1984 Cannes Film Festival
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Jury

  • Dirk Bogarde
    Dirk Bogarde
    Sir Dirk Bogarde was an English actor and novelist. Initially a matinee idol in such films as Doctor in the House and other Rank Organisation pictures, Bogarde later acted in art-house films such as Death in Venice...

     (UK) (president)
  • Franco Cristaldi
    Franco Cristaldi
    Franco Cristaldi was an Italian film producer, credited with producing more than 60 feature films from the 1950s to the 1990s.-Career:...

     (Italy)
  • Michel Deville
    Michel Deville
    Michel Deville is a French film director and screenwriter.Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors...

     (France)
  • Stanley Donen
    Stanley Donen
    Stanley Donen ; is an American film director and choreographer whose most celebrated works are Singin' in the Rain and On the Town, both of which he co-directed with Gene Kelly. His other noteworthy films include Royal Wedding, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Funny Face, Indiscreet, Damn...

     (USA)
  • Istvan Dosai (Hungary) (Cinématographie official)
  • Arne Hestenes
    Arne Hestenes
    Arne Hestenes, pen name Plut was a Norwegian journalist.He was born in Tromsø as a son of manager Ola Hestenes and Gerda Kristine Larsen . He was a brother of barrister Olav Hestenes...

     (Norway) (journalist)
  • Isabelle Huppert
    Isabelle Huppert
    Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert is a French actress who has appeared in over 90 film and television productions since 1971. She has had 14 films in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival, and won the Best Actress Award twice, for Violette Nozière and La pianiste . She is also the most...

     (France)
  • Ennio Morricone
    Ennio Morricone
    Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, , is an Italian composer and conductor, who wrote music to more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces...

     (Italy)
  • Jorge Semprún
    Jorge Semprún
    Jorge Semprún Maura was a Spanish writer and politician who lived in France most of his life and wrote primarily in French. From 1953 to 1962, during the era of Francisco Franco, Semprún lived clandestinely in Spain working as an organizer for the exiled Communist Party of Spain, but was expelled...

     (Spain)
  • Vadim Yusov
    Vadim Yusov
    Vadim Ivanovich Yusov is a Soviet and Russian cinematographer and a professor of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, who worked with Andrey Tarkovsky on The Steamroller and the Violin, Ivan's Childhood, Andrei Rublev and Solaris, and with Georgi Daneliya on I Step Through Moscow...

     (Soviet Union)
  • Mehmet Basutcu (Turkey) (Golden Camera)
  • José Luis Guarner (Spain) (Golden Camera)
  • Bernard Jubard (France) (Golden Camera)
  • Michel Jullien (Golden Camera)
  • Samuel Lachize (France) (critic) (Golden Camera)
  • Serge Leroy (France) (Golden Camera)
  • Fee Vaillant (West Germany) (Golden Camera)

Feature film competition

  • Another Country by Marek Kanievska
    Marek Kanievska
    Marek Kanievska is a British film director. His films have won various awards at the Cannes Film Festival and the Florence Film Festival.-Film:*The First Day - short film*Another Country...

  • Bayan ko: Kapit sa patalim by Lino Brocka
    Lino Brocka
    Catalino Ortiz Brocka is known as one of the greatest film directors of the Philippines. Brocka was openly homosexual and many of his films incorporated LGBT themes into their often dramatic storylines....

  • The Bounty
    The Bounty
    The Bounty is a 1984 British historical film directed by Roger Donaldson, starring Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins, and produced by Bernard Williams with Dino De Laurentiis as executive producer. It is the fifth film version of the story of the mutiny on the Bounty. The screenplay was by Robert Bolt...

    by Roger Donaldson
    Roger Donaldson
    Roger Donaldson is an Australian-born New Zealand film producer, director and writer who has made numerous successful movies. He was a co-founder of the New Zealand Film Commission.-Life and career:...

