# 1974 Cannes Film Festival

The 27th Cannes Film Festivaltook place from 9 to 24 May 1974. French filmmaker René Clair served as jury president for the main competition.
The Grand Prix, then the fetival's main prize, was awarded to American filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola for the drama film The Conversation.
The festival opened with Amarcord by Federico Fellini, and closed with S*P*Y*S by Irvin Kershner.

## Juries
### Main Competition

* René Clair, French filmmaker - Jury President
* Jean-Loup Dabadie, French journalist
* Kenne Fant, Swedish actor
* Félix Labisse, French painter
* Irwin Shaw, American writer
* Michel Soutter, Swiss filmmaker
* Monica Vitti, Italian actress
* Alexander Walker, British film critic and author
* Rostislav Yurenev, Soviet film critic

## Official Selection
### In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Grand Prix International du Festival:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Ali: Fear Eats the Soul | Angst essen Seele auf | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | West Germany |
| Arabian Nights | Il fiore delle Mille e una notte | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Italy, France |
| The Bear Cage | La cage aux ours | Marian Handwerker | Belgium |
| Cats' Play | Macskajáték | Károly Makk | Hungary |
| The Conversation | The Conversation | Francis Ford Coppola | United States |
| Cousin Angelica | La prima Angélica | Carlos Saura | Spain |
| Daughters, Daughters | Abu el-Banat | Moshé Mizrahi | Israel |
| Garm Hava | Garm Hava | M. S. Sathyu | India |
| Himiko | 卑弥呼 | Masahiro Shinoda | Japan |
| The Holy Office | El santo oficio | Arturo Ripstein | Mexico |
| Hopelessly Lost | Совсем пропащий | Georgiy Daneliya | Soviet Union |
| The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived | ساعة التحرير دقت | Heiny Srour | France, Lebanon, United Kingdom |
| The Last Detail | The Last Detail | Hal Ashby | United States |
| The Last Word | Последната дума | Binka Zhelyazkova | Bulgaria |
| Mahler | Mahler | Ken Russell | United Kingdom |
| Milarepa | Milarepa | Liliana Cavani | Italy |
| The Nickel Ride | The Nickel Ride | Robert Mulligan | United States |
| The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat | The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat | Robert Taylor | United States |
| Once Upon a Time in the East | Il était une fois dans l'est | André Brassard | Canada |
| The Others | Les autres | Hugo Santiago | France |
| Somewhere Beyond Love | Delitto d'amore | Luigi Comencini | Italy |
| Stavisky | Stavisky | Alain Resnais | France, Italy |
| The Sugarland Express | The Sugarland Express | Steven Spielberg | United States |
| Symptoms | Symptoms | José Ramón Larraz | United Kingdom |
| Thieves Like Us | Thieves Like Us | Robert Altman | United States |
| Violins at the Ball | Les violons du bal | Michel Drach | France |

### Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:
* 1789 by Ariane Mnouchkine
* Amarcord by Federico Fellini
* And Now My Love (Toute une vie) by Claude Lelouch
* Birds Do It, Bees Do It by Nicolas Noxon, Irwin Rosten
* Entr'acte by René Clair
* The Homecoming by Peter Hall
* The Grand Maneuver (Les Grandes Manoeuvres) by René Clair
* Henry Miller, Poète Maudit by Michèle Arnault
* Lancelot du Lac by Robert Bresson
* Once by Mort Heilig
* Parade by Jacques Tati
* Picasso, L'Homme et Son Oeuvre by Edward Quinn
* S*P*Y*S by Irvin Kershner
* Le Trio Infernal by Francis Girod

### Short Films Competition

The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:
* Akvarium by Zdenka Doitcheva
* Another Saturday Night by Steven B. Poster, Mik Derks
* Carnet trouvé chez les fourmis by Georges Senechal
* Hunger by Peter Foldes
* I stała się światłość by Jerzy Kalina
* Jocselekedetek by Béla Vajda
* Leonarduv denik by Jan Švankmajer
* O sidarta by Michel Jakar
* Ostrov (Island) by Fyodor Khitruk

