Jury

• Ingrid Bergman
  Ingrid Bergman
  Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute...
  
   (Sweden)(president)
• Jean Delannoy
  Jean Delannoy
  Jean Delannoy was a French actor, film editor, screenwriter and film director.Although Delannoy was born in a Paris suburb, his family is from Haute-Normandie in the north of France...
  
   (France)
• Lawrence Durrell
  Lawrence Durrell
  Lawrence George Durrell was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer, though he resisted affiliation with Britain and preferred to be considered cosmopolitan...
  
   (UK)
• Rodolfo Echeverria (Spain)
• Boreslav Michalek (Poland)
• François Nourissier
  François Nourissier
  François Nourissier was a French journalist and writer.Nourissier was the secretary-general of Éditions Denoël , editor of the review La Parisienne , and an adviser with the Éditions Grasset Paris publishing house .In 1970, he won the Prix Femina for his book La crève...
  
   (France)
• Leo Pestelli (Italy)(journalist)
• Sydney Pollack
  Sydney Pollack
  Sydney Irwin Pollack was an American film director, producer and actor. Pollack studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, where he later taught acting...
  
   (USA)
• Robert Rojdestvensky (Soviet Union) (author)
• Robert Enrico
  Robert Enrico
  Robert Georgio Enrico was a French film director and scriptwriter.He was born in Liévin, Pas-de-Calais, in the north of France.-Filmography as director:* Fait d'hiver...
  
   (France) (short films president)
• Samuel Lachize (France) (critic) (short films)
• Alexandre Marin (short films)

Feature film competition

• A Promessa
  The Vows
  The Vows is a 1973 Portuguese drama film directed by António de Macedo. It was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Guida Maria - Maria do Mar* Sinde Filipe - Labareda* João Mota - José* Luís Santos - Salvador* J...
  
  by António de Macedo
  Antonio de Macedo
  Antonio de Macedo was first a filmmaker and later a writer, university professor and lecturer.He gave up from filmmaking in the nineties as he felt systematically excluded from the state support programs of the Portuguese Ministry of Culture, the only financial source for film production in...
  
  
• Un Amleto di meno
  One Hamlet Less
  One Hamlet Less is a 1973 Italian drama film directed by Carmelo Bene. It was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Carmelo Bene - Hamlet* Luciana Cante - Gertrude* Sergio Di Giulio - William* Franco Leo - Horatio...
  
  by Carmelo Bene
  Carmelo Bene
  Carmelo Bene was an Italian actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in 20 films between 1967 and 2002...
  
  
• Ana y los lobos by Carlos Saura
  Carlos Saura
  Carlos Saura Atarés is a Spanish film director and photographer.-Early life:Born into a family of artists , he developed his artistic sense in childhood as a photography enthusiast.He obtained his directing diploma in Madrid in 1957 at the Institute of Cinema Research and Studies...
  
  
• Belle
  Belle (1973 film)
  Belle is a 1973 Belgian-French drama film directed by André Delvaux. It was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Jean-Luc Bideau - Mathieu Grégoire* Danièle Delorme - Jeanne* Adriana Bogdan - Belle* Roger Coggio - Victor...
  
  by André Delvaux
• Bisturi, la mafia bianca
  Hospitals: The White Mafia
  Hospitals: The White Mafia is a 1973 Italian drama film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Gabriele Ferzetti. It was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Gabriele Ferzetti* Senta Berger* Enrico Maria Salerno* Claudio Gora...
  
  by Luigi Zampa
  Luigi Zampa
  Luigi Zampa was an Italian film-maker.- Biography :Son of a worker, Zampa studied film making from 1932 to 1937 at the Italian film school Centro sperimentale di cinematografia in Rome....
  
  
• The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
  The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
  The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds is a 1964 play written by Paul Zindel, a playwright and science teacher. Zindel received the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for the work. The play's world premiere was staged in 1964 at the Alley Theatre...
  
  by Paul Newman
  Paul Newman
  Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, professional racing driver and auto racing enthusiast...
  
