Jury

• Jean Cocteau
  Jean Cocteau
  Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María...
  
   (France) (president)
• Louis Chauvet (France) (journalist)
• Titina De Filippo
  Titina De Filippo
  Titina De Filippo, born Annunziata De Filippo was an Italian actress and playwrightShe was born in via Dell'Ascensione a Chiaia, Naples, the oldest of three children born from the extramarital relationship between Luisa De Filippo and Eduardo Scarpetta, a well-respected playwright in Naples...
  
   (France)
• Guy Desson (France) (MP official)
• Philippe Erlanger (France)
• Renée Faure
  Renée Faure
  Renée Faure was a French actress.She was a jury member during the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:...
  
   (France)
• Jacques-Pierre Frogerais (France)
• Abel Gance
  Abel Gance
  Abel Gance was a French film director and producer, writer and actor. He is best known for three major silent films: J'accuse , La Roue , and the monumental Napoléon .-Early life:...
  
   (France)
• André Lang (France)
• Georges Raguis (France) (union official)
• Edward G. Robinson
  Edward G. Robinson
  Edward G. Robinson was a Romanian-born American actor. A popular star during Hollywood's Golden Age, he is best remembered for his roles as gangsters, such as Rico in his star-making film Little Caesar and as Rocco in Key Largo...
  
  
• Charles Spaak
  Charles Spaak
  Charles Spaak was a Belgian screenwriter who was noted particularly for his work in the French cinema during the 1930s...
  
  
• Georges Van Parys
  Georges Van Parys
  Georges Van Parys was a French composer of film music and operettas. Among his musical influences were the group Les Six, Maurice Ravel, and Claude Debussy...
  
   (France)
• Bert Haanstra
  Bert Haanstra
  Bert Haanstra was a Dutch film and documentary director.Haanstra was born in the town of Holten and became a professional filmmaker in 1947. He won international acclaim with his short documentary Spiegel van Holland / Mirror of Holland, for which he received the Grand Prix du court métrage at the...
  
   (Netherlands) (short films)
• Roger Leenhardt
  Roger Leenhardt
  Roger Leenhardt was a French writer and filmmaker.Born in Languedoc, France, in a bourgeois Protestant family, this brilliant student of philosophy was very soon fascinated by cinema...
  
   (France) (short films)
• René Lucot (France) (short films)
• Jean Queval (France) (journalist) (short films)
• Jacques Schiltz (France) (short films)
• Jean Vivie (France) (CST official) (short films)

Feature film competition

• 1. April 2000
  1. April 2000 (film)
  1. April 2000 is a 1952 political satire film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring Hilde Krahl, made during the Allied Occupation of Austria...
  
  by Wolfgang Liebeneiner
  Wolfgang Liebeneiner
  Wolfgang Georg Louis Liebeneiner was a German actor, film director and theater director.He was born in Liebau in Prussian Silesia. In 1928, he was taught by Otto Falckenberg, the director of the Munich Kammerspiele, in acting and directing...
  
  
• Awaara
  Awaara
  Awaara is a 1951 Hindi film directed and produced by Raj Kapoor who also plays the leading role. His real-life father Prithviraj Kapoor stars as his on-screen father Judge Raghunath. Kapoor's youngest real-life brother Shashi Kapoor plays the younger version of his character...
  
  by Raj Kapoor
  Raj Kapoor
  Known as Ranbir Raj Kapoor Rāj Kapūr, 14 December 1924 – 2 June 1988), also known as The Show-Man, was an Indian film actor, producer and director of Hindi cinema. He was the winner of nine Filmfare Awards, while his films Awaara and Boot Polish were nominated for the Palme d'Or at the...
  
