1978 Cannes Film Festival

Jury

• Alan J. Pakula Jury President
• Franco Brusati
• François Chalais
• Michel Ciment
• Claude Goretta
• Andrei Konchalovsky
• Harry Saltzman
• Liv Ullmann
• Georges Wakhévitch

  Official selection

In competition - Feature film

• Blindfolded Eyes by Carlos Saura
• Bravo maestro by Rajko Grlić
• Bye Bye Monkey by Marco Ferreri
• The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Fred Schepisi
• Coming Home by Hal Ashby
• Despair by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• A Dream of Passion by Jules Dassin
• Ecce bombo by Nanni Moretti
• Empire of Passion by Nagisa Ōshima
• A Hunting Accident by Emil Loteanu
• The Left-Handed Woman by Peter Handke
• Midnight Express by Alan Parker
• Molière by Ariane Mnouchkine
• Pretty Baby by Louis Malle
• The Recourse to the Method by Miguel Littín
• The Remains from the Shipwreck by Ricardo Franco
• The Shout by Jerzy Skolimowski
• Spiral by Krzysztof Zanussi
• The Tree of Wooden Clogs by Ermanno Olmi
• An Unmarried Woman by Paul Mazursky
• A Very Moral Night by Károly Makk
• Violette Nozière by Claude Chabrol
• Who'll Stop the Rain by Karel Reisz

  Un Certain Regard

• Un balcon en forêt by Michel Mitrani
• Dossier 51 by Michel Deville
• Colonel Delmira Gouveia by Geraldo Sarno
• Grand hôtel des palmes by Memè Perlini
• ' by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
• ' by Barbet Schroeder
• Man of Marble by Andrzej Wajda
• Nahapet by Henrik Malyan
• by Leslie Shatz, Eleanor Bingham
• Ocana, an Intermittent Portrait by Ventura Pons
• Oh the Days! by Ahmed El Maanouni
• People Not as Bad as They Seem by Rauni Mollberg
• Die Rückkehr des alten Herrn by Vojtěch Jasný

  Films out of competition

• Fedora by Billy Wilder
• The Last Waltz by Martin Scorsese

  Short film competition

• Christmas Morning by Tiernan MacBride
• A Doonesbury Special by John Hubley
• Letter to a Friend by Sonia Hofmann
• Maladie by Paul Vecchiali
• Oh My Darling by Børge Ring
• The Oriental Nightfish by Ian Emes
• Le Serpentine d'oro by Anna Maria Tatò
• La Traversée de l'Atlantique à la rame by Jean-François Laguionie
• Uj lakok by Liviusz Gyulai

  Parallel sections

International Critics' Week

• Alambrista! by Robert Young
• A Breach in the Wall by Jillali Ferhati
• Fragrance of Wild Flowers by Srđan Karanović
• Jubilee by Derek Jarman
• One and One by Erland Josephson, Sven Nykvist & Ingrid Thulin
• Roberte by Robert Zucca
• This Is the Night by Carlo di Carlo
• The Woman Across the Way by Hans Noever

  Directors' Fortnight

• Alicia en la España de las maravillas by Jordi Feliu
• Bilbao by Bigas Luna
• Fine Manners by Jean-Claude Guiguet
• Los Gaminos by Ciro Duran
• The Getting of Wisdom by Bruce Beresford
• Girlfriends by Claudia Weill
• ' by Reinhard Hauff
• Los Hijos de Fierro by Fernando Solanas
• The Holy Alliance by Eduardo Geada
• Insiang by Lino Brocka
• The Mafu Cage by Karen Arthur
• Mother and Daughter by Giovanna Gagliardo
• Oka Oori Katha by Mrinal Sen
• One and One by Erland Josephson, Sven Nykvist, Ingrid Thulin
• ' by Werner Schroeter
• Renaldo and Clara by Bob Dylan
• Rocking Horse by Yaky Yosha
• The Scenic Route by Mark Rappaport
• A Summer Rain by Carlos Diegues
• I Vecchi e I Giovani by Marco Leto
• Zoo Zéro by Alain Fleischer

  Awards

Official awards

• Palme d'Or: L'albero degli zoccoli by Ermanno Olmi
• Grand Prix:
• *Ciao maschio by Marco Ferreri
• *The Shout by Jerzy Skolimowski
• Best Director: Nagisa Ōshima for Ai no Bōrei
• Best Actress: Jill Clayburgh for An Unmarried Woman & Isabelle Huppert for Violette Nozière
• Best Actor: Jon Voight for Coming Home

• Caméra d'Or: Alambrista! by Robert M. Young

• Short Film Palme d'Or: La Traversée de l'Atlantique à la rame by Jean-François Laguionie
• Jury Prize: A Doonesbury Special by John Hubley, Faith Hubley and Garry Trudeau & Oh My Darling'' by Børge Ring

  Independent awards

• FIPRESCI Prize:
• *Man of Marble by Andrzej Wajda
• *Fragrance of Wild Flowers by Srdjan Karanovic

• Technical Grand Prize: Pretty Baby by Louis Malle

• Prize of the Ecumenical Jury: The Tree of Wooden Clogs by Ermanno Olmi

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