1970 Cannes Film Festival

The 1970 Cannes Film Festival was the 23rd competition. This year, Robert Favre LeBret, the founder of the festival, decided not to include any films from Russia and Japan (their flags were missing on the Croisette). He was tired of the "Slavic spectacles and Japanese samurai flicks." [REX REED (1970, June 21). HOW I WENT TO THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL AND HATED EVERY MINUTE OF IT. Los Angeles Times,p. o32. Retrieved June 24, 2008] The Russians took back their juror Sergei Obrazov (head of Moscow puppet theater) and left the jury panel with only eight members.

Jury

*President: Miguel Angel Asturias (Ambassador from Guatamala to France, 1967 Nobel Prize winnwer)
*Kirk Douglas
*Karel Reisz
*Christine Renal (French lady producer)
*Felicien Marceau (playwright)
*Vojtech Jasay (Czech director)
*Guglielmo Biraghi (Italian critic)
*Volker Schlöndorff (German)

Feature film competition

*"Al-Ard" - Youssef Chahine
*"Azyllo Muito Louco (O alienista)" - Nelson Pereira dos Santos
*"The Buttercup Chain" - Robert Ellis Miller
*"Les Choses de la vie" - Claude Sautet
*"Le Dernier saut" - Édouard Luntz
*"Don Segundo Sombra" - Manuel Antin
*"Harry Munter" - Kjell Grede
*"Hoa-Binh" - Raoul Coutard
*"Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion" - Elio Petri
*"Landscape After the Battle" - Andrzej Wajda
*"Leo the Last" - John Boorman
*"Magasiskola" - István Gaál
*"Malatesta" - Peter Lilienthal
*"MASH" - Robert Altman
*"Metello" - Mauro Bolognini
*"Ovoce stromu rajských jíme" - Věra Chytilová
*"O Palácio dos Anjos" - Walter Hugo Khouri
*"The Pizza Triangle" - Ettore Scola
*"The Strawberry Statement" - Stuart Hagmann
*"Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon" - Otto Preminger
*"Ha-Timhoni" - Dan Wolman
*"I Tulipani di Haarlem" - Franco Brusati
*"Une si simple histoire" - Abdellatif Ben Ammar
*"¡Vivan los novios!" - Luis García Berlanga
*"Élise ou la vraie vie" - Michel Drach

Winners

*Palme d'Or: "MASH" by Robert Altman
*Grand Prix: "Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion" by Elio Petri
*Jury Prize (Tied as the jury was bitterly divided with half of its members wanting the film to receive the Golden Palm):
**"Magasiskola" - István Gaál
**"The Strawberry Statement" - Stuart Hagmann
*Best Actor: Marcello Mastroianni for "The Pizza Triangle"
*Best Actress: Ottavia Piccolo for "Metello"
*Best Director: John Boorman for "Leo the Last"
*Best First Work: "Hoa-Binh" by Raoul Coutard
*Short Film Palme d'Or: "The Magic Machines" by Bob Curtis
*Special Mention Best Short Film: "Et Salammbo?" by Jean-Pierre Richard
*Technical Grand Prize: "Le Territoire des autres" by François Bel
*FIPRESCI Prize: "Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion" by Elio Petri

References

External links

* [http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/1970/inCompetition.html Movies in competition]