The 31st Cannes International Film Festival in 1978 took place from May 16 to May 30, 1978.
competition
The following films were shown in the festival competition:
Movie title
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Director
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Country of production
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Actor (selection)
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Monkey dream
|
Marco Ferreri
|
Italy , France
|
Gérard Depardieu , Marcello Mastroianni , Geraldine Fitzgerald
|
The ballad by Jimmie Blacksmith
|
Fred Schepisi
|
Australia
|
|
Bravo maestro
|
Rajko Grlić
|
Yugoslavia
|
|
Coming home
|
Hal Ashby
|
United States
|
Jane Fonda , Jon Voight , Bruce Dern
|
Despair - A journey into light
|
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
|
Germany , France
|
Dirk Bogarde , Andréa Ferréol , Klaus Löwitsch
|
Dirty dogs
|
Karel Reisz
|
United States
|
Nick Nolte , Tuesday Weld , Michael Moriarty
|
Egy Erkölcsös éjszaka
|
Károly Makk
|
Hungary
|
|
An unmarried woman
|
Paul Mazursky
|
United States
|
Jill Clayburgh , Alan Bates , Michael Murphy
|
Long live the President
|
Miguel Littín
|
France , Mexico , Cuba
|
Nelson Villagra , Katy Jurado
|
The wooden shoe tree *
|
Ermanno Olmi
|
Italy , France
|
|
In the realm of passion
|
Nagisa Ōshima
|
Japan , France
|
|
The left-handed woman
|
Peter Handke
|
Germany
|
Edith Clever , Bruno Ganz , Michael Lonsdale
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My dear tender animal
|
Emil Loteanu
|
Soviet Union
|
|
Midnight Express
|
Alan Parker
|
UK , USA
|
Brad Davis , Irene Miracle
|
Blindfolded
|
Carlos Saura
|
Spain , France
|
Geraldine Chaplin
|
Molière
|
Ariane Mnouchkine
|
France , Italy
|
Philippe Caubère
|
The idlers
|
Nanni Moretti
|
Italy
|
Nanni Moretti
|
Pretty baby
|
Louis Malle
|
United States
|
Brooke Shields , Keith Carradine , Susan Sarandon
|
Los restos del naufragio
|
Ricardo Franco
|
Spain , Mexico
|
Fernando Fernán Gómez , Ángela Molina
|
The spiral
|
Krzysztof Zanussi
|
Poland
|
Jan Nowicki , Maja Komorowska
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The death cry
|
Jerzy Skolimowski
|
Great Britain
|
Alan Bates , Susannah York , John Hurt
|
Dream of a passion
|
Jules Dassin
|
Greece , Switzerland
|
Melina Mercouri , Ellen Burstyn
|
Violette Nozière
|
Claude Chabrol
|
France , Canada
|
Isabelle Huppert , Stéphane Audran
|
* = Golden palm
International jury
This year's jury president was director Alan J. Pakula . He presided over the following jury: Franco Brusati , François Chalais , Michel Ciment , Claude Goretta , Andrei Kontschalowski , Harry Saltzman , Liv Ullmann and Georges Wakhévitch .
Award winners
-
Golden palm : the wooden shoe tree
- Grand Jury Prize: Monkey Dream and The Death Scream
- Best Actor: John Voight in Coming Home
- Best Actress: Jill Clayburgh in An Unmarried Woman and Isabelle Huppert in Violette Nozière
- Best director: Nagisa Ōshima
- Technology award: Pretty Baby
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