1963 Cannes Film Festival

1963 Cannes Film Festival

Official poster of the 16th Cannes Film Festival, an original illustration by Jean-Denis Maillart. [1]
Opening film	The Birds
Location	Cannes, France
Founded	1946
Awards	Palme d'Or : The Leopard [2]
No. of films	26 (In Competition) [3]
Festival date	9 May 1963 (1963-05-09) – 23 May 1963 (1963-05-23)
Website	festival-cannes.com/en
Cannes Film Festival
1964 1962

The 16th Cannes Film Festival took place from 9 to 23 May 1963. ^[4] French writer Armand Salacrou served as jury president for the main competition.

The Palme d'Or was awarded to The Leopard by Luchino Visconti. ^[5]

The festival opened with The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock. ^[6]

Juries

Mainc Competition

• Armand Salacrou, French writer - Jury President ^[7]
• Rouben Mamoulian, American filmmaker and theatre director - Jury Vice President
• Jacqueline Audry, French filmmaker
• Wilfrid Baumgartner, French BDF official
• François Chavane, French producer and writer
• Jean de Baroncelli, French film critic
• Robert Hossein, French actor
• Kashiko Kawakita, Japanese producer
• Steven Pallos, British producer
• Gian Luigi Rondi, Italian writer
• Rostislav Yurenev, Soviet film critic

Short Films Competition

• Henri Alekan, French cinematographer - Jury President
• Robert Alla, French
• Karl Schedereit, West-German
• Ahmed Sefrioui, Moroccan writer
• Semih Tugrul, Turkish journalist

Official selection

In Competition

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

English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Production Country
Les Abysses		Nikos Papatakis	France
Alvorada - Brazil's Changing Face	Alvorada – Aufbruch in Brasilien	Hugo Niebeling	West Germany
The Cage	La Cage	Robert Darène	France
Carom Shots	Carambolages	Marcel Bluwal
The Cassandra Cat	Až přijde kocour	Vojtěch Jasný	Czechoslovakia
Codine		Henri Colpi	France, Romania
The Conjugal Bed	L'ape regina	Marco Ferreri	Italy
A Cozy Cottage	Kertes házak utcája	Tamás Fejér	Hungary
Empress Wu Tse-Tien	武則天	Li Han-hsiang	Hong Kong
The Fiances	I Fidanzati	Ermanno Olmi	Italy
For Those Who Will Follow	Pour la suite du monde	Pierre Perrault and Michel Brault	Canada
Glory Sky	Ouranos	Takis Kanellopoulos	Greece
The Good Love	El Buen amor	Francisco Regueiro	Spain
Harakiri	切腹	Masaki Kobayashi	Japan
How to Be Loved	Jak być kochaną	Wojciech Has	Poland
The Leopard	Il Gattopardo	Luchino Visconti	Italy, France
Like Two Drops of Water	Als twee druppels water	Fons Rademakers	Netherlands
Lord of the Flies		Peter Brook	United Kingdom
Optimistic Tragedy	Оптимистическая трагедия	Samson Samsonov	Soviet Union
El Otro Cristóbal		Armand Gatti	Cuba
Rat Trap	Le Rat d'Amérique	Jean-Gabriel Albicocco	France
This Sporting Life		Lindsay Anderson	United Kingdom
To Kill a Mockingbird		Robert Mulligan	United States
Tobacco	Тютюн	Nikola Korabov	Bulgaria
The Venerable Ones	Los Venerables todos	Manuel Antín	Argentina
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?		Robert Aldrich	United States

Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition: ^[3]

English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Production Country
8½	Otto e mezzo	Federico Fellini	Italy, France
The Birds (opening film)		Alfred Hitchcock	United States

Short film competition

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

• A fleur d'eau by Alex Seiler
• Bouket zvezdi by Radka Batchvarova
• Citizens Of Tomorrow by Jamie Uys
• The Critic by Ernest Pintoff
• Das Grabmal des Kaisers by Istvan V. Szots
• Di Domenica by Luigi Bazzoni
• La ferriera abbandonata by Aglauco Casadio
• Geel by Costia de Renesse
• Geschwindigkeit by Edgar Reitz
• Le Haricot by Edmond Sechan
• Images du ciel - Égypte o Égypte by Jacques Brissot
• The King's Breakfast by Wendy Toye
• My Flat (Moj stan) by Zvonimir Berkovic
• Nakymaton Kasi by Veronica Leo
• Oslo by Jørgen Roos
• Playa Insolita by Javier Aguirre
• Un Prince Belge de l'Europe, Charles Joseph de Ligne by Jacques Kupissonoff
• Sous le signe de Neptune by A.F. Sulk
• The Ride by Gerald Potterton
• You by Istvan Szabo
• Zeilen by Hattum Hoving
• Zeleznicari by Evald Schorm