  
• Barabbas
  Barabbas (1953 film)
  Barabbas is a 1953 Swedish drama film directed by Alf Sjöberg. It is based on the novel Barabbas by Pär Lagerkvist. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival....
  
  by Alf Sjöberg
• Bongolo
  Bongolo
  Bongolo is a 1952 Belgian documentary film directed by André Cauvin. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Petronelle Abapataki - Doka* Peter Baylis - Comments* Yves Furet -...
  
  by André Cauvin
  André Cauvin
  André Cauvin was a Belgian documentary film director. He directed five films between 1939 and 1955. His 1952 film Bongolo was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Nos soldats d'Afrique...
  
  
• Call Me Madam
  Call Me Madam (film)
  Call Me Madam is a 1953 musical film directed by Walter Lang, with songs by Irving Berlin, based on the stage musical of the same name.The film, with a screenplay by Arthur Sheekman, starred Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Vera-Ellen, Billy DeWolfe, George Sanders, and Walter Slezak...
  
  by Walter Lang
  Walter Lang
  Walter Lang was an American film director.-Early life:Walter Lang was born in Memphis, Tennessee. As a young man he went to New York City where he found clerical work at a film production company. The business piqued his artistic instincts and he began learning the various facets of filmmaking...
  
  
• O Cangaceiro
  The Bandit of Brazil
  The Bandit of Brazil is a 1953 Brazilian drama film directed by Lima Barreto. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Alberto Ruschel - Teodoro* Marisa Prado - Olívia* Milton Ribeiro - Galdino* Vanja Orico - Maria Clódia...
  
  by Lima Barreto
  Lima Barreto (director)
  Lima Barreto was a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. He directed six films between 1940 and 1961.-Filmography:* Fazenda Velha * Painel * Santuário * O Cangaceiro...
  
  
• Children of Hiroshima
  Children of Hiroshima
  Children of Hiroshima is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Kaneto Shindō. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival. -Cast:* Nobuko Otowa - Takako Ishikawa* Osamu Takizawa - Iwakichi* Niwa Saito - Natsue Morikawa* Tsuneko Yamanaka...
  
  by Kaneto Shindō
  Kaneto Shindo
  , Hiroshima, Japan) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His best known films include Children of Hiroshima, The Naked Island, Onibaba, Kuroneko and A Last Note.Shindō has often made films dealing with Hiroshima or the atomic bomb...
  
  
• Come Back, Little Sheba
  Come Back, Little Sheba (1952 film)
  Come Back, Little Sheba is a drama film produced by Paramount Pictures which tells the story of a loveless marriage that is rocked when a young woman rents a room in the couple's house. The film stars Burt Lancaster and Shirley Booth with Terry Moore and Richard Jaeckel...
  
  by Daniel Mann
  Daniel Mann
  Daniel Mann, also known as Daniel Chugerman , was an American film and television director.Daniel Mann was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was a stage actor since childhood, and attended Erasmus Hall High School, New York's Professional Children's School and the Neighborhood Playhouse...
  
  
• Daibutsu kaigen
  Dedication of the Great Buddha
  is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Shinobu Araki - Ryôben* Kôtarô Bandô* Kazuo Hasegawa - Kunihito Tateto* Sumiko Hidaka - Morime Ômiya* Tatsuya Ishiguro* Ryosuke Kagawa...
  
  by Teinosuke Kinugasa
  Teinosuke Kinugasa
  -External links:* *...
  
  
• Doña Francisquita
  Doña Francisquita (film)
  Doña Francisquita is a 1953 Spanish comedy film directed by Ladislao Vajda. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Mirtha Legrand - Doña Francisquita* Armando Calvo - Fernando* Antonio Casal - Cardona* Manolo Morán - Lorenzo...
  
  by Ladislao Vajda
• Duende y misterio del flamenco
  Flamenco (1952 film)
  Flamenco is a 1952 Spanish documentary film directed by Edgar Neville. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival....
  
  by Edgar Neville
  Edgar Neville
  Edgar Neville Romrée, Count of Berlanga de Duero was a Spanish playwright and film director, a member of the Generation of '27....
  
