1956 Cannes Film Festival

The 9th Cannes Film Festival was held from April 23 to May 10, 1956.

Jury

*Maurice Lehmann (France) (president)
*Arletty (France)
*Louise de Vilmorin (France)
*Jacques-Pierre Frogerais (France)
*Henri Jeanson (France)
*Domenico Meccoli (Italy)
*Otto Preminger (USA)
*James Quinn (UK)
*Roger Regent (France)
*María Romero (Chile)
*Sergei Vasilyev (Soviet Union)
*Francis Bolen (Belgium) (short films)
*Antonin Brousil (Czechoslovakia) (short films)
*Henri Fabiani (France) (short films)
*Paul Grimault (France) (short films)
*Jean Perdrix (France) (short films)

Feature film competition

*"Afacerea Protar" by Haralambie Boros
*"Dalibor" by Václav Krška
*"La Escondida" by Roberto Gavaldón
*"The Girl in Black" by Michael Cacoyannis
*"Gli innamorati" by Mauro Bolognini
*"Hanka" by Slavko Vorkapić
*"The Harder They Fall" by Mark Robson
*"I Live in Fear" by Akira Kurosawa
*"I'll Cry Tomorrow" by Daniel Mann
*"Körhinta" by Zoltán Fábri
*"Maboroshi no uma" by Koji Shima
*"The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit" by Nunnally Johnson
*"The Man Who Knew Too Much" by Alfred Hitchcock
*"The Man Who Never Was" by Ronald Neame
*"Marie-Antoinette reine de France" by Jean Delannoy
*"Meeuwen sterven in de haven" by Roland Verhavert, Ivo Michiels and Rik Kuypers
*"Mother" by Mark Donskoi
*"Mozart" by Karl Hartl
*"The Mystery of Picasso" by Henri-Georges Clouzot
*"Othello" by Sergei Yutkevich
*"Pather Panchali" by Satyajit Ray
*"Pedagogicheskaya poema" by Aleksei Maslyukov and Mechislava Mayevskaya
*"The Railroad Man" by Pietro Germi
*"The Roof" by Vittorio De Sica
*"Seido no Kirisuto" by Minoru Shibuya
*"Seven Years in Tibet" by Hans Nieter
*"Shabab Emraa" by Salah Abu Seif
*"Shadow" by Jerzy Kawalerowicz
*"Shevgyachya Shenga" by Shantaram Athavale
*"The Silent World" by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle
*"Smiles of a Summer Night" by Ingmar Bergman
*"Sob o Céu da Bahia" by Ernesto Remani
*"Talpa" by Alfredo B. Crevenna
*"Tarde de toros" by Ladislao Vajda
*"Tochka parva" by Boyan Danovski
*"Toubib el affia" by Henry Jacques
*"El Último perro" by Lucas Demare
*"Walk Into Paradise" by Lee Robinson
*"Yield to the Night" by J. Lee Thompson

Awards

*Palme d'Or: "The Silent World" by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle
*Jury Special Prize: "The Mystery of Picasso" by Henri-Georges Clouzot
*Best Acting Award: Susan Hayward for "I'll Cry Tomorrow"
*Best Director: Sergei Yutkevich for "Othello"
*Best Poetic Humour: "Smiles of a Summer Night" by Ingmar Bergman
*Best Human Document: "Pather Panchali" by Satyajit Ray
*Short Film Palme d'Or: "The Red Balloon" by Albert Lamorisse
*Special Mention - Investigative Documentary - Short Film: "Together" by Lorenza Mazzetti
*Best Fiction Film - Short: "Magdanas Lurja" by Tengiz Abuladze and Rezo Chkheidze
*OCIC Award: "The Roof" by Vittorio De Sica
*OCIC Award - Special Mention:
**"The Railroad Man" by Pietro Germi
**"The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit" by Nunnally Johnson
**"Pather Panchali" by Satyajit Ray

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Cannes_Film_Festival/1956 Cannes Film Festival:1956] at Internet Movie Database