The 7th Cannes Film Festival took place from 25 March to 9 April 1954. French writer and filmmaker Jean Cocteau served as jury president for the main competition. This was the last festival with a predominantly French jury.
The Grand Prix was awarded, as the highest prize of the Festival, to Gate of Hell by Teinosuke Kinugasa.
As the festival was becoming more and more a pole of showbiz attraction, scandals and romances of stars were appearing in the press. In 1954, the Simone Silva affair during the Cannes Festival ended up in the destruction of her career as an actress and her premature death, three years later.
The festival opened with Flesh and the Woman by Robert Siodmak.
Juries
Main Competition
- Jean Cocteau, French writer and filmmaker - Jury President
- Jean Aurenche, French writer
- André Bazin, French film critic
- Luis Buñuel, Spanish filmmaker
- Henri Calef, French fimmaker
- Guy Desson, French MP official
- Philippe Erlanger, French
- Michel Fourre-Cormeray, French
- Jacques-Pierre Frogerais, French CNC official
- Jacques Ibert, French composer
- Georges Lamousse, French Senate official
- André Lang, French
- Noël-Noël, French actor
- Georges Raguis, French union official
Short Films Competition
Official Sections
In Competition
The following feature films competed for the Grand Prix:
Short Films Competition
The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:
- Apollon kai Dafni by Thanassis Meritzis
- Aptenodytes forsteri (Les Pingouins) by Mario Marret
- Aquarium by ÃÂgoston Kollányi
- The Blakes Slept Here by Jacques Bernard Brunius
- Christophe Plantin, imprimeur des humanistes du XVIeme siècle by Gaston Vermaillen
- Der dom zu Koeln by Ulrich Kayser
- El Greco en su obra maestra : El entierro del Conde Orgaz by Juan Serra
- Er is altijd een tockomst by Kees Stip
- Exploratieboren by Bert Haanstra
- Feminine Fashions by Moham Dayaram Bhavnani
- Il fiume della vita by Enrico Castelli Gattinara
- Folk Dances of India by Moham Dayaram Bhavnani
- Det gjelder livet by Titus Vibe Müller
- Una goccia d'acqua by Enzo Trovasilli
- Highlands of Iceland by Magnus Johannsson
- Hokusai by Hiroshi Teshigahara
- Jaktflygare by Helge Sahlin
- Jyske kyst by Søren Melson
- Kék vércsék erdejében by István Homoki-Nagy
- KozioÃ
Âeczek by LechosÃ
Âaw MarszaÃ
Âek
- Kutna hora by Fr. Lukas
- Land of Enlightment by Mohan Wadhwani
- Den lille pige med svovlstikkerne by Johan Jacobsen
- Lumière by P. Paviot
- Miniatury kodesku behema by StanisÃ
Âaw Lenartowicz
- Le mystère de la Licorne by Arcady, Jean-Claude See
- Nouveaux horizons by Marcel Ichac
- Nytt land under svillene by Per Opsahl
- ' by Zdenec Miler
- A Drop Too Much (O sklenicku vÃÂc) by Bretislav Pojar
- L'Ombre de St Michel by Jean Pichonnier, Paul Pichonnier
- De Opsporing van Aardolie by Bert Haanstra
- The Owl and the Pussy Cat by Brian Borthwick, John Halas
- Pik droujby by I. Goutman
- Plastik im Freien by Adalbert Baltes
- The Pleasure Garden by James Broughton
- Polyot na lunu by Vladimir Brumberg, Zinaida Brumberg
- Promenade au Luxembourg by Philippe Schneider
- Rene Leriche chirurgien de la douleur by René Lucot
- River of Hope by Moham Dayaram Bhavnani
- Ruban noir by Henry Jacques
- El solitario de Sayan by Enrico Gras
- Stare miasto (The Old Town of Warsaw) by Jerzy Bossak
- Stern von Bethlehem by Wilhelm Döderlein
- Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom by Ward Kimball, Charles A. Nichols
- Uspavana ljepotica by Rudolf Sremec
- La vie des Chamois by André Bureau, Paul Claudon, P. Dalli, Pierre Levent, André Villard
- Vieren maar by Herman van der Horst
- Viragos kalocsa by Vince Lakatos
- Vita della libellula by Alberto Ancillotto
- Wild Life Sanctuary by D.D. Reucassel
Official Awards
Main Competition
Independent Awards
References
Media
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