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CST Award for Best Artist-Technician

technical award bestowed at Cannes Film Festival

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ725932 ↗
Source-derived summary

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.

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“CST Award for Best Artist-Technician” enters the record as technical award bestowed at Cannes Film Festival. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Award, Best and Artist-Technician can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003, 1951, 2000, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2003. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Award, Best and Artist-Technician.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q725932. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2003, 1951, 2000 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “CST Award for Best Artist-Technician” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.