1978 Cannes Film Festival

1978 Cannes Film Festival
Official poster of the 31st Cannes Film Festival, an original illustration Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon.[1]
Opening filmA Hunting Accident
Closing filmFedora
LocationCannes, France
Founded1946
AwardsPalme d'Or:
The Tree of Wooden Clogs[2]
No. of films23 (In Competition)[3]
Festival date16 May 1978 (1978-05-16) – 30 May 1978 (1978-05-30)
Websitefestival-cannes.com/en
Cannes Film Festival

The 31st Cannes Film Festival took place from 16 to 30 May 1978.[4] American filmmaker Alan J. Pakula served as jury president for the main competition.

Italian filmmaker Ermanno Olmi won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for tehe drama film The Tree of Wooden Clogs.[5]

This festival saw the introduction of a new section, the Un Certain Regard, initially as a non-competitive programme which replaced the Les Yeux Fertiles (1975-1977), L'Air du temps and Le Passé composé sections.[6]

The festival opened with A Hunting Accident by Emil Loteanu,[7] and closed with Fedora by Billy Wilder.[8]

  1. ^ "Posters 1978". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 20 October 2013.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference awards was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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  4. ^ "At the Movies". The New York Times. May 19, 1978. Retrieved 14 July 2017.
  5. ^ "31ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  6. ^ "1978 - Cannes, Le Retour (Cannes, The Return)". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  7. ^ "The opening films at Cannes". vodkaster.com. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  8. ^ "The closing films at Cannes". vodkaster.com. Retrieved 25 May 2017.