What are the differences between the award criteria of various international film festivals?

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International Film Festival: Generally, the organizing committees of international film festivals will register with the International Federation of Film Producers (ZUMM) and classify them into various grades. Among them, Class A is the highest level, and the following1-1are all Class A film festivals. The ranking order is as follows:

1, the highest prize of Cannes Film Festival: Palme d 'Or.

Also known as Cannes Film Festival or Cannes Film Festival. France was founded in the summer of 1939. In order to counter the Venice International Film Festival controlled by the Italian fascist regime at that time, France decided to set up its own international film festival. On September 20th, 1946, with the support of French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Education and Film Federation, French Art Action Association was established. Later, it was organized by the French Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Commerce. In the meantime, due to financial factors such as World War II and 1968 May Revolution, it was carried out intermittently for several years. After 1969, the film festival activities became more and more stable. Every year from May 10 to 2 1, lasting for two weeks, 65438 joins the "director fortnight".

The directors and films selected to participate in the film festival enjoy great honor. The film festival is booming and becoming one of the most authoritative international film festivals. People from all over the world are proud of winning the championship here.

In just two weeks, the activities of the film festival are divided into six items: official competition, fortnight of directors, a kind of gaze, film review week, new face of French films and frontier market exhibition. There are two groups of judges who judge feature films and short films respectively. The "official competition" part is composed of people from the film culture circles of various countries, and their candidates are prestigious directors, actors, screenwriters, film critics, music composers and so on. One of them is the chairman. However, the chairman often affects the objectivity of the grand prize evaluation, so he has often been criticized in recent years. In addition, in the non-competition part, it is mainly to promote new people and give excellent non-commercial films a chance to be shown in public. Moreover, "Bi-weekly Directors" and "An Observation" almost found many potential or successful directors.

The related awards are divided into "Palme d 'Or Award" and "Jury Special Award". The first prize belongs to the grand prize and is considered as the best film, which symbolizes the highest honor of the director. The second prize is often awarded to one or three outstanding works, and there are some individual awards with many names, such as "Best Director Award", "Best Acting Award" and "International Young Critics Award". In the competition unit, 24 films are usually selected from all over the world and will not participate in the competition as opening films or closing films.

China feature films such as Ju Dou, Farewell My Concubine, Alive, Shake and Shake to Waipoqiao, and Jing Ke Stabbed the King of Qin all won prizes at Cannes International Film Festival.

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2. The highest award of Berlin International Film Festival: Golden Bear Award.

Formerly known as "West Berlin International Film Festival", it is one of the first-class international film festivals in Europe. In the early 1950s, it was planned by Alfred Bauer with the support and help of the then Federal German government and the film industry. The first meeting was held in West Berlin from the end of June to the beginning of July. After the reunification of East and West Germany, it was renamed "Berlin International Film Festival".

Berlin Film Festival has played a great role in promoting the dialogue and exchange between eastern and western films, and its influence in the world is also growing.

The main awards are "Golden Bear Award" and "Silver Bear Award". The Golden Bear Award is awarded to the best feature film, documentary film, science and education film and art film; The Silver Bear Award is awarded to the best director, best actor and actress, best screenwriter, best music, best photography, best art design, best youth works or feature films with special achievements. In addition, there are international criticism awards and special jury awards. In 1980s, 30 ~ 40 countries and regions participated in and screened 200 ~ 300 films every year. The film festival is held once a year. From 1978, in order to compete with Cannes International Film Festival, it runs from February 7 to 18 every year for two weeks.

Berlin International Film Festival was founded in 195 1 the United States or, more broadly, at the initiative of three western allies. In the following ten years, the film festival established an important position in Berlin's cultural life. Ingmar bergman, Satyagit Ray, Michelangelo Buonarroti antonioni, roman polanski and French "New Wave" directors Jean-Luc Ge Daer, Fran?ois Truffaut and claude Chabrol all achieved great international success at the Berlin Film Festival with their films.

