Awards for 1979

Grand Prize of the Jury

WINNER

Siberiade: Andrey Konchalovskiy

Jury Prize

Best Short Film

WINNERS

La festa dels bojos: Lluis Racionero Grau
Bum: Bretislav Pojar

Best Actor

WINNER

The China Syndrome: Jack Lemmon

Best Actress

WINNER

Norma Rae: Sally Field

Best Supporting Actor

WINNER

Caro papà: Stefano Madia

Best Supporting Actress

WINNER

Woyzeck: Eva Mattes

Best Director

WINNER

Days of Heaven: Terrence Malick

Technical Grand Prize

WINNER

Norma Rae: Martin Ritt

Golden Camera

WINNER

Northern Lights: John Hanson, Rob Nilsson

Young Cinema Award

WINNER

The Hussy: Jacques Doillon

FIPRESCI Prize

Competition

WINNER

Apocalypse Now: Francis Ford Coppola

Parallel Section

WINNERS

Angi Vera: Pál Gábor
Black Jack: Ken Loach

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

WINNER

Bez znieczulenia: Andrzej Wajda

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention

WINNER

Heritage: Anja Breien

Palme d'Or

WINNERS

The Tin Drum: Volker Schlöndorff
Tied with Apocalypse Now.
Apocalypse Now: Francis Ford Coppola
The film was screend as a work in progess.
Tied with Die Blechtrommel.

IN-COMPETITION

Heritage: Anja Breien
Bez znieczulenia: Andrzej Wajda
Caro papà: Dino Risi
Days of Heaven: Terrence Malick
Woman Between Wolf and Dog: André Delvaux
Traffic Jam: Luigi Comencini
The Hussy: Jacques Doillon
Les soeurs Brontë: André Téchiné
Hungarian Rhapsody: Miklós Jancsó
My Brilliant Career: Gillian Armstrong
Norma Rae: Martin Ritt
Occupation in 26 Pictures: Lordan Zafranovic
Série noire: Alain Corneau
Siberiade: Andrey Konchalovskiy
Los sobrevivientes: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
The China Syndrome: James Bridges
The Europeans: James Ivory
Victoria: Bo Widerberg
Woyzeck: Werner Herzog

Palme d'Or - Best Short Film

WINNER

Harpya: Raoul Servais

IN-COMPETITION

Barbe bleue: Olivier Gillon
Bum: Bretislav Pojar
Helping Hand: John P. Taylor, Zlatko Pavlinovic
La dame de Monte Carlo: Dominique Delouche
La festa dels bojos: Lluis Racionero Grau
Le mur: Jan January Janczak
Petite histoire un peu triste: Didier Pourcel
Põld: Rein Raamat
The Waltzing Policemen: Kerry Feltham
Zwei Frauen in der Oper: Christian Veit-Attendorff

Jury:

Françoise Sagan: France, president
Sergio Amidei: Italy
Rodolphe-Maurice Arlaud: Switzerland
Luis García Berlanga: Spain
Maurice Bessy: France
Paul Claudon: France
Jules Dassin: USA
Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács: Hungary
Robert Rozhdestvensky: Soviet Union, author
Susannah York: UK

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