1957 Cannes Film Festival

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1957 Cannes Film Festival
CFF57poster.jpg
Official poster of the 10th Cannes Film Festival [1]
Opening film Around the World in 80 Days
Location Cannes, France
Founded1946
Awards Palme d'Or
( Friendly Persuasion ) [2]
No. of films31 (In Competition) [3]
1 (Out of Competition)
29 (Short Film)
Festival date2 May 1957 (1957-05-02) – 17 May 1957 (1957-05-17)
Website festival-cannes.com/en
Cannes Film Festival

The 10th Cannes Film Festival was held from 2 to 17 May 1957. [4]

Contents

Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini, La casa del ángel by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, A Man Escaped by Robert Bresson, and The Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman were entered for the Palme d'Or. They lost to Friendly Persuasion by William Wyler. [5] The festival opened with Around the World in 80 Days by Michael Anderson. [6] During the 1957 Cannes Film Festival, Dolores del Río was the first female member of the jury for the official selection. [7]

Jury

The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1957 competition: [8]

Feature films

Short films

Feature film competition

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or: [3]

Out of competition

The following film was selected to be screened out of competition: [3]

Short film competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or: [3]

Awards

Andre Maurois, Jury President AndreMaurois.JPG
André Maurois, Jury President
William Wyler, Palme d'Or winner William Wyler portrait.jpg
William Wyler, Palme d'Or winner

Official awards

The following films and people received the 1957 awards: [2] [5]

Short films

Independent awards

OCIC Award [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Posters 1957". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Awards 1957: All Awards". cinema-francais.fr. Archived from the original on 25 December 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Official Selection 1957: All the Selection". cinema-francais.fr. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013.
  4. ↑ "1957 - La Loi de Cannes (The Law of Cannes)". cannes-fest.com. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  5. 1 2 "10ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  6. ↑ "Retro Cannes". mirror.co.uk. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  7. ↑ "Honoring the Female Trailblazers of Cannes /2. Dolores del Río". harpersbazaar.com. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  8. ↑ "Le Jury, Les Prix 1957". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  9. ↑ Barnard, Timothy; Rist, Peter, eds. (1996). South American Cinema: A Critical Filmography, 1915-1994. Taylor & Francis. pp. 27–29. ISBN   978-082-404-574-6 . Retrieved September 14, 2021.
  10. ↑ "Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1957". imdb.com. Retrieved 4 July 2017.

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