  • Cal
    Cal (film)
    Cal is a 1984 British drama film directed by Pat O'Connor, and starring John Lynch and Helen Mirren. Based on the novella Cal written by Bernard MacLaverty who also wrote the script, the film was entered into the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, where Helen Mirren won the award for Best Actress.-Plot:Cal...

    by Pat O'Connor
    Pat O'Connor (director)
    Pat O'Connor, born in Ardmore, County Waterford, is an Irish film director.In 1982, O'Connor won a Jacob's Award for his direction of the RTÉ TV adaptation of William Trevor's short story, Ballroom of Romance starring Cyril Cusack and Brenda Fricker. It was shot near the village of Ballycroy,...

  • Dges game utenebia
    Day Is Longer Than Night
    Day Is Longer Than Night is a 1984 Georgian drama film directed by Lana Gogoberidze. It was entered into the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Daredjan Kharshiladze* Tamari Skhirtladze* Guram Pirtskhalava* Irakli Khizanishvili* Guram Palavandishvili...

    by Lana Gogoberidze
    Lana Gogoberidze
    Lana Gogoberidze is a Georgian film director and politician.Educated at Tbilisi State University and Moscow State University of Cinematography, Gogoberidze headed Director’s Studio at the Rustaveli Theatre School, Tbilisi, in 1975 and directed the studio Kartuli P'ilmi in 1988...

  • Enrico IV
    Henry IV (film)
    Henry IV is a 1984 Italian drama film directed by Marco Bellocchio. It is based on the Luigi Pirandello play of the same name. It was entered into the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Marcello Mastroianni - Henry IV* Claudia Cardinale - Matilda...

    by Marco Bellocchio
  • Forbrydelsens element
    The Element of Crime
    The Element of Crime is the first feature film directed by noted Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier. The film, released in 1984, is also the first in the director's Europa trilogy...

    by Lars von Trier
    Lars von Trier
    Lars von Trier is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He is closely associated with the Dogme 95 collective, although his own films have taken a variety of different approaches, and have frequently received strongly divided critical opinion....

  • Ghare Baire
    Ghare Baire (film)
    Ghare Baire is a 1985 film by Bengali director Satyajit Ray, based upon the novel Ghare Baire by Rabindranath Tagore. It features Soumitra Chatterjee, Victor Banerjee, Jennifer Kendal and Swatilekha Chatterjee, married Sengupta...

    by Satyajit Ray
    Satyajit Ray
    Satyajit Ray was an Indian Bengali filmmaker. He is regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of 20th century cinema. Ray was born in the city of Kolkata into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature...

  • La pirate
    The Pirate (1984 film)
    The Pirate is a 1984 French drama film directed by Jacques Doillon. It was entered in the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Jane Birkin as Alma* Maruschka Detmers as Carole* Philippe Léotard as n° 5* Andrew Birkin as Andrew, le mari...

    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...

  • Los santos inocentes
    Los santos inocentes
    Los santos inocentes or The Holy Innocents is a Spanish drama film directed by Mario Camus, based on famous Miguel Delibes' same title novel. It is starred by Alfredo Landa and Francisco Rabal...

    by Mario Camus
  • Napló gyermekeimnek
    Diary for My Children
    Diary for My Children is a 1984 Hungarian drama film directed by Márta Mészáros. It was entered into the 1984 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury.-Cast:* Zsuzsa Czinkóczi - Juli* Teri Földi - Magda...

    by Márta Mészáros
    Márta Mészáros
    Márta Mészáros is a Hungarian film director. She worked as an English Teachersmeaning? filmmaker in the 1960s, but in the following decade began making films drawing on the oppression of both state and gender...

  • Paris, Texas
    Paris, Texas (film)
    Paris, Texas is a 1984 drama film directed by Wim Wenders. The screenplay is by L.M. Kit Carson and playwright Sam Shepard, and the distinctive musical score was composed by Ry Cooder. The cinematography is by Robby Müller....

    by Wim Wenders
    Wim Wenders
    Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer.-Early life:Wenders was born in Düsseldorf. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine and philosophy in Freiburg and Düsseldorf...

