying at Vanessa Bell's house. There he meets Carrington for the first time, initially assuming she is a boy and not hiding his disappointment when disabused. Lytton is due to face a hearing with the military to decide his fate as a conscientious obj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Hampton
Sir Christopher James Hampton (born 26 January 1946) is a British playwright, screenwriter, translator and film director. He is best known for his play Les Liaisons Dangereuses (play), ''Les Liaisons Dangereuses'' based on the Les Liaisons dangereuses, novel of the same name and the Dangerous Liaisons, film adaptation. He has thrice received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay: for ''Dangerous Liaisons'' (1988), ''Atonement (2007 film), Atonement'' (2007) and ''The Father (2020 film), The Father'' (2020); winning for the former and latter. Hampton is also known for his work in the theatre including ''Les Liaisons Dangereuses'', and ''The Philanthropist (play), The Philanthropist''. He also translated the plays ''The Seagull'' (2008), ''God of Carnage'' (2009), ''The Father (Zeller play), The Father'' (2016), and ''The Height of the Storm'' (2019). He also wrote, with Don Black (lyricist), Don Black, the book and lyrics for the musical ''Sunset Bouleva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackboards
''Blackboards'' (, ''Takhté siah''; ) is a 2000 Iranian film directed by Samira Makhmalbaf. It focuses on a group of Kurdish refugees after the chemical bombing of Halabja by Saddam Hussein's Iraq during the Iran–Iraq War. The screenplay was co-written by Makhmalbaf with her father, Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The dialogue is entirely in Kurdish. Makhmalbaf describes it as "something between reality and fiction. Smuggling, being homeless, and people's efforts to survive are all part of reality... the film, as a whole, is a metaphor." The film was an international co-production between the Makhmalbaf Productions of Iran, the Italian companies Fabrica and Rai Cinema, and the Japanese company T-Mark. Plot Following a bombing in Iranian Kurdistan, schoolteachers wander from village to village in search of students. One of them comes across a group of teenagers working as " mules," smuggling goods across the border with Iraq. Despite the teacher's efforts, none of them is interested ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samira Makhmalbaf
Samira Makhmalbaf (, ''Samira Makhmalbaaf''; , born 15 February 1980) is an Iranian filmmaker and screenwriter. She is the daughter of Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the film director and writer. Samira Makhmalbaf is considered to be part of the Iranian New Wave. She has won multiple awards, including two Jury Prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, and has been nominated for numerous awards. Early life Samira Makhmalbaf was born 15 February 1980 in Tehran to filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf. She joined her father on his film sets as a child and watched him edit afterwards. In her official biography, Makhmalbaf stated that her first taste for cinema came as a 7-year-old when she played a role in her father's film ''The Cyclist'' in 1987. Makhmalbaf left high school when she was 14 years old to study cinema in the Makhmalbaf Film House for five years. At age 20, she studied Psychology and Law at Roehampton University in London. Career At the age of 17, after directing two video productions, Makhm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Eight Mountains
''The Eight Mountains'' () is a 2022 drama film co-directed by Felix van Groeningen and , who co-adapted the screenplay from the novel of the same name by Paolo Cognetti. The film depicts a friendship between two men who spend their childhood together in a remote Alpine village and reconnect later as adults. The title is a reference to the concept in Buddhism and ancient Indian cosmology that the world is composed of nine mountains and eight seas, specifically eight concentric circular mountain ranges separated from one another by eight seas, with the ninth and tallest mountain, Mount Meru, at the center. The film premiered in competition at the 75th Cannes Film Festival on 18 May 2022, where it won the Jury Prize tying with '' EO''. The next year it was awarded the David di Donatello for Best Film. Plot In the summer of 1984, Pietro, an 11-year-old from Turin, and his mother Francesca rent a house in a village called Grana in the Italian Alps. There they meet Bruno, the la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bacurau
; ) is a 2019 Weird Western film written and directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles. It stars Sônia Braga, Udo Kier, Bárbara Colen, Thomas Aquino, Silvero Pereira, and Karine Teles. The film, a co-production between Brazil and France, revolves around Bacurau, a fictional small town in the Brazilian sertão that is beset by strange happenings following the death of its matriarch, Carmelita ( Lia de Itamaracá), at the age of 94. The film had its world premiere at the main competition for the Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, winning the Jury Prize. Plot In the near future, the people of Bacurau, an impoverished, rural settlement in the fictional municipality of Serra Verde, in western Pernambuco, gather for the funeral of Carmelita, an elderly woman seen as the matriarch of the community. Her granddaughter Teresa, now a young woman, returns to town after many years for the occasion, and to deliver some medicine. In the following days, the villag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kleber Mendonça Filho
Kleber Mendonça Filho (; born 22 November 1968) is a Brazilian film director, screenwriter, producer, and critic. Early life With a degree in journalism from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Kleber Mendonça Filho began his career as a film critic and journalist. He wrote for newspapers such as Jornal do Commercio and Folha de S. Paulo, for magazines such as Continente and Cinética, and for his own site, CinemaScópio. Mendonça's films have received more than 120 awards in Brazil and abroad, with selections in festivals such as New York, Copenhagen and Cannes (Quinzaine des réalisateurs). Film festivals in Rotterdam, Toulouse, and Santa Maria da Feira have presented retrospectives of his films. He has served as programmer of cinema for the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation. Career As a director, he experimented with fiction, documentary, and video clips in the 1990s. He migrated from video to digital and 35mm film in the 2000s. Over the course of that decade, he made several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persepolis (film)
''Persepolis'' is a 2007 adult animated biographical drama film written and directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, based on Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel of the same name. The story follows a young girl as she comes of age against the backdrop of the Iranian Revolution. The title references the historical city of Persepolis. An international co-production between France and the United States, the film premiered at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, where it co-won the Jury Prize, alongside '' Silent Light''. It was released in France and Belgium on 27 June 2007, earning universal praise from critics. The film was selected as the French entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category and was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 80th Academy Awards, making Satrapi the first woman to be nominated in that category. Plot At Orly Airport in Paris, Marjane "Marji" Satrapi prepares to board a plane to Tehran, but changes her mind at the last moment. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
