My Life as Film Festival Juror,
1987-Present
Representing the contingency of U.S. critics, I am serving on the jury of the 75th milestone edition of the Cannes Film Fest, May 17-28.
This would be my fifth service on the jury (Fipresci) of this prestigious venue; previously, I had also served on the jury of its 40th, 50th, 60th, and 70th anniversaries.
Cannes Film Fest 2022
The 15th Cannes Film Fest was held May 7–23, 1962.
The top award, 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 (Divorce Italian Style) 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
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