# 1966 Cannes Film Festival

The 19th Cannes Film Festival took place from 5 to 20 May 1966. Italian actress Sophia Loren served as jury president for the main competition.
The Grand Prix du Festival International du Film, then the fetival's main prize, was jointly awarded to The Birds, the Bees and the Italians by Pietro Germi and A Man and a Woman by Claude Lelouch.
To honour the festival's 20th anniversary, a special prize was given to Chimes at Midnight by Orson Welles.
The festival opened with Modesty Blaise by Joseph Losey, and closed with Pharaoh by Jerzy Kawalerowicz.

## Juries
### Main Competition

* Sophia Loren, Italian actress - Jury President
* Marcel Achard, French writer
* Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian writer and musician
* Tetsurō Furukaki, Japanese writer and diplomat
* Maurice Genevoix, French writer
* Jean Giono, French writer
* Maurice Lehmann, French actor
* Richard Lester, British filmmaker
* Denis Marion, Belgian journalist
* André Maurois, French writer
* Marcel Pagnol, French writer and filmmaker
* Yuli Raizman, Soviet filmmaker
* Armand Salacrou, French writer
* Peter Ustinov, Biritsh actor and filmmaker

### Short Films Competition

* Charles Duvanel (Switzerland)
* Charles Ford (France) (author)
* Marcel Ichac (France)
* Jean Vivie (France) (CST official)
* Bo Widerberg (Sweden)

## Official selection
### In Competition

The following feature films competed for the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
| Alfie | Alfie | Lewis Gilbert | United Kingdom |
| The Ashes | Popioly | Andrzej Wajda | Poland |
| The Birds, the Bees and the Italians | Signore & Signori | Pietro Germi | Italy, France |
| Chimes at Midnight | Campanadas a medianoche | Orson Welles | Spain, France, Switzerland |
| Doctor Zhivago | Doctor Zhivago | David Lean | United Kingdom, Italy, United States |
| For Love and Gold or The Incredible Army of Brancaleone | L'armata Brancaleone | Mario Monicelli | Italy |
| The Hawks and the Sparrows | Uccellacci e uccellini | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Italy |
| Hello, That's Me! | Բարև, ես եմ | Frunze Dovlatyan | Soviet Union |
| The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga | A Hora e Vez de Augusto Matraga | Roberto Santos | Brazil |
| Hunger | Svält | Henning Carlsen | Denmark, Norway, Sweden |
| It | Es | Ulrich Schamoni | West Germany |
| Lenin in Poland | Ленин в Польше | Sergei Yutkevich | Soviet Union |
| Mademoiselle | Mademoiselle | Tony Richardson | United Kingdom, France |
| A Man and a Woman | Un homme et une femme | Claude Lelouch | France |
| Modesty Blaise (opening film) | Modesty Blaise (opening film) | Joseph Losey | United Kingdom |
| Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment | Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment | Karel Reisz | United Kingdom |
| The Nun | La Religieuse | Jacques Rivette | France |
| Ön | Ön | Alf Sjöberg | Sweden |
| Pharaoh (closing film) | Faraon | Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Poland |
| The Pipes | Dýmky | Vojtěch Jasný | Czechoslovakia |
| Răscoala | Răscoala | Mircea Mureșan | Romania |
| The Round-Up | Szegénylegények | Miklós Jancsó | Hungary |
| Seconds | Seconds | John Frankenheimer | United States |
| With the East Wind | Con el viento solano | Mario Camus | Spain |
| Young Törless | Der junge Törless | Volker Schlöndorff | West Germany, France |

### Short Films Competition

The following short films competed for the Grand Prix:
* Alberto Giacometti by Ernst Scheidegger and Peter Munger
* Bruegel et la folie des hommes - dulle griet by Jean Cleinge
* Le Chant du monde de Jean Lurcat by Pierre Biro and Victoria Mercanton
* Cislice by Pavel Prochazka
* The Dot and the Line by Chuck Jones
* The Drag by Carlos Marchiori
* Équivoque 1900 by Monique Lepeuve
* De Gewonde by Theo Van Haren Noman
* Miejsce by Edward Sturlis
* Muzikalno prase by Zlatko Grgic
* Nô by Eiji Murayama
* Reflections on Love by Joe Massot
* Les Rendez-vous de l'été by Jacques Ertaud and Raymond Zumstein
* Skaterdater by Noel Black
* L'Urlo by Camillo Bazzoni

## Parallel section
### International Critics' Week

The following feature films were screened for the 5th International Critics' Week (5e Semaine de la Critique):
* Black Girl (La Noire de...) by Ousmane Sembene (France, Senegal)
* Bloko by Ado Kyrou (Greece)
* Children's Sicknesses (Gyerekbetegségek) by Ferenc Kardos, János Rózsa (Hungary)
* Du courage pour chaque jour by Evald Schorm (Czechoslovakia)
* O desafio by Paulo César Saraceni (Brazil)
* Fata morgana by Vicente Aranda (Spain)
* Man Is Not a Bird (Čovek nije tica) by Dusan Makavejev (Yugoslavia)
* Nicht versöhnt by Jean-Marie Straub (West Germany)
* Le Père Noël a les yeux bleus by Jean Eustache (France)
* Winter Kept Us Warm by David Secter (Canada)

## Official Awards
### Main Competition

* Grand Prix du Festival International du Film:
** The Birds, the Bees and the Italians by Pietro Germi
** A Man and a Woman by Claude Lelouch
* Prix spécial du Jury: Alfie by Lewis Gilbert
* Best Director: Sergei Yutkevich for Lenin in Poland
* Best Actress: Vanessa Redgrave for Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment
* Best Actor: Per Oscarsson for Hunger
* Best First Work: Răscoala by Mircea Mureșan
* 20th Anniversary Prize: Chimes at Midnight by Orson Welles
* Special Mention: Totò, for his acting performance in The Hawks and the Sparrows

### Short Films Competition

* Short Film Gran Prix: Skaterdater by Noel Black
* Technical Grand Prize: Skaterdater by Noel Black

## Independent Awards
### FIPRESCI Prize

* Young Törless by Volker Schlöndorff
** Special Mention: Chimes at Midnight by Orson Welles

### Commission Supérieure Technique

* Technical Grand Prize: Chimes at Midnight by Orson Welles

### OCIC Award

* A Man and a Woman by Claude Lelouch