  • Quilombo
    Quilombo (film)
    Quilombo is a 1984 Brazilian drama film directed by Carlos Diegues. It was entered into the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Zezé Motta - Dandara* João Nogueira - Rufino* Grande Otelo - Baba* Antônio Pitanga - Acaiuba* Antônio Pompêo - Zumbi...

    by Carlos Diegues
    Carlos Diegues
    Carlos Diegues, also known as Cacá Diegues, is a Brazilian film director. He is best known as a member of the Cinema Novo movement.-Filmography:* 2010 O Grande Circo Místico...

  • Success Is the Best Revenge
    Success Is the Best Revenge
    Success Is the Best Revenge is a 1984 French-British drama film directed by Jerzy Skolimowski. It was entered into the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Michael York as Alex Rodak* Joanna Szczerbic as Alicia Rodak* Michael Lyndon as Adam Rodak...

    by Jerzy Skolimowski
    Jerzy Skolimowski
    Jerzy Skolimowski is a Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor. A graduate of the prestigious National Film School in Łódź, Skolimowski has directed more than twenty films since his 1960 début Oko wykol...

  • Taxidi stin Kythera
    Voyage to Cythera
    Voyage to Cythera is a 1984 Greek film directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos. It was entered into the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize and the award for Best Screenplay.-Cast:* Manos Katrakis as Spyros* Mairi Hronopoulou as Voula...

    by Theodoros Angelopoulos
  • Un dimanche à la campagne
    A Sunday in the Country
    A Sunday in the Country is a 1984 French film directed by Bertrand Tavernier.-Cast:* Louis Ducreux - Monsieur Ladmiral* Michel Aumont - Gonzague* Sabine Azéma - Irène* Geneviève Mnich - Marie-Thérèse* Monique Chaumette - Mercédès...

    by Bertrand Tavernier
    Bertrand Tavernier
    Bertrand Tavernier is a French director, screenwriter, actor, and producer.-Life and career:Tavernier was born in Lyon, the son of Geneviève and René Tavernier, a publicist and writer, several years president of the French PEN club. Tavernier wanted to become a filmmaker since the age of thirteen...

  • Under the Volcano
    Under the Volcano (film)
    Under the Volcano is a 1984 film directed in Mexico by John Huston with Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews and Katy Jurado heading the cast...

    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...

  • Vigil
    Vigil (film)
    Vigil is a 1984 New Zealand drama film directed by Vincent Ward. It was entered into the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.The film was awarded three awards at the 1986 National Mutual GOFTA Awards: Best Cinematography , Best Original Screenplay , and Best Production Design .-Cast:* Penelope Stewart -...

    by Vincent Ward
    Vincent Ward
    Vincent Ward, ONZM is a film director and screenwriter.-Biography:Vincent Ward was awarded an Order of New Zealand Merit in 2007 for his contribution to film making. He was born in Greytown, New Zealand. He was educated at St Patrick's College, Silverstream and trained as an artist at the...

  • Where the Green Ants Dream
    Where the Green Ants Dream
    Where the Green Ants Dream is a 1984 film by German film director Werner Herzog. It was Herzog's first film in English although also dubbed into German. Based partly on the Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd case and making use of professional actors as well as Aboriginal activists who were involved in...

    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

  • Abel Gance et son Napoléon by Nelly Kaplan
  • Cóndores no entierran todos los días
    A Man of Principle
    A Man of Principle is a 1984 Colombian drama film directed by Francisco Norden. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.- Plot :...

    by Francisco Norden
    Francisco Norden
    Francisco Norden is a Colombian film director, screenwriter, editor and producer born in Brussels from an Austrian father and a Colombian mother. He has directed eight films between 1963 and 2005...