  
• Electra Glide in Blue
  Electra Glide in Blue
  Electra Glide in Blue is a 1973 film starring Robert Blake as a motorcycle cop in Arizona and Billy Green Bush as his partner. The name stems from the Harley-Davidson Electra Glide motorcycle issued to traffic cops....
  
  by James William Guercio
• Le Far-West
  Far West (film)
  Far West is a 1973 Belgian-French comedy film directed by Jacques Brel. It was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival. This was Brel's ninth feature film, and his second directorial effort. The film co-starred Gabriel Jabbour, Danielle Evenou, and Arlette Lindon...
  
  by Jacques Brel
  Jacques Brel
  Jacques Brel was a Belgian singer-songwriter who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following in France initially, and later throughout the world. He was widely considered a master of the modern chanson...
  
  
• Film d'amore e d'anarchia, ovvero: stamattina alle 10, in via dei Fiori, nella nota casa di tolleranza...
  Love and Anarchy
  Love and Anarchy is a 1973 film directed by Lina Wertmüller and starring Giancarlo Giannini and Mariangela Melato. The story, set in Fascist Italy before the outbreak of World War II, centers on Giannini's character, an anarchist who stays in a brothel while preparing to kill Benito Mussolini...
  
  by Lina Wertmüller
  Lina Wertmüller
  Lina Wertmüller is an Italian film writer and director of aristocratic Swiss descent. In 1976, she became the first woman ever to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing with the film Seven Beauties.-Biography:...
  
  
• Godspell
  Godspell (film)
  Godspell, released in 1973, is the film adaptation of the Off-Broadway musical Godspell created by John-Michael Tebelak.Set in modern New York City, the film stars Victor Garber as Jesus and David Haskell as John the Baptist/Judas...
  
  by David Greene
  David Greene (director)
  L. David Syms-Greene , born Lucius David Syms Brian Lederman, was a British television director from Manchester, England, who emigrated to Toronto, Canada in 1953, where he trained in television production with the CBC, and then moved on to Hollywood, California.Greene's career began as a stage...
  
  
• La Grande Bouffe
  La Grande Bouffe
  La Grande Bouffe is a 1973 French–Italian film directed by Marco Ferreri. It stars Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli and Philippe Noiret...
  
  by Marco Ferreri
• The Hireling
  The Hireling
  The Hireling is a 1973 British drama film directed by Alan Bridges, based on a 1957 novel by LP Hartley, which starred Robert Shaw and Sarah Miles...
  
  by Alan Bridges
  Alan Bridges
  Alan Bridges is an English film and television director. He directed 40 films and television programmes between 1961 and 1991. He won the Grand Prix at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival for his film The Hireling...
  
  
• L'Invitation
  The Invitation (film)
  The Invitation is a 1973 Swiss film directed by Claude Goretta. It tells the story of a group of office workers, one of whom inherits a large country house and invites his co-workers to a party...
  
  by Claude Goretta
  Claude Goretta
  Claude Goretta is an internationally successful television producer and film director. His 1981 film La provinciale was entered into the 31st Berlin International Film Festival.-Selected filmography:...
  
  
• Jeremy
  Jeremy (film)
  Jeremy is a 1973 film directed by Arthur Barron and starring Robby Benson and Glynnis O'Connor. In 1974, it was nominated for a Golden Globe Award...
  
  by Arthur Barron
• La maman et la putain
  The Mother and the Whore
  The Mother and the Whore is a 1973 French film directed by Jean Eustache. Examing the relationship between three characters in a love triangle, it was Eustache's first feature film and is considered his masterpiece.-Plot:...
  
  by Jean Eustache
  Jean Eustache
  Jean Eustache was a French filmmaker. During his short career, he completed numerous shorts, in addition to a pair of highly regarded features, of which the first, The Mother and the Whore, is considered a key work of post-Nouvelle Vague French cinema.In his obituary for Eustache, the influential...
  
