# CST Award for Best Artist-Technician

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. 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).

## History

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.
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.

## The trophy

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.

## Award winners
### CST Award for Best Artist-Technician (since 2019)

| Year | Awarded Artist(s) | Work Awarded | Film | Director(s) |
| 2019 | Flora Volpelière | Editing | Les Misérables | Ladj Ly |
| 2019 | Julien Poupard | Cinematography | Les Misérables | Ladj Ly |
| 2021 | Vladislav Opelyants | Cinematography | Petrov's Flu | Kirill Serebrennikov |
| 2022 | 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 |

### Vulcan Award (2003–2018)

| Year | Awarded Artist(s) | Work Awarded | Film | Director(s) |
| 2003 | Tom Stern | Cinematography | Mystic River | Clint Eastwood |
| 2004 | Eric Gautier | Cinematography | Clean | Olivier Assayas |
| 2004 | Eric Gautier | Cinematography | The Motorcycle Diaries | Walter Salles |
| 2005 | Leslie Shatz | Sound design | Last Days | Gus Van Sant |
| 2005 | Robert Rodriguez | Visual processing | Sin City | Robert Rodriguez |
| 2006 | Stephen Mirrione | Editing | Babel | Alejandro González Iñárritu |
| 2007 | Janusz Kamiński | Cinematography | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Julian Schnabel |
| 2008 | Luca Bigazzi | Cinematography | Il Divo | Paolo Sorrentino |
| 2008 | Angelo Raguseo | Sound mixing | Il Divo | Paolo Sorrentino |
| 2009 | Aïtor Berenguer | Sound mixing | Map of the Sounds of Tokyo | Isabel Coixet |
| 2010 | Jon Taylor and Bob Beemer | Sound mixing | Biutiful | Alejandro González Iñárritu |
| 2011 | José Luis Alcaine | Cinematography | The Skin I Live In | Pedro Almodóvar |
| 2012 | Charlotte Bruus Christensen | Cinematography | The Hunt | Thomas Vinterberg |
| 2013 | Antoine Heberlé | Cinematography | GriGris | Mahamat Saleh Haroun |
| 2014 | Dick Pope | Cinematography | Mr. Turner | Mike Leigh |
| 2015 | Tamás Zányi | Sound design | Son of Saul | László Nemes |
| 2016 | Ryu Seong-hie | Art direction | The Handmaiden | Park Chan-wook |
| 2017 | Josefin Åsberg | Set decoration | The Square | Ruben Östlund |
| 2018 | Shin Jeom-hee | Art direction | Burning | Lee Chang-dong |

