For the eighth year in a row, Toby Rose, a British Journalist has organized the Palm Dog competition. This crazy canine competition doesn’t involve breed standards and kennel clubs - its all about the dogs in the movies.

“Dogs are crucial to films and yet they are totally overlooked,” says Toby Rose, who founded the ceremony which includes an award for best on-screen dog performance, “Was Frank the singing pug an important plot element in Men In Black II? No. But was he the best thing about the movie? Oh, yes,” he said.

The event has gone mainstream; Chloë Sevigny (of HBO’s Big Love) is a Palm Dog Goodwill Ambassador and one of the past year’s winners, writer/ director Aki Kaurismäki, added the Palm Dog logo to the print of his Palm Dog-winning film Man Without a Past.

Past winners include “The all stray cast” in Mid Road Gang (Winners 2007 ) and “Mops” in Marie Antoinette (Winner 2006).

Sadly, Rose’s beloved pooch and muse, Mutley, passed away this year at age 13. “I’m not going to mention his death until the end or I’ll never get through it,” Rose says. “But this year is his tribute.” What else can we expect this year? We will just have to wait until Friday, when Cannes’ hairiest event awards this year’s brass studded collars!

For more information, please visit www.palmdog.com.

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