1961 Cannes Film Festival

The 14th Cannes Film Festival was held on May 3-18, 1961.

Jury

• Jean Giono (France) (president)
• Sergei Yutkevich (Soviet Union) (vice president)
• Pedro Armendáriz (Mexico)
• Luigi Chiarini (Italy)
• Claude Mauriac (France)
• Edouard Molinaro (France)
• Jean Paulhan (France) (author)
• Raoul Ploquin (France)
• Liselotte Pulver (West Germany)
• Marcel Vertès (France)
• Fred Zinnemann (USA)
• Ion Popescu-Gopo (Romania) (short films)
• Pierre Prévert (France) (short films)
• Jurgen Schildt (Sweden) (journalist) (short films)
• Jean Vidal (France) (short films)
• Jean Vivie (France) (CST official) (short films)

Feature film competition

• Une aussi longue absence by Henri Colpi
• El Centroforward murió al amanecer by René Múgica
• Che gioia vivere by René Clément
• Le Ciel et la boue by Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau
• La Ciociara by Vittorio De Sica
• Dan četrnaesti by Zdravko Velimirović
• Darclee by Mihai Iacob
• Domaren by Alf Sjöberg
• Dúvad by Zoltán Fábri
• Goodbye Again by Anatole Litvak
• Hoodlum Priest by Irvin Kershner
• I Like Mike by Peter Frye
• Kazaki by Vasili Pronin
• Der Letzte Zeuge by Wolfgang Staudte
• Line by Nils Reinhardt Christensen
• Madalena by Dinos Dimopoulos
• La Mano en la trampa by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
• The Mark by Guy Green
• Matka Joanna od aniolów by Jerzy Kawalerowicz
• Het Mes by Fons Rademakers
• Otôto by Kon Ichikawa
• Piesen o sivém holubovi by Stanislav Barabáš
• Plein sud by Gaston De Gerlache
• Povest plamennykh let by Yuliya Solntseva
• A Primeira Missa by Lima Barreto
• La Ragazza con la valigia by Valerio Zurlini
• A Raisin in the Sun by Daniel Petrie
• Il Relitto by Michael Cacoyannis
• La Viaccia by Mauro Bolognini
• Viridiana by Luis Buñuel

Films out of competition

• Exodus by Otto Preminger

Short film competition

• Aicha by Noureddine Mechri and Francis Warin
• Argentina paraiso de la pesca by Antonio Ber Ciani
• The Art of Lee Hsiang-Fen by Henry T.C. Wang
• Balgarski ansambal za narodni pesni i tanzi by Lada Boyadjieva
• The Black Cat by Robert Braverman
• Cattle Ranch by Guy L. Coté
• Children of the Sun by John Hubley and Faith Hubley
• The Creation of Woman by Charles F. Schwep
• Cyrus le grand by Feri Farzaneh
• The Do-It-Yourself Cartoon Kit
• Fantazie pro levou ruku a lidske svedomi by Pavel Hobl
• Le Festival de Baalbeck 1960 by David McDonald
• Folkwangschulen by Herbert Vesely
• Foroyar by Jørgen Roos
• Fuego en Castilla (Tactilvisión del páramo del espanto) by José Val del Omar
• Giovedi: passeggiata by Vincenzo Gamna
• Gorod bolshoy sudby by Ilya Kopalin
• House of Hashimoto by Connie Rasinski
• Hudozhnikat Zlatyu Boyadzhiev by Ivan Popov
• Kangra et kulu by N.S. Thapa
• Medor, le chien qui rapporte bien by Leonid Gaidai
• Na vez by Branko Kalacic
• Nebbia by Raffaele Andreassi
• Paul Valéry by Roger Leenhardt
• Párbaj by Gyula Macskássy
• La Petite Cuillère by Carlos Vilardebó
• Robert Frost by Sidney J. Stiber
• Souvenirs from Sweden by Henning Carlsen
• Taketori Monogatari by Kazuhiko Watanabe
• W kregu ciszy by Jerzy Ziarnik

Awards

• Palme d'Or:
  • Une aussi longue absence by Henri Colpi
  • Viridiana by Luis Buñuel
• Jury Special Prize: Matka Joanna od aniolów by Jerzy Kawalerowicz
• Best Actor: Anthony Perkins for Goodbye Again
• Best Actress: Sophia Loren for La Ciociara
• Best Director: Yuliya Solntseva for Povest plamennykh let
• Technical Grand Prize - Special Mention:
  • Folkwangschulen by Herbert Vesely
  • Fuego en Castilla (Tactilvisión del páramo del espanto) by José Val del Omar
  • Otôto by Kon Ichikawa
  • Povest plamennykh let by Yuliya Solntseva
• Short Film Palme d'Or: La Petite Cuillère by Carlos Vilardebó
• Jury Prize - Best Short Film: Párbaj by Gyula Macskássy
• Gary Cooper Award: A Raisin in the Sun by Daniel Petrie
• FIPRESCI Prize: La Mano en la trampa by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
• OCIC Award: Hoodlum Priest by Irvin Kershner

External links

• 1961 Cannes Film Festival
• Cannes Film Festival:1961 at Internet Movie Database