79 years ago today, on September 20, 1946 (August 25, 1946 in the lunar calendar), the first Cannes Film Festival was held in France. As early as 1938, the French film industry began to have the initiative to hold its own international film festival because it was dissatisfied with the control of the Italian fascist regime; in 1939, the French Art Action Association officially organized it and decided to hold the first International Film Festival on September 1 of that year. It was not possible to achieve it until 1946, after the war. On September 20 of that year, the first "Cannes International Film Festival" was held in Cannes, a tourist resort on the Mediterranean coast of France. At the time, this was the second largest international news event after the World Olympics. Since 1951, the film festival has been held in May every year. The first ten years of the film festival are the most charming period. At this time, television had not yet emerged, and people were very attracted to movies. During the annual film festival, the French show great enthusiasm and compete to watch the participating films. Film stars participating in film festivals from various countries are respected by people everywhere, and many stars have also traveled to the world from here. The famous American movie star Grace Kelly met King Renne of Morocco during the 1955 film festival. They made a good relationship by participating in the film festival and became world-renowned news. Every year, some of the world's first-class film seniors and newcomers participate in the film festival. In addition, the patronage of some world celebrities also added a lot of glory to the film festival. The film festival is one of the most authoritative international film festivals. World-famous directors all regard it as an honor to win the crown here; some unknown newcomers have won world-wide honors or caused world-wide shocks here. The film festival pays special attention to praising newcomers and introducing directors who dare to innovate and show outstanding talents to the world; in 1956, Swedish director Ingmar Bergman became famous after his "Smile on Summer Night" was screened at the film festival. In 1958, François Truffaut, director of the first "New Wave" film "Four Hundred Down", challenged traditional films at the film festival and put forward the slogan of "writer's film", sounding the gongs and drums of the French "New Wave" film movement. In 1959, young French director Marcel Camus's "Black Olfer" was not eye-catching, but he won the Palme d'Or Award after participating in the film festival. He became a celebrity in the international film industry."Black Olfer" is also regarded as one of the model works and is still regularly shown in some film archives. In 1960, the famous Italian director Fellini's "Sweet Life" won the Palme d'Or. In 1966, the French film "A Man and a Woman" won the film festival grand prize and achieved explosive success in the world. The film's director Kegede Le Louche quickly became a billionaire, making people realize once again the influence of winning awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Won honors for modernist films. In 1975, Hertsog's film, a newcomer to the German film industry, won a special award, which suddenly aroused the enthusiasm of Germans for national films. In 1978, a film by the unknown French director Ormier,"Cock Tree", was unexpectedly selected by the film selection to participate in the film festival. In the end, it won the Palme d'Or and attracted the attention of hundreds of thousands of viewers... Japanese director Sadayuki Ikasa's film "Hell's Gate" won the grand prize at the 7th Film Festival. This is the first time that a Japanese film has won the crown at the Cannes Film Festival. Although Japanese films were ignored at the Cannes Film Festival in the following decades, in the 1970s and 1980s, Japanese films once again became the main force of competition at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1976, young Japanese director Oshima's hard-core porn film "The Kingdom of Senses" was wildly welcomed at the film festival, but failed to win because it was not a participating film; in 1978, his film "The Undead of Love" participated in the official competition and won the Director Award. In 1980,"Emperor Kurosawa" rushed to the Cannes Film Festival with "Shadow Samurai". Akira Kurosawa himself also went to Cannes and finally won the grand prize. In 1983, Imamura's "Youshan Festival Examination" won the grand prize again. The annual Cannes Film Festival is a grand event in the international film industry. The directors and films selected to participate in the film festival all enjoy great honors. About 2,000 films are produced every year in the world. Film selectors at the Cannes Film Festival travel to 15 countries every year to review hundreds of films, and finally select about 20 films to participate in the competition. Tens of thousands of representatives from all over the world went to the film festival. Since 1961, the film festival has also opened a film market with 85 exhibition and sales booths, providing a venue for film companies from all over