cannes and sundance

[outoftimejedi]

alright, i guess these are two pretty big festivals. The cannes is a bit bigger i bet, i think its like the oscars of europe. SUndance is not small time tho, i gave us alot of great films and directors over the years. Im not sure what the top prize is at each is called, but does anyone have any best picture dvd's from any year from either of these two festivals?

[outoftimejedi]

i think the brothers mcmullen won best picture at sundance, does anyone know what the name for the best picture at cannes is called? Which films won them? Or any other honored films at either festivel?

[asphodel5]

Originally Posted by outoftimejedi

does anyone know what the name for the best picture at cannes is called? Which films won them? Or any other honored films at either festivel?

Palme D'Or (Golden Palm) is the Cannes winner


Here is the list (Courtesy of DVDBeaver)

1949 The Third Man
1950 ---no festival due to lack of funding---
1951 Miracolo a Milano (Miracle in Milan)
Fröken Julie (Miss Julie)
1952 Due soldi di speranza (Two Cents Worth of Hope)
Othello
1953 Le salaire de la peur (Wages of Fear)
1954 Jigoku-mon (Gate of Hell)
1955 Marty
1956 Le monde du silence (The Silent World)
1957 Friendly Persuasion
1958 Letiat jouravly (The Cranes Are Flying)
1959 Orfeu negro (Black Orpheus)
1960 La dolce vita
1961 Viridiana
1962 O pagador de promessas (The Given Word)
1963 Il gattopardo (The Leopard)
1964 Les parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg)
1965 The Knack… and How To Get It
1966 Un homme et une femme (A Man and a Woman)
Signore e signori (The Birds, the Bees, and the Italians)
1967 Blow Up
1968 ---no award, festival abandoned due to protests---
1969 If…
1970 M.A.S.H.
1971 The Go-Between
1972 La classe operaia va in paradiso (The Working Class Goes to Heaven)
Il caso Mattei (The Mattei Affair)
1973 Scarecrow
The Hireling
1974 The Conversation
1975 Chronique des années de braise (Chronicle of the Years of Embers)
1976 Taxi Driver
1977 Padre padrone (Father and Master)
1978 L'albero degli zoccoli (The Tree of the Wooden Clogs)
1979 Die blechtrommel (The Tin Drum)
Apocalypse Now
1980 Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior)
All That Jazz
1981 Czlowiek z zelaza (Man of Iron)
1982 Missing
Yol (The Way)
1983 Narayama-bushi-ko (Ballad of Narayama)
1984 Paris, Texas
1985 Otac na sluzbenom putu (When Father Was Away on Business)
1986 The Mission
1987 Sous le soliel de Satan (Under the Sun of Satan)
1988 Pelle erobreren (Pelle the Conqueror)
1989 Sex, Lies and Videotape
1990 Wild at Heart
1991 Barton Fink
1992 Den goda viljan (The Best Intentions)
1993 The Piano
Bawang bieji (Farewell My Concubine)
1994 Pulp Fiction
1995 Underground
1996 Secrets and Lies
1997 Unagi (The Eel)
T'am e guilass (Taste of Cherry)
1998 Mia eoniotita ke mia mera (Eternity and a Day)
1999 Rosetta
2000 Dancer in the Dark
2001 The Son's Room
2002 The Pianist
2003 Elephant
2004 Farenheit 9/11


There are other awards. Some are for short films, director, actor/actress and cinematography. If you go here: http://www.festival-cannes.fr/archiv...hp?langue=6002 you can browse through the years. The recent festivals feature press conferences and photos from the red carpet and all of the films in competition.

[asphodel5]

I think that we may have done this in another thread, but here are the ones that I've seen. A * indicates that I own it.

1949 The Third Man *
1951 Miracolo a Milano (Miracle in Milan)
1952 Othello
1953 Le salaire de la peur (Wages of Fear)
1954 Jigoku-mon (Gate of Hell)
1955 Marty
1958 Letiat jouravly (The Cranes Are Flying) *
1959 Orfeu negro (Black Orpheus)
1960 La dolce vita *
1961 Viridiana
1963 Il gattopardo (The Leopard) *
1964 Les parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) *
1965 The Knack… and How To Get It
1966 Un homme et une femme (A Man and a Woman)
1967 Blow Up *
1970 M.A.S.H.
1974 The Conversation
1976 Taxi Driver *
1977 Padre padrone (Father and Master)
1978 L'albero degli zoccoli (The Tree of the Wooden Clogs) I'll see this within a month or so. It is coming to DVD.
1979 Die blechtrommel (The Tin Drum)
Apocalypse Now *
1980 All That Jazz (on order)
1983 Narayama-bushi-ko (Ballad of Narayama)
1986 The Mission
1988 Pelle erobreren (Pelle the Conqueror)
1990 Wild at Heart
1991 Barton Fink *
1993 The Piano
Bawang bieji (Farewell My Concubine)
1994 Pulp Fiction *
1995 Underground
1996 Secrets and Lies
1999 Rosetta (on order)
2000 Dancer in the Dark*
2001 The Son's Room
2002 The Pianist*
2003 Elephant

[Marq]

Originally Posted by outoftimejedi

The cannes is a bit bigger i bet, i think its like the oscars of europe.

Nope. It's a festival where many films make their from all over the world (not just Europe) are screened (most are for the first time). Out of a selected group of films in "competition", awards are given by a jury of film "experts" (this year's jury was headed by Quentin Tarantino), with a top prize called the Palme d'Or given to what they felt was the best film of that batch (this year "Fahrenheit 9/11" from the U.S. won).

Originally Posted by outoftimejedi

SUndance is not small time tho, i gave us alot of great films and directors over the years. Im not sure what the top prize is at each is called, but does anyone have any best picture dvd's from any year from either of these two festivals?

As asphodel mentioned we have indeed done a very recent thread on this topic, specific to Cannes Palme d'Or winners, started by ME!
A list of Sundance top-prize (Grand Jury Prize) winners can be found here: http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/...Film_Festival/ . For an example of all the awards given to films (documentary and dramatic) at Sundance, here's an outline of how all the awards went for the 2004 festival: http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/..._Festival/2004

Originally Posted by outoftimejedi

Or any other honored films at either festivel

There are dozens of awards given to several films at each festival.
http://www.festival-cannes.fr/index.php?langue=6002
http://institute.sundance.org/jsps/s...ce=pag_ex_home

Now to promote my home country agenda, it could be noted that the Toronto Film Festival is probably the 3rd largest film festival:
http://www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/2003/default.asp

Other big 'n important fests include:
- Venice Film Festival
- Berlin International Film Festival
- International Film Festival Rotterdam

Websites of interest:
- http://www.filmfestivals.com/index.shtml
- http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/
- http://www.imdb.com/festivals/