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"Uggie would be very proud of that," said his
trainer Omar von Muller, as he accepted the trophy collar from
his home in Los Angeles, flanked by Uggie's body double in the
film, Dash.
Uggie, who in 2011 won the Palm Dog award for best performance
by a dog in a movie screened at Cannes, died in 2015 aged 13. He
hit the big time after starring as French actor Jean Dujardin's
cute sidekick in the black and white film, which tells of a
silent star whose career dives as talking pictures take over
Hollywood.
Uggie became the first dog to leave his prints beside the likes
of Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable in front of Hollywood’s
Grauman's Chinese Theatre, and appeared on television chat shows
as well as attending the Golden Globes and Oscar ceremonies.
Lockdown may have put paid to this year's Cannes Film Festival,
but Toby Rose, organiser of the Palm Dog award, usually bestowed
during the glamorous festival in France, was determined it
should go ahead.
"It is the foremost and paw-most awards for dogs on the big
screen... it has only got bigger and bigger, and when last year
Quentin Tarantino sashayed into the room and took the collar
with great pride and enthusiasm, then I thought that says that
Palm Dog is on the map," said Rose.
Last year the Palm Dog went to Brandy, the pit bull belonging to
Brad Pitt's character Cliff Booth in Tarantino's Oscar-winning
"Once Upon a Time in Hollywood".
This year's Palm Dog jury, composed of leading film critics,
concluded Uggie had given the ultimate big screen performance by
a dog of the last 20 years.
(Reporting by Mike Davidson; Writing by Alexandra Hudson;
Editing by Janet Lawrence)
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