The Eccentric History of the Cannes Film Festival

The following year, in 1947, the name was changed from Le Festival International de Cannes to Festival du film de Cannes, despite it still acting as an international film fest (16 countries were represented that year), and it was held at the Palais des Festivals for the first time. Also, the jury rules were adapted to only include one rep per country. In 1951, another big change to the festival would occur; it would move from Fall to Spring, the season it's been held in ever since.

In 2002, Polish-French filmmaker Roman Polanski, center, won the festival's top honor — the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) award — for his film The Pianist, but besides his professional achievements, he's probably equally known for his controversial past.

In 1969, his pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, was murdered by members of the Manson family. Then in 1977 he was arrested and plead guilty in the US for sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl, so he fled to Europe to avoid sentencing. Despite another attempt at arresting him in 2009, he's yet to serve time for his crime.

British film director Alfred Hitchcock had three films nominated at Cannes, but never won an award at the festival. His nominated flicks were Notorious (1946), I Confess (1953), and The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956).

Before his Governator days, Arnold Schwarzenegger was just a bodybuilding actor wanting to pump, you, up. At the 38th Cannes Film Festival in 1977, Schwarzenegger presented his documentary Pumping Iron.

Beginning in 1954 when French actress Simone Sylva flashed her bare chest for the cameras, the show-the-cameras-some-skin tradition has become a part of Cannes's laissez-faire attitude.

French porn-star Lolo Ferrari (real name, Eve Valois) underwent 18 operations to get to her 51-inch bust and held the Guinness title for biggest breasts in the world.

After the Star Wars III screening, George Lucas and a cleanly shaven Natalie Portman goof around at the 58th Cannes Film Festival in 2005.

Banana-hammock wearing Sacha Baron Cohen graces the beach at Cannes as his alter-ego Borat, also the name of his 2006 film.