François Chalais Prize
The François Chalais Prize is awarded at two main events, the Cannes Film Festival and the Young Reporters' Awards. It has also offered awards for the Film Festival of Sarlat, and for the Scénario Honfleur.
File:Youssef Chahine 1978.jpg|thumb|189x189px|Youssef Chahine won for The Other
File:BahmanGhobadi2009.JPG|thumb|143x143px|Bahman Ghobadi won twice for Marooned in Iraq and No One Knows About Persian Cats
File:Walter Salles in 2024.jpg|thumb|188x188px|Walter Salles won for The Motorcycle Diaries
File:Marco Tullio Giordana FCI Tokyo.jpg|thumb|209x209px|Marco Tullio Giordana won twice for Once You're Born You Can No Longer Hide and Wild Blood
File:Nadine Labaki Cannes 2019.jpg|thumb|206x206px|Nadine Labaki won for Where Do We Go Now?
File:Asghar Farhadi, Viennale 2009.jpg|thumb|166x166px|Asghar Farhadi won for A Hero
The François Chalais Prize was created in 1996 by his wife Mei-Chen Chalais to pay tribute to the work of the great reporter and film-maker who covered nearly fifty editions of the Festival. It is awarded each year on the eve of the official competition awards announcement and rewards a film dedicated to the values of journalism.