1974 Cannes Film Festival

Jury

• René Clair Jury President
• Jean-Loup Dabadie
• Kenne Fant
• Félix Labisse
• Irwin Shaw
• Michel Soutter
• Monica Vitti
• Alexander Walker
• Rostislav Yurenev

  Official selection

In competition - Feature film

• by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• Arabian Nights by Pier Paolo Pasolini
• The Bear Cage by Marian Handwerker
• Cats' Play by Károly Makk
• The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola
• Daughters, Daughters by Moshé Mizrahi
• Garam Hawa by M. S. Sathyu
• Himiko by Masahiro Shinoda
• The Holy Office by Arturo Ripstein
• Hopelessly Lost by Georgi Daneliya
• The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived by Heiny Srour
• The Last Detail by Hal Ashby
• The Last Word by Binka Zhelyazkova
• Mahler by Ken Russell
• Milarepa by Liliana Cavani
• The Nickel Ride by Robert Mulligan
• The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat by Robert Taylor
• Once Upon a Time in the East by André Brassard
• The Others by Hugo Santiago
• La prima Angélica by Carlos Saura
• Somewhere Beyond Love by Luigi Comencini
• Stavisky by Alain Resnais
• The Sugarland Express by Steven Spielberg
• Symptoms by José Ramón Larraz
• Thieves Like Us by Robert Altman
• Violins at the Ball by Michel Drach

  Films out of competition

• 1789 by Ariane Mnouchkine
• Amarcord by Federico Fellini
• And Now My Love by Claude Lelouch
• Birds Do It, Bees Do It by Nicolas Noxon, Irwin Rosten
• Entr'acte by René Clair
• The Homecoming by Peter Hall
• The Grand Maneuver by René Clair
• Henry Miller, Poète Maudit by Michèle Arnault
• Lancelot du Lac by Robert Bresson
• Once by Mort Heilig
• Parade by Jacques Tati
• Picasso, L'Homme et Son Oeuvre by Edward Quinn
• S*P*Y*S by Irvin Kershner
• Le Trio Infernal by Francis Girod

  Short film competition

• Akvarium by Zdenka Doitcheva
• Another Saturday Night by Steven B. Poster, Mik Derks
• Carnet trouvé chez les fourmis by Georges Senechal
• Hunger by Peter Foldes
• I stała się światłość by Jerzy Kalina
• Jocselekedetek by Béla Vajda
• Leonarduv denik by Jan Švankmajer
• O sidarta by Michel Jakar
• Ostrov by Fyodor Khitruk

  Parallel sections

International Critics' Week

• A Bigger Splash by Jack Hazan
• Na wylot by Grzegorz Królikiewicz
• The Spirit of the Beehive by Víctor Erice
• Hearts and Minds by Peter Davis
• The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived by Heiny Srour
• I.F.Stone’s Weekly by Jerry Bruck Jr
• La Paloma by Daniel Schmid
• La Tierra prometida by Miguel Littin
• Der Tod des Flohzirkusdirektos by Thomas Koerfer

  Directors' Fortnight

• A Noite Do Espantalho by Sergio Ricardo
• A Rainha Diaba by Antonio Carlos Fontura
• Au-delà des sables by Radu Gabrea
• Céline et Julie vont en bateau by Jacques Rivette
• Contra la Razon y por la Fuerza by Carlos Ortiz Tejeda
• La Coupe à 10 francs by Philippe Condroyer
• Les Dernières Fiançailles by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
• Erica Minor by Bertrand Van Effenterre
• The Expropriation by Raúl Ruiz
• The Extradition by Peter von Gunten
• Gelegenheitsarbeit einer Sklavin by Alexander Kluge
• Hay Que Matar Al General by Enrique Urteaga
• Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird by Otar Iosseliani
• Il pleut toujours où c'est mouillé by Jean-Daniel Simon
• Lars Ole, 5C by Nils Malmros
• Let Mrtve Ptice by Živojin Pavlović
• Manifest by Antonis Lepeniotis
• Mean Streets by Martin Scorsese
• The Migrants by Tom Gries
• Morel's Invention by Emidio Greco
• Padatik by Mrinal Sen
• Processo Per Direttisima by Lucio De Caro
• The Profiteer by Sergio Nasca
• Sweet Movie by Dušan Makavejev
• Uira by Gustavo Dahl
• Vai Travalhar Vagabundo by Hugo Carvanna
• La Vérité sur l'imaginaire passion d'un inconnu by Marcel Hanoun
• L'Agression by Frank Cassenti
• Au nom de Jésus by José Rodrigues Dos Santos, Gérard Loubeau
• Brainwash by Ronald Bijlsma
• Film sur Hans Bellmeer by Catherine Binet
• Liberté-Jean by Jean-Michel Carré
• Une puce sur un no man's land by Marie-France Molle
• Stillborn by Ladd Mc Portlan]
• Winda by Jerzy Kucia

  Awards

Official awards

• Grand Prix du Festival International du Film: The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola
• Grand Prix Spécial du Jury: Il fiore delle Mille e una notte by Pier Paolo Pasolini
• Best Screenplay: Hal Barwood, Matthew Robbins and Steven Spielberg for The Sugarland Express
• Best Actress: Marie-José Nat for Les violons du bal
• Best Actor: Jack Nicholson for The Last Detail & Charles Boyer for Stavisky

• Grand Prix International du Festival: Ostrov by Fyodor Khitruk
• Jury Prize: Hunger by Peter Foldes

  Independent awards

• FIPRESCI Prize:
• * ' by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• * Lancelot du Lac by Robert Bresson

• Prize of the Ecumenical Jury: ' by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention: The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola

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