## Parallel sections
### International Critics' Week

The following feature films were screened for the 13th International Critics' Week (13e Semaine de la Critique):
* A Bigger Splash by Jack Hazan (United Kingdom)
* Na wylot by Grzegorz Królikiewicz (Poland)
* The Spirit of the Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena) by Víctor Erice (Spain)
* Hearts and Minds by Peter Davis (United States)
* The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived (L’heure de la libération a sonné) by Heiny Srour (Lebanon)
* I.F.Stone’s Weekly by Jerry Bruck Jr (United States)
* La Paloma [fr] by Daniel Schmid (Switzerland)
* La Tierra prometida by Miguel Littín (Chile)
* Der Tod des Flohzirkusdirektos by Thomas Koerfer (Switzerland)

### Directors' Fortnight

The following films were screened for the 1974 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):
* A Noite Do Espantalho by Sergio Ricardo (Brazil)
* A Rainha Diaba by Antonio Carlos Fontura (Brazil)
* Au-delà des sables by Radu Gabrea (Romania)
* Celine and Julie Go Boating (Céline et Julie vont en bateau) by Jacques Rivette (France)
* Contra la Razon y por la Fuerza (doc.) by Carlos Ortiz Tejeda (Mexico)
* La Coupe à 10 francs by Philippe Condroyer (France)
* Erica Minor by Bertrand Van Effenterre (Switzerland)
* The Expropriation (La expropiación) by Raúl Ruiz (Chile)
* The Extradition (Die Auslieferung) by Peter von Gunten (Switzerland)
* Gelegenheitsarbeit einer Sklavin by Alexander Kluge (West Germany)
* Hay Que Matar Al General by Enrique Urteaga (Chile)
* Il pleut toujours où c'est mouillé by Jean-Daniel Simon (France)
* Lars Ole, 5C by Nils Malmros (Denmark)
* The Last Betrothal (Les Dernières Fiançailles) by Jean Pierre Lefebvre (Canada)
* Let Mrtve Ptice by Živojin Pavlović (Yugoslavia)
* Manifest by Antonis Lepeniotis (Austria)
* Mean Streets by Martin Scorsese (United States)
* The Migrants by Tom Gries (United States)
* Morel's Invention (L'invenzione di Morel) by Emidio Greco (Italy)
* Once Upon a Time There Was a Singing Blackbird (Iko shashvi mgalobeli) by Otar Iosseliani (Soviet Union)
* Padatik by Mrinal Sen (India)
* Processo Per Direttisima by Lucio De Caro (Italy)
* The Profiteer (Il Saprofita) by Sergio Nasca (Italy)
* Sweet Movie by Dušan Makavejev (Canada, France, West Germany)
* Uira by Gustavo Dahl (Brazil)
* Vai Travalhar Vagabundo by Hugo Carvanna (Brazil)
* La Vérité sur l'imaginaire passion d'un inconnu by Marcel Hanoun (France)
    Short films
* L'Agression by Frank Cassenti (France)
* Au nom de Jésus by José Rodrigues Dos Santos, Gérard Loubeau (Ivory Coast)
* Brainwash by Ronald Bijlsma (Netherlands)
* Film sur Hans Bellmeer by Catherine Binet (France)
* Liberté-Jean by Jean-Michel Carré (France)
* Une puce sur un no man's land by Marie-France Molle (France)
* Stillborn by Ladd Mc Portlan] (United States)
* Winda by Jerzy Kucia (Poland)

## Official Awards
### Main Competition

* Grand Prix du Festival International du Film: The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola
* Grand Prix Spécial du Jury: Arabian Nights by Pier Paolo Pasolini
* Best Screenplay: Hal Barwood, Matthew Robbins and Steven Spielberg for The Sugarland Express
* Best Actress: Marie-José Nat for Violins at the Ball
* Best Actor: Jack Nicholson for The Last Detail
* Jury Prize: La prima Angélica by Carlos Saura

### Short Films Competition

* Grand Prix International du Festival: Ostrov by Fyodor Khitruk
* Jury Prize: Hunger by Peter Foldes
* The Jury President and the winners of the 1974 Grand Prix
* René Clair (left), Jury President
* Francis Ford Coppola, Grand Prix International du Festival winner
* Pier Paolo Pasolini, Grand Prix Spécial du Jury winner

## Independent Awards
### FIPRESCI Prize

* Ali: Fear Eats the Soul by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (In competition)
* Lancelot du Lac by Robert Bresson (Out of competition)

### Commission Supérieure Technique

* Technical Grand Prize: Mahler by Ken Russell

### Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

* Ali: Fear Eats the Soul by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
** Special Mention: The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola