Festivals by Number of Films/Programs/New Features:

• 4th (1966): 31/25/22
• 2nd (1964): 30/26/28
• 8th (1970): 28/26/27
• 3rd (1965): 28/25/18
• 6th (1968): 26/25/22
• 5th (1967): 26/23/22
• 10th (1972): 24/22/24
• 7th (1969): 23/23/20
• 1st (1963): 21/21/21
• 11th (1973): 19/18/17
• 9th (1971): 18/18/18

Total: 274/252/239

Festivals by Primary Location:

• Philharmonic Hall: 8
• Alice Tully Hall: 3
• Vivian Beaumont Theater: 1

Selection Committee Members:

• Richard Roud (first program director): 11
• Arthur Knight: 8
• Andrew Sarris: 8
• Susan Sontag: 7
• Amos Vogel (original festival director): 6
• Henri Langlois (retrospective consultant): 5
• Richard Corliss: 3
• Arthur L. Mayer: 3
• Penelope Huston: 1
• John Russell Taylor: 1

Directors:
Key: films in the festival up to this point excluding shorts/omnibus/retrospectives, films up to this point including, number of gala spots (when applicable), number of festivals with more than one film shown (when applicable); † indicates filmmakers with no more films

• Jean-Luc Godard: 13/17/2/5
• Luis Buñuel: 6/6/1/2
• Bernardo Bertolucci: 5/6/1/1
• Satyajit Ray: 5/5/1
• Robert Bresson: 5/5
• Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet: 4/5/0/1
• Alain Resnais: 4/4/2
• Jerzy Skolimowski: 4/4/0/2
• Claude Chabrol: 4/4/0/1
• Werner Herzog: 4/4
• Joseph Losey: 4/4
• Ermanno Olmi: 4/4
• Pier Paolo Pasolini: 3/5/0/1
• Milos Forman: 3/3/2
• François Truffaut: 3/3/2
• Chris Marker: 3/3/1
• Agnès Varda: 3/3/1
• René Allio: 3/3†
• Marguerite Duras: 3/3
• Rainer Werner Fassbinder: 3/3
• Miklós Jancsó: 3/3
• Bo Widerberg: 3/3
• Krzysztof Zanussi: 3/3
• Kon Ichikawa: 2/3/0/1
• Peter Whitehead: 2/3/0/1†
• Gianni Amico: 2/3
• Abel Gance: 2/3†
• Eric Rohmer: 2/3
• Peter Bogdanovich: 2/2/0/1†
• Francesco Rosi: 2/2/0/1
• Akira Kurosawa: 2/2/1
• Marco Bellocchio: 2/2
• Jean-Pierre Gorin: 2/2†
• Kjell Grede: 2/2†
• Alexander Kluge: 2/2
• Masaki Kobayashi: 2/2†
• Ken Loach: 2/2
• Dusan Makavejev: 2/2†
• Adolfas Mekas: 2/2†
• Jonas Mekas: 2/2
• Marcel Ophuls: 2/2
• Ivan Passer: 2/2†
• Maurice Pialat: 2/2
• Bob Rafelson: 2/2†
• Jacques Rivette: 2/2
• Carlos Saura: 2/2
• Martin Scorsese: 2/2
• Hiroshi Teshigahara: 2/2†
• Leopoldo Torre Nilsson: 2/2†
• Peter Watkins: 2/2†
• Jan Nemec: 1/3/0/1†
• Joris Ivens: 1/2/1
• Jiri Menzel: 1/2/1†
• Jaromil Jires: 1/2†
• Kenji Mizoguchi: 1/2†
• Roberto Rossellini: 1/2
• Jean Rouch: 1/2†
• Grigori Kozintsev: 1/1/1
• Louis Malle: 1/1/1
• Gleb Panfilov: 1/1/1
• Robert Altman: 1/1
• Denys Arcand: 1/1
• Ingmar Bergman: 1/1
• Walerian Borowczyk: 1/1
• John Cassavetes: 1/1
• Carlos Diegues: 1/1
• Philippe Garrel: 1/1
• James Ivory: 1/1
• Claude Lanzmann: 1/1
• Sidney Lumet: 1/1
• Károly Makk: 1/1
• Jean-Pierre Melville: 1/1
• Nagisa Oshima: 1/1
• Sergei Paradjanov: 1/1
• Aleksandar Petrovi: 1/1
• Roman Polanski: 1/1
• Glauber Rocha: 1/1
• Michael Roemer: 1/1
• Volker Schlöndorff: 1/1
• Ousmane Sembène: 1/1
• István Szabó: 1/1
• Andrei Tarkovsky: 1/1
• Luchino Visconti: 1/1
• Andrzej Wajda: 1/1
• Orson Welles: 1/1
• Max Ophuls: 0/2
• Jean Renoir: 0/2
• Erich von Stroheim: 0/2
• Michelangelo Antonioni: 0/1
• Vera Chytilová: 0/1
• Cecil B. DeMille: 0/1
• Louis Feuillade: 0/1
• Fritz Lang: 0/1
• Rouben Mamoulian: 0/1
• Albert & David Maysles: 0/1

Directors with only one appearance: 74
Directors with only one appearance whose appearance was a gala: 6

Countries:
Key: films in the festival up to this point excluding shorts/omnibus/retrospectives, films up to this point including, number of gala spots (when applicable)

