Now & Then﹕Movie Awards
文章日期:2011年1月13日

【明報專訊】The nominees of the 68th Golden Globe Awards were announced in the middle of last December. The awards are to be presented on 16 January 2011. The awards, supposed to be the skirmish of the Academy Awards (aka the Oscars), have received wide media coverage. The Golden Globes and the Oscars are presented in the US. However, European countries have also founded influential movie awards.

Festival de Cannes

The first Festival de Cannes (康城), known then as the Festival International du Film, was originally scheduled to take place in September 1939. It was held in response to the award of the Best Foreign Film title to Olympia, a German documentary, at the 1938 Venice Film Festival. However, because World War II broke out in early September that year, the Festival could not but be called off.

The Festival de Cannes resumed in 1946 thanks to the support of the Department of Diplomacy and the Department of Education of France and a number of filmmakers. However, because of budget constraints, the 1948 and 1950 festivals were not exactly successful. In 1975, director King Hu (導演胡金銓) became the first Chinese to win an award at the Festival de Cannes. Many mainland and Hong Kong filmmakers and actors have since received awards at it. Many of them have been appointed judges as well.

Not until 2002 was the event officially called the Festival de Cannes. The annual event in Cannes, now considered one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world, invariably draws wide attention.

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La Palme d'or (金棕櫚獎) is the award for the best film. It was first presented in 1955. The US has won most Palme d'or awards (eighteen).