1954 Cannes Film Festival

The 7th Cannes Film Festival was held on March 25 - April 9, 1954.

Jury

*Jean Cocteau (France) (president)
*Jean Aurenche (France)
*André Bazin (France)
*Luis Buñuel
*Henri Calef (France)
*Guy Desson (France) (MP official)
*Philippe Erlanger (France)
*Michel Fourre-Cormeray (France)
*Jacques-Pierre Frogerais (France) (CNC official)
*Jacques Ibert (France)
*Georges Lamousse (France) (senate official)
*André Lang (France)
*Noël-Noël (France)
*Georges Raguis (France) (union official)
*Henning Jensen (Denmark) (short films)
*Albert Lamorisse (France) (short films)
*Jean Queval (France) (journalist) (short films)
*Jean Tédesco (France) (short films)
*Jean Vivie (France) (CST official) (short films)

Feature film competition

*"Avant le déluge" by André Cayatte
*"Aventuras del barbero de Sevilla" by Ladislao Vajda
*"Beneath the 12-Mile Reef" by Robert D. Webb
*"Bread of Love" by Arne Mattsson
*"O Canto do Mar" by Alberto Cavalcanti
*"Carosello napoletano" by Ettore Giannini
*"Cirkus Fandango" by Arne Skouen
*"Cronache di poveri amanti" by Carlo Lizzani
*"Cómicos" by Juan Antonio Bardem
*"Do Bigha Zamin" by Bimal Roy
*"Feitiço do Amazonas" by Zygmunt Sulistrowski
*"Five Boys from Barska Street" by Aleksander Ford
*"From Here to Eternity" by Fred Zinnemann
*"Gate of Hell" by Teinosuke Kinugasa
*"Le Grand Jeu" by Robert Siodmak
*"Kiskrajcár" by Márton Keleti
*"Knave of Hearts" by René Clément
*"Knights of the Round Table" by Richard Thorpe
*"Koibumi" by Kinuyo Tanaka
*"Komedianti" by Vladimír Vlcek
*"Die Letzte Brücke" by Helmut Käutner
*"Little Boy Lost" by George Seaton
*"The Little Kidnappers" by Philip Leacock
*"The Living Desert" by Walt Disney and James Algar
*"Maddalena" by Augusto Genina
*"Man of Africa" by Cyril Frankel
*"Mastera russkogo baleta" by Gerbert Rappaport
*"Mayurpankh" by Kishore Sahu
*"Memorias de un Mexicano" by Carmen Toscano
*"El Mártir del Calvario" by Miguel Morayta
*"Nigorie" by Tadashi Imai
*"El Niño y la niebla" by Roberto Gavaldón
*"Pamposh" by Ezra Mir
*"Sangre y luces" by Georges Rouquier and Ricardo Muñoz Suay
*"Si mis campos hablaran" by José Bohr
*"Sira` Fi al-Wadi" by Youssef Chahine
*"Solange Du da bist" by Harald Braun
*"Det Stora Ädventyret" by Arne Sucksdorff
*"Marina's Destiny" by Isaak Shmaruk and Viktor Ivchenko
*"Todo es posible en Granada" by Carlos Blanco and José Luis Sáenz de Heredia
*"Velikiy voin Albanii Skanderbeg" by Sergei Yutkevich
*"Al-Wahsh" by Salah Abu Seif
*"Windfall in Athens" by Michael Cacoyannis

Awards

*Grand Prize of the Festival: "Gate of Hell" by Teinosuke Kinugasa
*Jury Special Prize: "Knave of Hearts" by René Clément
*International Prize:
**"Avant le déluge" by André Cayatte
**"Carosello napoletano" by Ettore Giannini
**"Cronache di poveri amanti" by Carlo Lizzani
**"Do Bigha Zamin" by Bimal Roy
**"Five Boys from Barska Street" by Aleksander Ford
**"Die Letzte Brücke" by Helmut Käutner
**"The Living Desert" by James Algar
**"Det Stora Ädventyret" by Arne Sucksdorff
**"Velikiy voin Albanii Skanderbeg" by Sergei Yutkevich
*Special Mention:
**André Cayatte and Charles Spaak for "Avant le déluge"
**Maria Schell for her acting performance in "Die Letzte Brücke"
**The camera crew of "The Living Desert"
**Aleksander Ford for his direction of "Five Boys from Barska Street"
**Arne Sucksdorff for his direction of "Det Stora Ädventyret"
**Sergei Yutkevich for his direction of "Velikiy voin Albanii Skanderbeg"
*Special Award: "From Here to Eternity" by Fred Zinnemann
*Best Puppet Short Film: "O Sklenicku Vic" by Břetislav Pojar
*Best Fantastic-Poetic Film: "The Pleasure Garden" by James Broughton
*OCIC Award: "Die Letzte Brücke" by Helmut Käutner

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Cannes_Film_Festival/1954 Cannes Film Festival:1954] at Internet Movie Database