Parallel section

International Critics' Week

The following feature films were selected to be screened for the 2nd International Critics' Week (2e Semaine de la Critique): ^[8]

• Alone or with Others (Seul ou avec d’autres) by Denys Arcand, Denis Héroux, Stéphane Venne (Canada)
• Barnvagnen by Bo Widerberg (Sweden)
• Déjà s'envole la fleur maigre by Paul Meyer (Belgium)
• Hallelujah the Hills by Adolfas Mekas (United States)
• Le Joli Mai by Chris Marker, Pierre Lhomme (France)
• Pelle viva by Giuseppe Fina (Italy)
• Pitfall (Otoshiana) by Hiroshi Teshigahara (Japan)
• Porto das Caixas by Paulo César Saraceni (Brazil)
• Showman by Albert Maysles, David Maysles (United States)
• The Sun in a Net (Slnko v sieti) by Štefan Uher (Czechoslovakia)

Official Awards

Luchino Visconti, winner of the Palme d'Or

Main Competition

• Palme d'Or: The Leopard by Luchino Visconti ^[2]
• Jury Special Prize:
  • The Cassandra Cat by Vojtěch Jasný
  • Harakiri by Masaki Kobayashi
• Best Screenplay: Dumitru Carabat, Henri Colpi and Yves Jamiaque for Codine
• Best Actress: Marina Vlady for The Conjugal Bed
• Best Actor: Richard Harris for This Sporting Life

Short Films Competition

• Short Film Palme d'Or:
  • Le Haricot by Edmond Séchan
  • In wechselndem Gefälle (A fleur d'eau) by Alexander J. Seiler
• Jury Prize - Short Film: Moj Stan by Zvonimir Berković
  • Special Mention: Di Domenica by Luigi Bazzoni & You by István Szabó
• Short Film Technical Prize: Zeilen by Hattum Hoving

Independent Awards

FIPRESCI Prize

• This Sporting Life by Lindsay Anderson (In competition) ^[9]
• Le Joli Mai by Chris Marker, Pierre Lhomme (International Critics' Week)

Commission Supérieure Technique

• Technical Grand Prize:
  • The Cassandra Cat by Vojtěch Jasný ^[5]
  • Codine by Henri Colpi

OCIC Award

• The Fiances by Ermanno Olmi ^[10]

Other awards

• Gary Cooper Award: To Kill a Mockingbird by Robert Mulligan
• Best Evocation of a World-Shattering Epic: Optimistic Tragedy by Samson Samsonov

References

1. "Posters 1963". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 December 2013.
2. "Awards 1963: All Awards". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 25 December 2013.
3. "Official Selection 1963: All the Selection". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013.
4. "1963 - Le Prix d'un Guépard (The Price of a Cheetah)". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 25 May 2017.
5. "16ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 6 June 2017.
6. Kapsis, Robert E. (1992). "1963 Cannes Film Festival opening film". ISBN   9780226424897 . Retrieved 25 May 2017.
7. "Juries 1966 : Long film". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
8. "2e Selecion de la Semaine de la Critique - 1963". archives.semainedelacritique.com. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
9. "FIPRESCI Awards 1963". fipresci.org. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
10. "Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1963". imdb.com. Retrieved 4 July 2017.

Media

• British Pathé: Cannes Film Festival 1963 footage
• British Pathé: Cannes Film Festival 1963 Awards
• INA: Opening of the 1963 festival (commentary in French)
• INA: List of award-winners at the 1963 festival (commentary in French)

External links

• 1963 Cannes Film Festival (web.archive)
• Official website Retrospective 1963 Archived 2018-02-26 at the Wayback Machine
• Cannes Film Festival:1963 Archived 2007-08-22 at the Wayback Machine at Internet Movie Database