  
• La Mort d'un bûcheron
  The Death of a Lumberjack
  The Death of a Lumberjack is a 1973 Canadian drama film directed by Gilles Carle. It was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Carole Laure - Marie Chapdeleine* Willie Lamothe - Armand St. Amour* Daniel Pilon - François Paradis...
  
  by Gilles Carle
• La otra imagen
  La otra imagen
  La otra imagen is a 1973 Spanish film directed by Antoni Ribas. It was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Asunción Balaguer* Jorge Bofill* Miquel Bordoy* Marta Flores* Fernando García Ulloa* Antonio Lara* Julián Mateos...
  
  by Antoni Ribas
  Antoni Ribas
  Antoni Ribas was a Spanish film director and screenwriter. He directed 15 films between 1966 and 2007.-Filmography:* Gàbies d'or * Centenario * Tierra de cañones * Dalí...
  
  
• La Planète sauvage
  Fantastic Planet
  Fantastic Planet is a 1973 animated science fiction film directed by René Laloux, production designed by Roland Topor, written by both of them and animated at Jiří Trnka Studio. The film was an international production between France and Czechoslovakia and was distributed in the United States by...
  
  by René Laloux
  René Laloux
  René Laloux was a French animator and film director.-Biography:He was born in Paris in 1929 and went to art school to study painting. After some time working in advertising, he got a job in a psychiatric institution where he began experimenting in animation with the interns...
  
  
• Monolog
  Monologue (film)
  Monologue is a 1972 Soviet drama film directed by Ilya Averbakh. It was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Mikhail Gluzsky - Professor Sretensky* Margarita Terekhova - Tasya, Sretensky' daughter...
  
  by Ilya Averbakh
  Ilya Averbakh
  Ilya Aleksandrovich Averbakh was a Soviet film director. His 1972 film, Monologue, was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.-External links:...
  
  
• O Lucky Man!
  O Lucky Man!
  O Lucky Man! is a 1973 British comedy-drama fantasy film, intended as an allegory on life in a capitalist society. Directed by Lindsay Anderson, it stars Malcolm McDowell as Mick Travis, whom McDowell had first played as a disaffected public schoolboy in his first film performance in Anderson's...
  
  by Lindsay Anderson
  Lindsay Anderson
  Lindsay Gordon Anderson was an Indian-born, British feature film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading light of the Free Cinema movement and the British New Wave...
  
  
• Petőfi '73
  Petőfi '73
  Petőfi '73 is a 1973 Hungarian drama film directed by Ferenc Kardos. It was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.- Cast :* Mihály Kovács - Petõfi Sándor* Nóra Kovács - Szendrey júlia* Can Togay - Kossuth Lajos* Tibor Csizmadia - Vasvári Pál...
  
  by Ferenc Kardos
• Sanatorium Pod Klepsydrą
  The Hour-Glass Sanatorium
  The Hour-Glass Sanatorium is a 1973 Polish film directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has, starring Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz Kondrat, Mieczysław Voit, Halina Kowalska and Gustaw Holoubek. It is also known as The Sandglass in English speaking countries. The story follows a man who visits his father in a mystical...
  
  by Wojciech Jerzy Has
• Scarecrow
  Scarecrow (1973 film)
  Scarecrow is a 1973 road movie starring Gene Hackman and Al Pacino.-Synopsis:The story revolves around the odd relationship between two vagabonds: Max Milian , a short-tempered ex-convict, and Francis Lionel "Lion" Delbuchi , a childlike ex-sailor...
  
  by Jerry Schatzberg
  Jerry Schatzberg
  Jerry Schatzberg is a photographer and film director.-Career:Schatzberg was born to a Jewish family of furriers and grew up in the Bronx. He photographed for magazines such as Vogue, Esquire and McCalls. He made his debut as a feature film director with 1970's Puzzle of a Downfall Child starring...
  
  
• Vogliamo i colonnelli
  We Want the Colonels
  We Want the Colonels is a 1973 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli. It was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Ugo Tognazzi - Giuseppe Tritoni* Tino Bianchi - On. Mazzante* Claude Dauphin - President of Italy...
  
  by Mario Monicelli
  Mario Monicelli
  Mario Monicelli was an Italian director and screenwriter and one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana , three times nominated for Oscar.-Biography:...
  