### Technical Grand Prize (1951–2000)

| Year | Film | Awarded Artist(s) | Director(s) |
| 2002 | No award | No award | No award |
| 2001 | No award | No award | No award |
| 2000 | In the Mood for Love | Christopher Doyle, Ping Bin Lee, William Chang | Wong Kar-wai |
| 1999 | The Emperor and the Assassin | Tu Juhua | Chen Kaige |
| 1998 | Tango | Vittorio Storaro | Carlos Saura |
| 1997 | She's So Lovely | Thierry Arbogast | Nick Cassavetes |
| 1997 | The Fifth Element | Thierry Arbogast | Luc Besson |
| 1996 | Microcosmos | Whole technical team | Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou |
| 1995 | Shanghai Triad | Lü Yue, Olivier Chiavassa, Bruno Patin | Zhang Yimou |
| 1994 | Dead Tired | Pitof | Michel Blanc |
| 1993 | Mazeppa | Jean Gargonne, Vincent Arnadi | Bartabas |
| 1992 | El Viaje | Fernando Solanas | Fernando Solanas |
| 1991 | Europa | Lars von Trier | Lars von Trier |
| 1990 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Pierre Lhomme | Jean-Paul Rappeneau |
| 1989 | Black Rain | | Shōhei Imamura |
| 1988 | Bird | | Clint Eastwood |
| 1987 | Le Cinéma dans les Yeux | | Gilles and Laurent Jacob |
| 1986 | The Mission | | Roland Joffé |
| 1985 | Insignificance | | Nicolas Roeg |
| 1984 | The Element of Crime | | Lars von Trier |
| 1983 | Carmen | | Carlos Saura |
| 1982 | Passion | | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 1981 | Les Uns et les Autres | | Claude Lelouch |
| 1980 | The Risk of Living | | Gérald Calderon |
| 1979 | Norma Rae | | Martin Ritt |
| 1978 | Pretty Baby | | Louis Malle |
| 1977 | Car Wash | | Michael Schultz |
| 1976 | Fang and Claw | | Michel Fano |
| 1975 | A Touch of Zen | | King Hu |
| 1975 | Don't | | Robin Lehman |
| 1974 | Mahler | | Ken Russell |
| 1973 | Cries and Whispers | | Ingmar Bergman |
| 1972 | Zikkaron [fr] | | Laurent Coderre |
| 1971 | The Hellstrom Chronicle | | Walon Green, Ed Spiegel |
| 1970 | The Territory of Others | | François Bel, Michel Fano |
| 1969 | No award | No award | No award |
| 1968 | The festival was interrupted. No awards this year. | The festival was interrupted. No awards this year. | The festival was interrupted. No awards this year. |
| 1967 | Sky Over Holland | | John Fernhout |
| 1966 | Chimes at Midnight | | Orson Welles |
| 1966 | Skaterdater | | Noel Black |
| 1966 | A Man and a Woman | Pierre Uytterhoeven | Claude Lelouch |
| 1965 | Ban ye ji jiao | | Yeou Lei |
| 1965 | Circus Angel | | Albert Lamorisse |
| 1965 | Une Danse Éternelle | | Tamás Banovich |
| 1965 | Overture | | János Vadászd |
| 1964 | No award | No award | No award |
| 1963 | Yachting | | Hattum Hoving |
| 1963 | Codine | | Henri Colpi |
| 1963 | The Cassandra Cat | | Vojtěch Jasný |
| 1962 | Electra | | Michael Cacoyannis |
| 1962 | Oczekiwanie | | Witold Giersz |
| 1962 | The Lovers of Teruel | | Raymond Rouleau |
| 1962 | Les Dieux du Feu | | Henri Storck |
| 1962 | The Magnificent Concubine | | Han Hsiang Li |
| 1961 | No award | No award | No award |
| 1960 | Paw | | Astrid Henning-Jensen |
| 1959 | Luna de Miel | | Michael Powell |
| 1959 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | | Jiří Trnka |
| 1959 | Araya | | Margot Benacerraf |
| 1958 | The Flute and the Arrow | | Arne Sucksdorff |
| 1958 | Mon Oncle | | Jacques Tati |
| 1958 | The Cranes are Flying | | Mikhail Kalatozov |
| 1957 | Wiesensommer | | Heinz Sielmann |
| 1957 | Toute la mémoire du monde | | Alain Resnais |
| 1957 | Il Sogno dei Gonzaga | | Antonio Petrucci |
| 1957 | Bölcsők | | Ágoston Kollányi |
| 1957 | The Bachelor Party | | Delbert Mann |
| 1956 | Sob o Céu da Bahia | | Ernesto Remani |
| 1956 | Tovarichtch Oukhodit v More | | Nikita Kurikhin |
| 1956 | Crne Vode | | Rudolf Sremec |
| 1955 | No award | No award | No award |
| 1954 | The Great Adventure | | Arne Sucksdorff |
| 1954 | Nouveaux Horizons | | Marcel Ichac |
| 1954 | The Great Warrior Skanderbeg | | Sergei Yutkevich |
| 1954 | Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom | | Ward Kimball, Charles A. Nichols |
| 1953 | Green Magic | | Gian Gaspare Napolitano |
| 1953 | La Montagna di Cenere | | Giovanni Paolucci |
| 1953 | Pescatori di Laguna | | Antonio Petrucci |
| 1953 | Water Birds | | Ben Sharpsteen |
| 1952 | The Immortal Song | | V. Shantaram |
| 1951 | The Tales of Hoffmann | | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger |
| 1951 | Carnet de plongée | | Jacques-Yves Cousteau |