Jury

• Françoise Sagan
  Françoise Sagan
  Françoise Sagan – real name Françoise Quoirez – was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Hailed as "a charming little monster" by François Mauriac on the front page of Le Figaro, Sagan was known for works with strong romantic themes involving wealthy and disillusioned bourgeois...
  
   (France) (president)
• Sergio Amidei
  Sergio Amidei
  Sergio Amidei was an Italian screenwriter and an important figure in Italy's neorealist movement.Amidei was born in Trieste. He worked with famed Italian directors such as Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica...
  
   (Italy)
• Rodolphe-Maurice Arlaud (Switzerland)
• Luis García Berlanga (Spain)
• Maurice Bessy (France)
• Paul Claudon
  Paul Claudon
  Paul Claudon was a French film producer and actor. He produced 25 films between 1952 and 1998. He was a member of the jury at the 21st Berlin International Film Festival and the 1979 Cannes Film Festival....
  
   (France)
• Jules Dassin
  Jules Dassin
  Julius "Jules" Dassin , was an American film director, with Jewish-Russian origins. He was a subject of the Hollywood blacklist in the McCarthy era, and subsequently moved to France where he revived his career.-Early life:...
  
   (USA)
• Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács (Hungary)
• Robert Rozhdestvensky
  Robert Rozhdestvensky
  Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky was a Soviet poet who in the broke with the Social Realism in 1950s–1960s and, along with such poets as Andrey Voznesensky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and Bella Akhmadulina, pioneered a newer, fresher, and freer poetry in the Soviet Union.-Life:Robert Rozhdestvensky...
  
   (Soviet Union) (author)
• Susannah York
  Susannah York
  Susannah York was a British film, stage and television actress. She was awarded a BAFTA as Best Supporting Actress for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? and was nominated for an Oscar and Golden Globe for the same film. She won best actress for Images at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival...
  
   (UK)

Feature film competition

• Apocalypse Now
  Apocalypse Now
  Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American war film set during the Vietnam War, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The central character is US Army special operations officer Captain Benjamin L. Willard , of MACV-SOG, an assassin sent to kill the renegade and presumed insane Special Forces...
  
  by Francis Ford Coppola
  Francis Ford Coppola
  Francis Ford Coppola is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors...
  
   (which was screened as a work in progress)
• Arven
  Arven (1979 film)
  Arven is a 1979 Norwegian drama film directed by Anja Breien. It was entered into the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Espen Skjønberg - Jon Skaug* Anita Björk - Märta Skaug* Häge Juve - Hanna Skaug* Jan Hårstad - Jonas Skaug...
  
  by Anja Breien
  Anja Breien
  Anja Breien is a Norwegian film director and screenwriter. She directed 14 films between 1969 and 2005. Her film Arven was entered into the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Uten tittel...
  
  
• Bez znieczulenia
  Without Anesthesia
  Without Anesthesia is the English-language title for the Polish film Bez znieczulenia, released in 1978, directed by Andrzej Wajda. It was entered in the 1979 Cannes Film Festival....
  
  by Andrzej Wajda
  Andrzej Wajda
  Andrzej Wajda is a Polish film director. Recipient of an honorary Oscar, he is possibly the most prominent member of the unofficial "Polish Film School"...
  
  
• Caro papà
  Dear Father (film)
  Dear Father is a 1979 Italian drama film directed by Dino Risi. It was entered into the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, where Stefano Madia won the award for Best Supporting Actor.-Cast:* Vittorio Gassman - Albino Millozza...
  
  by Dino Risi
• The China Syndrome
  The China Syndrome
  The China Syndrome is a 1979 American thriller film that tells the story of a reporter and cameraman who discover safety coverups at a nuclear power plant. It stars Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady, James Hampton, Peter Donat, Richard Herd, and Wilford Brimley.The film was...
  
  by James Bridges
  James Bridges
  James Bridges was an American screenwriter and film director.Bridges was born in Paris, Arkansas. He got his start as a writer for Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and one of his episodes, "An Unlocked Window", earned him a 1966 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Episode in a TV...
  