  • De grens
    De grens
    De grens is a 1984 Dutch thriller film directed by Leon de Winter. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Johan Leysen - Hans Deitz* Linda van Dyck - Marleen Ruyter...

    by Leon de Winter
    Leon de Winter
    - Early life :Leon de Winter was born on 24 February 1954 in Den Bosch, in the southern Netherlands. He grew up in an orthodox Jewish family and attended the gymnasium in Den Bosch. After his graduation he attended the academy of Bavaria Film Studios in Munich and the Netherlands Film Academy in...

  • De weg naar Bresson
    The Road to Bresson
    The Road to Bresson is a 1984 Dutch documentary film directed by Leo De Boer and Jurriën Rood. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Robert Bresson - Himself* Louis Malle - Himself...

    by Leo De Boer, Jurriën Rood
  • El Norte
    El Norte (film)
    El Norte is an American and British film, directed by Gregory Nava. The screenplay was written by Nava and Anna Thomas. The movie was first presented at the Telluride Film Festival in 1983, and its wide release was in January 1984....

    by Gregory Nava
    Gregory Nava
    Gregory Nava is a film director, producer and screenplay writer, of Mexican and Basque heritage.-Education:...

  • Feroz
    Feroz (film)
    Feroz is a 1984 Spanish fantasy film directed by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Fernando Fernán Gómez - Luis* Frédéric de Pasquale - Andrés...

    by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
    Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
    Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón is an award-winning Spanish screenwriter and film director. His 1973 film Habla, mudita was entered into the 23rd Berlin International Film Festival. In 1977, he won the Silver Bear for Best Director for Camada negra at the 27th Berlin International Film Festival...

  • Khandhar
    Khandhar
    Khandahar is a 1984 Hindi movie directed by Mrinal Sen, based on a Bengali novel, Telenapota Abishkar by Premendra Mitra. The film stars Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah and Pankaj Kapoor...

    by Mrinal Sen
    Mrinal Sen
    Mrinal Sen is a Bengali Indian filmmaker. He was born on 14 May 1923, in the town of Faridpur, now in Bangladesh in a Hindu family. After finishing his high school there, he left home to come to Calcutta as a student and studied physics at the well-known Scottish Church College and at the...

  • Le jour S...
    Le jour S...
    Le jour S... is a 1984 Canadian drama film directed by Jean Pierre Lefebvre. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Pierre Curzi - Jean-Baptiste Beauregard* Michel Daigle...

    by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
    Jean Pierre Lefebvre
    Jean Pierre Lefebvre is a French Canadian filmmaker. He is widely admired as "the godfather of independent Canadian cinema," particularly among young, independent filmmakers....

  • Le tartuffe
    Le tartuffe
    Le tartuffe is a 1984 French comedy film directed by and starring Gérard Depardieu. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Gérard Depardieu - Tartuffe* François Périer - Orgon* Yveline Ailhaud - Dorine...

    by Gérard Depardieu
    Gérard Depardieu
    Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu is a French actor and filmmaker. He is a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite and has twice won the César Award for Best Actor...

  • Man of Flowers
    Man of Flowers
    Man of Flowers is a 1983 Australian film about an eccentric, reclusive, middle-aged man, Charles Bremer, who enjoys the beauty of art, flowers, and watching pretty women undress. Werner Herzog has a cameo role as Bremer's father...

    by Paul Cox
    Paul Cox
    Paulus Henriqus Benedictus "Paul" Cox is an award-winning Australian film director.Cox was born in Venlo, Limburg, the Netherlands, the son of Else , a native of Germany, and Wim Cox, a documentary film producer. Cox emigrated to Australia in 1965...

  • Mária-nap
    Maria's Day
    Maria's Day is a 1984 Hungarian drama film directed by Judit Elek. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Edit Handel - Julia Szendrey* Éva Igó - Marika Szendrey* Sándor Szabó - Ignác Szendrey...

    by Judit Elek
    Judit Elek
    Judit Elek is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. She has directed 16 films between 1962 and 2006. Her film Mária-nap was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:...