  

Films out of competition

• A Doll's House
  A Doll's House (1973 Losey film)
  A Doll's House is a 1973 Franco-British film directed by Joseph Losey. It went directly to television and premiered in the United States on the American Broadcasting Company...
  
  by Joseph Losey
  Joseph Losey
  Joseph Walton Losey was an American theater and film director. After studying in Germany with Bertolt Brecht, Losey returned to the United States, eventually making his way to Hollywood...
  
  
• Future Shock
  Future Shock (film)
  Future Shock is a 1972 short documentary film directed by Alex Grasshoff and narrated by Orson Welles. It was screened at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, but wasn't entered into the main competition. It is based on the book of the same name....
  
  by Alex Grasshoff
  Alex Grasshoff
  Alexander Grasshoff was an American documentary filmmaker and director who received 3 Oscars nominations.Along with fellow producer Robert Cohn, he is possibly best known for writing and directing the documentary Young Americans, won an Academy Award for best feature documentary in April 1969...
  
  
• L'Impossible Objet
  Story of a Love Story
  Story of a Love Story, also known as Impossible Object, is a 1973 drama film starring Alan Bates and Dominique Sanda. It was directed by John Frankenheimer and based on a novel by Nicholas Mosley...
  
  by John Frankenheimer
  John Frankenheimer
  John Michael Frankenheimer was an American film and television director known for social dramas and action/suspense films...
  
  
• La Nuit Américaine
  Day for Night (film)
  La Nuit Américaine is a 1973 French film directed by François Truffaut. It stars Jacqueline Bisset and Jean-Pierre Léaud. In French, nuit américaine is a technical process whereby sequences filmed outdoors in daylight are underexposed to appear as if they are taking place at night...
  
  by François Truffaut
  François Truffaut
  François Roland Truffaut was an influential film critic and filmmaker and one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry. He was also a screenwriter, producer, and actor working on over twenty-five...
  
  
• Lady Sings the Blues by Sidney J. Furie
  Sidney J. Furie
  Sidney J. Furie is a Canadian film director. Furie is perhaps best known for directing American Soldiers, The IPCRESS File, The Entity, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Lady Sings the Blues, The Boys, Gable and Lombard, Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York and the Iron Eagle films.Also...
  
  
• Lo Païs by Gérard Guérin
• Olivier Messiaen et les Oiseaux by Michel Fano, Denise Tual
• Picasso, Peintre Du Siècle 1900-1973 by Lauro Venturi
• Swastika by Philippe Mora
  Philippe Mora
  Philippe Mora is a French-born Australian film director. Born in 1949 to a German Jewish father and a French Jewish mother, he began making films while still a child.- Career :...
  
  
• The Holy Mountain by Alejandro Jodorowsky
  Alejandro Jodorowsky
  Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky, known as Alejandro Jodorowsky, is a Chilean filmmaker, playwright, actor, author, comic book writer and spiritual guru...
  
  
• Visions of Eight
  Visions of Eight
  Visions of Eight is a 1973 documentary film offering a stylized look at the 1972 Summer Olympics, directed by eight different directors. It was screened at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, but wasn't entered into the main competition....
  
  by Miloš Forman
  Miloš Forman
  Jan Tomáš Forman , better known as Miloš Forman , is a Czech-American director, screenwriter, professor, and an emigrant from Czechoslovakia. Two of his films, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus, are among the most celebrated in the history of film, both gaining him the Academy Award for...
  
  , Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov
  Yuri Ozerov (director)
  Yuri Ozerov was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. He directed 20 films between 1950 and 1995.-Early life:...
  
  , Mai Zetterling
  Mai Zetterling
  -Early life:Zetterling was born in Västerås, Västmanland, Sweden to a working class family. She started her career as an actress by the age of seventeen at Dramaten, the Swedish national theater, and appeared in war-era film starting in her teens.-Career:...
  
  , Kon Ichikawa
  Kon Ichikawa
  was a Japanese film director.-Early life and career:Ichikawa was born in Ise, Mie Prefecture. In the 1930s Ichikawa attended a technical school in Osaka. Upon graduation, in 1933, he found a job with a local rental film studio, J.O. Studio, in their animation department...
  
