2018 Cannes Film Festival 2018 Cannes Film Festival The 71st annual Cannes Film Festival was held from 8 to 19 May 2018. Australian actress Cate Blanchett acted as President of the Jury. The Japanese film "Shoplifters", directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, won the Palme d'Or. Asghar Farhadi's psychological thriller "Everybody Knows", starring Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz and Ricardo Darín, opened the festival and competed in the Main Competition section. It was the second Spanish-language film to open Cannes, following Pedro Almodóvar's "Bad Education", which screened on the opening night of the 2004 festival. The official festival poster features Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina from Jean-Luc
1949 Cannes Film Festival 1949 Cannes Film Festival The 3rd Cannes Film Festival was held from 2 to 17 September 1949. The previous year, no festival had been held because of financial problems. Like in 1947, the entire jury for this festival was made up of French persons, with historian Georges Huisman as President of the Jury. The "Grand Prix du Festival de Cannes" went to "The Third Man" by Carol Reed. The festival opened with "L'Arroseur Arrosé" by Louis Lumière, an 1895 French comedy short-film, paying tribute to cinema's first comedy film. The following persons were selected as the jury for the feature