![]() Official poster of the 39th Cannes Film Festival[1]  | |
| Opening film | Pirates | 
|---|---|
| Closing film | El Amor brujo | 
| Location | Cannes, France | 
| Founded | 1946 | 
| Awards | Palme d'Or (The Mission)[2] | 
| No. of films | 20 (In Competition)[3] 19 (Un Certain Regard) 10 (Out of Competition) 13 (Short Film)  | 
| Festival date | 8 May 1986 – 19 May 1986 | 
| Website | festival-cannes | 
The 39th Cannes Film Festival was held from 8 to 19 May 1986. The Palme d'Or went to The Mission by Roland Joffé.[4][5][6][7][8]
The festival opened with Pirates, directed by Roman Polanski[9] and closed with El Amor brujo, directed by Carlos Saura.[10][11]
Juries

Main competition
The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1986 feature film competition:[12]
- Sydney Pollack, American director, producer, and actor (Jury President)
 - Alexandre Mnouchkine, French producer
 - Alexandre Trauner, Hungarian-French production designer
 - Charles Aznavour, French-Armenian singer-songwriter
 - Danièle Thompson, French director and screenwriter
 - István Szabó, Hungarian director and screenwriter
 - Lino Brocka, Filipino director and screenwriter
 - Philip French, English film critic and producer
 - Sônia Braga, Brazilian actress
 - Tonino Delli Colli, Italian cinematographer
 
Camera d'Or
The following people were appointed as the Jury of the 1986 Camera d'Or:
- Anne Fichelle
 - Christophe Ghristi (cinephile)
 - Eva Zaoralova (journalist)
 - Ivan Starcevic (journalist)
 - Lawrence Kardish (cinephile)
 - Pierre Murat (critic)
 - Serge Leroy (director)
 
Official selection
In competition - Feature film
The following feature films competed for the Palme d'Or:[3]
- After Hours by Martin Scorsese
 - Boris Godunov by Sergei Bondarchuk
 - Down by Law by Jim Jarmusch
 - The Fringe Dwellers by Bruce Beresford
 - Fool for Love by Robert Altman
 - Genesis by Mrinal Sen
 - I Love You by Marco Ferreri
 - The Last Image (La dernière image) by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
 - Love Me Forever or Never (Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar) by Arnaldo Jabor
 - Max, Mon Amour by Nagisa Oshima
 - Ménage (Tenue de soirée) by Bertrand Blier
 - The Mission by Roland Joffé
 - Mona Lisa by Neil Jordan
 - Otello by Franco Zeffirelli
 - Poor Butterfly (Pobre mariposa) by Raúl de la Torre
 - Rosa Luxemburg by Margarethe von Trotta
 - Runaway Train by Andrei Konchalovsky
 - The Sacrifice (Offret) by Andrei Tarkovsky
 - Scene of the Crime (Le lieu du crime) by André Téchiné
 - Thérèse by Alain Cavalier
 
Un Certain Regard
The following films were selected for the competition of Un Certain Regard:[3]
- A Girl's Own Story by Jane Campion
 - Backlash by Bill Bennett
 - Belizaire the Cajun by Glen Pitre
 - Burke & Wills by Graeme Clifford
 - Coming Up Roses by Stephen Bayly
 - Das zweite Schraube-Fragment by Walter Andreas Christen
 - Desert Bloom by Eugene Corr
 - Laputa by Helma Sanders-Brahms
 - Man of Ashes (Rih essed) by Nouri Bouzid
 - Passionless Moments by Jane Campion, Gerard Lee
 - A Promise (Ningen no yakusoku) by Yoshishige Yoshida
 - The Pied Piper (Krysař) by Jiří Barta
 - Salomè by Claude d'Anna
 - Shtei Etzbaot Mi'Tzidon by Eli Cohen
 - Tai Yang by Benzheng Yu
 - Two Friends by Jane Campion
 - The Unknown Soldier (Tuntematon sotilas) by Rauni Mollberg
 - Welcome in Vienna by Axel Corti
 - Where Are You Going? (Za kude putuvate) by Rangel Vulchanov
 
Films out of competition
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[3]
- A Matter of Life and Death by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
 - Absolute Beginners by Julien Temple
 - El Amor brujo by Carlos Saura
 - The Chipmunk Adventure by Janice Karman
 - The Color Purple by Steven Spielberg
 - Don Quixote by Orson Welles
 - Hannah and Her Sisters by Woody Allen
 - A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (Un homme et une femme, 20 ans déjà) by Claude Lelouch
 - Pirates by Roman Polanski
 - Precious Images by Chuck Workman
 - T'as de beaux escaliers tu sais by Agnès Varda
 
Short film competition
The following short films competed for the Short Film Palme d'Or:[3]
- 15-Août by Nicole Garcia (France)
 - Heiduque by Y. Katsap, L. Gorokhov (Russia)
 - A Gentle Spirit (Lagodna) by Piotr Dumala
 - Le Vent by Csaba Varga
 - Les Petites Magiciennes by Vincent Mercier, Yves Robert (France)
 - Les Petits Coins by Pascal Aubier
 - Miroir d'ailleurs by Willy Kempeneers
 - Nouilles Sèches (Dry Noodles) by Dan Collins
 - Peel by Jane Campion (Australia)
 - Question d'optiques by Claude Luyet
 - Quinoscopio by Juan Padron
 - Street of Crocodiles by Brothers Quay
 - Turbo Concerto by Martin Barry
 