  , John Schlesinger
  John Schlesinger
  John Richard Schlesinger, CBE was an English film and stage director and actor.-Early life:Schlesinger was born in London into a middle-class Jewish family, the son of Winifred Henrietta and Bernard Edward Schlesinger, a physician...
  
  , Arthur Penn
  Arthur Penn
  Arthur Hiller Penn was an American film director and producer with a career as a theater director as well. Penn amassed a critically acclaimed body of work throughout the 1960s and 1970s.-Early years:...
  
  , Michael Pfleghar
  Michael Pfleghar
  Michael Pfleghar was a German film director and screenwriter. He directed 17 films between 1958 and 1987.-Selected filmography:* Dead Woman from Beverly Hills * The Oldest Profession...
  
  
• Viskningar och rop
  Cries and Whispers
  Cries and Whispers is a 1972 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Harriet Andersson, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin and Liv Ullmann. The film is set on a mansion at the end of the 19th century and is about two sisters who watch over their third sister on her deathbed, torn...
  
  by Ingmar Bergman
  Ingmar Bergman
  Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish director, writer and producer for film, stage and television. Described by Woody Allen as "probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera", he is recognized as one of the most accomplished and...
  
  
• Wattstax
  Wattstax
  Wattstax is a 1973 documentary film by Mel Stuart that focused on the 1972 Wattstax music festival and the African American community of Watts in Los Angeles, California. The film was nominated for a Golden Globe award for Best Documentary Film in 1974...
  
  by Mel Stuart
  Mel Stuart
  Mel Stuart is an American film director and producer.Stuart directed the fantasy-musical Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory...
  
  
• We Can't Go Home Again
  We Can't Go Home Again
  We Can't Go Home Again is an experimental feature film directed by Nicholas Ray in collaboration with his film students at SUNY Binghamton. Ray and the students play fictionalized versions of themselves....
  
  by Nicholas Ray
  Nicholas Ray
  Nicholas Ray was an American film director best known for the movie Rebel Without a Cause....
  
  

Short film competition

• Az 1812-es év by Sándor Reisenbüchler
  Sándor Reisenbüchler
  Sándor Reisenbüchler was a Hungarian animated film director and graphic artist. He took a degree in directing of films from the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest. He was working for PannóniaFilm in Budapest since 1965...
  
  
• Balablok
  Balablok
  Balablok is a 1972 animated short written and directed by Břetislav Pojar exploring the human propensity for resorting to violence over reason. Produced by René Jodoin for the National Film Board of Canada, the 7 min 27 sec film received the 1973 Grand Prix du Festival for Short Film at the Cannes...
  
  by Břetislav Pojar
  Bretislav Pojar
  Břetislav Pojar is a puppeteer, animator and director of short and feature films.Born in Sušice, Czechoslovakia, Pojar started his career in the late 1940s with his work on The Story of the Bass Cello based on the story by Anton Chekhov and directed by master Czech puppet animator Jiří Trnka...
  
  
• Langage du geste by Kamal El Sheikh
  Kamal El Sheikh
  Kamal El Sheikh was an Egyptian film director. He directed 28 films between 1952 and 1987.-Selected filmography:* Malak al-Rahma * Al-Manzel Raqam 13 * Hob wa Dumoo`...
  
  
• La Ligne de sceaux by Jean-Paul Torok
• Skagen 1972 by Claus Weeke
• Space Boy by Renate Druks
• La Tête by Emile Bourget

Awards

• Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
  Palme d'Or
  The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival and is presented to the director of the best feature film of the official competition. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee. From 1939 to 1954, the highest prize was the Grand Prix du Festival International du...
  
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  • The Hireling
    The Hireling
    The Hireling is a 1973 British drama film directed by Alan Bridges, based on a 1957 novel by LP Hartley, which starred Robert Shaw and Sarah Miles...
    
    by Alan Bridges
    Alan Bridges
    Alan Bridges is an English film and television director. He directed 40 films and television programmes between 1961 and 1991. He won the Grand Prix at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival for his film The Hireling...
    
