By Tom O'Brien 

​From a bomb scare to saliva tests to a goofed-up Palme d'Or reveal, the 74th Cannes Film Festival provided twelve enormously memorable days to kick off the 2021 awards season. Were there any Oscar contenders to emerge from the festival? Let's take a dive into the reactions and see where things stand.

By Matt Neglia 

After not having a festival last year, the Cannes Film Festival came roaring back this year with 24 films in competition including, "Ahed's Knee," "Annette," "Benedetta," "Bergman Island," "Casablanca Beats," "Compartment No. 6," "The Divide," "Drive My Car," "Everything Went Fine," "Flag Day," "France," "The French Dispatch," "A Hero," "Lingu," "Memoria," "Nitram," "Paris, 13th District," "Petrov's Flu," "Red Rocket," "The Restless," "The Story of My Wife," "Three Floors," "Titane" & "The Worst Person in the World." The jury selecting the winners for the awards this year included Mati Diop, Mylène Farmer, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jessica Hausner, Mélanie Laurent, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Tahar Rahim, Song Kang-ho & Jury President Spike Lee.

Click below to see what won the awards at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.

By Eve O'Dea 

With the 2021 Cannes film Festival coming to a close and a new Palme d'Or winner about to be announced, I decided to take a look back at the earlier days of the the festival, which is now one of the most venerated film festivals in the world. The inaugural event in 1946 had a false start. It was a do-over of a previous attempt in 1939 that fell through due to unforeseen circumstances. Conceived by the French as an alternative to the Venice Film Festival, at the time the only international film festival and one dominated by fascist leanings and propaganda, the ceremony was scheduled to take place from September 1st to 20th, 1939, in the French seaside town now so synonymous with cinematic excellence.

By Tom O'Brien 

​Cannes is back, baby! If the lineup for the 2021 Festival, announced this morning by festival director Thierry Frémaux, is any indication of its quality, it's back in a massive way.

The 63 films that will be premiering at Cannes include a wide array of international titles, many of which were set to premiere at the 2020 festival (which was forced to be canceled because of the pandemic) but which waited on their release dates so that they could be at Cannes in 2021.

By Matt Neglia 

After seeing the 2020 Cannes Film Festival get canceled due to COVID-19, the festival is back this summer from July 6th-17th, better than ever! "Cinema is not dead," said artistic director Thierry Frémaux during this morning's press conference, "and the return of audiences to movie theaters around the world was the first good news. And the festival will be the second good news."​ Spike Lee is the president of this year's Official Competition jury while it was announced earlier this week that Jodie Foster will receive an honorary Palme d’Or award.

Click below to see this year's official lineup.

By Hunter Friesen

Often considered the most prestigious film festival globally, the Cannes Film Festival is your one-stop shop for some of the greatest works in international cinema. For the first time since 1968, the festival was canceled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This year's edition has the potential to be one of the best as dozens of projects from the world's greatest filmmakers jockey for the opportunity to be awarded the coveted first place Palme d'Or, which will be decided by a Spike Lee led jury.

Twenty films will be selected for the Official Competition, with several others being placed in one of the festival's many sidebar sections. And quite a few unlucky films will have to set their sights somewhere else. Cannes also has its place in the Oscar race. To use a sports analogy, it is the preseason to the fall festivals regular season. Films such as "Pulp Fiction," "The Tree of Life," "Amour" and "Parasite" started their Oscar path at the festival. 

In this article, I will detail the films that have the potential to premiere at the festival. They are sorted into three categories based on their likelihood, which stemming from a combination of factors that are explained in each summary.

The festival will announce the lineup for all sections on June 3rd. 

By Matt Neglia 

Even though the 2020 Cannes Film Festival was officially cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, festival president Pierre Lescure and general delegate Thierry Frémaux still announced the 56 films that made the cut for the 2020 Official Selection. These movies will be able to carry the Cannes label into other film festivals (if they happen) later this year. We may not know which of these would've won the Palme d'Or but we can now at least think of what could've been.

Click below to see this year's official selection.

By Casey Lee Clark 

The Cannes Film Festival is one of the most well-known and prestigious film festivals in the world, with an emphasis on showcasing the greatest artistic achievements from around the world.  With such a rich history and beautiful setting, Cannes can come across as one big fancy event, with its lavish red carpets and massive press conferences. However, it's impossible to ignore the number of incredible films that come out of the festival every year, some of which would not be on people’s radars otherwise. From massive triumphs by well-known directors to smaller international films, the films that premiere at Cannes are always ones to take notice of and put towards the top of your eventual watchlist for the rest of the coming year. Based on critical buzz and the various awards that were given out, here are ten films that we are excited about from this year’s Cannes Film Festival!​

By Cody Dericks 

​With this past weekend’s announcement of the awards for this year’s Cannes Film Festival, there were, of course, a good amount of people hoping that some of the winners would find similar success at the Oscars (Antonio Banderas, in particular, seemed to receive most of this talk). So I decided to do a quick little investigation into the track record of Cannes’s awards when it comes to predicting the Oscars. Are they a reliable bellwether, or should they be considered their own separate, but still prestigious, awards body?

By Daniel Howat 

Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman” celebrated a very successful run at Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix, essentially second place to the Palme d’Or. It would appear that this could be Lee’s most critically acclaimed film in years. He’s always had a complicated relationship with the Academy Awards. Could “BlacKkKlansman” bring him his first Best Director nomination?

By Danilo Castro 

The 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival begins today, and with it a slew of anticipated titles will premiere on the big screen. Per usual, the titles scheduled to premiere at Cannes have already given us plenty to talk about, both in terms of content and in terms of the pedigree of the actors and filmmakers behind them. 

From long-gestating passion projects and eclectic dramas to sophomore efforts by promising talents, the lineup is wildly impressive in its scope, even with the recent controversy surrounding Cannes and their banning of Netflix films from the competition. “When we do a review of the year,” said festival director Thierry Frémaux, “We say to ourselves, 'We weren't daring enough'... This selection reflects that desire to be a bit more daring, to take more risks."

With that in mind, here are some of the films that we’re anticipating most ahead of today's festival.