1976 Cannes Film Festival

The 29th Cannes Film Festival was held from 13 to 28 May 1976. The Palme d'Or went to Taxi Driver by Martin Scorsese. In 1976, "L'Air du temps", a new section which was non-competitive and focused on contemporary subjects, was introduced. This section, along with sections "Les Yeux fertiles" of the previous year and "Le Passé composé" of the next year, were integrated into Un Certain Regard in 1978.

The festival opened with the documentary That's Entertainment, Part II, directed by Gene Kelly, and closed with Family Plot, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Jury
The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1976 feature film competition:

Feature films
 * Tennessee Williams (USA) - Jury President
 * Jean Carzou (France) (artist)
 * Costa-Gavras (France)
 * Mario Cecchi Gori (Italy)
 * András Kovács (Hungary)
 * Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)
 * Charlotte Rampling (UK)
 * Lorenzo López Sancho (journalist) (Spain)
 * Georges Schehadé (author) (Lebanon)

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


 * Babatu by Jean Rouch
 * Brutti, sporchi e cattivi by Ettore Scola
 * Bugsy Malone by Alan Parker
 * A Child in the Crowd (Un enfant dans la foule) by Gérard Blain
 * The Claw and the Tooth (La griffe et la dent) by François Bel
 * Cría cuervos by Carlos Saura
 * The Inheritance (L'eredità Ferramonti) by Mauro Bolognini
 * Kings of the Road (Im Lauf der Zeit) by Wim Wenders
 * Letters from Marusia (Actas de Marusia) by Miguel Littin
 * The Marquise of O (Die Marquise von O...) by Éric Rohmer
 * Monsieur Klein by Joseph Losey
 * Mrs. Dery Where Are You? (Déryné hol van?) by Gyula Maár
 * Next Stop, Greenwich Village by Paul Mazursky
 * Nishaant by Shyam Benegal
 * Pascual Duarte by Ricardo Franco
 * Private Vices, Public Pleasures (Vizi privati, pubbliche virtù) by Miklós Jancsó
 * Shadow of Angels (Schatten der Engel) by Daniel Schmid
 * Sweet Revenge (Dandy, the All American Girl) by Jerry Schatzberg
 * Taxi Driver by Martin Scorsese
 * The Tenant (Le Locataire) by Roman Polanski

Films out of competition
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:


 * 1900 (Novecento) by Bernardo Bertolucci
 * Anna by Alberto Grifi, Massimo Sarchielli
 * Ascension by Olivier Dassault
 * Bobby by Marty Ollstein
 * The California Reich by Walter F. Parkes, Keith F. Critchlow
 * Confidences of the Night (L'amour blessé) by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
 * A Delicate Balance by Tony Richardson
 * Edvard Munch by Peter Watkins
 * Les enfants des autres by Martin Pierlot
 * Face to Face by Ingmar Bergman
 * Family Plot by Alfred Hitchcock
 * Grey Gardens by David Maysles, Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer
 * Hedda by Trevor Nunn
 * Hollywood... Hollywood! by Gene Kelly
 * The Iceman Cometh by John Frankenheimer
 * Illustrious Corpses (Cadaveri eccelenti) by Francesco Rosi
 * Labirintus by András Kovács
 * The Memory of Justice by Marcel Ophüls
 * Notes Towards an African Orestes (Appunti per un'Orestiade Africana) by Pier Paolo Pasolini
 * Orlando furioso by Luca Ronconi
 * La Pharmacie-Shangaï by Joris Ivens, Marceline Loridan
 * Le pont de singe by André Harris, Alain De Sedouy
 * Sartre par lui-même by Alexandre Astruc, Michel Contat
 * Summerfolk (1976 film) by Peter Stein
 * Train Landscape by Jules Engel

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


 * Agulana by Gérald Frydman
 * Babfilm by Ottó Foky
 * Hidalgo by Ion Truica
 * High Fidelity by Antoinette Starkiewicz
 * Metamorphosis by Barry Greenwald
 * Nightlife by Robin Lehman
 * Perfo by Jean Paul Cambron
 * Rodin mis en vie by Alfred Brandler
 * La Rosette arrosée by Paul Doppf
 * La Syncope by Edouard Niermans

