Initiated by producer and former channel director Janine LANGLOIS-GLANDIER, filmmaker Costa GAVRAS and Christian HUGONNET, the Best Sound Creation Award was launched as part of the prestigious “Un Certain Regard” selection in 2017, during the 70th Cannes Film Festival. Each year, it rewards a director for thesound excellence of his or her film, “because it enhances the viewer’s artistic, semantic and narrative perception. viewer”..
Each year, the jury rewards sound creation in its broadest dimension, i.e. musical and artistic, but also related to sound design (sound ambiance, special effects, voice quality, spatialization, sound level, image/sound relationship). At the heart of one of the most prestigious international film festivals, it is part of an initiative to promote the role of sound, led by the association “La Semaine du Son” (Week of Sound) as an extension of its awareness-raising campaign “UNESCO Week of Sound”, organized every January since 2004.