1946 Cannes Film Festival

1st Cannes Film Festival
Official poster of the 1st Cannes Film Festival illustrated by Leblanc[1]
LocationCannes, France
Founded1946
AwardsGrand Prix[2]
Festival date20 September 1946 (1946-09-20) – 5 October 1946 (1946-10-05)
Websitewww.festival-cannes.com
Cannes Film Festival

The 1st annual Cannes Film Festival was held from 20 September to 5 October 1946. Twenty-one countries presented their films at the "First Cannes International Film Festival", which took place at the former Casino of Cannes. Only one year after the end of World War II, most of the films were about the war.[3] There arose several technical issues, such as the tarpauline cover blowing away in a storm on the day before the winners were to be announced, the reels of Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious shown in reverse order, and Miguel M. Delgado’s The Three Musketeers projected upside-down.[4]

During the first festival, the jury was made up of one representative per country, with French historian Georges Huisman as the Jury President. With more emphasis on creativity than in competitiveness, eighteen nations presented their films. Eleven of them tied for the first Grand Prix of the International Festival.[5][6][7]

  1. ^ "Posters 1946". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 18 December 2013.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference awards was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "1938-1951: The birth of the Festival". fresques.ina.fr. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
  4. ^ "1st Cannes Film Festival". intercontinental-carlton-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 20 October 2013.
  5. ^ "First Cannes Film Festival". history.com. Archived from the original on 27 December 2013.
  6. ^ "1ère Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  7. ^ "1946 - Cannes, ville ouverte (Cannes, open city)". cannes-fest.com/ (in French). Retrieved 27 June 2017.