Every year, the world’s most talented and beautiful people descend on the French Riviera to celebrate the best of cinema. The Cannes Film Festival is more surreal, glamorous, and expensive than any Hollywood production designer would dare dream up: paparazzi dressed in black tie, hotels protected by police barricades, and always, the sun breaking on the Mediterranean Sea. Masters like Francis Ford Coppola mingle with auteurs like Yorgos Lanthimos.
Grande dames—Jane Fonda, Cate Blanchett, Julianne Moore, Isabelle Huppert—share blinding strolls down the red carpet with lauded young actresses like Anya Taylor-Joy and Emma Stone. Hunter Schafer, Joe Alwyn, and other ingénues seem to step closer towards global stardom with every appearance. Billionaires park their yachts, like Jeff Bezos’ hulking , in the gleaming harbor.
Captured by long lenses, the most photographed women alive (Naomi Campbell, Carla Bruni, Bella Hadid) are seen smoking off balconies or sliding out of town cars, and shimmering in tens of millions of dollars worth of jewels. Since 1998, Chopard and Caroline Scheufele, the company’s artistic director and co-president, have played a role in transforming the festival into the grand event it currently is. For the past 26 years, the Swiss jeweler has manufactured the Palme d'Or, the highest prize awarded at Cannes.
Among the many spectacular fêtes, the Trophée Chopard, which began in 2001, stands out. Every year, a new actor and actress is awarded for .