    
  • Scarecrow
    Scarecrow (1973 film)
    Scarecrow is a 1973 road movie starring Gene Hackman and Al Pacino.-Synopsis:The story revolves around the odd relationship between two vagabonds: Max Milian , a short-tempered ex-convict, and Francis Lionel "Lion" Delbuchi , a childlike ex-sailor...
    
    by Jerry Schatzberg
    Jerry Schatzberg
    Jerry Schatzberg is a photographer and film director.-Career:Schatzberg was born to a Jewish family of furriers and grew up in the Bronx. He photographed for magazines such as Vogue, Esquire and McCalls. He made his debut as a feature film director with 1970's Puzzle of a Downfall Child starring...
    
    
• Grand Prix
  Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival)
  The Grand Prix is an award of the Cannes Film Festival bestowed by the jury of the festival on one of the competing feature films. It is the second-most prestigious prize of the festival after the Palme d'Or...
  
  : La maman et la putain
  The Mother and the Whore
  The Mother and the Whore is a 1973 French film directed by Jean Eustache. Examing the relationship between three characters in a love triangle, it was Eustache's first feature film and is considered his masterpiece.-Plot:...
  
  by Jean Eustache
  Jean Eustache
  Jean Eustache was a French filmmaker. During his short career, he completed numerous shorts, in addition to a pair of highly regarded features, of which the first, The Mother and the Whore, is considered a key work of post-Nouvelle Vague French cinema.In his obituary for Eustache, the influential...
  
  
• Jury Prize
  Jury Prize (Cannes Film Festival)
  The Jury Prize is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival. It is considered the third most prestigious prize at the film festival, after the Palme d'Or and the Grand Prix....
  
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  • Sanatorium Pod Klepsydrą
    The Hour-Glass Sanatorium
    The Hour-Glass Sanatorium is a 1973 Polish film directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has, starring Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz Kondrat, Mieczysław Voit, Halina Kowalska and Gustaw Holoubek. It is also known as The Sandglass in English speaking countries. The story follows a man who visits his father in a mystical...
    
    by Wojciech Has
    Wojciech Has
    Wojciech Jerzy Has was a Polish film director, screenwriter and film producer.-Early Life & Studies:...
    
    
  • L'Invitation
    The Invitation (film)
    The Invitation is a 1973 Swiss film directed by Claude Goretta. It tells the story of a group of office workers, one of whom inherits a large country house and invites his co-workers to a party...
    
    by Claude Goretta
    Claude Goretta
    Claude Goretta is an internationally successful television producer and film director. His 1981 film La provinciale was entered into the 31st Berlin International Film Festival.-Selected filmography:...
    
    
• Best Actor
  Best Actor Award (Cannes Film Festival)
  The Best Actor Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of movies at the festival. It was first awarded in 1946.- Award Winners :-External links:* * ....
  
  : Giancarlo Giannini
  Giancarlo Giannini
  Giancarlo Giannini is an Italian actor and dubber.Giannini was born La Spezia, Liguria, Italy. He studied at the Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica in Rome, and made his film debut in a small part in Fango sulla metropoli in 1965...
  
   for Film d'amore e d'anarchia, ovvero: stamattina alle 10, in via dei Fiori, nella nota casa di tolleranza...
  Love and Anarchy
  Love and Anarchy is a 1973 film directed by Lina Wertmüller and starring Giancarlo Giannini and Mariangela Melato. The story, set in Fascist Italy before the outbreak of World War II, centers on Giannini's character, an anarchist who stays in a brothel while preparing to kill Benito Mussolini...
  
  
• Best Actress
  Best Actress Award (Cannes Film Festival)
  The Best Actress Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the 'official section' of films at the festival. It was first awarded in 1946.-Award Winners:-External links:* * ....
  
  : Joanne Woodward
  Joanne Woodward
  Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward is an American actress, television and theatrical producer, and widow of Paul Newman...
  
   for The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
  The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
  The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds is a 1964 play written by Paul Zindel, a playwright and science teacher. Zindel received the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for the work. The play's world premiere was staged in 1964 at the Alley Theatre...
  
