1955 Cannes Film Festival

1955 Cannes Film Festival

Official poster of the 8th Cannes Film Festival, an original illustration by Marcel Huet[1]
Opening film	Du rififi chez les hommes
Closing film	Carmen Jones
Location	Cannes, France
Founded	1946
Awards	Golden Palm (Marty)
Number of films	33 (In Competition)[2] 2 (Out of Competition) 40 (Short Film)
Festival date	26 April 1955 – 10 May 1955
Website	festival-cannes.com/en

The 8th Cannes Film Festival was held on 26 April - 10 May 1955.^[3] The Golden Palm went to the US film Marty by Delbert Mann.^[4] The festival opened with Du rififi chez les hommes by Jules Dassin and closed with Carmen Jones by Otto Preminger.^[5][6]

Jury

Marcel Pagnol, Jury President

• Marcel Pagnol (France) (president)
• Marcel Achard (France)
• Juan Antonio Bardem (Spain)
• A. Dignimont (France)
• Jacques-Pierre Frogerais (France)
• Leopold Lindtberg (Switzerland)
• Anatole Litvak (USA)
• Isa Miranda (Italy)
• Leonard Mosley (UK)
• Jean Nery (France)
• Sergei Yutkevich (Soviet Union)
• Jacques Doniol-Valcroze (France) (short films)
• Herman van der Horst (Netherlands) (short films)
• Marcel Ichac (France) (short films)
• Karl Korn (West Germany) (short films)
• Jean Perdrix (France) (short films)

Feature film competition

• Bad Day at Black Rock by John Sturges
• Biraj Bahu by Bimal Roy
• Bolshaya Semya by Iosif Kheifits
• Boot Polish by Prakash Arora
• Carmen Jones by Otto Preminger
• Chikamatsu Monogatari by Kenji Mizoguchi
• Continente perduto by Leonardo Bonzi, Mario Craveri, Enrico Gras, Angelo Francesco Lavagnino and Giorgio Moser
• The Country Girl by George Seaton
• Det brenner i natt! by Arne Skouen
• Le Dossier noir by André Cayatte
• Du rififi chez les hommes by Jules Dassin
• East of Eden by Elia Kazan
• The End of the Affair by Edward Dmytryk
• Un extraño en la escalera by Tulio Demicheli
• Geroite na Shipka by Sergei Vasilyev
• Giv'a 24 Eina Ona by Thorold Dickinson
• L'oro di Napoli by Vittorio De Sica
• Hayat ou maut by Kamal El Sheikh
• Jedda by Charles Chauvel
• A Kid for Two Farthings by Carol Reed
• Liliomfi by Károly Makk
• Ludwig II: Glanz und Ende eines Königs by Helmut Käutner
• Marcelino pan y vino by Ladislao Vajda
• Marty by Delbert Mann
• Die Mücke by Walter Reisch
• Onna no koyomi by Seiji Hisamatsu
• Psohlavci by Martin Frič
• Raíces by Benito Alazraki
• Romeo i Dzhulyetta by Lev Arnshtam and Leonid Lavrovsky
• Samba Fantástico by Jean Manzon and René Persin
• Senhime by Keigo Kimura
• Il segno di Venere by Dino Risi
• Stella by Michael Cacoyannis

Awards

• Golden Palm: Marty by Delbert Mann
• Jury Special Prize: Lost Continent by Leonardo Bonzi, Mario Craveri, Enrico Gras, Angelo Francesco Lavagnino and Giorgio Moser
• Best Actor:
  • Spencer Tracy for Bad Day at Black Rock
  • Sergei Lukyanov, Boris Andreyev, Aleksey Batalov, Sergei Kurilov, Vadim Medvedev, Boris Bityukov, Nikolai Gritsenko, Pavel Kadochnikov, Boris Kokovkin and Nikolai Sergeyev for Bolshaya Semya
• Best Actress: Yelena Dobronravova, Vera Kuznetsova, Klara Luchko, Yekaterina Savinova, Iya Arepina and Larisa Kronberg for Bolshaya Semya
• Best Director:
  • Jules Dassin for Rififi
  • Sergei Vasilyev for Geroite na Shipka
• Special Mention:
  • Naaz for her child actress performance in Boot Polish
  • Pablito Calvo for his child actor performance in Marcelino pan y vino
• Short Film Palme d'Or: Blinkity Blank
• Special Distinction - Short Film: Zolotaya antilopa by Lev Atamanov
• Best Short Documentary: Isole di fuoco by Vittorio De Seta
• Best Dramatic Film: East of Eden by Elia Kazan
• Best Lyrical Film: Romeo i Dzhulyetta by Lev Arnshtam and Leonid Lavrovsky
• FIPRESCI Prize:
  • Muerte de un ciclista by Juan Antonio Bardem
  • Roots by Benito Alazraki
• OCIC Award: Marty by Delbert Mann
• OCIC Award - Special Mention: Marcelino pan y vino by Ladislao Vajda

References

1. "Posters 1955". Retrieved 14 December 2013.
2. "Official Selection 1955: All the Selection". Retrieved 14 December 2013.
3. "1955 - Gold Cannes". Retrieved 10 December 2013.
4. "Awards 1955: All Awards". Retrieved 10 December 2013.
5. "Opening of the 1955 Festival". Retrieved 10 December 2013.
6. "Last time of the 1955 festival". Retrieved 10 December 2013.

External links

• 1955 Cannes Film Festival
• Cannes Film Festival 1955
• Cannes Film Festival:1955 at Internet Movie Database
• 8ème Festival de Cannes