1974 Cannes Film Festival

Opening film Amarcord Location Cannes, France		Closing film SPY*S Founded 1946

Awards Palme d'Or (The Conversation) Number of films 26 (In Competition) 14 (Out of Competition) 10 (Short Film)

The 27th Cannes Film Festival was held on May 9 - 24, 1974. The Palme d'Or went to The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola.

Jury
Feature film competition
Films out of competition
Short film competition
Awards
References

The festival opened with Amarcord, directed by Federico Fellini and closed with S*P*Y*S, directed by Irvin Kershner.

Jury

René Clair (France)(president)

Jean-Loup Dabadie (France)

Kenne Fant (Sweden)

Félix Labisse (France)

Irwin Shaw (USA)

Michel Soutter (Switzerland)

Monica Vitti (Italy)

Alexander Walker (UK)

Rostislav Yurenev (Soviet Union)

Feature film competition

Abu el-Banat by Moshé Mizrahi

Angst essen Seele auf by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Les autres by Hugo Santiago

La cage aux ours by Marian Handwerker

The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola

Delitto d'amore by Luigi Comencini

El santo oficio by Arturo Ripstein

Garam Hawa by M. S. Sathyu

Himiko by Masahiro Shinoda

Il fiore delle Mille e una notte by Pier Paolo Pasolini

Il était une fois dans l'est by André Brassard

The Last Detail by Hal Ashby

Macskajáték by Károly Makk

Mahler by Ken Russell

Milarepa by Liliana Cavani

The Nickel Ride by Robert Mulligan

The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat by Robert Taylor

Poslednata duma by Binka Zhelyazkova

La prima Angélica by Carlos Saura

Saat el Fahrir Dakkat, Barra ya Isti Mar by Heiny Srour

Sovsem propashchiy by Georgi Daneliya

Stavisky by Alain Resnais

The Sugarland Express by Steven Spielberg

Symptoms by José Ramón Larraz

Thieves Like Us by Robert Altman

Les violons du bal by Michel Drach

Films out of competition

1789 by Ariane Mnouchkine

Amarcord by Federico Fellini

Birds Do It, Bees Do It by Nicolas Noxon, Irwin Rosten

Entr'acte by René Clair

Henry Miller, Poète Maudit by Michèle Arnault

Lancelot du Lac by Robert Bresson

Le Trio Infernal by Francis Girod

Les Grandes Manoeuvres by René Clair

Once by Mort Heilig

Parade by Jacques Tati

Picasso, L'Homme et Son Oeuvre by Edward Quinn

S*P*Y*S by Irvin Kershner

The Homecoming by Peter Hall

Toute une vie by Claude Lelouch

Short film competition

Akvarium by Zdenka Doitcheva

Another Saturday Night by Steven B. Poster and Mik Derks

Carnet trouvé chez les fourmis by Georges Senechal

Hunger by Peter Foldes

I stala sie swiatlosc by Jerzy Kalina

Jocselekedetek by Béla Vajda

Leonarduv denik by Jan Švankmajer

O sidarta by Michel Jakar

Ostrov by Fyodor Khitruk

Awards

Grand Prix du Festival International du Film: The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola

Grand Prix: Il fiore delle Mille e una notte by Pier Paolo Pasolini

Best Actor:

Jack Nicholson for The Last Detail

Charles Boyer for Stavisky

Best Actress: Marie-José Nat for Les violons du bal

Best Screenplay: Hal Barwood, Matthew Robbins and Steven Spielberg for The Sugarland Express

Technical Grand Prize: Mahler by Ken Russell

Short Film Palme d'Or: Ostrov by Fyodor Khitruk

Jury Prize - Best Short Film: Hunger by Peter Foldes

FIPRESCI Prize:

Competition: Angst essen Seele auf by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Parallel Sections: Lancelot du Lac by Robert Bresson (declined)

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury: Angst essen Seele auf by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention: The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola

References

1974 Cannes Film Festival Wikipedia

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