PARIS, May 24 — Uggie the adorable terrier from the Oscar-winning film The Artist was posthumously awarded the Palm Dog of Palm Dogs Friday for the best canine performance ever at the Cannes film festival. With the film world in mourning after Cannes was cancelled because of the coronavirus, the...
Best Actor winner Jean Dujardin walks off the stage with dog Uggie after 'The Artist' won Best Movie onstage at the 84th Annual Academy Awards on February 26, 2012 in Hollywood, California. — AFP picwas posthumously awarded the Palm Dog of Palm Dogs Friday for the best canine performance ever at the Cannes film festival.
The Palm Dog is the doggie version of the festival’s top prize, the Palme d’Or, and almost as sought after, with Quentin Tarantino, Noah Baumbach and Jim Jarsmusch among a galaxy of top-dog directors who have emerged from the pack with the highly-prized collar between their teeth. Indeed Tarantino admitted that he had his eye on the collar last year for “my wonderful actress Brandy”, a pit bull who liked to chomp cans of tinned rat and who savaged the baddies in the gory final scene of“I’m not going to give this to her — it’ll go on my mantelpiece,” he proudly told AFP after the dog who very nearly upstaged Brad Pitt won the award.
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