1984 Cannes Film Festival

The 37th Cannes Film Festival was held on 11-23 May 1984.

Jury

• Dirk Bogarde (UK) (president)
• Franco Cristaldi (Italy)
• Michel Deville (France)
• Stanley Donen (USA)
• Istvan Dosai (Hungary) (Cinématographie official)
• Arne Hestenes (Norway) (journalist)
• Isabelle Huppert (France)
• Ennio Morricone (Italy)
• Jorge Semprún (Spain)
• Vadim Yusov (Soviet Union)
• Mehmet Basutcu (Turkey) (Golden Camera)
• José Luis Guarner (Spain) (Golden Camera)
• Bernard Jubard (France) (Golden Camera)
• Michel Jullien (Golden Camera)
• Samuel Lachize (France) (critic) (Golden Camera)
• Serge Leroy (France) (Golden Camera)
• Fee Vaillant (West Germany) (Golden Camera)

Feature film competition

• Another Country by Marek Kanievska
• Bayan ko: Kapit sa patalim by Lino Brocka
• The Bounty by Roger Donaldson
• Cal by Pat O'Connor
• Dges game utenebia by Lana Gogoberidze
• Enrico IV by Marco Bellocchio
• Forbrydelsens element by Lars von Trier
• Ghare Baire by Satyajit Ray
• La pirate by Jacques Doillon
• Los santos inocentes by Mario Camus
• Napló gyermekeimnek by Márta Mészáros
• Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders
• Quilombo by Carlos Diegues
• Success Is the Best Revenge by Jerzy Skolimowski
• Taxidi stin Kythera by Theodoros Angelopoulos
• Un dimanche à la campagne by Bertrand Tavernier
• Under the Volcano by John Huston
• Vigil by Vincent Ward
• Where the Green Ants Dream by Werner Herzog

Un Certain Regard

• Abel Gance et son Napoléon by Nelly Kaplan
• Cóndores no entierran todos los días by Francisco Norden
• De grens by Leon de Winter
• De weg naar Bresson by Leo De Boer, Jurriën Rood
• El Norte by Gregory Nava
• Feroz by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
• Khandhar by Mrinal Sen
• Le jour S... by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
• Le tartuffe by Gérard Depardieu
• Man of Flowers by Paul Cox
• Mária-nap by Judit Elek
• Yeoin janhoksa moulleya moulleya by Doo-yong Lee
• Un poeta nel Cinema: Andreij Tarkovskij by Donatella Baglivo
• Where Is Parsifal? by Henri Helman

Films out of competition

• Beat Street by Stan Lathan
• Broadway Danny Rose by Woody Allen
• Choose Me by Alan Rudolph
• Efter repetitionen by Ingmar Bergman
• Fort Saganne by Alain Corneau
• Once Upon a Time in America by Sergio Leone

Short film competition

• Ajtó by Mária Horváth
• Bottom's Dream by John Canemaker
• Le Cheval de fer by Gérald Frydman and Pierre Levie
• Orpheus and Eurydice by Lesley Keen
• Points by Dan Collins
• Ett Rum by Mats Olof Olsson
• Het Scheppen van een koe by Paul Driessen
• Le Spectacle by Gilles Chevallier
• Tchouma by David Takaichvili
• Tip Top by Paul Driessen

Awards

• Palme d'Or: Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders
• Grand Prix: Napló gyermekeimnek by Márta Mészáros
• Best Actor: Francisco Rabal and Alfredo Landa for Los santos inocentes (Ex aequo)
• Best Actress: Helen Mirren for Cal
• Best Director: Bertrand Tavernier for Un dimanche à la campagne
• Best Screenplay: Theodoros Angelopoulos, Tonino Guerra and Thanassis Valtinos for Taxidi stin Kythera
• Best Artistic Contribution: Peter Biziou (cinematographer) for Another Country
• Technical Grand Prize: Forbrydelsens element by Lars von Trier
• Short Film Palme d'Or:
  • Le Cheval de fer by Gérald Frydman and Pierre Levie
  • Tchouma by David Takaichvili
• Caméra d'Or: Stranger Than Paradise by Jim Jarmusch
• Perspectives du Cinéma Award: Liberté, la nuit by Philippe Garrel
• FIPRESCI Prize:
  • Memórias do Cárcere by Nelson Pereira dos Santos
  • Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders
  • Taxidi stin Kythera by Theodoros Angelopoulos
• Prize of the Ecumenical Jury: Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders
• Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention: Los santos inocentes by Mario Camus
• Award of the Youth:
  • Foreign Film: Epílogo by Gonzalo Suárez
  • French Film: Boy Meets Girl by Leos Carax

External links

• 1984 Cannes Film Festival
• Cannes Film Festival:1984 at Internet Movie Database