  • Yeoin janhoksa moulleya moulleya by Doo-yong Lee
  • Un poeta nel Cinema: Andreij Tarkovskij by Donatella Baglivo
  • Where Is Parsifal?
    Where Is Parsifal?
    Where is Parsifal? is a 1983 British comedy film directed by Henri Helman. It was released in France on April 13, 1988. The cast includes Tony Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Erik Estrada, and Orson Welles. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival...

    by Henri Helman

Films out of competition

  • Beat Street
    Beat Street
    Beat Street is a 1984 drama film, following Wild Style in featuring New York City hip hop culture of the early 1980s; breakdancing, DJing, and graffiti.-Plot:...

    by Stan Lathan
    Stan Lathan
    Stan Lathan is an American television director, film director, television producer and television director.-Career:Lathan’s career began with public television in Boston where he co-created and directed one of the first and longest running urban themed magazine shows, Say Brother...

  • Broadway Danny Rose
    Broadway Danny Rose
    Broadway Danny Rose is a 1984 American black-and-white comedy film written, directed by and starring Woody Allen. It was screened out of competition at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.- Plot :...

    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...

  • Choose Me
    Choose Me
    Choose Me is a 1984 American comedy-drama film directed and written by Alan Rudolph. It was rated R by the MPAA. The film's tagline is In the middle of the night, when there's no one else...-Synopsis:...

    by Alan Rudolph
  • Efter repetitionen
    After the Rehearsal
    After the Rehearsal is a made-for-TV play, written and directed by Ingmar Bergman in 1984. The script contains numerous quotes from Strindberg's Drömspel. The film was screened out of competition at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot summary:...

    by Ingmar Bergman
    Ingmar Bergman
    Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish director, writer and producer for film, stage and television. Described by Woody Allen as "probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera", he is recognized as one of the most accomplished and...

  • Fort Saganne
    Fort Saganne
    Fort Saganne is a 1984 French war film directed by Alain Corneau, based on the 1980 novel of the same name by Louis Gardel. It was screened out of competition at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival...

    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...

  • Once Upon a Time in America
    Once Upon a Time in America
    Once Upon a Time in America is a 1984 Italian epic crime film co-written and directed by Sergio Leone and starring Robert De Niro and James Woods. The story chronicles the lives of Jewish ghetto youths who rise to prominence in New York City's world of organized crime...

    by Sergio Leone
    Sergio Leone
    Sergio Leone was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter most associated with the "Spaghetti Western" genre.Leone's film-making style includes juxtaposing extreme close-up shots with lengthy long shots...


Short film competition

  • Ajtó by Mária Horváth
  • Bottom's Dream by John Canemaker
    John Canemaker
    John Cannizzaro Jr. , better known as John Canemaker, is an independent animator, animation historian, author, teacher and lecturer. In 1980, he began teaching and developing the animation program at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts', Kanbar Institute of Film and Television Department...

  • Le Cheval de fer by Gérald Frydman and Pierre Levie
  • Orpheus and Eurydice by Lesley Keen
  • Points by Dan Collins
  • Ett Rum by Mats Olof Olsson
  • Het Scheppen van een koe by Paul Driessen
    Paul Driessen (animator)
    Paul Driessen is a Dutch film director, animator and writer. His short films have won more than fifty prizes all over the world, including the Life Achievement Awards at both Ottawa and Zagreb animation festivals, and an Academy Award nomination for "3 misses"...

  • Le Spectacle by Gilles Chevallier
  • Tchouma by David Takaichvili
  • Tip Top by Paul Driessen
    Paul Driessen (animator)
    Paul Driessen is a Dutch film director, animator and writer. His short films have won more than fifty prizes all over the world, including the Life Achievement Awards at both Ottawa and Zagreb animation festivals, and an Academy Award nomination for "3 misses"...


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...

