1959 Cannes Film Festival

The 12th Cannes Film Festival was held from April 30 to May 15, 1959.

Jury

• Marcel Achard (France) (president)
• Antoni Bohdziewicz (Poland)
• Michael Cacoyannis (Greece)
• Carlos Cuenca (Spain)
• Pierre Daninos (France)
• Julien Duvivier (France)
• Max Favalelli (France)
• Gene Kelly (USA)
• Carlo Ponti (Italy)
• Micheline Presle (France)
• Sergei Vasilyev (Soviet Union)
• Philippe Agostini (France) (short films)
• Antonin Brousil (Czechoslovakia) (short films)
• Paula Talaskivi (Finland) (short films)
• Jean Vivie (France) (CST official) (short films)
• Véra Volmane (France) (journalist) (short films)

Feature film competition

• Araya by Margot Benacerraf
• Compulsion by Richard Fleischer
• La Cucaracha by Ismael Rodríguez
• The Diary of Anne Frank by George Stevens
• Édes Anna by Zoltán Fábri
• Fanfare by Bert Haanstra
• Fröken April by Göran Gentele
• Die Halbzarte by Rolf Thiele
• Helden by Franz Peter Wirth
• Hiroshima Mon Amour by Alain Resnais
• Jakten by Erik Løchen
• Kriegsgericht by Kurt Meisel
• Lajwanti by Narendra Suri
• Luna de Miel by Michael Powell
• Matomeno iliovasilemma by Andreas Labrinos
• Middle of the Night by Delbert Mann
• Nazarín by Luis Buñuel
• Orfeu Negro by Marcel Camus
• Otchiy dom by Lev Kulidzhanov
• Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura by Mario Soldati
• Les Quatre Cents Coups by François Truffaut
• Rapsódia Portuguesa by João Mendes
• Room at the Top by Jack Clayton
• Sen noci svatojanske by Jiří Trnka
• Shirasagi by Teinosuke Kinugasa
• Sterne by Konrad Wolf
• Tang fu yu sheng nu by Tien Shen
• Touha by Vojtěch Jasný
• Vlak bez voznog reda by Veljko Bulajić
• Zafra by Lucas Demare

Awards

• Palme d'Or: Orfeu Negro by Marcel Camus
• Grand Prize of the Jury: Stars by Konrad Wolf
• International Prize: Nazarín by Luis Buñuel
• Best Actor: Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman and Orson Welles for Compulsion
• Best Actress: Simone Signoret for Room at the Top
• Best Director: François Truffaut for Les Quatre Cents Coups
• Special Mention: Shirasagi by Teinosuke Kinugasa
• Technical Grand Prize: Luna de Miel
• Short Film Palme d'Or:
  • N.Y., N.Y. by Francis Thompson
  • Zmiana warty by Halina Bielińska and Wlodzimierz Haupe
• Best Selection - Short Film: A Midsummer Night's Dream by Jiří Trnka
• Best Selection: Touha by Vojtěch Jasný
• Best Hommage: La Mer et les jours by Alain Kaminker
• Best Comedy: Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura by Mario Soldati
• OCIC Award: Les Quatre Cents Coups by François Truffaut

• Hiroshima Mon Amour by Alain Resnais is excluded from official selection to avoid upsetting the American government, as the atomic bombs are a taboo subject

External links

• 1959 Cannes Film Festival
• Cannes Film Festival:1959 at Internet Movie Database