The Cannes Film Festival was created in France as a rival to the Venice festival, which in the 1930s had come under heavy political pressure from fascist Italy. The French education minister Jean Zay backed the idea, and a first edition was planned for 1939, but the outbreak of the Second World War cancelled it on its opening night. The festival finally took place in September after the war ended, on the French Riviera. It grew into one of the most prestigious events in cinema, and its top award, first called the Grand Prix, became the Palme d'Or in 1955. Cannes is also a major marketplace where films are sold and financed.
Before and after
- 27 December 1945Founding of World Bank
- 1946Founding of Byurakan Observatory
- from 1946 to 1949Second Kuomintang-Communist Civil War
- 1946Founding of U.C. Sampdoria
- 1946First edition of Cannes Film Festival
- from 1946 to 1958French Fourth Republic
- 1946Establishment of Nairobi National Park
- 1946Founding of Honda
- 5 January 1946Birth of Diane Keaton
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