• France: 67/78/8
• USA: 32/43/2
• Italy: 27/31/2
• UK: 16/18/1
• Japan: 12/14/1
• West Germany: 12/13
• Czechoslovakia: 11/13/3
• Sweden: 10/10
• Poland: 9/9
• Hungary: 7/7
• USSR: 5/5/2
• India: 5/5/1
• Yugoslavia: 5/5
• Canada: 4/5
• Spain: 3/3/1
• Argentina: 3/3
• Mexico: 2/2/1
• Belgium: 2/2
• Brazil: 2/2
• Denmark: 2/2
• Greece: 2/2
• Senegal: 1/1
• Germany: 0/1

Film Format:

• 35mm: 228
• 16mm: 42
• 16mm and 35mm: 2
• 35mm and 16mm: 2

Aspect Ratio:

• 1.37:1: 92
• 1.66:1: 64
• 1.33:1: 45
• 1.85:1: 40
• 2.35:1: 23
• 2.39:1: 4
• 1.20:1: 4
• 2.55:1: 1
• 1.33:1 and 4.00:1: 1

B&W/Color:

• Black & White: 148
• Color: 108
• Black & White and Color: 10
• Color and Black & White: 8

Sound/Silent:

• Sound: 262
• Silent: 11
• Silent/Sound: 1

Festivals by Total Running Time/Average Running Time per Film:

• 3rd (1965): 2815/100:32
• 2nd (1964): 2759/91:58
• 5th (1967): 2575/99:02
• 8th (1970): 2520/90:00
• 4th (1966): 2515/81:08
• 10th (1972): 2491/103:47
• 6th (1968): 2450/94:14
• 11th (1973): 2267/119:19
• 7th (1969): 2258/98:10
• 9th (1971): 2126/118:07
• 1st (1963): 2079/99:00

Total: 26855/98:01

Films Over Two-and-a-Quarter Hours

• Les Vampires (3rd, 417)
• Napoléon (5th, 333)
• Bonaparte and the Revolution (9th, 275)
• L’Amour fou (10th, 252)
• The Sorrow and the Pity (9th, 251)
• Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (11th, 242)
• The Mother and the Whore (11th, 217)
• L’Argent (6th, 195)
• Israel Why (11th, 185)
• Red Beard (3rd, 185)
• Andrei Rublev (11th, 183)
• Woman in the Dunes (2nd, 147)
• Cyrano and d’Artagnan (2nd, 145)
• Le Joli Mai (1st, 145)
• Oh! What a Lovely War (7th, 144)
• Dodes’ka-den (9th, 140)
• Hamlet (2nd, 140)
• The Nun (6th, 140)
• The Merry Widow (7th, 137)
• The Big City (2nd, 136)

Longest Streaks of Consecutive Director Appearances (Three or More Features)

• Bernardo Bertolucci: 6 [La commare secca to Last Tango in Paris]
• Robert Bresson: 5 [The Trial of Joan of Arc to Four Nights of a Dreamer]
• Jean-Luc Godard: 5 [Alphaville to 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her]
• Werner Herzog: 4 [Signs of Life to Land of Silence and Darkness]
• Alain Resnais: 4 [Muriel, or the Time of Return to Je t’aime, je t’aime]
• Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet: 4 [Not Reconciled to History Lessons]
• Jerzy Skolimowski: 4 [Identification Marks: None to Le Départ]
• René Allio: 3 [The Shameless Old Lady to Pierre and Paul]
• Luis Buñuel: 3 [The Exterminating Angel to Simon of the Desert]
• Claude Chabrol: 3 [Le Boucher to Just Before Nightfall]
• Milos Forman: 3 [Black Peter to The Firemen’s Ball]
• Ermanno Olmi: 3 [One Fine Day to In the Summertime]
• Agnès Varda: 3 [Les Créatures to Lions Love]
• Krzysztof Zanussi: 3 [Family Life to The Illumination]

Notable Actors With Numerous Appearances

• Jean-Pierre Léaud: 13
• Anna Karina: 8
• Stéphane Audran: 5
• Pierre Clémenti: 5
• Anne Wiazemsky: 5
• Juliet Berto: 4
• Dirk Bogarde: 4
• Jean-Pierre Cassel: 4
• Jeanne Moreau: 4
• Michel Piccoli: 4
• Delphine Seyrig: 4
• Jean Yanne: 4
• Jean-Paul Belmondo: 3
• Bulle Ogier: 3
• Fernando Rey: 3
• Jean-Louis Trintignant: 3
• Robert De Niro: 2
• Catherine Deneuve: 2
• Irm Hermann: 2
• Dominique Sanda: 2
• Hanna Schygulla: 2
• Nathalie Baye: 1
• Gérard Depardieu: 1
• Harvey Keitel: 1
• Bernadette Lafont: 1
• Françoise Lebrun: 1

Number of world premieres: 17
Number of Palme d’Or winners: 0
Number of Golden Bear winners: 3
Number of Golden Lion winners: 4
Number of Golden Leopard winners: 2

Number of documentaries (feature or short): 28
Films directed in part or whole by women: 16
Number of directorial debuts: 47
Number of final features: 7

Films premiered the same year as their festival appearance: 164
Films premiered the year before their festival appearance: 62
Films premiered more than one year before their festival appearance (non-retrospective): 23
Number of retrospectives: 25
Galas that premiered in a different year from their festival appearance: 6

Films released the same year as their festival appearance: 64
Films released one or two years after their festival appearance: 76
Films released more than two years after their festival appearance: 44
Films never released: 76
Retrospective films released before their festival appearance: 14

Films better known by their original titles rather than the English translation: 34
Films whose English titles differ from a direct translation of the original title: 44