  
• Days of Heaven
  Days of Heaven
  Days of Heaven is a 1978 American romantic drama film written and directed by Terrence Malick and starring Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard and Linda Manz. Set in the early 20th century, it tells the story of two poor lovers, Bill and Abby, as they travel to the Texas Panhandle to harvest...
  
  by Terrence Malick
  Terrence Malick
  Terrence Frederick Malick is a U.S. film director, screenwriter, and producer. In a career spanning almost four decades, Malick has directed five feature films....
  
  
• Die Blechtrommel
  The Tin Drum (film)
  The Tin Drum is a 1979 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Günter Grass. It was directed and co-written by Volker Schlöndorff...
  
  by Volker Schlöndorff
  Volker Schlöndorff
  Volker Schlöndorff is a Berlin-based German filmmaker who has worked in Germany, France and the United States...
  
  
• Een vrouw tussen hond en wolf
  Woman Between Wolf and Dog
  Woman Between Wolf and Dog is a 1979 Belgian-French drama film directed by André Delvaux. It was entered into the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Marie-Christine Barrault - Lieve* Rutger Hauer - Adriaan* Roger Van Hool - François...
  
  by André Delvaux
• The Europeans
  The Europeans (film)
  The Europeans is a 1979 Merchant Ivory Film, directed by James Ivory, produced by Ismail Merchant, and with an adapted screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. It is based upon the novel, The Europeans, by Henry James. It was entered into the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:*Lee Remick - Eugenia...
  
  by James Ivory
  James Ivory (director)
  James Francis Ivory is an American film director, best known for the results of his long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, which included both Indian-born film producer Ismail Merchant, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala...
  
  
• L'ingorgo - Una storia impossibile
  Traffic Jam (film)
  Traffic Jam is a 1979 Italian drama film directed by Luigi Comencini. It was entered into the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Annie Girardot – Irene* Fernando Rey – Carlo* Miou-Miou – Angela* Gérard Depardieu – Franco* Ugo Tognazzi – Professor...
  
  by Luigi Comencini
  Luigi Comencini
  Luigi Comencini was an Italian film director. Together with Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Mario Monicelli, he was considered among the masters of the commedia all'italiana genre....
  
  
• La drôlesse
  The Hussy
  The Hussy is a 1979 French drama film directed by Jacques Doillon. It was entered into the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, where Doillon won the Young Cinema Award.-Cast:* Claude Hébert - François* Madeleine Desdevises - Mado...
  
  by Jacques Doillon
  Jacques Doillon
  Jacques Doillon is a French film director. He has a habit of giving lead roles to inexperienced young actresses in his films on family life and women...
  
  
• Les Soeurs Brontë
  The Bronte Sisters
  The Bronte Sisters is a 1979 French drama film directed by André Téchiné, starring Isabelle Adjani, Marie-France Pisier and Isabelle Huppert. The film tells the story of the famous Brontë sisters: Charlotte, Emily and Anne and their brother Branwell...
  
  by André Téchiné
  André Téchiné
  André Téchiné , is a French screenwriter and film director. He has had a long and distinguished career that places him among the best post-New Wave French film directors....
  
  
• Los sobrevivientes
  The Survivors (1979 film)
  The Survivors is a 1979 Cuban drama film directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. It was entered into the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Enrique Santiesteban - Sebastián Orozco* Juanita Caldevilla - Doña Lola* Germán Pinelli - Pascual Orozco...
  
  by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
  Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
  Tomás Gutiérrez Alea was a Cuban filmmaker. He wrote and directed more than 20 features, documentaries, and short films, which are known for his sharp insight into post-Revolutionary Cuba, and possess a delicate balance between dedication to the revolution and criticism of the social, economic,...
  
