Talk:Palme d'Or

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Contents 1 Improvement drive 2 The Winners List 3 Country 4 spelling 5 Films before 1955 6 Stub articles 7 1946

[edit] Improvement drive

A related topic, Pulp Fiction, is currently nominated on WP:IDRIVE. Vote for this article.--Fenice 06:51, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The Winners List

WOuld it be a good idea to turn it around, so that the most recent winner is on top? NuclearFunk 02:15, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Country

Why films produced by several countries are listed as only one country production?--SylwiaS | talk 18:11, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

I agree. It's a little simplistic to call The Wind That Shakes The Barley a UK film. Perhaps it would complicate the "winners from country of origin" section of the article and that's why it's being treated as such. Let's face it, probably a quarter of these films are co-productions.

This is indeed a problem. Many of these films are co-productions. It's not like the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, where each submission is officially submitted by the government of one specific country. In Cannes, films are not submitted by governments, so many cannot be described as the product of one country. So, for example, the official Cannes website correctly lists The Piano as from Australia, France and New Zealand,[1] whereas this article simplifies to New Zealand. I think the 'country' column ought to be removed, along with the accompanying statistics, even though somebody has put a lot of work into them. Cop 633 16:48, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Since there were no objections I removed the country stats. Cop 633 02:12, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] spelling

Should this article be named Palme d'Or or Palme d'or? The official website uses Palme d'Or in French and in English. French Wikipedia uses Palme d'or. Shawnc 04:54, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I think it should be Palm d'Or. It would be "Golden Palm" in English, not "golden Palm".--SylwiaS | talk 20:14, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Article has been renamed as Palme d'Or. Shawnc 07:57, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Really, it is not a 'UK' film, given that the article for the film itself describes it as an 'irish' film.

[edit] Films before 1955

Should the films before 1955 be listed here and/or categorized under Category:Palme d'Or winners? Shawnc 06:03, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes. I adjusted the tables to do this. Cop 633 01:33, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stub articles

Many of the awarded films have only a very rudimentary stub. Please, help develop these stubs, so that Palme s'Or Awards becomes worth mentioning along with Academy, Golden Globe, BAFTA and other Awards. Hoverfish 10:21, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 1946

Why are seven films listed for 1946, then none until 1955? What is actually going on here? Cop 633 22:39, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

I was wondering too. This is what I found: [2] Hoverfish 23:06, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Hmm, looks like they were simply indecisive in 1946 or changed the rules or something. Cop 633 15:42, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

To me it looks like they tried to catch up after WWII. They wanted to start in 1939, so this makes seven years of waiting, so maybe it's a film per year. The article also states that there was no award given in 1947, yet the site gives 5 Grand Prix to 5 film categories: [3]. Looks like the article has to be updated. Hoverfish 16:23, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Right... you'd think they would have awarded a film from each year between 1939-46, rather than 7 films from 1946! But I guess that would have missed the point of a film festival for new films. It would be nice to find some 'official' explanation to confirm this. Cop 633 16:37, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

So now I have it in more detail: Men Without Wings is a 1943 film, Torment is 1944, 6 films are 1945 and 2 are 1946. Portrait of Maria (1944) was not awarded as film, but the Director got the Gran Prix for it. So it's not 7 but 10 films plus one director here. It looks like they fixed the rules in 1949. I have no more detailed sources as for the reasons given. Hoverfish 17:13, 22 November 2006 (UTC)