Since the mid-1960s, there has been an obvious stagnation period. 197 1 In addition to the traditional film competition, an international forum on new films was established. 1974, the first Soviet film appeared at the film festival, and a year later, East German films joined in. The political climate changed, and West Germany and East Germany signed a treaty. Since then, Berlin Film Festival has been repositioned as a mirror of international film production, making the film festival play a more important cultural and political role in the intersection and mediation between East and West.

Today, Berlin International Film Festival has become the most important international film festival together with Cannes and Venice. Its significance lies not only in attracting a large audience, but also in attracting many filmmakers. Nearly 3,000 journalists from newspapers, magazines, internet, radio stations and TV stations from more than 60 countries flocked to the city, and only the open film screening attracted more than 350,000 guests every year.

The most important part of the Berlin Film Festival is the competition unit, with films from all over the world participating. After the competition, the international jury will award the main awards of the film festival.

Berlin Film Festival "discovered" a large number of film directors, and now their status has been written into film history. Winners of Berlin International Film Festival include Lena Werner fassbinder, Michelangelo Buonarroti antonioni, Jean-Luc Godard, ingmar bergman, Sidney matt, claude Chabrol, roman polanski, Satyagit Ray, carlos saura, Ang Lee, Zhang Yimou, Robert Altman, John Kasawitz and many others.

China's films Red Sorghum, Soul Girl and My Mom and Dad won the Berlin Film Festival Awards. Gong Li was also invited to chair the jury of the 50th Berlin International Film Festival.

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5. The highest prize of Tokyo International Film Festival: Tokyo Prize.

Tokyo International Film Festival (T.I.F.F), which started at 1985, is one of the nine A-level film festivals in the world today. The first film festival was sponsored by Tokyo International Association for the Promotion of Image Culture and the Organizing Committee of Tokyo International Film Festival, May 3 1, 1985. The film festival will be held every year from1October 28th to1October 5th, 165438. The aim is to discover new people, reward young directors, and require no more than three directors' works in the official competition. Therefore, the shortlisted directors are mostly new generation filmmakers. Recognized by the International Film Festival Federation, it is the largest film festival in Asia, along with famous film festivals such as Shana and Venice.

It started late, but due to the financial support of the Japanese consortium and the government, the film festival is well funded, so it has a large scale and a high starting point. It is held once every two years, with rich activities. There are only two kinds of film festival competitions: the international film festival competition and the young directors' works competition. International film competitions include film festival awards, best director awards, best actors and actresses, etc. Awards for director's works in Table Year include: Golden Cherry Blossom Award, Silver Cherry Blossom Award and Bronze Cherry Blossom Award. Won three prizes and awarded a huge bonus. Because of the generous bonus, the Young Directors' Works Competition is more attractive. However, this grand prize stipulates that all directors participating in the competition must be under the age of 35 and have less than five works. Therefore, the Youth Works Competition has contributed to the exploration of young directors.

The film festival has been recognized by the International Film Festival Federation, and it is the largest film festival in Asia, along with famous film festivals such as Shana and Venice. 1992, held once a year.

Our country's feature film "Old Well" won the Second Film Festival Award (1987), the "Tokyo Governor Award" and the Best Actor Award (Zhang Yimou); "Chinese New Year" won the "Special Jury Award" and the Best Actress Award (Zhao) at the 4th Film Festival (199 1).

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9. The highest award of China International Film Festival: Golden Cup Award.

Shanghai International Film Festival, founded in 1993, was certified by the International Film Producers Association the following year and listed as a non-specialized competition film festival. So far, the Shanghai International Film Festival has been held for seven times.

