# 1963 Cannes Film Festival

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

## Jury

The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1963 film competition:
Feature films
* Armand Salacrou (France) - Jury President
* Rouben Mamoulian (USA) - Jury Vice President
* Jacqueline Audry (France)
* Wilfrid Baumgartner (BDF official) (France)
* François Chavane (France)
* Jean de Baroncelli (critic) (France)
* Robert Hossein (France)
* Kashiko Kawakita (Japan)
* Steven Pallos (UK)
* Gian Luigi Rondi (Italy)
* Rostislav Yurenev (Soviet Union)
Short films
* Henri Alekan (France) - Jury President
* Robert Alla (France)
* Karl Schedereit (West Germany)
* Ahmed Sefrioui (Morocco)
* Semih Tugrul (journalist) (Turkey)

## Official selection
### In competition - Feature film

The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:
* Les Abysses by Nikos Papatakis
* Alvorada by Hugo Niebeling
* The Cage (La Cage) by Robert Darène
* Carom Shots (Carambolages) by Marcel Bluwal
* The Cassandra Cat (Až přijde kocour) by Vojtěch Jasný
* Codine by Henri Colpi
* The Conjugal Bed (L'ape regina) by Marco Ferreri
* A Cozy Cottage (Kertes házak utcája) by Tamás Fejér
* Empress Wu Tse-Tien (Wu Ze Tian) by Li Han Hsiang
* The Fiances (I Fidanzati) by Ermanno Olmi
* For Those Who Will Follow (Pour la suite du monde) by Pierre Perrault and Michel Brault
* Glory Sky (Ouranos) by Takis Kanellopoulos
* The Good Love (El Buen amor) by Francisco Regueiro
* Harakiri (Seppuku) by Masaki Kobayashi
* How to Be Loved (Jak być kochaną) by Wojciech Has
* The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) by Luchino Visconti
* Like Two Drops of Water (Als twee druppels water) by Fons Rademakers
* Lord of the Flies by Peter Brook
* Optimistic Tragedy (Optimisticheskaya tragediya) by Samson Samsonov
* El Otro Cristóbal by Armand Gatti
* Rat Trap (Le Rat d'Amérique) by Jean-Gabriel Albicocco
* This Sporting Life by Lindsay Anderson
* To Kill a Mockingbird by Robert Mulligan
* Tobacco (Тютюн) by Nikola Korabov
* The Venerable Ones (Los Venerables todos) by Manuel Antín
* What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? by Robert Aldrich

### Films out of competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
* 8½ by Federico Fellini
* The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock

### Short film competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:
* 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):
* Alone or with Others (Seul ou avec d’autres) by Denys Arcand, Denis Héroux, Stéphane Venne (Canada)
* Barnvagnen by Bo Widerberg (Sweden)
* Déjà s'envole la fleur maigre by Paul Meyer (Belgium)
* Hallelujah the Hills by Adolfas Mekas (United States)
* Le Joli Mai by Chris Marker, Pierre Lhomme (France)
* Pelle viva by Giuseppe Fina (Italy)
* Pitfall (Otoshiana) by Hiroshi Teshigahara (Japan)
* Porto das Caixas by Paulo César Saraceni (Brazil)
* Showman by Albert Maysles, David Maysles (United States)
* The Sun in a Net (Slnko v sieti) by Štefan Uher (Czechoslovakia)

## Awards
### Official awards

The following films and people received the 1963 Official selection awards:
* Palme d'Or: The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) by Luchino Visconti
* Jury Special Prize:
** The Cassandra Cat (Až přijde kocour) by Vojtěch Jasný
** Harakiri (Seppuku) by Masaki Kobayashi
* Best Screenplay: Dumitru Carabat, Henri Colpi and Yves Jamiaque for Codine
* Best Actress: Marina Vlady for The Conjugal Bed (L'ape regina)
* Best Actor: Richard Harris for This Sporting Life
Short films
* Short Film Palme d'Or:
** Le Haricot by Edmond Séchan
** In wechselndem Gefälle (A fleur d'eau) by Alexander J. Seiler
* Jury Prize - Short Film: Moj Stan by Zvonimir Berković
* Special Mention - Short Film: Di Domenica by Luigi Bazzoni & You by István Szabó
* Short Film Technical Prize: Zeilen by Hattum Hoving

### Independent awards

FIPRESCI
* FIPRESCI Prize:
** This Sporting Life by Lindsay Anderson (In competition)
** Le Joli Mai by Chris Marker, Pierre Lhomme (International Critics' Week)
Commission Supérieure Technique
* Technical Grand Prize:
** The Cassandra Cat (Až přijde kocour) by Vojtěch Jasný
** Codine by Henri Colpi
OCIC Award
* The Fiances (I Fidanzati) by Ermanno Olmi
Other awards
* Gary Cooper Award: To Kill a Mockingbird by Robert Mulligan
* Best Evocation of a World-Shattering Epic: Optimistic Tragedy (Optimisticheskaya tragediya) by Samson Samsonov