1958 Cannes Film Festival

The 11th Cannes Film Festival was held from 2 to 18 May 1958. The Palme d'Or went to The Cranes are Flying by Mikhail Kalatozov.

Jury
The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1958 competition:

Feature films Short films
 * Marcel Achard (France) - Jury President
 * Tomiko Asabuki (Japan)
 * Bernard Buffet (France)
 * Jean De Baroncelli (critic) (France)
 * Helmut Käutner (West Germany)
 * Dudley Leslie (UK)
 * Madeleine Robinson (France)
 * Ladislao Vajda (Hungary)
 * Charles Vidor (USA)
 * Sergei Yutkevich (Soviet Union)
 * Cesare Zavattini (Italy)
 * Norman McLaren (Canada)
 * Jean Mitry (France)
 * Krishna Riboud (India)
 * Edmond Séchan (France)
 * Jerzy Toeplitz (Poland)

Feature film competition
The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:


 * Brink of Life (Nära livet) by Ingmar Bergman
 * The Brothers Karamazov by Richard Brooks
 * La Caleta olvidada by Bruno Gebel
 * Ciulinii Bărăganului by Louis Daquin
 * The Cranes are Flying (Letyat zhuravli) by Mikhail Kalatozov
 * Desire Under the Elms by Delbert Mann
 * The Flute and the Arrow (En Djungelsaga) by Arne Sucksdorff
 * Girl and the River (L'eau vive) by François Villiers
 * Goha by Jacques Baratier
 * Iron Flower (Vasvirág) by János Herskó
 * Journey Beyond Three Seas (Pardesi) by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas and Vasili Pronin
 * The Long, Hot Summer by Martin Ritt
 * A Man of Straw (L'uomo di paglia) by Pietro Germi
 * A Matter of Dignity (To teleftaio psema) by Michael Cacoyannis
 * Mon Oncle by Jacques Tati
 * Nine Lives (Ni liv) by Arne Skouen
 * Orders to Kill by Anthony Asquith
 * Parash Pathar by Satyajit Ray
 * Rosaura at 10 O'Clock (Rosaura a las 10) by Mario Soffici
 * Sissi – Fateful Years of an Empress (Sissi – Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin) by Ernst Marischka
 * Snow Country (Yukiguni) by Shirō Toyoda
 * The Spessart Inn (Das Wirtshaus im Spessart) by Kurt Hoffmann
 * Suburban Romance (Zizkovská romance) by Zbyněk Brynych
 * Vengeance (La Venganza) by Juan Antonio Bardem
 * Visages de bronze by Bernard Taisant
 * Young Husbands (Giovani mariti) by Mauro Bolognini

Out of competition
The following film was selected to be screened out of competition:
 * Gigi by Vincente Minnelli

Short film competition
The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:


 * A.B.C. by John Fernhout
 * Auf den Spuren des Lebens by Fritz Heydenreich
 * Dubrovacki pasteli by Marijan Vajda
 * Egy masodperc tortenete by Ágoston Kollányi
 * Gloria dei Medici by Antonio Petrucci
 * Goya, una vida apasionada by José María Ochoa
 * Grafica cloveku by France Kosmac
 * Horyû-Ji by Susumu Hani
 * La Joconde: Histoire d'une obsession by Henri Gruel
 * La Seine a rencontré Paris by Joris Ivens
 * Les mystères d'une goutte d'eau by Ann H. Matzner Dr.
 * Log Drive by Raymond Garceau
 * Mandu by Neil Gokhale
 * Nagrodzone uczucia by Walerian Borowczyk & Jan Lenica
 * Nez nam narostla kridla by Jiří Brdečka
 * Ô saisons ô châteaux by Agnès Varda
 * Perameren hylkeenpyytajat by Ulf Backstrom
 * Sapte Arte by Ion Popescu-Gopo
 * Sintra by João Mendes
 * The Story of a Roof by Jamie Uys
 * Trees And Jamaica Daddy by Lew Keller
 * Voici le pays d'Israel by Jean Lehérissey
 * Y gorakh salianskykh by Leonid Belokurov, Y. Przyjemski
 * Zimniy prazdnik by Mikhail Slutsky

Official awards
The following films and people received the 1958 awards: Short films
 * Palme d'Or: The Cranes are Flying (Letyat zhuravli) by Mikhail Kalatozov
 * Best Director: Ingmar Bergman for Brink of Life (Nära livet)
 * Best Screenplay: Massimo Franciosa, Pasquale Festa Campanile and Pier Paolo Pasolini for Young Husbands (Giovani mariti)
 * Best Actress: Bibi Andersson, Eva Dahlbeck, Barbro Hiort af Ornäs and Ingrid Thulin for Brink of Life (Nära livet)
 * Best Actor: Paul Newman for The Long, Hot Summer
 * Special Mention:Tatiana Samoylova for Letyat zhuravli
 * Jury Prize:
 * Goha by Jacques Baratier
 * Visages de bronze by Bernard Taisant
 * Jury Special Prize: Mon Oncle by Jacques Tati
 * Short Film Palme d'Or:
 * La Joconde: Histoire d'une obsession by Henri Gruel and Jean Suyeux
 * La Seine a rencontré Paris by Joris Ivens
 * Special Prize: Auf den Spuren des Lebens by Fritz Heydenreich & Nez nam narostla kridla by Jiri Brnecka

Independent awards
FIPRESCI Prize
 * Vengeance (La Venganza) by Juan Antonio Bardem

Media

 * British Pathé: Cannes Film Festival 1958 footage
 * British Pathé: Originals Cannes Film Festival 1958
 * British Pathé: Originals Cannes Film Festival 1958
 * INA: Opening of the 1958 festival (commentary in French)
 * INA: Celebrities at the 1958 Cannes festival (commentary in French)
 * INA: Closure of the 1958 festival (commentary in French)