1963 Cannes Film Festival

The 16th Cannes Film Festival was held from 9 to 23 May 1963.[4] The Palme d'Or went to the Il Gattopardo by Luchino Visconti.[5] The festival opened with The Birds, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.[6]

1963 Cannes Film Festival
Official poster of the 16th Cannes Film Festival, an original illustration by Jean-Denis Maillart.[1]
Opening filmThe Birds
LocationCannes, France
Founded1946
AwardsPalme d'Or (Il Gattopardo)[2]
No. of films26 (In Competition)[3]
2 (Out of Competition)
22 (Short Film)
Festival date9 May 1963 (1963-05-09) – 23 May 1963 (1963-05-23)
Websitefestival-cannes.com/en

Jury

The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1963 film competition:[7]

Feature films

Short films

  • Henri Alekan (France) President
  • Robert Alla (France)
  • Karl Schedereit (West Germany)
  • Ahmed Sefrioui (Morocco)
  • Semih Tugrul (Turkey) (journalist)

Official selection

In competition - Feature film

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:[3]

Films out of competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[3]

Short film competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:[3]

  • A fleur d'eau by Alex Seiler
  • Bouket zvezdi by Radka Batchvarova
  • Citizens Of Tomorrow by Jamie Uys
  • The Critic by Ernest Pintoff
  • Das Grabmal des Kaisers by Istvan V. Szots
  • Di Domenica by Luigi Bazzoni
  • La ferriera abbandonata by Aglauco Casadio
  • Geel by Costia de Renesse
  • Geschwindigkeit by Edgar Reitz
  • Le Haricot by Edmond Sechan
  • Images du ciel - Égypte o Égypte by Jacques Brissot
  • The King's Breakfast by Wendy Toye
  • My Flat (Moj stan) by Zvonimir Berkovic
  • Nakymaton Kasi by Veronica Leo
  • Oslo by Jørgen Roos
  • Playa Insolita by Javier Aguirre
  • Un Prince Belge de l'Europe, Charles Joseph de Ligne by Jacques Kupissonoff
  • Sous le signe de Neptune by A.F. Sulk
  • The Ride by Gerald Potterton
  • You by Istvan Szabo
  • Zeilen by Hattum Hoving
  • Zeleznicari by Evald Schorm

Parallel section

International Critics' Week

The following feature films were selected to be screened for the 2nd International Critics' Week (2e Semaine de la Critique):[8]

Not screened:

Awards
Luchino Visconti, winner of the Palme d'Or

Official awards

The following films and people received the 1963 Official selection awards:[2]

Short films

Independent awards

FIPRESCI[9]

Commission Supérieure Technique[5]

OCIC Award[10]

Other awards

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References
  1. "Posters 1963". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 December 2013.
  2. "Awards 1963: All Awards". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 25 December 2013.
  3. "Official Selection 1963: All the Selection". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013.
  4. "1963 - Le Prix d'un Guépard (The Price of a Cheetah)". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  5. "16ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  6. "1963 Cannes Film Festival opening film". Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  7. "Juries 1966 : Long film". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
  8. "2e Selecion de la Semaine de la Critique - 1963". archives.semainedelacritique.com. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  9. "FIPRESCI Awards 1963". fipresci.org. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  10. "Cannes Film Festival Awards for 1963". imdb.com. Retrieved 4 July 2017.

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