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The Cannes Festival ( French : Festival de Cannes ), named until ___MASK85___ as the International Film Festival (" Festival international du film ") and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival , is an annual film festival held in Cannes , France , which previews new films of all genres , including documentaries , from all around the world . Founded in ___MASK56___ , the invitation - only festival is held annually ( usually in May ) at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès . The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards presented annually since the awards debuted in ___MASK33___ , by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) to producers working in the film industry and is the only category in which every member is eligible to submit a nomination . The actors or actresses in the film will not accept this award unless he or she produced the film . Kirk Douglas ( born Issur Danielovitch ; December 9 , ___MASK21___ ) is an American actor , producer , director , and author . He is one of the last living people of the industry ' s Golden Age . After an impoverished childhood with immigrant parents and six sisters , he had his film debut in " The Strange Love of Martha Ivers " ( ___MASK56___ ) with Barbara Stanwyck . Douglas soon developed into a leading box - office star throughout the 1950s and 1960s , known for serious dramas , including westerns and war movies . During a 64 - year acting career , he has appeared in more than 90 movies . Gosford Park is a ___MASK25___ British mystery film directed by Robert Altman and written by Julian Fellowes . The film stars an ensemble cast , which includes Eileen Atkins , Bob Balaban , Alan Bates , Charles Dance , Stephen Fry , Michael Gambon , Richard E . Grant , Derek Jacobi , Kelly Macdonald , Helen Mirren , Jeremy Northam , Clive Owen , Ryan Phillippe , Maggie Smith , Kristin Scott Thomas , and Emily Watson . The story follows a party of wealthy Britons and an American , and their servants , who gather for a shooting weekend at Gosford Park , an English country house . A murder occurs after a dinner party , and the film goes on to present the subsequent investigation from the servants ' and guests ' perspectives . Charles Grodin ( born April 21 , ___MASK17___ ) is an American actor , comedian , author , and former cable talk show host . An Unmarried Woman is a ___MASK49___ American comedy - drama film written and directed by Paul Mazursky , and starring Jill Clayburgh . Baron Haden - Guest , of Saling in the County of Essex , is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom . It was created in ___MASK9___ for the Labour Party politician Leslie Haden - Guest . He had previously represented Southwark North and Islington North in the House of Commons . His third son , the fourth Baron ( who succeeded his half - brother in ___MASK65___ , who in his turn had succeeded his brother in 1974 ), was a United Nations official for many years . A Mighty Wind is a ___MASK29___ American mockumentary comedy film about a folk music reunion concert in which three folk bands reunite for a television performance for the first time in decades . The film was directed , co - written and composed by Christopher Guest . The film is widely acknowledged to reference the ___MASK29___ tribute concert to folk music producer Harold Leventhal that reunited several of the folk groups that Leventhal had managed . More broadly , the film is a parody of the American folk music revival of the early 1960s and its personalities . Eli Herschel Wallach ( December ___MASK63___ , 1915  June 24 , 2014 ) was an American film , television and stage actor whose career spanned more than six decades , beginning in the late 1940s . Trained in stage acting , which he enjoyed doing most , he became " one of the greatest ' character actors ' ever to appear on stage and screen " states TCM , with over 90 film credits . On stage , he often co - starred with his wife , Anne Jackson , becoming one of the best - known acting couples in the American theater . Waiting for Guffman is a ___MASK93___ American mockumentary comedy film co - written and directed by Christopher Guest . The film ' s cast includes Catherine O ' Hara , Eugene Levy , Fred Willard , and Parker Posey . Claudia Weill is an American film director best known for her film Girlfriends ( ___MASK49___ ) , starring Melanie Mayron , Christopher Guest , Bob Balaban and Eli Wallach , made independently and sold to Warner Bros after multiple awards at Cannes , Filmex and Sundance . It ' s My Turn ( 1980 for Columbia Pictures ) , with Jill Clayburgh , Michael Douglas , and Charles Grodin won her the Donatello , or International Oscar for best new director . Earlier work includes thirty films for Sesame Street , freelancing as a camerawoman and numerous documentaries , notably The Other Half of the Sky : A China Memoir , a documentary about the first women ' s delegation to China in 1973 , headed by Shirley MacLaine , nominated for an Academy Award and released theatrically and on PBS . In ___MASK82___ , the Supersisters trading card set was produced and distributed ; one of the cards featured Weill ' s name and picture . After moving to Los Angeles in 1986 , Weill began directing tv episodes of Thirtysomething , My So - Called Life , Once and Again , Chicago Hope , and numerous pilots . Most recently , she has been directing Girls for HBO . Originally a theatre director ( Williamstown , The O  Neill , Sundance , ACT , Empty Space and in New York at MTC , the Public , and Circle Rep ) , she won the Drama Desk ' s Best Director Award for the premiere of Donald Margulies '' Found a Peanut produced by Joe Papp at the Public Theater in 1984 . More recently she directed The Belle of Belfast by Nate Rufus Edelman at EST , Twelfth Night for Antaeus , the West Coast Premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner Doubt by John Patrick Shanley ( with Linda Hunt ) at the Pasadena Playhouse , Memory House , End Days , Tape , numerous workshops of Modern Orthodox , Adam Baum and the Jew Movie ( Goldfarb ) , The Parents ' Evening by Bathsheba Doran at the Vineyard Playhouse , and Huck and Holden by Rajiv Joseph at the Black Dahlia , among others . Weill has guest taught directing for film , television and / or theatre at Harvard , NYU , Juilliard , and Cal Arts and is currently teaching TV Directing at Columbia . Previously she was a Professor at USC in the School of Cinema . She mentors playwrights and directors . Weill ' s distant cousin was the composer Kurt Weill , famous for such works as The Threepenny Opera , which contained the popular song `` Mack the Knife '' . She graduated from Harvard University in 1969 . Jill Clayburgh ( April ___MASK6___ , ___MASK32___  November ___MASK90___ , 2010 ) was an American actress . She won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the 1978 film " An Unmarried Woman ", and received a second Best Actress Academy Award nomination for the 1979 film " Starting Over ". Robert " Rob " Reiner ( born March ___MASK14___ , ___MASK26___ ) is an American actor , writer , director , producer , and activist . As an actor , Reiner first came to national prominence with the role of Meathead on " All in the Family " ( 1971  79 ). That role earned him two Emmy Awards during the 1970s . As a director , Reiner was recognized by the Directors Guild of America ( DGA ) with nominations for the coming of age comedy - drama film " Stand by Me " ( 1986 ), the romantic comedy " When Harry Met Sally ..." ( 1989 ), and the military courtroom drama " A Few Good Men " ( 1992 ). He also directed the psychological horror - thriller " Misery " ( 1990 ), the romantic comedy fantasy adventure " The Princess Bride " ( 1987 ) and the heavy metal mockumentary " This Is Spinal Tap " ( 1984 ). Anna Jane " Anne " Jackson ( September ___MASK45___ , ___MASK11___  April 12 , 2016 ) was an American actress of stage , screen , and television . She was the wife of actor Eli Wallach , with whom she often co - starred . In 1956 , she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in Paddy Chayefsky ' s " Middle of the Night ". Melanie Joy Mayron ( born October ___MASK12___ , ___MASK62___ ) is an American actress and director of film and television . Mayron is best known for portraying the role of photographer Melissa Steadman on the ABC drama " thirtysomething ". Robert Elmer " Bob " Balaban ( born August 16 , ___MASK74___ ) is an American actor , author , producer , and director . He was one of the producers nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for " Gosford Park " ( 2001 ), in which he also appeared . Christopher Haden - Guest , 5th Baron Haden - Guest ( born February ___MASK90___ , 1948 ), better known as Christopher Guest , is an English - American screenwriter , composer , musician , director , actor , and comedian who holds dual British and American citizenship . He is most widely known in Hollywood for having written , directed and starred in a series of comedy films shot in mock - documentary ( mockumentary ) style . Scenes and character backgrounds are written , but actors have no rehearsal time and the ensemble improvise scenes while filming them . This series of films began with " This Is Spinal Tap " ( directed by Rob Reiner ), and continued with " Waiting for Guffman ", " Best In Show ", " A Mighty Wind ", " For Your Consideration "; and " Mascots ". Guest also had a featured role as the evil six - fingered Count Rugen in the film " The Princess Bride ". This Is Spn  al Tap is a ___MASK92___ American rock music mockumentary comedy film written , scored by , and starring Rob Reiner , Christopher Guest , Michael McKean and Harry Shearer . The film portrays the fictional British heavy metal band Spinal Tap . Directed by Reiner , the movie satirizes the wild personal behavior and musical pretensions of hard rock and heavy metal bands , as well as the hagiographic tendencies of rock documentaries of the time . Michael Kirk Douglas ( born September ___MASK94___ , 1944 ) is an American actor and producer .