Historic moments from the Cannes Film Festival

A few days separate us Cannes International Film Festival- One of the most important and oldest festivals in history - where it is scheduled

The activities of the festival will be launched in its 96th session from 16 to 27 May. Cannes Festival Not just a destination

To display not only the best films produced by international cinema, but also a destination for the best looks of artists, celebrities, media professionals and prominent personalities around the world on the red carpet.
Over the years and throughout the festival's history, there have been many completely memorable and outlandish incidents of celebrities.

We will remember it together through the next topic.

Grace Kelly meets Prince Rainier in 1955

Grace Kelly, the actress at the time, met Prince Rainier III of Monaco in Cannes.

Their fairy tale romance begins. They tied the knot the following year and Kelly became Princess of Monaco, and she didn't make any more movies after that.

Jean-Claude Van Damme vs Dolph Lundgren in 1992

Tensions were reportedly high between Universal Soldier stars Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren ahead of the show.

The first action movie in Cannes. Wanting to cash in on the attention, the two actors got into a fight on the red carpet in order to drum up some publicity for the movie.

Jane Campion is the first female director to win the Palme d'Or in 1993

New Zealand film director Jane Campion becomes the first female director to be awarded the Palme d'Or

in Cannes Festival (1993) and is only the second of seven women done their nomination in the Best Director category at the Academy Awards (1994), both for The Piano (1993), starring Sam Neill, Harvey Keitel, and Holly Hunter,

She also won the best actress award at the festival.

David Cronenberg wins an award for daring in 1996

Grant Cannes Festival 1996 Canadian director David Cronenberg received a special award for originality and daring, for his thriller

Autonomous Crash, which not only created a crowd controversy, but also led to controversy among the judges, headed by

Francis Ford Coppola. Cronenberg walked on stage to accept his award.

Demi Moore saves co-star Milla Govovich in 1997

while attending the premiere for a movie The Fifth Element To her then-husband Bruce Willis, Demi Moore rescued her co-star

Milla Govovich suffers from a dress malfunction on the red carpet. It was then that Moore used a sewing kit

from her hotel room, and soon she was sewing Govovich's clothes, while Willis and co-star Chris Tucker,

And director Luc Besson banned filming in front of cameras. The actress later said:

I will always treasure Demi Moore for her quick thinking and clever fingers!"

Michael Moore wins the 2004 Palme d'Or

Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11 was awarded the prestigious Palme d'Or in 2004 by the Jury

The festival’s arbitration was chaired by Quentin Tarantino, making it the first documentary film to win the first prize.

Since The Silent World, directed by Jacques Cousteau and Louis Malle, won the Palme d'Or in 1956.

Announcing twins Brad and Angelina Jolie in 2008

An arrest warrant was issued for Lindsay Lohan in 2010

An arrest warrant has been issued for actress Lindsay Lohan after she failed to appear for a scheduled hearing

in one of the related cases. Instead, the Mean Girls star was spotted partying on the French Riviera, claiming her passport had been stolen. Her legal team later posted $100 bail to prevent her from being arrested

upon her return to the United States.

Celebrities leading a protest in 2018

In 2018, 82 women, including Cate Blanchett, Kristen Stewart, Salma Hayek, Jane Fonda, and directors Agnes Varda, Ava DuVernay, and Patty Jenkins, walked the red carpet side by side in a silent protest against the treatment of

The festival is for women, in protest against the ban on women who wear trousers and flat shoes and the treatment of working mothers at the festival. They stop in the middle of the stairs, and Blanchett and Varda give a powerful speech about the state of the film industry and the festival.

However, Stewart's protest didn't stop there: the actress later defiantly removed her shoes and walked up the famous staircase barefoot.
Just as the artists had many eccentric and memorable moments, the festival's films also had some of them.

World War II closes the festival for the first time in 1939

The Cannes Film Festival was scheduled for 1939, but Hitler's invasion of Poland put an end to the glamor.

The opening night movie, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, premiered before the festival was officially cancelled.

The first full festival did not take place for another seven years, making 1946 the official start of the Cannes Festival.
The Vatican condemns La Dolce Vita in 1960
The Catholic Church has condemned the film, directed by Federico Fellini, because of the bad morals it shows.

But the Cannes jury didn't care, as the film was awarded the Palme d'Or.

Cannes Festival ends early in 1968

Paris was in the middle of social unrest during the Cannes Festival of 1968, when students rioted

Strikes spread across the country. After two days of sit-ins, protests and press conferences

Held by major directors, including Roman Polanski, Louis Malle, François Truffaut, and Jean-Luc Godard, the festival ended early with only 11 of the 28 films in official competition shown.

Bee Movie in 2007

The animated film Bee Movie - in which a woman falls in love with a bee voiced by Jerry Seinfeld - reached cult status online, but in 2007, the cartoon made waves at Cannes with an epic stunt. Seinfeld, then 53, dressed as a fluffy bee and black stockings, plummeted from the roof of the famous Carlton Hotel over people's heads on a sidewalk.

Covid cancels Cannes 2020

The festival was determined to go ahead with an in-person event in 2020 amid the global health crisis until organizers finally canceled the festival in April after French President Emmanuel Macron extended the country's lockdown, banning all public events until mid-July. This was the first time the festival was not held after the Second World War.

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