  
• Magyar rapszódia
  Hungarian Rhapsody (film)
  Hungarian Rhapsody is a 1979 Hungarian drama film directed by Miklós Jancsó. It was entered into the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* György Cserhalmi as Zsadányi István* Lajos Balázsovits as Zsadányi Gábor* Gábor Koncz as Szeles-Tóth...
  
  by Miklós Jancsó
  Miklós Jancsó
  Miklós Jancsó is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter.Jancsó achieved international prominence from the mid-1960s onwards, with works including The Round Up , The Red and the White and Red Psalm .Jancsó's films are characterized by visual stylization,...
  
  
• My Brilliant Career
  My Brilliant Career (film)
  My Brilliant Career is a 1979 Australian drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong and based on the book of the same name by Miles Franklin....
  
  by Gillian Armstrong
  Gillian Armstrong
  Gillian May Armstrong is an award-winning Australian director of feature films and documentaries.- Career :Born in Melbourne, Victoria, Gillian Armstrong grew up in the eastern suburb of Mitcham. She graduated from Swinburne Technical College in 1968 where she studied theatrical costume design and...
  
  
• Norma Rae
  Norma Rae
  Norma Rae is a 1979 American drama film that tells the story of a factory worker from a small town in North Carolina, who becomes involved in the labor union activities at the textile factory where she works...
  
  by Martin Ritt
  Martin Ritt
  Martin Ritt was an American director, actor, and playwright who worked in both film and theater. He was born in New York City.-Early career and influences:...
  
  
• Okupacija u 26 slika
  Occupation in 26 Pictures
  Occupation in 26 Pictures, also known as Occupation in 26 Tableaux , is a 1978 Yugoslavian war film directed by Lordan Zafranović. It was entered into the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  by Lordan Zafranović
  Lordan Zafranovic
  Lordan Zafranović is currently "the most controversial Croatian cineaste".-First films:After receiving a degree in literature and visual arts at the University of Split, Zafranović enrolled at the famous FAMU in Prague where he studied film directing and where he eventually graduated in 1981...
  
  
• Siberiade
  Siberiade
  Siberiade is a 1979 epic Soviet film in four parts, spanning much of the 20th century. The leading roles were played by the celebrated Soviet actors Nikita Mikhalkov and Lyudmila Gurchenko...
  
  by Andrei Konchalovsky
  Andrei Konchalovsky
  Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky is a Soviet-American and Russian film director, film producer and screenwriter....
  
  
• Série noire
  Série noire (film)
  Série noire is a 1979 French crime film directed by Alain Corneau. It was entered into the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. It is based on the novel Hell of a Woman by Jim Thompson.-Cast:* Patrick Dewaere - Franck Poupart* Myriam Boyer - Jeanne...
  
  by Alain Corneau
  Alain Corneau
  Alain Corneau was a French film director and writer.Corneau was born in Meung-sur-Loire, Loiret. Originally a musician, he worked with Costa-Gavras as an assistant, which was also his first opportunity to work with the actor Yves Montand, with whom he would collaborate three times later in his...
  
  
• Victoria by Bo Widerberg
• Woyzeck
  Woyzeck (1979 film)
  Woyzeck is a 1979 film by the German director Werner Herzog that stars Klaus Kinski and Eva Mattes. It is an adaptation of the play of the same name by German dramatist Georg Büchner.-Plot:...
  
  by Werner Herzog
  Werner Herzog
  Werner Herzog Stipetić , known as Werner Herzog, is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and opera director.He is often considered as one of the greatest figures of the New German Cinema, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Werner...
  
  

Un Certain Regard

• A kedves szomszéd
  A Nice Neighbor
  A Nice Neighbor is a 1979 Hungarian drama film directed by Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács. It competed in the Un Certain Regard section of the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* László Szabó - Dibusz Miklós* Margit Dajka - Iduka* Lajos Szabó - Okolicsni Feri bácsi...
  
  by Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács
• Companys, procés a Catalunya
  Companys, procés a Catalunya
  Companys, procés a Catalunya is a 1979 Spanish drama film directed by Josep Maria Forn. It competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Luis Iriondo - Lluís Companys* Marta Angelat - Ángela...
  
  by Josep Maria Forn
  Josep Maria Forn
  Josep Maria Forn i Costa is a Catalan actor, film producer and film director.He wanted to be a writer, but he started making movies in the 1950s with the short-film Gaudí and some commercial movies...
  