  
• Él
  El (film)
  Él , by Luis Buñuel, is a Mexican film based upon the novel by Mercedes Pinto. It deals with many themes common to Buñuel’s cinema, including a May-December romance between a woman and her obsessively overprotective bourgeois husband, and touches of surrealism...
  
  by Luis Buñuel
  Luis Buñuel
  Luis Buñuel Portolés was a Spanish-born filmmaker — later a naturalized citizen of Mexico — who worked in Spain, Mexico, France and the US..-Early years:...
  
  
• För min heta ungdoms skull
  For the Sake of My Intemperate Youth
  For the Sake of My Intemperate Youth is a 1952 Swedish drama film directed by Arne Mattsson. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Aino Taube - Greta Arvidsson* Georg Rydeberg - Karl Arvidsson* Nils Hallberg - Kuno Andersson...
  
  by Arne Mattsson
  Arne Mattsson
  Arne Mattsson was a Swedish film director, born in Uppsala.His early movies were mostly comedies. His biggest success was Hon dansade en sommar , which earned him the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival and a nomination for the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1952...
  
  
• Gendai-jin
  Gendai-jin
  is a 1952 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Minoru Shibuya. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Ryō Ikebe* Isuzu Yamada* Sō Yamamura* Toshiko Kobayashi* Yūko Mochizuki* Shinsuke Ashida* Yumi Takano* Jun Tatara...
  
  by Minoru Shibuya
  Minoru Shibuya
  was a Japanese film director.-Career:Born in Tokyo, Shibuya attended Keiō University but left before graduating. He joined Shochiku in 1930 and worked as an assistant under Yasujirō Ozu, Mikio Naruse, and Heinosuke Gosho, before making his debut as a director in 1937...
  
  
• The Heart of the Matter
  The Heart of the Matter (film)
  The Heart of the Matter is a 1953 British film based on the book of the same name by Graham Greene. It was directed by George More O'Ferrall for London Films. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot, cast and production:...
  
  by George More O'Ferrall
  George More O'Ferrall
  George More O'Ferrall was a British film and television director.-Selected filmography:*The Holly and the Ivy *Angels One Five *The Heart of the Matter...
  
  
• Horizons sans fin
  Endless Horizons
  Endless Horizons is a 1953 French drama film directed by Jean Dréville. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Giselle Pascal - Hélène Boucher* Jean Chevrier - André Danet* Paul Frankeur - Soupape...
  
  by Jean Dréville
  Jean Dréville
  Jean Dréville was a French film director. He directed 45 films between 1928 and 1969.-Selected filmography:* Autour de L'Argent * A Cage of Nightingales * Return to Life...
  
  
• I Confess
  I Confess (film)
  I Confess is a drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Montgomery Clift as Fr. Michael William Logan, a Catholic priest, Anne Baxter as Ruth Grandfort, and Karl Malden as Inspector Larrue. This was the only film Hitchcock made with these three actors...
  
  by Alfred Hitchcock
  Alfred Hitchcock
  Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE was a British film director and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood...
  
  
• Intimate Relations
  Intimate Relations (1953 film)
  Intimate Relations is a 1953 British drama film directed by Charles Frank. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Harold Warrender - George* Marian Spencer - Yvonne* Ruth Dunning - Leonie* William Russell - Michael...
  
  by Charles Frank
• Lili
  Lili
  Lili is an American film. An MGM release, it stars Leslie Caron as a touchingly naïve French girl, whose emotional relationship with a carnival puppeteer is conducted through the medium of four puppets...
  
  by Charles Walters
  Charles Walters
  Charles Walters was a Hollywood director and choreographer most noted for his work in MGM musicals and comedies in from the 1940s to the 1960s....
  
  
• Luz en el páramo
  Luz en el páramo
  Luz en el páramo is a 1953 Venezuelan film directed by Víctor Urruchúa. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* José Elías Moreno - Jose* Carmen Montejo - Angela* Hilda Vera - Julia* Luis Salazar - Pedro Maria* Ildemaro García...
  
  by Víctor Urruchúa
  Víctor Urruchúa
  Víctor Urruchúa was a Mexican actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in 24 films between 1926 and 1951. He also directed 15 films between 1944 and 1953.-External links:...
  
