1963 Cannes Film Festival

Official poster of the 16th Cannes Film Festival, an original illustration by Jean-Denis Maillart . [1]
Opening film	The Birds
Location	Cannes , France
Founded	1946
Awards	Palme d'Or ( Il Gattopardo ) [2]
No. of films	26 (In Competition) [3] 2 (Out of Competition) 22 ( Short Film )
Festival date	9 May 1963  ( 1963-05-09 ) ? 23 May 1963  ( 1963-05-23 )
Website	festival-cannes .com /en
Cannes Film Festival
1964 1962

The 16th Cannes Film Festival was held from 9 to 23 May 1963 . ^[4] The Palme d'Or went to the Il Gattopardo by Luchino Visconti . ^[5] The festival opened with The Birds , directed by Alfred Hitchcock . ^[6]

Jury [ edit ]

The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1963 film competition: ^[7]

Feature films

• Armand Salacrou (France) - Jury President
• Rouben Mamoulian (USA) - Jury Vice President
• Jacqueline Audry (France)
• Wilfrid Baumgartner (BDF official) (France)
• Francois Chavane (France)
• Jean de Baroncelli (critic) (France)
• Robert Hossein (France)
• Kashiko Kawakita (Japan)
• Steven Pallos (UK)
• Gian Luigi Rondi (Italy)
• Rostislav Yurenev (Soviet Union)

Short films

• Henri Alekan (France) - Jury President
• Robert Alla (France)
• Karl Schedereit (West Germany)
• Ahmed Sefrioui (Morocco)
• Semih Tugrul (journalist) (Turkey)

Official selection [ edit ]

In competition - Feature film [ edit ]

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or: ^[3]

Films out of competition [ edit ]

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition: ^[3]

• 8½ by Federico Fellini
• The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock

Short film competition [ edit ]

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or : ^[3]

Parallel section [ edit ]

International Critics' Week [ edit ]

The following feature films were selected to be screened for the 2nd International Critics' Week (2e Semaine de la Critique): ^[8]

Awards [ edit ]

Official awards [ edit ]

The following films and people received the 1963 Official selection awards: ^[2]

• Palme d'Or : The Leopard ( Il Gattopardo ) by Luchino Visconti
• Jury Special Prize :
  • The Cassandra Cat ( A? p?ijde kocour ) by Vojt?ch Jasny
  • Harakiri ( Seppuku ) by Masaki Kobayashi
• Best Screenplay : Dumitru Carabat , Henri Colpi and Yves Jamiaque for Codine
• Best Actress : Marina Vlady for The Conjugal Bed ( L'ape regina )
• Best Actor : Richard Harris for This Sporting Life

Short films

• Short Film Palme d'Or :
  • Le Haricot by Edmond Sechan
  • In wechselndem Gefalle ( A fleur d'eau ) by Alexander J. Seiler
• Jury Prize - Short Film: Moj Stan by Zvonimir Berkovi?
• Special Mention - Short Film: Di Domenica by Luigi Bazzoni & You by Istvan Szabo
• Short Film Technical Prize: Zeilen by Hattum Hoving

Independent awards [ edit ]

FIPRESCI ^[9]

• FIPRESCI Prize :
  • This Sporting Life by Lindsay Anderson (In competition)
  • Le Joli Mai by Chris Marker , Pierre Lhomme (International Critics' Week)

Commission Superieure Technique ^[5]

• Technical Grand Prize :
  • The Cassandra Cat ( A? p?ijde kocour ) by Vojt?ch Jasny
  • Codine by Henri Colpi

OCIC Award ^[10]

• The Fiances ( I Fidanzati ) by Ermanno Olmi

Other awards

• Gary Cooper Award: To Kill a Mockingbird by Robert Mulligan
• Best Evocation of a World-Shattering Epic: Optimistic Tragedy ( Optimisticheskaya tragediya ) by Samson Samsonov

References [ edit ]

Media [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

• 1963 Cannes Film Festival (web.archive)
• Official website Retrospective 1963 Archived 2018-02-26 at the Wayback Machine
• Cannes Film Festival:1963 Archived 2007-08-22 at the Wayback Machine at Internet Movie Database