  
• Dalla nube alla resistenza
  From the Clouds to the Resistance
  From the Clouds to the Resistance is a 1979 drama film directed by Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub...
  
  by Jean-Marie Straub
  Jean-Marie Straub
  Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet were a duo of filmmakers who made two dozen films between 1963 and 2006...
  
   and Danièle Huillet
• Die dritte Generation
  The Third Generation
  The Third Generation is a 1979 West German film, a black comedy about terrorism, written, directed and cinematographed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The plot follows an ineffectual cell of underground terrorist who plan to kidnap an industrialist.-Plot:...
  
  by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  Rainer Werner Maria Fassbinder was a German movie director, screenwriter and actor. He is considered one of the most important representatives of the New German Cinema.He maintained a frenetic pace in film-making...
  
  
• Encore un Hiver by Françoise Sagan
  Françoise Sagan
  Françoise Sagan – real name Françoise Quoirez – was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Hailed as "a charming little monster" by François Mauriac on the front page of Le Figaro, Sagan was known for works with strong romantic themes involving wealthy and disillusioned bourgeois...
  
  
• Fad'jal by Safi Faye
  Safi Faye
  Safi Faye is a Senegalese film director and ethnologist. She was the first Sub-Saharan African woman to direct a commercially distributed feature film. She has directed several documentary and fiction films focussing on rural life in Senegal.-Early life and education:Safi Faye was born in 1943 in...
  
  
• Les petites fugues
  Les petites fugues
  Les petites fugues is a 1979 Swiss comedy film directed by Yves Yersin. It competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. The film was produced by Filmkollektiv Zurich...
  
  by Yves Yersin
  Yves Yersin
  Yves Yersin is a Swiss film director. His film Les petites fugues competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Swiss Made * Quatre d'entre elles...
  
  
• Moments de la vie d'une femme
  Moments (film)
  Moments is a 1974 British drama film directed by Peter Crane and starring Keith Michell, Angharad Rees and Donald Hewlett. A man who has lost his wife and daughter in a car crash returns to a hotel where he had once enjoyed happiness.-Cast:...
  
  by Michal Bat-Adam
• Mourir à tue-tête
  A Scream from Silence
  A Scream from Silence is a 1979 Canadian drama film directed by Anne Claire Poirier. It competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Julie Vincent - Suzanne* Germain Houde - Le violeur* Paul Savoie - Philippe...
  
  by Anne Claire Poirier
  Anne Claire Poirier
  Anne Claire Poirier is a Canadian film producer, director and screenwriter. She is one of the most important female filmmakers in Canadian history; her documentary film De mère en fille is the first feature film ever directed by a French-Canadian woman...
  
  
• Paviljon VI by Lucian Pintilie
  Lucian Pintilie
  -Filmography:* Duminică la ora şase * Reconstituirea * Salonul numărul 6 * De ce trag clopotele, Mitică? - see also the "Portrayals and tributes" section at Mitică* Balanţa * O vară de neuitat * Prea târziu...
  
  
• Printemps en Février by Shei Tieli
• Spirit of the Wind
  Spirit of the Wind
  Spirit of the Wind is a 1979 American film directed by Ralph Liddle.The film is also known as Attla .- Plot summary :...
  
  by Ralph Liddle

Films out of competition

• À nous deux
  Us Two (film)
  Us Two is a 1979 French drama film directed by Claude Lelouch. It was shown out of competition at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Catherine Deneuve - Françoise* Jacques Dutronc - Simon Lacassaigne* Jacques Villeret - Tonton Musique...
  
  by Claude Lelouch
• Cristo si è fermato a Eboli
  Christ Stopped at Eboli (film)
  Christ Stopped at Eboli is a 1979 film adaptation of the book of the same name by Carlo Levi. It was directed by Francesco Rosi and stars Gian Maria Volonté as Carlo Levi, with Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny, Léa Massari, and Irene Papas....
  
  by Francesco Rosi
  Francesco Rosi
  Francesco Rosi is an Italian film director. He is the father of actress Carolina Rosi.-Biography:After studying Law, but hoping to study film, Rosi entered the industry as an assistant to Luchino Visconti on La Terra trema...
  
