The 27th Cannes Film Fest was held on May 9 – 24, 1974.
The Palme d’Or went to Coppola’s noir thriller, The Conversation.
The festival opened with Fellini’s Amarcord, and closed with Irvin Kushner’s S*P*Y*S.
Jury Members
- René Clair (France)(president)
- Jean-Loup Dabadie (France)
- Kenne Fant (Sweden)
- Félix Labisse (France)
- Irwin Shaw (USA)
- Michel Soutter (Switzerland)
- Monica Vitti (Italy)
- Alexander Walker (UK)
- Rostislav Yurenev (Soviet Union)
Feature film competition
- Abu el-Banat by Moshé Mizrahi
- Angst essen Seele auf by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Les autres by Hugo Santiago
- La cage aux ours by Marian Handwerker
- The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola
- Delitto d’amore by Luigi Comencini
- El santo ofici by Arturo Ripstein
- Garam Haw by M. S. Sathyu
- Himiki by Masahiro Shinoda
- Il fiore delle Mille e una note by Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Il était une fois dans l’est by André Brassard
- The Last Detail by Hal Ashby
- Macskajáték by Károly Makk
- Mahler by Ken Russell
- Milarepa by Liliana Cavani
- The Nickel Ride by Robert Mulligan
- The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat by Robert Taylor
- Poslednata duma by Binka Zhelyazkova
- La prima Angélica by Carlos Saura
- Saat el Fahrir Dakkat, Barra ya Isti Mar by Heiny Srour
- Sovsem propashchiy by Georgi Daneliya
- Stavisky by Alain Resnais
- The Sugarland Express by Steven Spielberg
- Symptoms by José Ramón Larraz
- Thieves Like Us by Robert Altman
- Les violons du bal by Michel Drach
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Films out of competition
- 1789 by Ariane Mnouchkine
- Amarcord by Federico Fellini
- Birds Do It, Bees Do It by Nicolas Noxon, Irwin Rosten
- Entr’acte by René Clair
- Henry Miller, Poète Maudit by Michèle Arnault
- Lancelot du Lac by Robert Bresson
- Le Trio Infernal by Francis Girod
- Les Grandes Manoeuvres by René Clair
- Once by Mort Heilig
- Parade by Jacques Tati
- Picasso, L’Homme et Son Oeuvre by Edward Quinn
- S*P*Y*S by Irvin Kershner
- The Homecoming by Peter Hall
- Toute une vie by Claude Lelouch
Awards
Grand Prix du Festival International du Film: The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola
- Grand Prix: Il fiore delle Mille e una note by Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Best Actor:
- Jack Nicholson for The Last Detail
- Charles Boyer for Stavisky
- Best Actress: Marie-José Nat for Les violons du bal
- Best Screenplay: Hal Barwood, Matthew Robbins and Steven Spielberg for The Sugarland Express
- Technical Grand Prize: Mahler by Ken Russell
- Short Film Palme d’Or: Ostrov by Fyodor Khitruk
- Jury Prize – Best Short Film: Hunger by Peter Foldes
- FIPRESCI Prize:
- Competition: Angst essen Seele auf by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Parallel Sections: Lancelot du Lac by Robert Bresson (declined)
- Prize of the Ecumenical Jury: Angst essen Seele auf by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Prize of the Ecumenical Jury – Special Mention: The Conversation by Coppola
