Awards for 1970

Grand Prize of the Jury

WINNER

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion: Elio Petri

Jury Prize

WINNERS

Magasiskola: István Gaál
Tied with The Strawberry Statement.
The Strawberry Statement: Stuart Hagmann
Tied with Magasiskola.
The jury was bitterly divided with half of its members wanting the film to receive the Golden Palm.

Best Short Film

WINNER

The Magic Machines: Bob Curtis

Best Actor

WINNER

Dramma della gelosia (tutti i particolari in cronaca): Marcello Mastroianni

Best Actress

WINNER

Metello: Ottavia Piccolo

Best Director

WINNER

Leo the Last: John Boorman

Special Mention

Best Short Film

WINNER

Et Salammbo?: Jean-Pierre Richard

Technical Grand Prize

WINNER

The Territory of Others: François Bel

Best First Work

WINNER

Hoa Binh: Raoul Coutard

FIPRESCI Prize

WINNER

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion: Elio Petri

Palme d'Or

WINNER

MASH: Robert Altman

IN-COMPETITION

The Land: Youssef Chahine
The Buttercup Chain: Robert Ellis Miller
The Things of Life: Claude Sautet
Last Leap: Édouard Luntz
Don Segundo Sombra: Manuel Antin
Dramma della gelosia (tutti i particolari in cronaca): Ettore Scola
Harry Munter: Kjell Grede
Hoa Binh: Raoul Coutard
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion: Elio Petri
Landscape After Battle: Andrzej Wajda
Leo the Last: John Boorman
Magasiskola: István Gaál
Malatesta: Peter Lilienthal
Metello: Mauro Bolognini
Fruit of Paradise: Vera Chytilová
The Palace of Angels: Walter Hugo Khouri
The Strawberry Statement: Stuart Hagmann
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon: Otto Preminger
The Dreamer: Dan Wolman
Tulips of Haarlem: Franco Brusati
Azyllo Muito Louco: Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Festival title: O alienista.
A Simple Story: Abdellatif Ben Ammar
Long Live the Bride and Groom: Luis García Berlanga
Elise, or Real Life: Michel Drach

Palme d'Or - Best Short Film

IN-COMPETITION

I alli siopi: Nestoras Matsas
Comme larrons en foire: Edmond Freess
A Day with the Boys: Clu Gulager
El diablo sin dama: Eduardo Calcagno
The Epitaph: Gurucharan Singh
Et Salammbo?: Jean-Pierre Richard
Gipsy Pentecost (The Feast of St. Sara): Laurence Boulting
Kaleidoscope: Jacques Ertaud
Light: Paul Cohen
The Magic Machines: Bob Curtis
Smrtící vune: Václav Bedrich
Un temps pour la mémoire: George Pessis

Jury:

Miguel Ángel Asturias: Guatemala, president, author
Biraghi, Guglielmo: Italy, Venice film fest official
Kirk Douglas: USA
Christine Gouze-Rénal: France
Jasny, Vojtech: Czechoslovakia
Félicien Marceau: Belgium
Obraztsov, Serguei: Soviet Union
Karel Reisz: UK
Volker Schlöndorff: West Germany
Delleani, Vincio: Italy, short films
Fred Orain: France, short films
Jerzy Plazewski: Poland, short films, critic

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