1976 Cannes Film Festival

Juries

Main Competition

• Tennessee Williams, American author - Jury President
• Jean Carzou, French painter
• Costa-Gavras, Greek-French filmmaker
• Mario Cecchi Gori, Italian producer
• András Kovács, Hungarian filmmaker
• Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian author
• Charlotte Rampling, British actress
• Lorenzo López Sancho, Spanish journalist
• Georges Schéhadé, Lebanese author

Official selection

In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:

Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:

• 1900 (Novecento) by Bernardo Bertolucci
• Anna by Alberto Grifi, Massimo Sarchielli
• Ascension by Olivier Dassault
• Bobby by Marty Ollstein
• The California Reich by Walter F. Parkes, Keith F. Critchlow
• Confidences of the Night (L'amour blessé) by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
• A Delicate Balance by Tony Richardson
• Edvard Munch by Peter Watkins
• Les enfants des autres by Martin Pierlot
• Face to Face by Ingmar Bergman
• Family Plot by Alfred Hitchcock
• Grey Gardens by David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer
• Hedda by Trevor Nunn
• Hollywood... Hollywood! by Gene Kelly
• The Iceman Cometh by John Frankenheimer
• Illustrious Corpses (Cadaveri eccelenti) by Francesco Rosi
• Labirintus by András Kovács
• The Memory of Justice by Marcel Ophüls
• Notes Towards an African Orestes (Appunti per un'Orestiade Africana) by Pier Paolo Pasolini
• Orlando furioso by Luca Ronconi
• La Pharmacie-Shangaï by Joris Ivens, Marceline Loridan
• Le pont de singe by André Harris, Alain De Sedouy
• Sartre par lui-même by Alexandre Astruc, Michel Contat
• ** by Peter Stein
• Train Landscape by Jules Engel

Short Films Competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:

• Agulana by Gérald Frydman
• Babfilm by Ottó Foky
• Hidalgo by Ion Truica
• High Fidelity by Antoinette Starkiewicz
• Metamorphosis by Barry Greenwald
• Nightlife by Robin Lehman
• Perfo by Jean Paul Cambron
• Rodin mis en vie by Alfred Brandler
• La Rosette arrosée by Paul Doppf
• La Syncope by Edouard Niermans

Parallel sections

International Critics' Week

The following feature films were screened for the 15th International Critics' Week (15e Semaine de la Critique):

• Before the Time Comes (Le Temps de l’avant) by Anne Claire Poirier (Canada)
• Une Fille unique by Philippe Nahou (France)
• Der Gehulfe by Thomas Koerfer (Switzerland)
• Harvest: 3,000 Years by Haile Gerima (Ethiopia)
• Iracema: Uma Transa Amazônica by Jorge Bodansky, Orlando Senna (Brazil, West Germany, France)
• Mélodrame by Jean-Louis Jorge (France)
• Tracks by Henry Jaglom (USA)

Directors' Fortnight

The following films were screened for the 1976 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):

• Anno Domini 1573 (Seljačka buna 1573) by Vatroslav Mimica (Yugoslavia)
• The Battle of Chile (La Batalla de Chile: El golpe de estado) by Patricio Guzman (Chile, Cuba)
• Behindert by Stephen Dwoskin (West Germany, United Kingdom)
• Le berceau de cristal by Philippe Garrel (France)
• O Casamento by Arnaldo Jabor (Brazil)
• The Devil's Playground by Fred Schepisi (Australia)
• Le diable au cœur by Bernard Queysanne (France)
• Duelle by Jacques Rivette (France)
• Four Days to Death (Cetiri dana do smrti) by Miroslav Jokic (Yugoslavia)
• Giliap by Roy Andersson (Sweden)
• Gitirana (doc.) by Jorge Bodansky, Orlando Senna (Brazil)
• ** by Werner Schroeter (West Germany, France)
• Hollywood on Trial (doc.) by David Helpern Jr. (United States)
• In the Realm of the Senses (L'Empire des sens) by Nagisa Oshima (France, Japan)
• Les Nomades by Sid Ali Mazif (Algeria)
• Os Demónios de Alcácer Quibir by José Fonseca e Costa (Portugal)
• A Pacemaker and a Sidecar (L'Eau chaude, l'eau frette) by André Forcier (Canada)
• Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert by Marguerite Duras (France)
• ** by Alexander Kluge (West Germany)
• Normande (La tête de Normande St-Onge) by Gilles Carle (Canada)
• We Have Many Names (We har manje namn) (doc.) by Mai Zetterling (Sweden) :Short films
• L'enfant prisonnier by Jean-Michel Carré (France)
• The Labyrinth Tale (Meikyū-tan) by Shuji Terayama (Japan)
• Leonina by Jean-Paul Courraud (France)
• Les Stars by Serge Lutens (France)
• Pierre Molinier - 7 Rue Des Faussets by Noël Simsolo (France, Luxembourg)
• Walter by Serge Dubor (France)

Official Awards

In Competition

• Palme d'Or: Taxi Driver by Martin Scorsese
• Grand Prix:
  • Cría Cuervos by Carlos Saura
  • The Marquise of O by Éric Rohmer
• Best Director: Ettore Scola for Down and Dirty
• Best Actress:
  • Dominique Sanda for The Inheritance
  • Mari Törőcsik for Mrs. Dery Where Are You?
• Best Actor: José Luis Gómez for Pascual Duarte

[[Short Film Palme d'Or]]

• Metamorphosis by Barry Greenwald
• Jury Prize:
  • Agulana by Gérald Frydman
  • Nightlife by Robin Lehman

Independent Awards

[[FIPRESCI|FIPRESCI Prize]]

• Kings of the Road by Wim Wenders (Unanimously) (In competition)
• ** by Alexander Kluge

''Commission Supérieure Technique''

• Technical Grand Prize: Michel Fano (sound) for The Claw and the Tooth

References

Media

• INA: Opening of the 1976 festival (commentary in French)
• INA: The wonders of the music hall at Cannes (commentary in French)

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