1974 Cannes Film Festival

The 27th Cannes Film Festival was held on May 9 - 24, 1974.

Jury

• René Clair (France)(president)
• Jean-Loup Dabadie (France)
• Kenne Fant (Sweden)
• Félix Labisse (France)
• Irwin Shaw (USA)
• Michel Soutter (Switzerland)
• Monica Vitti (Italy)
• Alexander Walker (UK)
• Rostislav Yurenev (Soviet Union)

Feature film competition

• Abu el-Banat by Moshé Mizrahi
• Angst essen Seele auf by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• Les autres by Hugo Santiago
• La cage aux ours by Marian Handwerker
• The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola
• Delitto d'amore by Luigi Comencini
• El santo oficio by Arturo Ripstein
• Garam Hawa by M. S. Sathyu
• Himiko by Masahiro Shinoda
• Il fiore delle Mille e una notte by Pier Paolo Pasolini
• Il était une fois dans l'est by André Brassard
• The Last Detail by Hal Ashby
• Macskajáték by Károly Makk
• Mahler by Ken Russell
• Milarepa by Liliana Cavani
• The Nickel Ride by Robert Mulligan
• The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat by Robert Taylor
• Poslednata duma by Binka Zhelyazkova
• La prima Angélica by Carlos Saura
• Saat el Fahrir Dakkat, Barra ya Isti Mar by Heiny Srour
• Sovsem propashchiy by Georgi Daneliya
• Stavisky by Alain Resnais
• The Sugarland Express by Steven Spielberg
• Symptoms by José Ramón Larraz
• Thieves Like Us by Robert Altman
• Les violons du bal by Michel Drach

Films out of competition

• 1789 by Ariane Mnouchkine
• Amarcord by Federico Fellini
• Birds Do It, Bees Do It by Nicolas Noxon, Irwin Rosten
• Entr'acte by René Clair
• Henry Miller, Poète Maudit by Michèle Arnault
• Lancelot du Lac by Robert Bresson
• Le Trio Infernal by Francis Girod
• Les Grandes Manoeuvres by René Clair
• Once by Mort Heilig
• Parade by Jacques Tati
• Picasso, L'Homme et Son Oeuvre by Edward Quinn
• S*P*Y*S by Irvin Kershner
• The Homecoming by Peter Hall
• Toute une vie by Claude Lelouch

Short film competition

• Akvarium by Zdenka Doitcheva
• Another Saturday Night by Steven B. Poster and Mik Derks
• Carnet trouvé chez les fourmis by Georges Senechal
• Hunger by Peter Foldes
• I stala sie swiatlosc by Jerzy Kalina
• Jocselekedetek by Béla Vajda
• Leonarduv denik by Jan Švankmajer
• O sidarta by Michel Jakar
• Ostrov by Fyodor Khitruk

Awards

• Grand Prix du Festival International du Film: The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola
• Grand Prix: Il fiore delle Mille e una notte by Pier Paolo Pasolini
• Best Actor:
  • Jack Nicholson for The Last Detail
  • Charles Boyer for Stavisky
• Best Actress: Marie-José Nat for Les violons du bal
• Best Screenplay: Hal Barwood, Matthew Robbins and Steven Spielberg for The Sugarland Express
• Technical Grand Prize: Mahler by Ken Russell
• Short Film Palme d'Or: Ostrov by Fyodor Khitruk
• Jury Prize - Best Short Film: Hunger by Peter Foldes
• FIPRESCI Prize:
  • Competition: Angst essen Seele auf by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Parallel Sections: Lancelot du Lac by Robert Bresson (declined)
• Prize of the Ecumenical Jury: Angst essen Seele auf by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention: The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola

External links

• 1974 Cannes Film Festival
• Cannes Film Festival:1974 at Internet Movie Database