ESSENTIAL INDUSTRY AND AWARD NEWS  MAY 14, 2019 Your Passport to Cannes Bienvenue au Festival de Cannes! Vanity Fair is setting up shop on the Croisette, preparing to bring you inside the annual fête’s most intriguing films and personalities. And as critic Richard Lawson points out, this is set to be a particularly exciting year at Cannes, thanks to a raft of high-profile projects—including Quentin Tarantino’s1969-set Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood. The period piece, starring Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio, tops Lawson’s list of the 18 most intriguing projects at the festival: “How literal Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywoodwill be with gory Hollywood history remains to be seen; it could also be a revisionist sort of thing like Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. (No, Hitler wasn’t really shot to Swiss cheese in a movie theater),” he writes. “This could just be some Tarantino lark—a reference-heavy exercise in style and form—or it could be something more substantial. Either way, it’s arguably the glitziest film in the main competition. Funny, then—and a little mean to some journalists—that the Cannes programmers chose to hold it until the second week of the festival.” Elsewhere in HWD, Julie Miller reports from the festival’s opening press conference, where 2019 jury president Alejandro G. Iñárritu had harsh words for Donald Trump; Sonia Saraiya puts a finger on how Veep nailed its series finale—while Game of Thrones seems to be whiffing its final season; we remember the great Doris Day with a series of indelible photos from her Hollywood life; and the brass behind The Bachelorette tell Laura Bradley why this season may really be the show’s most . . . dramatic . . . ever.

Ones to Watch From period romance to zombie comedy to explorations of queer identity, these are the 2019 Cannes entries that have us most excited to be back on the Croisette. READ MORE » Strong Words Oscar-winning filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu spoke about being the Cannes Film Festival’s first Mexican president in the Trump era. READ MORE » Selina vs. Daenerys In Veep’s series finale, Selina Meyer’s downfall was beautifully earned. But on Sunday’s Game of Thrones, Daenerys Targaryen’s was a frustrating mess. READ MORE » Beyond Pillow Talk Doris Day, who died Monday at the age of 97, was the toast of Hollywood in the 1950s and 60s; here, see a few of the best shots from her brilliant career. READ MORE » Rose to the Occasion ABC reality boss Rob Mills promises fireworks as The Bachelorette continues its slide into greater authenticity: the show’s newest star, he says, is “a little bit of a lunatic in the greatest way.” READ MORE »