    : Paris, Texas
    Paris, Texas (film)
    Paris, Texas is a 1984 drama film directed by Wim Wenders. The screenplay is by L.M. Kit Carson and playwright Sam Shepard, and the distinctive musical score was composed by Ry Cooder. The cinematography is by Robby Müller....

    by Wim Wenders
    Wim Wenders
    Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer.-Early life:Wenders was born in Düsseldorf. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine and philosophy in Freiburg and Düsseldorf...

  • 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...

    : Napló gyermekeimnek
    Diary for My Children
    Diary for My Children is a 1984 Hungarian drama film directed by Márta Mészáros. It was entered into the 1984 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury.-Cast:* Zsuzsa Czinkóczi - Juli* Teri Földi - Magda...

    by Márta Mészáros
    Márta Mészáros
    Márta Mészáros is a Hungarian film director. She worked as an English Teachersmeaning? filmmaker in the 1960s, but in the following decade began making films drawing on the oppression of both state and gender...

  • 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:* * ....

    : Francisco Rabal
    Francisco Rabal
    Francisco Rabal , perhaps better known as Paco Rabal, was a Spanish actor born in Águilas, a small town in the province of Murcia, Spain....

     and Alfredo Landa
    Alfredo Landa
    Alfredo Landa Areitio is a Spanish actor.- Biography :He was born in Pamplona, Navarra, Spain. He finished his pre-university studies in San Sebastián. He then began university studies on Law, where he began to work with university school groups...

     for Los santos inocentes
    Los santos inocentes
    Los santos inocentes or The Holy Innocents is a Spanish drama film directed by Mario Camus, based on famous Miguel Delibes' same title novel. It is starred by Alfredo Landa and Francisco Rabal...

    (Ex aequo)
  • 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:* * ....

    : Helen Mirren
    Helen Mirren
    Dame Helen Mirren, DBE is an English actor. She has won an Academy Award for Best Actress, four SAG Awards, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes, four Emmy Awards, and two Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Awards.-Early life and family:...

     for Cal
    Cal (film)
    Cal is a 1984 British drama film directed by Pat O'Connor, and starring John Lynch and Helen Mirren. Based on the novella Cal written by Bernard MacLaverty who also wrote the script, the film was entered into the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, where Helen Mirren won the award for Best Actress.-Plot:Cal...

  • 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....

    : Bertrand Tavernier
    Bertrand Tavernier
    Bertrand Tavernier is a French director, screenwriter, actor, and producer.-Life and career:Tavernier was born in Lyon, the son of Geneviève and René Tavernier, a publicist and writer, several years president of the French PEN club. Tavernier wanted to become a filmmaker since the age of thirteen...

     for Un dimanche à la campagne
    A Sunday in the Country
    A Sunday in the Country is a 1984 French film directed by Bertrand Tavernier.-Cast:* Louis Ducreux - Monsieur Ladmiral* Michel Aumont - Gonzague* Sabine Azéma - Irène* Geneviève Mnich - Marie-Thérèse* Monique Chaumette - Mercédès...

  • Best Screenplay
    Best Screenplay Award (Cannes Film Festival)
    The Best Screenplay 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...

    : Theodoros Angelopoulos, Tonino Guerra
    Tonino Guerra
    Tonino Guerra is an Italian poet, writer and screenwriter who has collaborated with some of the most prominent film directors of the world.-Biography:Guerra was born in Santarcangelo di Romagna....

     and Thanassis Valtinos for Taxidi stin Kythera
    Voyage to Cythera
    Voyage to Cythera is a 1984 Greek film directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos. It was entered into the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize and the award for Best Screenplay.-Cast:* Manos Katrakis as Spyros* Mairi Hronopoulou as Voula...

  • Best Artistic Contribution: Peter Biziou
    Peter Biziou
    Peter Biziou BSC is a British cinematographer.Peter Biziou is the son of a special effects cameraman. He began his career in the mid 1960s where he worked on short films by Norman J. Warren and Robert Freeman. In 1973 he began his collaboration with director Alan Parker...

