The 15th Cannes Film Fest was held May 7–23, 1962.
The Palme d’Or went to the O Pagador de Promessa by Anselmo Duarte.
The festival opened with Les Amants de Teruel, directed by Raymond Rouleau.
Jury Members: Main Competition
Actor Mel Ferrer was the only US representative on the jury.
- Tetsuro Furukaki (Japan) (author) (president)
- Henry Deutschmeister (France) (vice president)
- Sophie Desmarets (France) (only female)
- Jean Dutourd (France)
- Mel Ferrer (USA)
- Romain Gary (France)
- Jerzy Kawalerowicz (Poland)
- Ernst Krüger (Germany)
- Yuli Raizman (Soviet Union)
- Mario Soldati (Italy)
- François Truffaut (France)
Short Films Jury
- Charles Ford (France) (author) (short films president)
- Charles Duvanel (Switzerland) (short films)
- Derek Prouse (UK) (short films)
- Georges Rouquier (France) (short films)
- Andréas Winding (France) (short films)
Feature film competition
- Advise and Consent by Otto Preminger (US)
- All Fall Down by John Frankenheimer (US)
- Les Amants de Teruel by Raymond Rouleau
- Âmes et rythmes by Abdelaziz Ramdani
- El ángel exterminador by Luis Buñuel
- Ba’al Hahalomot by Alina Gross and Yoram Gross (Israel)
- Das Brot der frühen Jahre by Herbert Vesely
- Cléo de 5 à 7 by Agnès Varda (Only female directed film)
- Devi by Satyajit Ray
- Divorzio all’italiana by Pietro Germi
- Dom bez okien by Stanislaw Jedryka
- Dvoje by Aleksandar Petrović
- L’eclisse by Michelangelo Antonioni
- Les Enfants du soleil by Jacques Séverac
- Al Gharib al Saghir by Georges Nasser
- Harry og kammertjeneren by Bent Christensen
- Ilektra by Michael Cacoyannis
- In the Steps of Buddha by Pragnasoma Hettiarachi
- The Innocents by Jack Clayton (UK)
- Julia, Du bist zauberhaft by Alfred Weidenmann
- Kogda derevya byli bolshimi by Lev Kulidzhanov
- Konga Yo by Yves Allégret
- Kyupora no aru machi by Kirio Urayama
- Liberté I by Yves Ciampi
- Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Sidney Lumet (US)
- Mondo Cane by Gualtiero Jacopetti, Paolo Cavara and Franco Prosperi
- Muž z prvního století by Oldřich Lipský
- O Pagador de Promessas by Anselmo Duarte
- Pleneno yato by Ducho Mundrov
- Plácido by Luis García Berlanga
- Procès de Jeanne d’Arc by Robert Bresson
- S-a furat o bombă by Ion Popescu-Gopo
- Setenta veces siete by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
- A Taste of Honey by Tony Richardson (UK)
- Yang Kwei Fei by Li Han Hsiang
Films out of competition
- Boccaccio ’70 by Cesare Zavattini, Luchino Visconti, Mario Monicelli and Federico Fellini
- Le Crime ne paie pas by Gérard Oury
Awards
- Palme d’Or: O Pagador de Promessas by Anselmo Duarte
- Jury Special Prize:
- L’eclisse (Eclipse) by Michelangelo Antonioni
- Procès de Jeanne d’Arc by Robert Bresson
- Best Actor: Tie–Ensemble
- Dean Stockwell, Jason Robards and Ralph Richardson for Long Day’s Journey Into Night
- Murray Melvin for A Taste of Honey
- Best Actress: Tie
- Katharine Hepburn for Long Day’s Journey Into Night
- Rita Tushingham for A Taste of Honey
- Technical Grand Prize:
- Les Amants de Teruel by Raymond Rouleau
- Ilektra by Michael Cacoyannis
- Yang Kwei Fei by Li Han Hsiang
- Best Cinematic Transposition: Ilektra by Michael Cacoyannis
- Best Comedy: Divorzio all’italiana by Pietro Germi
- OCIC Award: Procès de Jeanne d’Arc by Robert Bresson
