| CST Award for Best Artist-Technician | |
| Awarded For: | The work of a technician for his collaboration to the creation of a film |
| Presenter: | CST |
| Country: | France |
| Location: | Cannes |
| Year: | 2003 (1951) |
| Website: | https://prix.cst.fr/en/ |
The CST Award for Best Artist-Technician (French: PRIX CST de l’Artiste Technicien) is an independent film award created in 2003. It rewards the work of a technician for his or her collaboration in the creation of a film from the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival.[1] It is awarded by a special jury, appointed by the Superior Technical Commission of Image and Sound (French: Commission Supérieure Technique de l’Image et du Son or CST).
In 1951, the CST created the Technical Grand Prize (French: Grand Prix Technique) of the CST, awarded during the Cannes Film Festival. That prize existed until 2000.
In 2003, Pierre-William Glenn, president of the CST, struggled to once again have a prize awarded to a technician during the Cannes Film Festival. Thus, the Vulcan Award of the Technical Artist was born as a part of the festival roster and approved by the festival's president Gilles Jacob.[2]
In 2019, it was renamed the « CST Award for Best Artist-Technician ».
Since 2021, the CST has also been awarding the CST Award for Best Young Female Film Technician, to highlight a young female head of station in French cinema.[3]
The actual trophy is awarded to the winner in Paris, during a special evening following the festival.
It is inspired by an image from Jean-Luc Godard's movie Le Mépris (Contempt) (1963) and represents a movie camera with analog and numeric elements.[4]
| Year | Awarded Artist(s)[5] | Work Awarded | Film | Director(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flora Volpelière | Editing | Les Misérables | Ladj Ly | ||
| Julien Poupard | Cinematography | ||||
| Vladislav Opelyants | Cinematography | Petrov's Flu | Kirill Serebrennikov | ||
| Andreas Franck, Bent Holm, Jacob Ilgner and Jonas Rudels | Sound Crew | Triangle of Sadness | Ruben Ostlund | ||
| 2023 | Johnnie Burn | Sound Design | The Zone of Interest | Jonathan Glazer | |
| 2024 | Daria D'Antonio | Cinematography | Parthenope | Paolo Sorrentino |
| Year | Awarded Artist(s)[6] | Work Awarded | Film | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Tom Stern | Cinematography | Mystic River | Clint Eastwood |
| 2004 | Eric Gautier | Clean | Olivier Assayas | |
| The Motorcycle Diaries | Walter Salles | |||
| 2005 | Leslie Shatz | Sound design | Last Days | Gus Van Sant |
| Robert Rodriguez | Visual processing | Sin City | Robert Rodriguez | |
| Editing | Babel | Alejandro González Iñárritu | ||
| Cinematography | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Julian Schnabel | ||
| Il Divo | Paolo Sorrentino | |||
| Angelo Raguseo | Sound mixing | |||
| Aïtor Berenguer | Map of the Sounds of Tokyo | Isabel Coixet | ||
| Biutiful | Alejandro González Iñárritu | |||
| Cinematography | The Skin I Live In | Pedro Almodóvar | ||
| The Hunt | Thomas Vinterberg | |||
| Antoine Heberlé | GriGris | Mahamat Saleh Haroun | ||
| Mr. Turner | Mike Leigh | |||
| Tamás Zányi | Sound design | Son of Saul | László Nemes | |
| Art direction | The Handmaiden | Park Chan-wook | ||
| Josefin Åsberg[7] [8] | Set decoration | The Square | Ruben Östlund | |
| Shin Jeom-hee | Art direction | Burning | Lee Chang-dong | |