  
• Magia verde
  Green Magic (film)
  Green Magic is a 1953 Italian documentary film directed by Gian Gaspare Napolitano.-Cast:* Carlos Montalbán - Narrator, US version * Bret Morrison - Narrator, US version * Leonardo Bonzi - Himself...
  
  by Gian Gaspare Napolitano
  Gian Gaspare Napolitano
  Gian Gaspare Napolitano was an Italian journalist, screenwriter and film director.During the 1920s, he wrote for the literary review "900", Cahiers d'Italie et d'Europe. He made ten films between 1935 and 1956...
  
  
• Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
  Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
  Les Vacances de M. Hulot Les Vacances de M. Hulot Les Vacances de M. Hulot (released as Monsieur Hulot's Holiday in the UK and US as Mr. Hulot's Holiday, is a comedy film starring and directed by Jacques Tati. It introduced the pipe-smoking, well-meaning but clumsy character of Monsieur Hulot, who...
  
  by Jacques Tati
  Jacques Tati
  Jacques Tati was a French filmmaker, working as a comedic actor, writer and director. In a poll conducted by Entertainment Weekly of the Greatest Movie Directors Tati was voted the 46th greatest of all time...
  
  
• Nevjera
  Perfidy (film)
  Perfidy is a 1953 Yugoslavian drama film directed by Vladimir Pogačić. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Marija Crnobori - Jela Ledinic* Milivoje Zivanovic - Niko Marinovic* Viktor Starcic - Gospar Frano Drazic...
  
  by Vladimir Pogacic
  Vladimir Pogačić
  Vladimir Pogačić was a Yugoslav film director.-Education:Before World War II, Pogačić studied art history at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences...
  
  
• Peter Pan
  Peter Pan (1953 film)
  Peter Pan is a 1953 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and based on the play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up by J. M. Barrie. It is the fourteenth film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series and was originally released on February 5, 1953 by RKO Pictures...
  
  by Hamilton Luske
  Hamilton Luske
  Hamilton Luske was an American animator and film director. He joined the Disney Studio in 1931 and he was soon trusted enough by Walt Disney to be made supervising animator of Snow White in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.He directed many Disney films and shorts from 1936 until his death in 1968...
  
  , Clyde Geronimi
  Clyde Geronimi
  Clyde "Gerry" Geronimi was an Italian-American animation director. He is best known for his work at Walt Disney Productions....
  
   and Wilfred Jackson
  Wilfred Jackson
  Wilfred Jackson was an American animator, arranger, composer and director best known for his work on the Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphonies series of cartoons and the two segments Night on Bald Mountain and Ave Maria of Fantasia from The Walt Disney Company.Wilfred Jackson was born in Chicago,...
  
  
• La provinciale
  The Wayward Wife
  The Wayward Wife is a 1953 Italian drama film directed by Mario Soldati. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Gina Lollobrigida - Gemma Vagnuzzi* Gabriele Ferzetti - Il professore Franco Vagnuzzi* Franco Interlenghi - Paolo Sartori...
  
  by Mario Soldati
  Mario Soldati
  Mario Soldati was an Italian writer and film director.-Biography:Soldati studied Humanities in his native city, Turin, and History of Art in Rome. He started publishing novels in 1929 although his fame came with America primo amore, published in 1935, a diary about the time he spent teaching at...
  
  
• La red
  Rosanna (film)
  Rosanna is a 1953 Mexican drama film directed by Emilio Fernández. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Rossana Podestà - Rossana* Crox Alvarado - Antonio* Armando Silvestre - José Luis* Guillermo Cramer - Rivera...
  
  by Emilio Fernández
  Emilio Fernández
  Emilio "El Indio" Fernández was an actor, screenwriter and director of the cinema of Mexico. He is best known for his work as director of the film Maria Candelaria which won the Grand Prix at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.-Early life:Fernández was born in Mineral del Hondo, Coahuila...
  
