Boxer Dog Wins Award At The Cannes Film Festival

Boss the boxer dog has scooped the top canine prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for his appearance in the new Stephen Frears film Tamara Drewe.

During the film Boss sets off a stampede of cows, something I have personal experience of and can confirm that the producers picked just the right breed of dog for the job.

This is the tenth year that the “Palm Dog” award has been given at the film festival, last year it was an animated pooch from the Disney film Up which won the title. This year the main runners for the award were both flesh and blood canines, Boss was up against an Irish Wolfhound which appears in Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood film alongside Russell Crowe.

Tamara Drewe is based on a newspaper comic strip which appeared in The Guardian and was reprinted as a graphic novel in 2007, Gemma Arterton stars as the sexy Tamara, a newspaper columnist who arrives at a fictional village and garners the attention of lusty men – and the ire of their womenfolk. Check out the clip below.