International Critics' Week
The following feature films were screened for the 15th International Critics' Week (15e Semaine de la Critique):


 * Before the Time Comes (Le Temps de l’avant) by Anne Claire Poirier (Canada)
 * Une Fille unique by Philippe Nahou (France)
 * Der Gehulfe by Thomas Koerfer (Switzerland)
 * Harvest: 3,000 Years by Haile Gerima (Ethiopia)
 * Iracema: Uma Transa Amazônica by Jorge Bodansky, Orlando Senna (Brazil, West Germany, France)
 * Mélodrame by Jean-Louis Jorge (France)
 * Tracks by Henry Jaglom (USA)

Directors' Fortnight
The following films were screened for the 1976 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):


 * Anno Domini 1573 (Seljačka buna 1573) by Vatroslav Mimica (Yugoslavia)
 * The Battle of Chile (La Batalla de Chile: El golpe de estado) by Patricio Guzman (Chile, Cuba)
 * Behindert by Stephen Dwoskin (West Germany, United Kingdom)
 * Le berceau de cristal by Philippe Garrel (France)
 * O Casamento by Arnaldo Jabor (Brazil)
 * The Devil's Playground by Fred Schepisi (Australia)
 * Le diable au cœur by Bernard Queysanne (France)
 * Duelle by Jacques Rivette (France)
 * Four Days to Death (Cetiri dana do smrti) by Miroslav Jokic (Yugoslavia)
 * Giliap by Roy Andersson (Sweden)
 * Gitirana (doc.) by Jorge Bodansky, Orlando Senna (Brazil)
 * Goldflocken by Werner Schroeter (West Germany, France)
 * Hollywood on Trial (doc.) by David Helpern Jr. (United States)
 * In the Realm of the Senses (L'Empire des sens) by Nagisa Oshima (France, Japan)
 * Les Nomades by Sid Ali Mazif (Algeria)
 * Os Demónios de Alcácer Quibir by José Fonseca e Costa (Portugal)
 * A Pacemaker and a Sidecar (L'Eau chaude, l'eau frette) by André Forcier (Canada)
 * Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert by Marguerite Duras (France)
 *  by Alexander Kluge (West Germany)
 * Normande (La tête de Normande St-Onge) by Gilles Carle (Canada)
 * We Have Many Names (We har manje namn) (doc.) by Mai Zetterling (Sweden)


 * Short films


 * L'enfant prisonnier by Jean-Michel Carré (France)
 * The Labyrinth Tale (Meikyū-tan) by Shuji Terayama (Japan)
 * Leonina by Jean-Paul Courraud (France)
 * Les Stars by Serge Lutens (France)
 * Pierre Molinier - 7 Rue Des Faussets by Noël Simsolo (France, Luxembourg)
 * Walter by Serge Dubor (France)

Official awards
The following films and people received the 1976 Official selection awards: Short films
 * Palme d'Or: Taxi Driver by Martin Scorsese
 * Grand Prix:
 * Cría cuervos by Carlos Saura
 * Die Marquise von O... by Éric Rohmer
 * Best Director: Ettore Scola for Brutti, sporchi e cattivi
 * Best Actress:
 * Dominique Sanda for L'eredità Ferramonti
 * Mari Törőcsik for Déryné hol van?
 * Best Actor: José Luis Gómez for Pascual Duarte
 * Short Film Palme d'Or: Metamorphosis by Barry Greenwald
 * Jury Prize: Agulana by Gérald Frydman & Nightlife by Robin Lehman

Independent awards
FIPRESCI Commission Supérieure Technique
 * FIPRESCI Prize:
 * Kings of the Road by Wim Wenders (Unanimously) (In competition)
 *  by Alexander Kluge
 * Technical Grand Prize: Michel Fano (sound) for The Claw and the Tooth (La Griffe et la dent)

Media

 * INA: Opening of the 1976 festival (commentary in French)
 * INA: The wonders of the music hall at Cannes (commentary in French)