  
• Sala de guardia
  Emergency Ward (film)
  Emergency Ward is a 1952 Argentine film directed by Tulio Demicheli. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Aída Alberti* Tito Alonso* Arturo Arcari* Margarita Corona* Renée Dumas* Roberto Escalada* Mario Fortuna* Analía Gadé...
  
  by Tulio Demicheli
  Tulio Demicheli
  Tulio Demicheli was an Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer of the classic era....
  
  
• Sie fanden eine Heimat
  The Village (1953 film)
  The Village is a 1953 Swiss drama film directed by Leopold Lindtberg.-Cast:* John Justin - Alan Manning* Eva Dahlbeck - Wanda Piwonska* Sigfrit Steiner - Heinrich Meile* Mary Hinton - Miss Worthington* W. Woytecki - Dr. Stefan Zielinski...
  
  by Leopold Lindtberg
  Leopold Lindtberg
  Leopold Lindtberg was an Austrian Swiss film and theatre director...
  
  
• The Sun Shines Bright
  The Sun Shines Bright
  The Sun Shines Bright is a 1953 comedy film directed by John Ford, based on material taken from a series of Irvin S. Cobb stories. Ford had adapted some of the same material in 1934 in his film Judge Priest. That film originally had a scene depicting the lynching of Stepin Fetchit’s character , but...
  
  by John Ford
  John Ford
  John Ford was an American film director. He was famous for both his westerns such as Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath...
  
  
• Terminal Station by Vittorio De Sica
  Vittorio de Sica
  Vittorio De Sica was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement....
  
  
• Las Tres perfectas casadas
  Las Tres perfectas casadas
  Las Tres perfectas casadas is a 1953 Mexican comedy film directed by Roberto Gavaldón. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Arturo de Córdova* Laura Hidalgo* Miroslava - Leopoldina...
  
  by Roberto Gavaldón
  Roberto Gavaldón
  Roberto Gavaldón was a Mexican film director.Eight of Gavaldón's films were featured on the list 100 Best Movies of the Cinema of Mexico...
  
  
• Valkoinen peura
  The White Reindeer
  The White Reindeer is a 1952 Finnish horror drama film directed by Erik Blomberg. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  by Erik Blomberg
  Erik Blomberg
  Erik Blomberg was a Finnish cinematographer, film producer, screenwriter and film director. He was married to actress Mirjami Kuosmanen.-External links:...
  
  
• La vie passionnée de Clémenceau by Gilbert Prouteau
  Gilbert Prouteau
  Gilbert Prouteau is a French poet.He was born in Nesmy, Vendée.In 1948 he won a bronze medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his "Rythme du Stade" .-External links:*...
  
  
• The Wages of Fear by Henri-Georges Clouzot
  Henri-Georges Clouzot
  Henri-Georges Clouzot was a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best remembered for his work in the thriller film genre, having directed The Wages of Fear and Les Diaboliques, which are critically recognized to be among the greatest films from the 1950s...
  
  
• Welcome Mr. Marshall!
  Welcome Mr. Marshall!
  Welcome Mr. Marshall! is a 1953 Spanish comedy film directed by Luis García Berlanga and considered one of the masterpieces of Spanish cinema...
  
  by Luis García Berlanga

Awards

• Grand Prize of the Festival
  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...
  
  : The Wages of Fear by Henri-Georges Clouzot
  Henri-Georges Clouzot
  Henri-Georges Clouzot was a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best remembered for his work in the thriller film genre, having directed The Wages of Fear and Les Diaboliques, which are critically recognized to be among the greatest films from the 1950s...
  