     (cinematographer) for Another Country
  • Technical Grand Prize: Forbrydelsens element
    The Element of Crime
    The Element of Crime is the first feature film directed by noted Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier. The film, released in 1984, is also the first in the director's Europa trilogy...

    by Lars von Trier
    Lars von Trier
    Lars von Trier is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He is closely associated with the Dogme 95 collective, although his own films have taken a variety of different approaches, and have frequently received strongly divided critical opinion....

  • 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....

    :
    • Le Cheval de fer by Gérald Frydman and Pierre Levie
    • Tchouma by David Takaichvili
  • 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 ....

    : Stranger Than Paradise
    Stranger Than Paradise
    Stranger Than Paradise is a 1984 American absurdist/deadpan comedy film. It was written and directed by Jim Jarmusch and stars jazz musician John Lurie, former Sonic Youth drummer-turned-actor Richard Edson, and Hungarian-born actress Eszter Balint...

    by Jim Jarmusch
    Jim Jarmusch
    James R. "Jim" Jarmusch is an American independent film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, editor and composer. Jarmusch has been a major proponent of independent cinema, particularly during the 1980s and 1990s.-Early life:...

  • Perspectives du Cinéma Award: Liberté, la nuit by Philippe Garrel
    Philippe Garrel
    Philippe Garrel is a French director, cinematographer, screenwriter, editor and producer. His movies have won him awards at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival...

  • FIPRESCI Prize:
    • Memórias do Cárcere by Nelson Pereira dos Santos
    • Paris, Texas
      Paris, Texas (film)
      Paris, Texas is a 1984 drama film directed by Wim Wenders. The screenplay is by L.M. Kit Carson and playwright Sam Shepard, and the distinctive musical score was composed by Ry Cooder. The cinematography is by Robby Müller....

      by Wim Wenders
      Wim Wenders
      Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer.-Early life:Wenders was born in Düsseldorf. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine and philosophy in Freiburg and Düsseldorf...

    • Taxidi stin Kythera
      Voyage to Cythera
      Voyage to Cythera is a 1984 Greek film directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos. It was entered into the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize and the award for Best Screenplay.-Cast:* Manos Katrakis as Spyros* Mairi Hronopoulou as Voula...

      by Theodoros Angelopoulos
  • Prize of the Ecumenical Jury: Paris, Texas
    Paris, Texas (film)
    Paris, Texas is a 1984 drama film directed by Wim Wenders. The screenplay is by L.M. Kit Carson and playwright Sam Shepard, and the distinctive musical score was composed by Ry Cooder. The cinematography is by Robby Müller....

    by Wim Wenders
    Wim Wenders
    Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders is a German film director, playwright, author, photographer and producer.-Early life:Wenders was born in Düsseldorf. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine and philosophy in Freiburg and Düsseldorf...

  • Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention: Los santos inocentes
    Los santos inocentes
    Los santos inocentes or The Holy Innocents is a Spanish drama film directed by Mario Camus, based on famous Miguel Delibes' same title novel. It is starred by Alfredo Landa and Francisco Rabal...

    by Mario Camus
  • Award of the Youth:
    • Foreign Film: Epílogo by Gonzalo Suárez
      Gonzalo Suárez
      Gonzalo Suárez Morilla is a Spanish writer, screenwriter and film director.-Career:In 1963 he published his first novel De cuerpo presente....

    • French Film: Boy Meets Girl
      Boy Meets Girl (1984 film)
      Boy Meets Girl is a 1984 French drama film written and directed by Leos Carax, starring Denis Lavant and Mireille Perrier. It was Carax' first feature film...

      by Leos Carax
      Leos Carax
      Leos Carax is a French-born film director, critic, and writer. Carax is noted for his poetic style and his tortured depictions of love. His first major work was Boy Meets Girl , and his notable works include Lovers on the Bridge and the controversial Pola X...


External links

  • 1984 Cannes Film Festival
  • Cannes Film Festival:1984 at Internet Movie Database
    Internet Movie Database
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