Cannes festival 1959
The twelfth edition of the Cannes festival proceeded April 30th with the May 15th 1959 .
Jury
- Marcel Achard, president
- Micheline Presle
- Antoni Bondziewicz
- Michael Cacoyannis
- Carlos Cuenca
- Pierre Daninos
- Julien Duvivier
- max Favalelli
- Gene Kelly
- Carlo Ponti
- S.D. Vassiliev
Prize list
Feature-length films
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Palm of Gold: Orfeu Negro , of Marcel Camus
- Special price of the jury: Tern (Stars) , of Konrad Wolf
- International prize: Nazarin , of Shine Buñuel
- Prix of the setting in scene: François Truffaut, for the Four Hundred Blows
- Price of female role: Simone Signoret, for Room At the signal
- Price of male interpretation: Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman and Orson Welles, for Compulsion (genius of the evil)
- Price of comedy: Polycarpo dei tappeti (main Polycarpe calligrapher) , of Mario Soldati
- Mention: Shirasagui (the white héron) , of Teinosuke Kinugasa
- Price of the best selection: the one night Dream of summer of Ingmar Bergman, SEN noci svatojanske of Jiří Trnka, and Touha (the desire) of Vojtech Jasny
Short films
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Palm of Gold of the short film: Motyli zde neziji (There are only butterflies here) , of Miro Bernat
- Special price of the Jury - short film: History of a red fish , Edmond Séchan
- Price - short film: New York, New York , of Francis Thompson and Zmisna warty (Change of gard) , of Halina Bielinska and Wkodzimierz Haupe
- Mention - short film: the small fisherman of the , China Sea Serge Hanin
- Homage: sea and the days , of Alain Kaminker
- Price of the best selection - short film: Motyli zde neziji (There are only butterflies here) , of Miro Bernat
External bond
The edition 1959 on the official site of the Cannes festival
Other editions of the Festival
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