The eight awards of Golden Goblet Awards, the highest honor of each Shanghai International Film Festival, are judged by international judges from all over the world. Oshima, oliver stone, alan parker, Assaia, Lin Quanze and so on. Have served as international judges of Shanghai International Film Festival. In order to encourage Asian newcomers to create and build a platform for Asian films to expand to the world, in 2004, the film festival established the Asian Newcomer Award under the Jin Jue International Film Forum, and gave financial rewards to Asian newcomers.

Shanghai International Film Festival is the only international film festival in China approved by the State Council, China and the International Producers Association. The Shanghai International Film Festival is hosted by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television of China and the Shanghai Municipal People's Government, and undertaken by the Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture, Radio, Film and Television and the Shanghai Culture, Radio, Film and Television Group. At that time, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television set China's first international film festival in Shanghai, which was of far-reaching significance: as the birthplace of China films, Shanghai was almost synonymous with China films for a long time. Shanghai culture brought the initial prosperity of China's national film industry; Shanghai once contributed the most abundant images to China Film Gallery. Shanghai International Film Festival can be said to be a wish of Shanghai for the film complex.

According to the Articles of Association of International Film Producers, each Shanghai International Film Festival consists of four main activities: Golden Goblet Awards International Film Selection, International Film Exhibition, International Film Trading Market, Jin Jue International Film Forum and Asian Newcomer Award.

This is the only annual world film collection in the China film market, and the China film market has not been fully opened. Therefore, the annual Shanghai International Film Festival is undoubtedly a long-awaited film pilgrimage for the audience in Shanghai and surrounding cities. Since its establishment, more than 6.5438+0.5 million people have participated in this important domestic film activity. Now, the 9-day film festival in June every year has become an important landscape of Shanghai's cultural life.

Shanghai International Film Festival is the only film festival in China, which is held every two years. For those who love movies, it is a rare opportunity to watch movies. How to be more international and reduce the influence of non-film factors on the film festival is the biggest problem they face. The main activities of the film festival are: (1) feature film competition; (2) Organize a side performance; (3) Holding various special film screenings; (4) Holding art seminars; (5) Holding film trading activities, etc. Set "Golden Goblet Awards" as the highest prize. The Shanghai International Film Festival was held for the first time in June 1993 and is held every two years. The film festival aims at enhancing mutual understanding and friendship among film professionals from various countries and regions, and promoting the prosperity of world film art. It is held once a year from the fifth session (200 1).

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10, the highest award of Montreal International Film Festival: American Award.

Founded in 1977, it was held with the strong support of the Canadian government, the Quebec provincial government, the Montreal municipal government and the funding of some private enterprises, and changed to a competition from the following year. . Every year from August 25th to September 4th, the film festival will hold awards from the second session, and feature films will be awarded American awards, actor and actress awards and special jury awards. This short film won the Montreal Prize and the special prize of the jury.

The Montreal World Film Festival is held every August in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Organizers want to see the world from movies, so they are called "World Film Festival". There are many activities in this film festival. The main purpose is to encourage exchanges between film professionals from various countries, promote the development of film industry in various countries, and make Montreal a place for international cultural exchanges. The main activities include: feature film and short film competition, feature film and short film screening outside the meeting, annual special screening of a national film, professional viewing and screening, special screening of domestic films, special screening of American films, recognition of new and old filmmakers, retrospective exhibitions, seminars, opening up the international film market and extensive publicity activities.

Located in French-speaking Canada, the Montreal Film Festival is another distribution center for art films and an important overseas screening place for China films. And there are many awards, but there are not many real award-winning projects in each session. Every year, the film festival awards the "International Film Criticism Award" to the films participating in the film festival.

1995 In order to commemorate the centenary of the birth of world movies, the film festival invited a group of the most influential film critics in the world to present awards to the top ten most accomplished film directors in the world in this century and held a commendation meeting. Among the ten directors, Zhang Yimou, a famous director in China, ranks seventh, making him the only film director in Asia to win this honor.

At the 7th (1983) Film Festival, A Game of Unfinished Chess co-produced by China and Japan won the "Best Feature Film" award.

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