1963 Cannes Film Festival

1963 Cannes Film Festival

Official poster of the 16th Cannes Film Festival, an original illustration by Jean-Denis Maillart.[1]
Opening film	The Birds
Location	Cannes, France
Founded	1946
Awards	Palme d'Or (Il Gattopardo)
Number of films	26 (In Competition)[2] 2 (Out of Competition) 22 (Short Film)
Festival date	9 May 1963 – 23 May 1963
Website	festival-cannes.com/en

The 16th Cannes Film Festival was held on 9-23 May 1963.^[3] The Palme d'Or went to the Il Gattopardo by Luchino Visconti.^[4] The festival opened with The Birds, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.^[5][6]

Jury

• Armand Salacrou (France) (president)
• Rouben Mamoulian (USA) (vice president)
• Jacqueline Audry (France)
• Wilfrid Baumgartner (France) (BDF official)
• François Chavane (France)
• Jean De Baroncelli (France) (critic)
• Robert Hossein (France)
• Rostislav Yurenev (Soviet Union)
• Kashiko Kawakita (Japan)
• Steven Pallos (UK)
• Gian Luigi Rondi (Italy)
• Henri Alekan (France) (short films president)
• Robert Alla (France) (short films)
• Karl Schedereit (West Germany) (short films)
• Ahmed Sefrioui (Morocco) (short films)
• Semih Tugrul (Turkey) (journalist) (short films)

Feature film competition

• Les Abysses by Nikos Papatakis
• Als twee druppels water by Fons Rademakers
• Alvorada by Hugo Niebeling
• L'ape regina by Marco Ferreri
• Až přijde kocour by Vojtěch Jasný
• El Buen amor by Francisco Regueiro
• La Cage by Robert Darène
• Carambolages by Marcel Bluwal
• Codine by Henri Colpi
• I Fidanzati by Ermanno Olmi
• Il Gattopardo by Luchino Visconti
• Jak być kochaną by Wojciech Has
• Kertes házak utcája by Tamás Fejér
• Lord of the Flies by Peter Brook
• Optimisticheskaya tragediya by Samson Samsonov
• El Otro Cristóbal by Armand Gatti
• Ouranos by Takis Kanellopoulos
• Pour la suite du monde by Pierre Perrault and Michel Brault
• Le Rat d'Amérique by Jean-Gabriel Albicocco
• Seppuku by Masaki Kobayashi
• This Sporting Life by Lindsay Anderson
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Robert Mulligan
• Tyutyun by Nikola Korabov
• Los Venerables todos by Manuel Antín
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? by Robert Aldrich
• Wu Ze Tian by Li Han Hsiang

Films out of competition

• 8½ by Federico Fellini
• The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock

Awards

Luchino Visconti, winner of the Palme d'Or at the event.

• Palme d'Or: Il Gattopardo by Luchino Visconti
• Jury Special Prize:
  • Až přijde kocour by Vojtěch Jasný
  • Seppuku by Masaki Kobayashi
• Best Actor: Richard Harris for This Sporting Life
• Best Actress: Marina Vlady for L'ape regina
• Best Screenplay: Dumitru Carabat, Henri Colpi and Yves Jamiaque for Codine
• Best Evocation of a World-Shattering Epic: Optimisticheskaya tragediya by Samson Samsonov
• Short Film Palme d'Or:
  • Le Haricot by Edmond Séchan
  • In wechselndem Gefälle by Alexander J. Seiler
• Jury Prize - Short Film: Moj Stan by Zvonimir Berković
• Special Mention - Short Film:
  • Di Domenica by Luigi Bazzoni
  • Te by István Szabó
• Gary Cooper Award: To Kill a Mockingbird by Robert Mulligan
• OCIC Award: I Fidanzati by Ermanno Olmi

References

1. "Posters 1963". Retrieved 14 December 2013.
2. "Official Selection 1963 : All the Selection". Retrieved 14 December 2013.
3. "1963 - The Price of a Cheetah". Retrieved 10 December 2013.
4. "Awards 1963 : All Awards". Retrieved 10 December 2013.
5. "1963 Cannes Film Festival opening film". Retrieved 10 December 2013.
6. "Opening of the 1963 festival". Retrieved 10 December 2013.

External links

• 1963 Cannes Film Festival
• Cannes Film Festival 1963
• Cannes Film Festival:1963 at Internet Movie Database
• 16ème Festival International du Film - Cannes