1959 Cannes Film Festival – Palme d’Or Winner and Nominees

Black Orpheus

Marcel Camus

A retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro.

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

Vlak bez voznog reda

Veljko Bulajic