Awards for 1966

Jury Special Prize

WINNER

Alfie: Lewis Gilbert

Best Actor

WINNER

Hunger: Per Oscarsson

Best Actress

WINNER

Morgan!: Vanessa Redgrave

Best Director

WINNER

Lenin v Polshe: Sergei Yutkevich

Special Mention

WINNER

Totò
For his acting performance.

Technical Grand Prize

WINNERS

Chimes at Midnight: Orson Welles
Tied with _Skaterdater (1965)_ .
Skaterdater: Noel Black
Tied with Campanadas a medianoche.

Best First Work

WINNER

Rascoala: Mircea Muresan

20th Anniversary Prize

WINNER

Chimes at Midnight: Orson Welles

FIPRESCI Prize

WINNER

Young Torless: Volker Schlöndorff

OCIC Award

WINNER

A Man and a Woman: Claude Lelouch

Palme d'Or

WINNERS

A Man and a Woman: Claude Lelouch
Tied with Signore & signori.
In 1966 the Grand Prize was given as 'Grand prix du vingtième anniversaire du Festival international du film' (20th Anniversary Grand Prize).
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians: Pietro Germi
Tied with Un homme et une femme.
In 1966 the Grand Prize was given as 'Grand prix du vingtième anniversaire du Festival international du film' (20th Anniversary Grand Prize).

IN-COMPETITION

Alfie: Lewis Gilbert
For Love and Gold: Mario Monicelli
Chimes at Midnight: Orson Welles
Con el viento solano: Mario Camus
Doctor Zhivago: David Lean
The Pipes: Vojtech Jasný
It: Ulrich Schamoni
Faraon: Jerzy Kawalerowicz
The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga: Roberto Santos
Young Torless: Volker Schlöndorff
Lenin v Polshe: Sergei Yutkevich
Mademoiselle: Tony Richardson
Modesty Blaise: Joseph Losey
Morgan!: Karel Reisz
The Ashes: Andrzej Wajda
Rascoala: Mircea Muresan
The Nun: Jacques Rivette
Seconds: John Frankenheimer
Hunger: Henning Carlsen
The Round-Up: Miklós Jancsó
The Hawks and the Sparrows: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Barev, yes em: Frunze Dovlatyan
The Island: Alf Sjöberg

Palme d'Or - Best Short Film

WINNER

Skaterdater: Noel Black

IN-COMPETITION

Alberto Giacometti: Ernst Scheidegger, Peter Munger
Bruegel et la folie des hommes - dulle griet: Jean Cleinge
Le chant du monde de Jean Lurcat: Pierre Biro, Victoria Mercanton
Ciphers: Pavel Prochazka
The Injured Man: Theo Van Haren Noman
The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics: Chuck Jones
The Drag: Carlos Marchiori
Équivoque 1900: Monique Lepeuve
The Position: Edward Sturlis
The Musical Pig: Zlatko Grgic
Nô: Eiji Murayama
Reflections on Love: Joe Massot
Les rendez-vous de l'été: Jacques Ertaud, Raymond Zumstein
The Scream: Camillo Bazzoni

Jury:

Sophia Loren: Italy, president
Marcel Achard: France
De Moraes, Vinicius: Brazil
Furukaki, Tetsuro: Japan, author
Maurice Genevoix: France
Jean Giono: France
Maurice Lehmann: France
Richard Lester: UK
Denis Marion: Belgium
André Maurois: France
Marcel Pagnol: France
Yuli Raizman: Soviet Union
Armand Salacrou: France
Peter Ustinov: UK
Duvanel, Charles: Switzerland, short films
Ford, Charles: France, short films, author
Marcel Ichac: France, short films
Vivie, Jean: France, short films, CST official
Bo Widerberg: Sweden, short films

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