the world to negotiate business. The organizers of the film festival believe that films need solemn occasions like receiving Holy Communion and Mass to express themselves, and the Cannes Film Festival is precisely a Mass. France is the country in the world with the largest number of foreign films, the most enthusiastic audiences, and the best treatment of foreign films. Therefore, the Cannes Film Festival has been deeply influenced by it and won people's attention and respect. The film festival stipulates that all films that have been reviewed by the film selection committee and do not attack a third country, especially the heads of state of a third country, can participate in the film festival competitions or be screened outside the conference. The films participating in the film festival are not limited by the length of the film, including feature films, documentaries, short films and art films. The film festival's serious selection principles are an important reason for its huge impact. At the 37th Film Festival, French star Alain Delon's new film "Our Story" was rejected. The film is dull and of poor quality. Although Alan Delon was furious and criticized the organizers of the film festival, the film festival insisted on disqualifying the film and rejecting it, which shows the strict requirements for quality and quality. The 38th Film Festival in 1985 was considered a "bad year". There were fewer than 20 films participating, and none of them was really worthy of winning the Palme d'Or Award. The film festival judges were troubled by the award issue, and finally drew up a balanced and impeccable list of winners. Although the United States had the largest number of films participating in the competition this year and was ambitious, the final prize was awarded to the Yugoslav film "Dad Went on a Business Trip", while the United States '"Birdman" won the special prize of the jury. In doing so, it seems to pay tribute to American films and take into account diplomatic considerations; It also shows the film festival's tradition of releasing the best films and focusing on art. This film festival also featured a relatively concentrated number of films involving gay issues, such as the Hungarian film "Colonel Ryder", the Brazilian film "The Kiss of the Spider Woman", and the American film "The Legend of Yukio Mishima". Films describing abnormal sexual problems appeared at film festivals. Such a common strange phenomenon has attracted the attention of the world's film industry. Although film festivals often have diplomatic considerations, they are also reluctant to be interfered by political forces. In 1969, the film festival selected Soviet director Ann Tarkovsky's film "Andrei Rublyov", but the Soviet government refused to allow this film to be included in the film festival and wanted to send other films. The film festival organization made it clear: Either "Andrey-Rublyov" was allowed to participate in the competition, or Soviet films would not participate in the film festival. As a result, although "Andrey-Rublyov" was not allowed to be screened publicly in China, he still participated in the competition activities of the film festival, was praised and valued, and won an award awarded by the International Federation of Film Critics. In 1981, after two weeks of fierce competition at the film festival, the Polish film "Iron Man" won the Palme d'Or Award. Soviet newspapers also strongly criticized this, accusing the award of "Iron Man" of a political trick played by the film festival judges. However, the fact is that this result was decided after careful study in the last ten minutes. Since its establishment, the film festival has received support and funding from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Education, and the National Film Center. Except for the 34th Film Festival in 1981, when no one from the French government attended the opening ceremony due to political changes in France and the assassination of Pope Paul II on the opening day of the film festival, there is always a French ministerial official at the opening ceremony of every film festival personally attended and delivered a speech. At the 40th Film Festival in 1987, French President Mitterrand participated in the event and personally awarded Elizabeth Taylor the "evergreen tree of Hollywood" of the French Medal of Honor. The activities of the film festival include: competitions for various films, off-site screenings, special screenings, review week, seminars, etc. The highest prize of the film festival is: the "Palme d'Or Award", which is awarded to the best feature film, best documentary film, best art film, best scientific and educational film, etc. There are also various individual awards. "Dad Went on a Business Trip" Yugoslavia 1985 Director: Emile Kusturi Case "Shadow Samurai" Japan 1980 Director: Akira Kurosawa Cannes Film Festival Photo Album "Youshan Festival Exam" Japan 1983 Director: Imamura Changping "Sweet Life" Italy/France 1960 Director: Federico Fellini "Black Olfi" France 1959 Director: Marcel Camus "Smile on Summer Night" Sweden 1955 Director: Ingmar Bergman's "Iron Man" Poland 1981 Director: Andrei Vajda