  
• International Prize: ¡Bienvenido, Mister Marshall!
  Welcome Mr. Marshall!
  Welcome Mr. Marshall! is a 1953 Spanish comedy film directed by Luis García Berlanga and considered one of the masterpieces of Spanish cinema...
  
  by Luis García Berlanga
• Best Visual Narration: La red
  Rosanna (film)
  Rosanna is a 1953 Mexican drama film directed by Emilio Fernández. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Rossana Podestà - Rossana* Crox Alvarado - Antonio* Armando Silvestre - José Luis* Guillermo Cramer - Rivera...
  
  by Emilio Fernández
  Emilio Fernández
  Emilio "El Indio" Fernández was an actor, screenwriter and director of the cinema of Mexico. He is best known for his work as director of the film Maria Candelaria which won the Grand Prix at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.-Early life:Fernández was born in Mineral del Hondo, Coahuila...
  
  
• Best Fairy Tale Film: Valkoinen peura
  The White Reindeer
  The White Reindeer is a 1952 Finnish horror drama film directed by Erik Blomberg. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  by Erik Blomberg
  Erik Blomberg
  Erik Blomberg was a Finnish cinematographer, film producer, screenwriter and film director. He was married to actress Mirjami Kuosmanen.-External links:...
  
  
• Best Dramatic Film: Come Back, Little Sheba
  Come Back, Little Sheba (1952 film)
  Come Back, Little Sheba is a drama film produced by Paramount Pictures which tells the story of a loveless marriage that is rocked when a young woman rents a room in the couple's house. The film stars Burt Lancaster and Shirley Booth with Terry Moore and Richard Jaeckel...
  
  by Daniel Mann
  Daniel Mann
  Daniel Mann, also known as Daniel Chugerman , was an American film and television director.Daniel Mann was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was a stage actor since childhood, and attended Erasmus Hall High School, New York's Professional Children's School and the Neighborhood Playhouse...
  
  
• Best Exploration Film: Magia verde
  Green Magic (film)
  Green Magic is a 1953 Italian documentary film directed by Gian Gaspare Napolitano.-Cast:* Carlos Montalbán - Narrator, US version * Bret Morrison - Narrator, US version * Leonardo Bonzi - Himself...
  
  by Gian Gaspare Napolitano
  Gian Gaspare Napolitano
  Gian Gaspare Napolitano was an Italian journalist, screenwriter and film director.During the 1920s, he wrote for the literary review "900", Cahiers d'Italie et d'Europe. He made ten films between 1935 and 1956...
  
  
• Best Adventure Film: O Cangaceiro
  The Bandit of Brazil
  The Bandit of Brazil is a 1953 Brazilian drama film directed by Lima Barreto. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Alberto Ruschel - Teodoro* Marisa Prado - Olívia* Milton Ribeiro - Galdino* Vanja Orico - Maria Clódia...
  
  by Lima Barreto
  Lima Barreto (director)
  Lima Barreto was a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. He directed six films between 1940 and 1961.-Filmography:* Fazenda Velha * Painel * Santuário * O Cangaceiro...
  
  
• Best Entertainment Film: Lili
  Lili
  Lili is an American film. An MGM release, it stars Leslie Caron as a touchingly naïve French girl, whose emotional relationship with a carnival puppeteer is conducted through the medium of four puppets...
  
  by Charles Walters
  Charles Walters
  Charles Walters was a Hollywood director and choreographer most noted for his work in MGM musicals and comedies in from the 1940s to the 1960s....
  
  
• Jury Special Prize: Walt Disney
  Walt Disney
  Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist, well-known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. Along with his brother Roy O...
  
   (for his contributions to making the festival acknowledged)
• 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:* * ....
  
  : Charles Vanel
  Charles Vanel
  Charles-Marie Vanel, known as Charles Vanel was a French director and actor. He made his screen debut in 1912, in Robert Péguy's Jim Crow...
  
  , for The Wages of Fear
• 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:* * ....
  
  : Shirley Booth
  Shirley Booth
  Shirley Booth was an American actress.Primarily a theatre actress, Booth's Broadway career began in 1925. Her most significant success was as Lola Delaney, in the drama Come Back, Little Sheba, for which she received a Tony Award in 1950...
  
