1979 Cannes Film Festival

The 32nd Cannes Film Festival was held on May 10 - 24.

Jury

• Françoise Sagan (France) (president)
• Sergio Amidei (Italy)
• Rodolphe-Maurice Arlaud (Switzerland)
• Luis García Berlanga (Spain)
• Maurice Bessy (France)
• Paul Claudon (France)
• Jules Dassin (USA)
• Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács (Hungary)
• Robert Rozhdestvensky (Soviet Union) (author)
• Susannah York (UK)

Feature film competition

• Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola (which was screened as a work in progress)
• Arven by Anja Breien
• Bez znieczulenia by Andrzej Wajda
• Caro papà by Dino Risi
• The China Syndrome by James Bridges
• Days of Heaven by Terrence Malick
• Die Blechtrommel by Volker Schlöndorff
• Een vrouw tussen hond en wolf by André Delvaux
• The Europeans by James Ivory
• L'ingorgo - Una storia impossibile by Luigi Comencini
• La drôlesse by Jacques Doillon
• Les Soeurs Brontë by André Téchiné
• Los sobrevivientes by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
• Magyar rapszódia by Miklós Jancsó
• My Brilliant Career by Gillian Armstrong
• Norma Rae by Martin Ritt
• Okupacija u 26 slika by Lordan Zafranović
• Siberiade by Andrei Konchalovsky
• Série noire by Alain Corneau
• Victoria by Bo Widerberg
• Woyzeck by Werner Herzog

Un Certain Regard

• A kedves szomszéd by Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács
• Companys, procés a Catalunya by Josep Maria Forn
• Dalla nube alla resistenza by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet
• Die dritte Generation by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• Encore un Hiver by Françoise Sagan
• Fad'jal by Safi Faye
• Les petites fugues by Yves Yersin
• Moments de la vie d'une femme by Michal Bat-Adam
• Mourir à tue-tête by Anne Claire Poirier
• Paviljon VI by Lucian Pintilie
• Printemps en Février by Shei Tieli
• Spirit of the Wind by Ralph Liddle

Films out of competition

• À nous deux by Claude Lelouch
• Cristo si è fermato a Eboli by Francesco Rosi
• Hair by Miloš Forman
• Le Musee du Louvre by Toshio Uruta
• Manhattan by Woody Allen
• Prova d'orchestra by Federico Fellini
• Wise Blood by John Huston

Short film competition

• Barbe bleue by Olivier Gillon
• Bum by Břetislav Pojar
• La Dame de Monte Carlo by Dominique Delouche
• La Festa dels bojos by Lluis Racionero Grau
• Harpya by Raoul Servais
• Helping Hand by John P. Taylor and Zlatko Pavlinovic
• Le Mur by Jan January Janczak
• Petite histoire un peu triste by Didier Pourcel
• Põld by Rein Raamat
• The Waltzing Policemen by Kerry Feltham
• Zwei Frauen in der Oper by Christian Veit-Attendorff

Awards

• Palme d'Or:
  • Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola
  • Die Blechtrommel by Volker Schlöndorff
• Grand Prix: Siberiade by Andrei Konchalovsky
• Best Actor: Jack Lemmon for The China Syndrome
• Best Actress: Sally Field for Norma Rae
• Best Supporting Actor: Stefano Madia for Caro papà
• Best Supporting Actress: Eva Mattes for Woyzeck
• Best Director: Terrence Malick for Days of Heaven
• Technical Grand Prize: Norma Rae by Martin Ritt
• Short Film Palme d'Or: Harpya by Raoul Servais
• Jury Prize - Best Short Film:
  • Bum by Břetislav Pojar
  • La Festa dels bojos by Lluis Racionero Grau
• Caméra d'Or: Northern Lights by John Hanson and Rob Nilsson
• Young Cinema Award: La drôlesse by Jacques Doillon
• FIPRESCI Prize
  • Parallel Section:
    • Angi Vera by Pál Gábor
    • Black Jack by Ken Loach
  • Competition: Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola
• Prize of the Ecumenical Jury: Without Anesthesia by Andrzej Wajda
• Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention: Arven by Anja Breien

External links

• 1979 Cannes Film Festival
• Cannes Film Festival:1979 at Internet Movie Database