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Cannes Film Festival: 1956

Golden Palm

Date:

23 April - 10 May

Jury:

Maurice Lehmann (France) (president); Arletty (France); Louise de Vilmorin (France); Jacques-Pierre Frogerais (France); Henri Jeanson (France); Domenico Meccoli (Italy); Otto Preminger (USA); James Quinn (IV) (UK); Roger Regent (France); Mar�a Romero (Chile); Sergei Vasilyev (I) (Soviet Union); Francis Bolen (Belgium) (short films); Antonin Brousil (Czechoslovakia) (short films); Henri Fabiani (France) (short films); Paul Grimault (France) (short films); Jean Perdrix (France) (short films)


Winner:
	Le monde du silence (1956) - Jacques-Yves Cousteau; Louis Malle
Other In-Competition Films:
	Afacerea Protar (1956) - Haralambie Boros Cien (1956) - Jerzy Kawalerowicz Dalibor (1956) - V�clav Krska El último perro (1956) - Lucas Demare Gli innamorati (1955) - Mauro Bolognini Hanka (1955) - Slavko Vorkapich I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955) - Daniel Mann (I) Ikimono no kiroku (1955) - Akira Kurosawa Il ferroviere (1956) - Pietro Germi Il tetto (1956) - Vittorio De Sica Körhinta (1956) - Zolt�n F�bri La escondida (1956) - Roberto Gavald�n Le mystère Picasso (1956) - Henri-Georges Clouzot Maboroshi no uma (1955) - Koji Shima Marie-Antoinette reine de France (1956) - Jean Delannoy Mat (1955) - Mark Donskoy Meeuwen sterven in de haven (1955) - Roland Verhavert; Ivo Michiels; Rik Kuypers Mozart (1955) - Karl Hartl Otello (1955) - Sergei Yutkevich Pather Panchali (1955) - Satyajit Ray Pedagogicheskaya poema (1955) - Aleksei Maslyukov; Mechislava Mayevskaya Seido no Kirisuto (1956) - Minoru Shibuya Seven Years in Tibet (1956) - Hans Nieter Shabab emraa (1956) - Salah Abouseif Shevgyachya Shenga (1955) - Shantaram Athavale Sob o Céu da Bahia (1956) - Ernesto Remani Sommarnattens leende (1955) - Ingmar Bergman Talpa (1956) - Alfredo B. Crevenna Tarde de toros (1956) - Ladislao Vajda The Harder They Fall (1956) - Mark Robson (I) The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956) - Nunnally Johnson The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) - Alfred Hitchcock (I) The Man Who Never Was (1956) - Ronald Neame To koritsi me ta mavra (1956) - Mihalis Kakogiannis Tochka parva (1956) - Boyan Danovski Toubib el affia (1957) - Henry Jacques Walk Into Paradise (1956) - Lee Robinson (III) Yield to the Night (1956) - J. Lee Thompson

Best Short Film


Winner:
	Le ballon rouge (1956) - Albert Lamorisse

Jury Special Prize


Winner:
	Le mystère Picasso (1956) - Henri-Georges Clouzot

Best Actress


Winner:
	I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955) - Susan Hayward (I)

Best Director


Winner:
	Otello (1955) - Sergei Yutkevich

Special Mention

Investigative Documentary - Short Film


Winner:
	Together (1956) - Lorenza Mazzetti (I)

Award

Best Fiction Film - Short


Winner:
	Magdanas lurja (1955) - Tengiz Abuladze; Rezo Chkheidze

Best Human Document


Winner:
	Pather Panchali (1955) - Satyajit Ray

Best Poetic Humor


Winner:
	Sommarnattens leende (1955) - Ingmar Bergman

OCIC Award


Winner:
	Il tetto (1956) - Vittorio De Sica

OCIC Award - Special Mention


Winners:
	Il ferroviere (1956) - Pietro Germi Pather Panchali (1955) - Satyajit Ray The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956) - Nunnally Johnson