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- Festival: May 13-May 24, 2009
- Founded: 1939
- Founded by: Jean Zay, Philippe Erlanger
- When: Annually help in the second half of the month of May
- Where: Cannes, France
- Top prizes: Palme d'Or, Grand Prix Award
- 2009: Clint Eastwood was honored with a lifetime achievement Palme d'Or, only the second person to ever receive that awardGuardian: Cannes Film Festival Honours Clint Eastwood (February 26, 2009)
- 2007: 60th Anniversary
- 1997: Ingmar Bergman received a lifetime achievement Palme d'OrGuardian: Cannes Film Festival Honours Clint Eastwood (February 26, 2009)
- 1939: Created as a response to fascist political influence over the Venice Film Festival
- 15 awards categories honor various aspects of filmmaking, including acting, directing, and screenwriting
- The Palme d'Or is presented to the jury's selection of the best film
- Isabelle Huppert has had sixteen of her films screened in competition at Cannes, won two Best Actress Awards, and was previously a Cannes jury member in 1984E: Huppert to Head Cannes Jury (April 23, 2009)
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The Cannes Film Festival is one of the most prestigious cinema showcases on the entertainment industry calendar. French actress Isabelle Huppert has been selected as the head of the Cannes Film Festival jury for 2009.E: Huppert to Head Cannes Jury (April 23, 2009)
The 2009 festival opened with the animated film Up! and will close with a screening of Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky. The 62nd Cannes Film Festival is being held May 13-24, 2009.LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
2009 Feature Film Jury
- Jury President: Isabelle Huppert actress (France)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
- Asia Argento, actress, director, screenwriter (Italy)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan, director, screenwriter, actor (Turkey)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
- Lee Chang-dong, director, author, screenwriter (South Korea)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
- James Gray, director, screenwriter (U.S.)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
- Hanif Kureishi, author, screenwriter (U.K.)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
- Shu Qi, actress (Taiwan)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
- Robin Wright Penn, actress (U.S.)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
2009 Short Film Jury
- Jury President: John Boorman, director, author, producer (U.K.)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
- Bertrand Bonello, director (France)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
- Ferid Boughedir, director (Tunisia)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
- Leonor Silveira, actress (Portugal)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
- Zhang Ziyi, actress (China)LA Times: Devilish Cannes Film Festival (April 23, 2009)
Notable Palme d'Or Winners
- Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver
- Akira Kurosawa's Kagemusha
- Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark
- Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
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Cannes Film Festival Questions
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Where can I find pictures from the Cannes film festival this year? 1 AnswerSimply go to Google and do an image search on the film festival for 2009 http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=cannes+film+festival+2009&am... read more
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@filmspotting Nuri Bilge Ceylan's 3 Monkeys won the best director award at the Cannes Film Festival. Don't think it won at Toronto.
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"So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?" - Christina Aguilera
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And he needs to learn some french before the Cannes Film Festival :/
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Cannes Film Festival - Information and History | Starseeker: History and Information on the world famous Cannes Film Fes http://url4.eu/nS9m
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Today was great I met the 2009 Best Director of Cannes Film Festival - Mr. Dante "Brillante" Mendoza and saw her two masterpieces.......
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