1961 Cannes Film Festival

Jury

• Jean Giono Jury President
• Sergei Yutkevich Vice President
• Pedro Armendáriz
• Luigi Chiarini
• Tonino Delli Colli
• Claude Mauriac
• Edouard Molinaro
• Jean Paulhan
• Raoul Ploquin
• Liselotte Pulver
• Fred Zinnemann

• Ion Popescu-Gopo
• Pierre Prévert
• Jurgen Schildt
• Jean Vidal
• Jean Vivie

  Feature film competition

• The Brute by Zoltán Fábri
• Chronicle of Flaming Years by Yuliya Solntseva
• The Cossacks by Vasili Pronin
• Darclee by Mihai Iacob
• The First Miss by Lima Barreto
• The Fourteenth Day by Zdravko Velimirović
• Girl with a Suitcase by Valerio Zurlini
• Goodbye Again by Anatole Litvak
• The Hand in the Trap by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
• Her Brother by Kon Ichikawa
• Hoodlum Priest by Irvin Kershner
• I Like Mike by Peter Frye
• The Joy of Living by René Clément
• The Judge by Alf Sjöberg
• The Knife by Fons Rademakers
• The Last Witness by Wolfgang Staudte
• The Long Absence by Henri Colpi
• The Lovemakers by Mauro Bolognini
• Madalena by Dinos Dimopoulos
• The Mark by Guy Green
• Mother Joan of the Angels by Jerzy Kawalerowicz
• The Passionate Demons by Nils Reinhardt Christensen
• Plein sud by Gaston De Gerlache
• A Raisin in the Sun by Daniel Petrie
• Sky Above and Mud Beneath by Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau
• A Song About the Gray Pigeon by Stanislav Barabáš
• That Forward Center Died at Dawn by René Múgica
• Two Women by Vittorio De Sica
• Viridiana by Luis Buñuel
• The Wastrel by Michael Cacoyannis

  Out of competition

• Exodus by Otto Preminger

  Short film competition

• Aicha by Noureddine Mechri and Francis Warin
• Argentina paraiso de la pesca by Antonio Ber Ciani
• The Art of Lee Hsiang-Fen by Henry T.C. Wang
• Balgarski ansambal za narodni pesni i tanzi by Lada Boyadjieva
• The Black Cat by Robert Braverman
• Cattle Ranch by Guy L. Coté
• Children of the Sun by John Hubley and Faith Hubley
• The Creation of Woman by Charles F. Schwep
• Cyrus le grand by Feri Farzaneh
• The Do-It-Yourself Cartoon Kit
• Dog Barbos and Unusual Cross by Leonid Gaidai
• Fantazie pro levou ruku a lidske svedomi by Pavel Hobl
• Le Festival de Baalbeck 1960 by David McDonald
• Folkwangschulen by Herbert Vesely
• Foroyar by Jørgen Roos
• Fuego en Castilla by José Val del Omar
• Giovedi: passeggiata by Vincenzo Gamna
• Gorod bolshoy sudby by Ilya Kopalin
• House of Hashimoto by Connie Rasinski
• Hudozhnikat Zlatyu Boyadzhiev by Ivan Popov
• Kangra et kulu by N.S. Thapa
• Na vez by Branko Kalacic
• Nebbia by Raffaele Andreassi
• Paul Valéry by Roger Leenhardt
• Párbaj by Gyula Macskássy
• La Petite Cuillère by Carlos Vilardebó
• Robert Frost by Sidney J. Stiber
• Souvenirs from Sweden by Henning Carlsen
• Taketori Monogatari by Kazuhiko Watanabe
• W kręgu ciszy by Jerzy Ziarnik

  Awards

Official awards

• Palme d'Or:
• *The Long Absence by Henri Colpi
• *Viridiana by Luis Buñuel
• Prix spécial du Jury: Mother Joan of the Angels by Jerzy Kawalerowicz
• Best Director: Yuliya Solntseva for Chronicle of Flaming Years
• Best Actress: Sophia Loren for Two Women
• Best Actor: Anthony Perkins for Goodbye Again

• Short Film Palme d'Or: La Petite Cuillère by Carlos Vilardebó
• Jury Prize - Best Short Film: Párbaj by Gyula Macskássy
• Short film Technical Prize - Special mention: Folkwangschulen by Herbert Vesely & Fuego en Castilla by José Val del Omar

  Independent awards

• FIPRESCI Prize: The Hand in the Trap by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson

• Technical Grand Prize - Feature film Special Mention:
• *Her Brother by Kon Ichikawa
• *Chronicle of Flaming Years by Yuliya Solntseva

• Hoodlum Priest by Irvin Kershner

• Gary Cooper Award: A Raisin in the Sun by Daniel Petrie

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