1954 Cannes Film Festival

The 7th Cannes Film Festival was held on March 25 - April 9, 1954.

Jury

• Jean Cocteau (France) (president)
• Jean Aurenche (France)
• André Bazin (France)
• Luis Buñuel
• Henri Calef (France)
• Guy Desson (France) (MP official)
• Philippe Erlanger (France)
• Michel Fourre-Cormeray (France)
• Jacques-Pierre Frogerais (France) (CNC official)
• Jacques Ibert (France)
• Georges Lamousse (France) (senate official)
• André Lang (France)
• Noël-Noël (France)
• Georges Raguis (France) (union official)
• Henning Jensen (Denmark) (short films)
• Albert Lamorisse (France) (short films)
• Jean Queval (France) (journalist) (short films)
• Jean Tédesco (France) (short films)
• Jean Vivie (France) (CST official) (short films)

Feature film competition

• Avant le déluge by André Cayatte
• Aventuras del barbero de Sevilla by Ladislao Vajda
• Beneath the 12-Mile Reef by Robert D. Webb
• O Canto do Mar by Alberto Cavalcanti
• Carosello napoletano by Ettore Giannini
• Cirkus Fandango by Arne Skouen
• Cronache di poveri amanti by Carlo Lizzani
• Cómicos by Juan Antonio Bardem
• Do Bigha Zamin by Bimal Roy
• Feitiço do Amazonas by Zygmunt Sulistrowski
• From Here to Eternity by Fred Zinnemann
• Gate of Hell by Teinosuke Kinugasa
• Le Grand Jeu by Robert Siodmak
• Kärlekens bröd by Arne Mattsson
• Kiskrajcár by Márton Keleti
• Knave of Hearts by René Clément
• Knights of the Round Table by Richard Thorpe
• Koibumi by Kinuyo Tanaka
• Komedianti by Vladimír Vlcek
• Kyriakatiko xypnima by Michael Cacoyannis
• Die Letzte Brücke by Helmut Käutner
• Little Boy Lost by George Seaton
• The Little Kidnappers by Philip Leacock
• The Living Desert by Walt Disney and James Algar
• Maddalena by Augusto Genina
• Man of Africa by Cyril Frankel
• Mastera russkogo baleta by Gerbert Rappaport
• Mayurpankh by Kishore Sahu
• Memorias de un Mexicano by Carmen Toscano
• El Mártir del Calvario by Miguel Morayta
• Nigorie by Tadashi Imai
• El Niño y la niebla by Roberto Gavaldón
• Pamposh by Ezra Mir
• Piatka z ulicy Barskiej by Aleksander Ford
• Sangre y luces by Georges Rouquier and Ricardo Muñoz Suay
• Si mis campos hablaran by José Bohr
• Sira` Fi al-Wadi by Youssef Chahine
• Solange Du da bist by Harald Braun
• Det Stora Ädventyret by Arne Sucksdorff
• Sudba Mariny by Isaak Shmaruk and Viktor Ivchenko
• Todo es posible en Granada by Carlos Blanco and José Luis Sáenz de Heredia
• Velikiy voin Albanii Skanderbeg by Sergei Yutkevich
• El Wahsh by Salah Abu Seif

Awards

Grand Prize of the Festival

Gate of Hell by Teinosuke Kinugasa

Jury Special Prize

Knave of Hearts by René Clément

International Prize

• Avant le déluge by André Cayatte
• Carosello napoletano by Ettore Giannini
• Cronache di poveri amanti by Carlo Lizzani
• Do Bigha Zamin by Bimal Roy
• Piatka z ulicy Barskiej by Aleksander Ford
• Die Letzte Brücke by Helmut Käutner
• The Living Desert by James Algar
• Det Stora Ädventyret by Arne Sucksdorff
• The Great Warrior Skanderbeg by Sergei Yutkevich

Special Mention

• André Cayatte and Charles Spaak for Avant le déluge
• Maria Schell for her acting performance in Die Letzte Brücke
• The camera crew of The Living Desert
• Aleksander Ford for his direction of Five Boys from Barska Street
• Arne Sucksdorff for his direction of Det Stora Ädventyret
• Sergei Yutkevich for his direction of Velikiy voin Albanii Skanderbeg

Special Award

From Here to Eternity by Fred Zinnemann

Best Puppet Short Film

O Sklenicku Vic by Břetislav Pojar

Best Fantastic-Poetic Film

The Pleasure Garden by James Broughton

OCIC Award

Die Letzte Brücke by Helmut Käutner

External links

• 1954 Cannes Film Festival
• Cannes Film Festival:1954 at Internet Movie Database