has a big history, but some are longer than others and you’ll never guess which film is the current record holder.
While most audiences may stand up and clap their appreciation for a few minutes or so, that’s not the case in Cannes, where standing ovations are a little bit more extreme.
You try sitting down and putting your coat on when the camera pans to every single person involved in the making of the film and you’re expected to give a renewed wave of appreciation for each one.
But while’s at this year’s Cannes Film Festival saw him receive a seven-minute standing ovation for Jeanne du Barry, that’s got nothing on’s film Pan’s Labyrinth.
The epic horror clocked up a mammoth 22 minutes of standing, clapping, appreciation back in 2006, if you can believe it.
That’s around the same time as it takes to get through an episode of Friends, It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, The Office, The Simpsons – you’ve got the idea. Most sitcom episodes.
Another notable standing ovation happened this year for Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, which received a healthy nine minutes.
Impressive.
Meanwhile, an ovation less than five minutes long is often seen as a sign a film could be a little, er, underwhelming.
Just take Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, which received what would usually be considered a .
But nope, described the five-minute appreciation as ‘muted’ and ‘lukewarm’, and ‘more of a polite formality’ within the realms of Cannes rituals.
This comes as Harrison Ford, 80 – who starred yet again as Indiana in the recent film – received the honorary Palme d’Or lifetime achievement award.
While the film premiered at Cannes to extremely mixed reviews, this is the highest accolade granted by the festival for an individual.