  , for Come Back, Little Sheba
  Come Back, Little Sheba (1952 film)
  Come Back, Little Sheba is a drama film produced by Paramount Pictures which tells the story of a loveless marriage that is rocked when a young woman rents a room in the couple's house. The film stars Burt Lancaster and Shirley Booth with Terry Moore and Richard Jaeckel...
  
  
• Special Mention:
  • Juan Antonio Bardem, Luis García Berlanga and Miguel Mihura
    Miguel Mihura
    Miguel Mihura Santos was a Spanish playwright. He is best known for his comedy Tres sombreros de copa , a work of absurd humor that predates similar works by Beckett or Ionesco and that broke with many of the previous conventions of Spanish comic theatre.Miguel Mihura was born in Madrid in 1905...
    
    , for the screenplay of ¡Bienvenido, Mister Marshall!
    Welcome Mr. Marshall!
    Welcome Mr. Marshall! is a 1953 Spanish comedy film directed by Luis García Berlanga and considered one of the masterpieces of Spanish cinema...
    
    
  • Gabriel Migliori, for the score of O Cangaceiro
    The Bandit of Brazil
    The Bandit of Brazil is a 1953 Brazilian drama film directed by Lima Barreto. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Alberto Ruschel - Teodoro* Marisa Prado - Olívia* Milton Ribeiro - Galdino* Vanja Orico - Maria Clódia...
    
    
  • For the charming acting in Lili
    Lili
    Lili is an American film. An MGM release, it stars Leslie Caron as a touchingly naïve French girl, whose emotional relationship with a carnival puppeteer is conducted through the medium of four puppets...
    
    
  • For the use of colour in Magia verde
    Green Magic (film)
    Green Magic is a 1953 Italian documentary film directed by Gian Gaspare Napolitano.-Cast:* Carlos Montalbán - Narrator, US version * Bret Morrison - Narrator, US version * Leonardo Bonzi - Himself...
    
    
• Short Film Grand Prix
  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....
  
  : White Mane
  White Mane
  White Mane is a 1953 short film directed by award-winning French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse....
  
  by Albert Lamorisse
  Albert Lamorisse
  Albert Lamorisse was a French filmmaker, film producer, and writer, who is best known for his award winning short films which he began making in the late 1940s, and also for inventing the famous strategic board game Risk in 1957...
  
  
• Best Fictional Short Film: The Stranger Left No Card
  The Stranger Left No Card
  The Stranger Left No Card is a British short film directed by Wendy Toye.Alan Badel plays the stranger, who arrives in a small town, costumed as a flamboyant itinerant magician with a folding bag of tricks. After a week in town, where 'Napoleon's' outrageous behaviour soon gives him a reputation...
  
  by Wendy Toye
  Wendy Toye
  Wendy Toye, CBE, was a British dancer, stage and film director and actress.Beryl May Jessie Toye was born in London. She initially worked as a dancer and choreographer both on stage and on film, collaborating with the likes of directors Jean Cocteau and Carol Reed...
  
  
• Best Documentary Short Film: Houen zo!
  Houen zo!
  Houen zo! is a 1953 Dutch short documentary film directed by Herman van der Horst....
  
  by Herman van der Horst
• Best Homage: Duende y misterio del flamenco by Edgar Neville
  Edgar Neville
  Edgar Neville Romrée, Count of Berlanga de Duero was a Spanish playwright and film director, a member of the Generation of '27....
  
  
• OCIC Award: Horizons sans fin
  Endless Horizons
  Endless Horizons is a 1953 French drama film directed by Jean Dréville. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Giselle Pascal - Hélène Boucher* Jean Chevrier - André Danet* Paul Frankeur - Soupape...
  
  by Jean Dréville
  Jean Dréville
  Jean Dréville was a French film director. He directed 45 films between 1928 and 1969.-Selected filmography:* Autour de L'Argent * A Cage of Nightingales * Return to Life...
  
  

External links

• 1953 Cannes Film Festival
• Cannes Film Festival:1953 at Internet Movie Database
  Internet Movie Database
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