Étoile de Cristal / Best Film

Étoile de Cristal : Grand Prix

Winner of the Grand Prix that selected the best French film production from 1955 to 1975. The set of rules protected against a film director receiving awards more than once. The Étoile de Cristal is considered to be the forerunner of the national César film prize , which was established in 1976 and which also awards the best French film productions in the category of best film ( Meilleur film ) every year.

year	Award winners	German distribution title	Director
1955	Le rouge et le noir	Red and black	Claude Autant-Lara
1956	French Can Can	French Can Can	Jean Renoir
1957	Un condamné à mort s'est échappé	One condemned to death has escaped	Robert Bresson
1958	Celui qui doit mourir	The man who has to die	Jules Dassin
1959	Le bourgeois gentilhomme	The citizen as a nobleman	Jean Meyer
1960	La tete contre les murs	With your head against the walls	Georges Franju
1961	Lola	Lola, the girl from the port	Jacques Demy
1962	Jules et Jim	Jules and Jim	François Truffaut
1963	Les abysses	The abysses	Nikos Papatakis
1964	En compagnie de Max Linder	In the company of Max Linder	Maud Linder
1965	Prize not awarded
1966	La guerre est finie	The war is over	Alain Resnais
1967	Les coeurs verts	Green hearts	Edouard Luntz
1968	Playtime	Tati's wonderful times	Jacques Tati
1969	Z	Z	Constantin Costa-Gavras
1970	Le temps de vivre	Sudden need	Bernard Paul
1971	Le territoire des autres	No world for animals	François Bel Gérard Vienne
1972	Les camisards	The uproar in the Cevennes	René Allio
1973	Une larme dans l'océan	not known	Henri Glaeser
1974	La femme de Jean	Liberation from marriage	Yannick Bellon
1975	India song	India Song	Marguerite Duras