  
• Hair
  Hair (film)
  Hair is a 1979 American film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway musical of the same name about a Vietnam war draftee who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to the army induction center...
  
  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...
  
  
• Le Musee du Louvre by Toshio Uruta
• Manhattan
  Manhattan (film)
  Manhattan is a 1979 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Woody Allen about a twice-divorced 42-year-old comedy writer who dates a 17-year-old girl before eventually falling in love with his best friend's mistress...
  
  by Woody Allen
  Woody Allen
  Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema...
  
  
• Prova d'orchestra by Federico Fellini
  Federico Fellini
  Federico Fellini, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , was an Italian film director and scriptwriter. Known for a distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images, he is considered one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century...
  
  
• Wise Blood
  Wise Blood (film)
  Wise Blood is an American-German 1979 drama film directed by John Huston and based on the 1952 novel Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor. It was filmed mostly in and around Macon, Georgia, near O'Connor's home "Andalusia" in Baldwin County, using many local residents as extras...
  
  by John Huston
  John Huston
  John Marcellus Huston was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The Asphalt Jungle , The African Queen , Moulin Rouge...
  
  

Short film competition

• Barbe bleue by Olivier Gillon
• Bum 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...
  
  
• La Dame de Monte Carlo by Dominique Delouche
• La Festa dels bojos by Lluis Racionero Grau
• Harpya
  Harpya
  Harpya is a 1979 short Belgian animated film written and directed by Raoul Servais. It stars Will Spoor, Fran Waller Zeper and Sjoert Schwibethus...
  
  by Raoul Servais
  Raoul Servais
  Raoul Servais is a Belgian filmmaker. He was born in Ostend.-Filmography:* 1963: The False Note* 1966: Chromophobia* 1968: Sirene* 1969: Goldframe* 1970: To speak or not to speak* 1971: Operation X-70...
  
  
• Helping Hand by John P. Taylor and Zlatko Pavlinovic
• Le Mur by Jan January Janczak
• Petite histoire un peu triste by Didier Pourcel
• Põld by Rein Raamat
  Rein Raamat
  Rein Raamat is an Estonian animation film director, artist and screenwriter. He is the first internationally successful Estonian animator and along with Elbert Tuganov is regarded as the "Father of Estonian Animation"...
  
  
• The Waltzing Policemen by Kerry Feltham
• Zwei Frauen in der Oper by Christian Veit-Attendorff

Awards

• Palme d'Or
  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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  • Apocalypse Now
    Apocalypse Now
    Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American war film set during the Vietnam War, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The central character is US Army special operations officer Captain Benjamin L. Willard , of MACV-SOG, an assassin sent to kill the renegade and presumed insane Special Forces...
    
    by Francis Ford Coppola
    Francis Ford Coppola
    Francis Ford Coppola is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors...
    
    
  • Die Blechtrommel
    The Tin Drum (film)
    The Tin Drum is a 1979 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Günter Grass. It was directed and co-written by Volker Schlöndorff...
    
    by Volker Schlöndorff
    Volker Schlöndorff
    Volker Schlöndorff is a Berlin-based German filmmaker who has worked in Germany, France and the United States...
    
    
• 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...
  
  : Siberiade
  Siberiade
  Siberiade is a 1979 epic Soviet film in four parts, spanning much of the 20th century. The leading roles were played by the celebrated Soviet actors Nikita Mikhalkov and Lyudmila Gurchenko...
  
  by Andrei Konchalovsky
  Andrei Konchalovsky
  Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky is a Soviet-American and Russian film director, film producer and screenwriter....
  
  
• 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:* * ....
  
  : Jack Lemmon
  Jack Lemmon
  John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III was an American actor and musician. He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts , Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III (February 8, 1925June...
  
   for The China Syndrome
  The China Syndrome
  The China Syndrome is a 1979 American thriller film that tells the story of a reporter and cameraman who discover safety coverups at a nuclear power plant. It stars Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady, James Hampton, Peter Donat, Richard Herd, and Wilford Brimley.The film was...
  
  
• 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:* * ....
  
  : Sally Field
  Sally Field
  Sally Margaret Field is an American actress, singer, producer, director, and screenwriter. In each decade of her career, she has been known for major roles in American TV/film culture, including: in the 1960s, for Gidget or Sister Bertrille on The Flying Nun ; in the 1970s, for Sybil , Smokey and...
  
   for Norma Rae
  Norma Rae
  Norma Rae is a 1979 American drama film that tells the story of a factory worker from a small town in North Carolina, who becomes involved in the labor union activities at the textile factory where she works...
  
  
• Best Supporting Actor: Stefano Madia
  Stefano Madia
  Stefano Madia was an Italian film actor. He appeared in twelve films between 1978 and 1993. At the 1979 Cannes Film Festival he won the award for Best Supporting Actor, for the film Dear Father....
  
   for Caro papà
  Dear Father (film)
  Dear Father is a 1979 Italian drama film directed by Dino Risi. It was entered into the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, where Stefano Madia won the award for Best Supporting Actor.-Cast:* Vittorio Gassman - Albino Millozza...
  
  
• Best Supporting Actress: Eva Mattes
  Eva Mattes
  Eva Mattes is a German-Austrian actress.Mattes appeared in four films directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and A Man Called Eva , as a bearded film director based on the then recently deceased Fassbinder...
  
   for Woyzeck
  Woyzeck (1979 film)
  Woyzeck is a 1979 film by the German director Werner Herzog that stars Klaus Kinski and Eva Mattes. It is an adaptation of the play of the same name by German dramatist Georg Büchner.-Plot:...
  
  
• Best Director
  Best Director Award (Cannes Film Festival)
  The Best Director 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....
  
  : Terrence Malick
  Terrence Malick
  Terrence Frederick Malick is a U.S. film director, screenwriter, and producer. In a career spanning almost four decades, Malick has directed five feature films....
  
   for Days of Heaven
  Days of Heaven
  Days of Heaven is a 1978 American romantic drama film written and directed by Terrence Malick and starring Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard and Linda Manz. Set in the early 20th century, it tells the story of two poor lovers, Bill and Abby, as they travel to the Texas Panhandle to harvest...
  
  
• Technical Grand Prize: Norma Rae
  Norma Rae
  Norma Rae is a 1979 American drama film that tells the story of a factory worker from a small town in North Carolina, who becomes involved in the labor union activities at the textile factory where she works...
  
  by Martin Ritt
  Martin Ritt
  Martin Ritt was an American director, actor, and playwright who worked in both film and theater. He was born in New York City.-Early career and influences:...
  
  
• 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....
  
  : Harpya
  Harpya
  Harpya is a 1979 short Belgian animated film written and directed by Raoul Servais. It stars Will Spoor, Fran Waller Zeper and Sjoert Schwibethus...
  
  by Raoul Servais
  Raoul Servais
  Raoul Servais is a Belgian filmmaker. He was born in Ostend.-Filmography:* 1963: The False Note* 1966: Chromophobia* 1968: Sirene* 1969: Goldframe* 1970: To speak or not to speak* 1971: Operation X-70...
  
  
• Jury Prize - Best Short Film:
  • Bum 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...
    
    
  • La Festa dels bojos by Lluis Racionero Grau
• Caméra d'Or
  Caméra d'Or
  The Caméra d'Or is an award of the Cannes Film Festival for the best first feature film presented in one of the Cannes' selections ....
  
  : Northern Lights
  Northern Lights (1978 film)
  Northern Lights was a 1978 independent film which dramatizes the founding of the Nonpartisan League in North Dakota, a Socialist political movement which took place in the American Midwest in the early 1900s....
  
  by John Hanson
  John Hanson (director)
  John Hanson is an American movie director and cinematographer.- Early Life :Born in St. Paul, Minnesota and raised in North Dakota, John Hanson received his B.A...
  
   and Rob Nilsson
  Rob Nilsson
  Rob Nilsson is an American independent film director, writer, and sometimes actor. He has won the Caméra d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Sundance Grand Jury Prize.-Early life and education:...
  
  
• Young Cinema Award: La drôlesse
  The Hussy
  The Hussy is a 1979 French drama film directed by Jacques Doillon. It was entered into the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, where Doillon won the Young Cinema Award.-Cast:* Claude Hébert - François* Madeleine Desdevises - Mado...
  
  by Jacques Doillon
  Jacques Doillon
  Jacques Doillon is a French film director. He has a habit of giving lead roles to inexperienced young actresses in his films on family life and women...
  
  
• FIPRESCI Prize
  • Parallel Section:
    • Angi Vera
      Angi Vera
      Angi Vera is a Hungarian film directed by Pál Gábor. It got released in 1978.Vera Angi is an employee of a hospital in post-WWII Hungary. She complains to her superiors about the unsanitary conditions in the hospital, and gets sent to a re-education camp...
      
      by Pál Gábor
      Pál Gábor
      Pál Gábor was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. He directed 20 films between 1962 and 1987. In 1979, he was a member of the jury at the 29th Berlin International Film Festival.-Selected filmography:...
      
      
    • Black Jack
      Black Jack (film)
      Black Jack is a 1950 adventure film written and directed by Julien Duvivier and starring George Sanders, Herbert Marshall, Patricia Roc and Dennis Wyndham. It tells the story of a man who uses his yacht to smuggle drugs tries to go straight, but finds it harder than he had anticipated...
      
      by Ken Loach
      Ken Loach
      Kenneth "Ken" Loach is a Palme D'Or winning English film and television director.He is known for his naturalistic, social realist directing style and for his socialist beliefs, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as homelessness , labour rights and child abuse at the...
      
      
  • Competition: Apocalypse Now
    Apocalypse Now
    Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American war film set during the Vietnam War, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The central character is US Army special operations officer Captain Benjamin L. Willard , of MACV-SOG, an assassin sent to kill the renegade and presumed insane Special Forces...
    
    by Francis Ford Coppola
    Francis Ford Coppola
    Francis Ford Coppola is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors...
    
    
• Prize of the Ecumenical Jury: Without Anesthesia
  Without Anesthesia
  Without Anesthesia is the English-language title for the Polish film Bez znieczulenia, released in 1978, directed by Andrzej Wajda. It was entered in the 1979 Cannes Film Festival....
  
  by Andrzej Wajda
  Andrzej Wajda
  Andrzej Wajda is a Polish film director. Recipient of an honorary Oscar, he is possibly the most prominent member of the unofficial "Polish Film School"...
  
  
• Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention: Arven
  Arven (1979 film)
  Arven is a 1979 Norwegian drama film directed by Anja Breien. It was entered into the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Espen Skjønberg - Jon Skaug* Anita Björk - Märta Skaug* Häge Juve - Hanna Skaug* Jan Hårstad - Jonas Skaug...
  
  by Anja Breien
  Anja Breien
  Anja Breien is a Norwegian film director and screenwriter. She directed 14 films between 1969 and 2005. Her film Arven was entered into the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Uten tittel...
  
  

External links

• 1979 Cannes Film Festival
• Cannes Film Festival:1979 at Internet Movie Database
  Internet Movie Database
  Internet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...