1955 Cannes Film Festival

The 8th Cannes Film Festival was held on April 26 - May 10 1955.

Jury

*Marcel Pagnol (France) (president)
*Marcel Achard (France)
*Juan Antonio Bardem (Spain)
*A. Dignimont (France)
*Jacques-Pierre Frogerais (France)
*Leopold Lindtberg (Switzerland)
*Anatole Litvak (USA)
*Isa Miranda (Italy)
*Leonard Mosley (UK)
*Jean Nery (France)
*Sergei Yutkevich (Soviet Union)
*Jacques Doniol-Valcroze (France) (short films)
*Herman van der Horst (Netherlands) (short films)
*Marcel Ichac (France) (short films)
*Karl Korn (West Germany) (short films)
*Jean Perdrix (France) (short films)

Feature film competition

*"Bad Day at Black Rock" by John Sturges
*"Biraj Bahu" by Bimal Roy
*"Bolshaya Semya" by Iosif Kheifits
*"Boot Polish" by Prakash Arora
*"Carmen Jones" by Otto Preminger
*"The Country Girl" by George Seaton
*"The Crucified Lovers" by Kenji Mizoguchi
*"Det brenner i natt!" by Arne Skouen
*"Le Dossier noir" by André Cayatte
*"East of Eden" by Elia Kazan
*"The End of the Affair" by Edward Dmytryk
*"Un Extraño en la escalera" by Gregorio Walerstein
*"Geroite na Shipka" by Sergei Vasilyev
*"Giv'a 24 Eina Ona" by Thorold Dickinson
*"The Gold of Naples" by Vittorio De Sica
*"Hayat ou maut" by Kamal El Sheikh
*"Jedda" by Charles Chauvel
*"A Kid for Two Farthings" by Carol Reed
*"Liliomfi" by Károly Makk
*"Lost Continent" by Leonardo Bonzi, Mario Craveri, Enrico Gras, Angelo Francesco Lavagnino and Giorgio Moser
*"" by Helmut Käutner
*"Marcelino pan y vino" by Ladislao Vajda
*"Marty" by Delbert Mann
*"Die Mücke" by Walter Reisch
*"Onna no koyomi" by Seiji Hisamatsu
*"Psohlavci" by Martin Frič
*"Raíces" by Benito Alazraki
*"Rififi" by Jules Dassin
*"Romeo i Dzhulyetta" by Lev Arnshtam and Leonid Lavrovsky
*"Samba Fantástico" by Jean Manzon and René Persin
*"Senhime" by Keigo Kimura
*"The Sign of Venus" by Dino Risi
*"Stella" by Michael Cacoyannis

Awards

*Golden Palm: "Marty" by Delbert Mann
*Jury Special Prize: "Lost Continent" by Leonardo Bonzi, Mario Craveri, Enrico Gras, Angelo Francesco Lavagnino and Giorgio Moser
*Best Actor:
**Spencer Tracy for "Bad Day at Black Rock"
**Sergei Lukyanov, Boris Andreyev, Aleksey Batalov, Sergei Kurilov, Vadim Medvedev, Boris Bityukov, Nikolai Gritsenko, Pavel Kadochnikov, Boris Kokovkin and Nikolai Sergeyev for "Bolshaya Semya"
*Best Actress: Yelena Dobronravova, Vera Kuznetsova, Klara Luchko, Yekaterina Savinova, Iya Arepina and Larisa Kronberg for "Bolshaya Semya"
*Best Director:
**Jules Dassin for "Rififi"
** Sergei Vasilyev for "Geroite na Shipka"
*Special Mention:
**Naaz for her child actress performance in "Boot Polish"
**Pablito Calvo for his child actor performance in "Marcelino pan y vino"
*Special Distinction - Short Film: "Zolotaya antilopa" by Lev Atamanov
*Best Short Documentary: "Isole di fuoco" by Vittorio De Seta
*Best Dramatic Film: "East of Eden" by Elia Kazan
*Best Lyrical Film: "Romeo i Dzhulyetta" by Lev Arnshtam and Leonid Lavrovsky
*FIPRESCI Prize:
**"Muerte de un ciclista" by Juan Antonio Bardem
**"Raíces" by Benito Alazraki
*OCIC Award: "Marty" by Delbert Mann
*OCIC Award - Special Mention: "Marcelino pan y vino" by Ladislao Vajda

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Cannes_Film_Festival/1955 Cannes Film Festival:1955] at Internet Movie Database