1959 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or Winner

Black Orpheus
Marcel Camus
A retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro.
1959 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or Nominees

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Jirí Trnka

Araya
Margot Benacerraf

Arms and the Man
Franz Peter Wirth

Bloody Twilight
Andreas Labrinos

Compulsion
Richard Fleischer

Court Martial
Kurt Meisel

Die Halbzarte
Rolf Thiele

Édes Anna
Zoltán Fábri

Fanfare
Bert Haanstra

Hiroshima mon amour
Alain Resnais

Honeymoon
Michael Powell

Lajwanti
Narendra Suri

Middle of the Night
Delbert Mann

Miss April
Göran Gentele

Nazarin
Luis Buñuel

Otchiy dom
Lev Kulidzhanov

Portuguese Rhapsody
João Mendes

Room at the Top
Jack Clayton

Shirasagi
Teinosuke Kinugasa

Stars
Konrad Wolf

Sugar Harvest
Lucas Demare

The 400 Blows
François Truffaut

The Diary of Anne Frank
George Stevens

The Soldiers of Pancho Villa
Ismael Rodriguez

Touha
Vojtech Jasný