  
• Technical Grand Prize: Viskningar och rop
  Cries and Whispers
  Cries and Whispers is a 1972 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Harriet Andersson, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin and Liv Ullmann. The film is set on a mansion at the end of the 19th century and is about two sisters who watch over their third sister on her deathbed, torn...
  
  by Ingmar Bergman
  Ingmar Bergman
  Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish director, writer and producer for film, stage and television. Described by Woody Allen as "probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera", he is recognized as one of the most accomplished and...
  
  
• Special Award: La Planète sauvage
  Fantastic Planet
  Fantastic Planet is a 1973 animated science fiction film directed by René Laloux, production designed by Roland Topor, written by both of them and animated at Jiří Trnka Studio. The film was an international production between France and Czechoslovakia and was distributed in the United States by...
  
  by René Laloux
  René Laloux
  René Laloux was a French animator and film director.-Biography:He was born in Paris in 1929 and went to art school to study painting. After some time working in advertising, he got a job in a psychiatric institution where he began experimenting in animation with the interns...
  
  
• Best First Work: Jeremy
  Jeremy (film)
  Jeremy is a 1973 film directed by Arthur Barron and starring Robby Benson and Glynnis O'Connor. In 1974, it was nominated for a Golden Globe Award...
  
  by Arthur Barron
• Short Film Palme d'Or
  Short Film Palme d'Or
  The Short Film Palme d'Or is the highest prize given to a short film at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the same jury of the Cinéfondation....
  
  : Balablok
  Balablok
  Balablok is a 1972 animated short written and directed by Břetislav Pojar exploring the human propensity for resorting to violence over reason. Produced by René Jodoin for the National Film Board of Canada, the 7 min 27 sec film received the 1973 Grand Prix du Festival for Short Film at the Cannes...
  
  by Břetislav Pojar
  Bretislav Pojar
  Břetislav Pojar is a puppeteer, animator and director of short and feature films.Born in Sušice, Czechoslovakia, Pojar started his career in the late 1940s with his work on The Story of the Bass Cello based on the story by Anton Chekhov and directed by master Czech puppet animator Jiří Trnka...
  
  
• Jury Prize - Best Short Film: Az 1812-es év by Sándor Reisenbüchler
  Sándor Reisenbüchler
  Sándor Reisenbüchler was a Hungarian animated film director and graphic artist. He took a degree in directing of films from the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest. He was working for PannóniaFilm in Budapest since 1965...
  
  
• FIPRESCI Prize:
  • La Grande Bouffe
    La Grande Bouffe
    La Grande Bouffe is a 1973 French–Italian film directed by Marco Ferreri. It stars Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli and Philippe Noiret...
    
    by Marco Ferreri
  • La maman et la putain
    The Mother and the Whore
    The Mother and the Whore is a 1973 French film directed by Jean Eustache. Examing the relationship between three characters in a love triangle, it was Eustache's first feature film and is considered his masterpiece.-Plot:...
    
    by Jean Eustache
    Jean Eustache
    Jean Eustache was a French filmmaker. During his short career, he completed numerous shorts, in addition to a pair of highly regarded features, of which the first, The Mother and the Whore, is considered a key work of post-Nouvelle Vague French cinema.In his obituary for Eustache, the influential...
    
    
• OCIC Award: Scarecrow
  Scarecrow (1973 film)
  Scarecrow is a 1973 road movie starring Gene Hackman and Al Pacino.-Synopsis:The story revolves around the odd relationship between two vagabonds: Max Milian , a short-tempered ex-convict, and Francis Lionel "Lion" Delbuchi , a childlike ex-sailor...
  
  by Jerry Schatzberg
  Jerry Schatzberg
  Jerry Schatzberg is a photographer and film director.-Career:Schatzberg was born to a Jewish family of furriers and grew up in the Bronx. He photographed for magazines such as Vogue, Esquire and McCalls. He made his debut as a feature film director with 1970's Puzzle of a Downfall Child starring...
  
  

External links

• 1973 Cannes Film Festival
• Cannes Film Festival:1973 at Internet Movie Database
  Internet Movie Database
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