Parallel sections
International Critics' Week
The following feature films were screened for the 25th International Critics' Week (25e Semaine de la Critique):[13]
- 40 Square Meters of Germany (40 Quadratmeter Deutschland) by Tevfik Baser (West Germany)
 - Devil in the Flesh by Scott Murray (Australia)[14]
 - La Dona del traghetto by Amedeo Fago (Italy)
 - Esther by Amos Gitaï (Israel)
 - Faubourg Saint-Martin by Jean-Claude Guiguet (France)
 - San Antoñito by Pepe Sanchez (Colombia)
 - Sleepwalk by Sara Driver (United States)
 
Directors' Fortnight
The following films were screened for the 1986 Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalizateurs):[15]
- Cactus by Paul Cox
 - Comic Magazine (Komikku Zasshi Nanka Iranai) by Yōjirō Takita
 - Dancing in the Dark by Leon Marr
 - The Decline of the American Empire (Le Déclin de l'empire américain) by Denys Arcand
 - Defence of the Realm by David Drury
 - Devil in the Flesh (Diavolo in corpo) by Marco Bellocchio
 - Giovanni Senzapensieri by Marco Colli
 - Golden Eighties by Chantal Akerman
 - Malandro (Ópera do Malandro) by Ruy Guerra
 - Memoirs of a Sinner by Wojciech Has
 - Qing Chun Jin by Nuanxin Zhang
 - Schmutz by Paulus Manker
 - She's Gotta Have It by Spike Lee
 - Sid and Nancy by Alex Cox
 - Sorekara by Yoshimitsu Morita
 - Tarot by Rudolf Thome
 - Visszaszamlalas by Pal Erdoss
 - Working Girls by Lizzie Borden
 
Awards

Official awards
The following films and people received the 1986 awards:[2]
- Palme d'Or: The Mission by Roland Joffé
 - Grand Prix: Offret by Andrei Tarkovsky
 - Best Director: Martin Scorsese for After Hours
 - Best Actress: 
- Barbara Sukowa for Rosa Luxemburg
 - Fernanda Torres for Love Me Forever or Never (Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar)
 
 - Best Actor: 
- Michel Blanc for Ménage (Tenue de soirée)
 - Bob Hoskins for Mona Lisa
 
 - Best Artistic Contribution: Sven Nykvist (for the cinematography) for The Sacrifice (Offret)
 - Jury Prize: Thérèse by Alain Cavalier
 
Golden Camera
Un Certain Regard
- Prix Un Certain Regard: Man of Ashes (Rih essed) by Nouri Bouzid
 
Short films
- Short Film Palme d'Or: Peel by Jane Campion
 - Jury Prize for Fiction: Les Petites Magiciennes by Vincent Mercier, Yves Robert
 - Jury Prize for Animation: Heiduque by Y. Katsap, L. Gorokhov
 
Independent awards
- The Decline of the American Empire (Le déclin de l'empire américain) by Denys Arcand (Directors' Fortnight)
 - The Sacrifice (Offret) by Andrei Tarkovsky (In competition)
 
Commission Supérieure Technique
Ecumenical Jury[17]
- Prize of the Ecumenical Jury: Offret by Andrei Tarkovsky
 - Ecumenical Jury - Special Mention: Thérèse by Alain Cavalier
 
Award of the Youth
- Foreign Film: She's Gotta Have It by Spike Lee
 - French Film: High Speed by Monique Dartonne and Michel Kaptur
 
References
- ↑ "Posters 1986". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 12 November 2013.
 - 1 2 "Awards 1986: All Awards". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 12 November 2013.
 - 1 2 3 4 5 "Official Selection 1986: All the Selection". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 16 December 2013.
 - ↑ "39ème Festival International du Film - Cannes". cinema-francais.fr (in French). Retrieved 6 June 2017.
 - ↑ "1986 - Tenue de soirée (exigée) (Formal Wear (required))". cannes-fest.com (in French). Retrieved 6 June 2017.
 - ↑ Mathews, Jack (20 May 1986). "'Mission' Successful; Joffe Film Top Winner". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
 - ↑ "Very Sincerely Yours, Jeremy Irons". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
 - ↑ "Cannes: It's a Wrap". Archived from the original on 16 December 2013. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
 - ↑ Bernstein, Richard (9 May 1986). "At The Cannes Festival, Escapism And Reality". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
 - ↑ Mathews, Jack (19 May 1986). "A Classic View From Room 360". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
 - ↑ "4 American Films Make It To Cannes". Archived from the original on 23 December 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
 - ↑ "All Juries 1986". festival-cannes.fr. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
 - ↑ "25e Selecion de la Semaine de la Critique - 1986". archives.semainedelacritique.com. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
 - ↑ "Devil in the Flesh / Awards". ozmovies.com.au. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
 - ↑ "Quinzaine 1986". quinzaine-realisateurs.com. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
 - ↑ "FIPRESCI Awards 1986". fipresci.org. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
 - ↑ "Jury Œcuménique 1986". cannes.juryoecumenique.org. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
 
Media
- INA: Roman Polanski presents Pirates at the opening of the 1986 Festival (interview in French)
 - INA: List of winners of the 1986 festival (commentary in French)
 
