1976 Cannes Film Festival

The 29th Cannes Film Festival was held on May 13-28, 1976. A new section, 'L'Air du temps', which is non-competitive and focuses on contemporary subjects, is introduced at this festival and discontinued after the next.

Jury

• Tennessee Williams (USA) (president)
• Jean Carzou (France) (artist)
• Mario Cecchi Gori (Italy)
• Costa Gavras (France)
• András Kovács (Hungary)
• Lorenzo López Sancho (Spain) (journalist)
• Charlotte Rampling (UK)
• Georges Schéhadé (Lebanon) (author)
• Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)

Feature film competition

• Actas de Marusia by Miguel Littín
• Babatu by Jean Rouch
• Brutti, sporchi e cattivi by Ettore Scola
• Bugsy Malone by Alan Parker
• Cría cuervos by Carlos Saura
• Die Marquise von O... by Éric Rohmer
• Déryné hol van? by Gyula Maár
• Im Lauf der Zeit by Wim Wenders
• L'eredità Ferramonti by Mauro Bolognini
• La griffe et la dent by François Bel
• Le Locataire by Roman Polanski
• Mr. Klein by Joseph Losey
• Next Stop, Greenwich Village by Paul Mazursky
• Nishaant by Shyam Benegal
• Pascual Duarte by Ricardo Franco
• Schatten der Engel by Daniel Schmid
• Sweet Revenge (Dandy, the All American Girl) by Jerry Schatzberg
• Taxi Driver by Martin Scorsese
• Un enfant dans la foule by Gérard Blain
• Vizi privati, pubbliche virtù by Miklós Jancsó

Films out of competition

• A Delicate Balance by Tony Richardson
• Anna by Alberto Grifi, Massimo Sarchielli
• Appunti per un'Orestiade Africana by Pier Paolo Pasolini
• Ascension by Olivier Dassault
• Bobby by Marty Ollstein
• Cadaveri eccelenti by Francesco Rosi
• Edvard Munch by Peter Watkins
• Face to Face by Ingmar Bergman
• Family Plot by Alfred Hitchcock
• Grey Gardens by David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer
• Hedda by Trevor Nunn
• Hollywood... Hollywood! by Gene Kelly
• L'amour blessé by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
• La Pharmacie-Shangaï by Joris Ivens, Marceline Loridan
• Labirintus by András Kovács
• Le pont de singe by André Harris, Alain De Sedouy
• Les enfants des autres by Martin Pierlot
• Novecento by Bernardo Bertolucci
• Orlando furioso by Luca Ronconi
• Sartre par lui-même by Alexandre Astruc, Michel Contat
• Sommergaste by Peter Stein
• The California Reich by Walter F. Parkes, Keith F. Critchlow
• The Iceman Cometh by John Frankenheimer
• The Memory of Justice by Marcel Ophüls
• Train-Landscape by Jules Engel

Short film competition

• Agulana by Gérald Frydman
• Babfilm by Ottó Foky
• Hidalgo by Ion Truica
• High Fidelity by Antoinette Starkiewicz
• Metamorphosis by Barry Greenwald
• Nightlife by Robin Lehman
• Perfo by Jean Paul Cambron
• Rodin mis en vie by Alfred Brandler
• La Rosette arrosée by Paul Doppf
• La Syncope by Edouard Niermans

Awards

• Palme d'Or: Taxi Driver by Martin Scorsese
• Grand Prix:
  • Cría cuervos by Carlos Saura
  • Die Marquise von O... by Éric Rohmer
• Best Actor: José Luis Gómez for Pascual Duarte
• Best Actress:
  • Dominique Sanda for L'eredità Ferramonti
  • Mari Törőcsik for Déryné hol van?
• Best Director: Ettore Scola for Brutti, sporchi e cattivi
• Short Film Palme d'Or: Metamorphosis by Barry Greenwald
• Jury Prize - Best Short Film:
  • Agulana by Gérald Frydman
  • Nightlife by Robin Lehman
• Technical Grand Prize: Michel Fano (sound) for La Griffe et la dent
• FIPRESCI Prize:
  • Parallel Section: Der Starke Ferdinand by Alexander Kluge
  • Competition: Kings of the Road by Wim Wenders (Unanimously)
• Prize of the Ecumenical Jury: Not awarded

External links

• 1976 Cannes Film Festival
• Cannes Film Festival:1976 at Internet Movie Database