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
- 12th (1974): 28/21/20
- 6th (1968): 26/25/22
- 5th (1967): 26/23/22
- 16th (1978): 25/21/21
- 10th (1972): 24/22/24
- 15th (1977): 24/21/21
- 17th (1979): 24/23/20
- 7th (1969): 23/23/20
- 14th (1976): 22/19/17
- 1st (1963): 21/21/21
- 13th (1975): 21/20/20
- 11th (1973): 19/18/17
- 9th (1971): 18/18/18
Total: 418/377/358
Festivals by Primary Location:
- Philharmonic Hall: 8
- Alice Tully Hall: 8
- Vivian Beaumont Theater: 1
Selection Committee Members:
- Richard Roud (first program director): 17
- Arthur Knight: 12 (2 as West Coast consultant)
- Susan Sontag: 11
- Richard Corliss: 9
- Andrew Sarris: 9
- Henri Langlois (retrospective consultant): 8
- Amos Vogel (original festival director): 6
- Arthur L. Mayer: 5
- Charles Michener: 5
- Roger Greenspun: 4
- Molly Haskell: 2
- Tom Luddy (West Coast consultant): 2
- Mary Meerson (retrospective consultant): 2
- 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
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder: 9/9/1/1
- Luis Buñuel: 8/12/2/3†
- Bernardo Bertolucci: 7/8/2/1†
- Werner Herzog: 7/8/0/1
- François Truffaut: 7/7/4
- Robert Bresson: 7/7
- Claude Chabrol: 6/6/1/1
- Satyajit Ray: 6/6/1†
- Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet: 5/6/0/1
- Alain Resnais: 5/5/2
- Jerzy Skolimowski: 5/5/0/2
- Jacques Rivette: 5/5/0/1
- Marguerite Duras: 5/5†
- Miklós Jancsó: 5/5
- Ermanno Olmi: 5/5
- Pier Paolo Pasolini: 4/6/0/1†
- Eric Rohmer: 4/5/2
- Agnès Varda: 4/4/2
- James Ivory: 4/4†
- Alexander Kluge: 4/4
- Joseph Losey: 4/4
- Martin Scorsese: 4/4
- Krzysztof Zanussi: 4/4
- Gianni Amico: 3/4†
- Milos Forman: 3/3/2
- Akira Kurosawa: 3/3/1
- Louis Malle: 3/3/1
- Chris Marker: 3/3/1
- Francesco Rosi: 3/3/0/1†
- Andrzej Wajda: 3/3/0/1
- René Allio: 3/3†
- Ken Loach: 3/3
- Marcel Ophuls: 3/3
- Wim Wenders: 3/3
- Bo Widerberg: 3/3
- Luchino Visconti: 2/3/1
- Kon Ichikawa: 2/3/0/1
- Nagisa Oshima: 2/3/0/1
- Peter Whitehead: 2/3/0/1†
- Abel Gance: 2/3†
- Robert Altman: 2/2/1
- Peter Bogdanovich: 2/2/0/1†
- Marco Bellocchio: 2/2
- Walerian Borowczyk: 2/2†
- John Cassavetes: 2/2
- Eduardo de Gregorio: 2/2†
- Claude Goretta: 2/2†
- Jean-Pierre Gorin: 2/2†
- Kjell Grede: 2/2†
- Masaki Kobayashi: 2/2†
- Dusan Makavejev: 2/2†
- Adolfas Mekas: 2/2†
- Jonas Mekas: 2/2
- Ivan Passer: 2/2†
- Maurice Pialat: 2/2
- Bob Rafelson: 2/2†
- Carlos Saura: 2/2
- Volker Schlöndorff: 2/2†
- Ousmane Sembène: 2/2
- Alain Tanner: 2/2
- Hiroshi Teshigahara: 2/2†
- Leopoldo Torre Nilsson: 2/2†
- Peter Watkins: 2/2†
- Orson Welles: 2/2†
- Jan Nemec: 1/3/0/1†
- Joris Ivens: 1/2/1
- Jiri Menzel: 1/2/1†
- Vera Chytilová: 1/2†
- Jaromil Jires: 1/2†
- Albert Maysles: 1/2
- David Maysles: 1/2†
- Jean-Pierre Melville: 1/2
- Kenji Mizoguchi: 1/2†
- Roberto Rossellini: 1/2
- Jean Rouch: 1/2†
- Grigori Kozintsev: 1/1/1
- Gleb Panfilov: 1/1/1
- Merzak Allouache: 1/1
- Denys Arcand: 1/1
- Ingmar Bergman: 1/1
- Bertrand Blier: 1/1
- Youssef Chahine: 1/1
- Christian de Chalonge: 1/1
- Jonathan Demme: 1/1
- Carlos Diegues: 1/1
- Philippe Garrel: 1/1
- Barbara Kopple: 1/1
- Claude Lanzmann: 1/1
- Sidney Lumet: 1/1
- Károly Makk: 1/1
- Márta Mészáros: 1/1
- Errol Morris: 1/1
- Sergei Paradjanov: 1/1
- Nelson Pereira dos Santos: 1/1
- Aleksandar Petrovi: 1/1
- Roman Polanski: 1/1
- Glauber Rocha: 1/1
- Michael Roemer: 1/1
- Deborah Shaffer: 1/1
- István Szabó: 1/1
- Andrei Tarkovsky: 1/1
- Paolo & Vittorio Taviani: 1/1
- André Téchiné: 1/1
- Jean Renoir: 0/5†
- Max Ophuls: 0/3
- Fritz Lang: 0/2†
- Erich von Stroheim: 0/2
- Michelangelo Antonioni: 0/1
- Cecil B. DeMille: 0/1
- Louis Feuillade: 0/1
- Rouben Mamoulian: 0/1
- Michael Powell: 0/1
Directors with only one appearance: 115
Directors with only one appearance whose appearance was a gala: 7
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: 98/117/15
- USA: 61/80/3
- Italy: 36/42/4
- West Germany: 30/32/2
- UK: 22/25/1
- Japan: 13/16/1
- Poland: 13/13
- Czechoslovakia: 12/14/3
- Hungary: 10/10
- Sweden: 10/10
- USSR: 6/7/2
- Canada: 6/7
- India: 6/6/1
- Yugoslavia: 5/5
- Brazil: 4/4
- Switzerland: 4/4
- Mexico: 3/4/1
- Spain: 3/3/1
- Argentina: 3/3
- Australia: 2/2
- Belgium: 2/2
- Denmark: 2/2
- Greece: 2/2
- Senegal: 2/2
- Algeria: 1/1
- Egypt: 1/1
- Taiwan: 1/1
- Germany: 0/3
Film Format:
- 35mm: 332
- 16mm: 75
- 35mm and 16mm: 6
- 16mm and 35mm: 2
- 35mm and 8mm: 1
- 70mm: 1
- 35mm and video: 1
Aspect Ratio:
- 1.37:1: 188
- 1.66:1: 114
- 1.85:1: 58
- 2.35:1: 27
- 1.33:1: 14
- 1.20:1: 7
- 2.39:1: 5
- 1.66:1 and 1.37:1: 2
- 2.55:1: 1
- 2.20:1: 1
- 1.33:1 and 4.00:1: 1
B&W/Color:
- Color: 218
- Black & White: 167
- Color and Black & White: 22
- Black & White and Color: 11
Primary Language:
- English: 114
- French: 111
- German: 32
- Italian: 31
- Japanese: 15
- Czech: 11
- Polish: 11
- Swedish: 10
- Hungarian: 9
- Spanish: 9
- Bengali: 6
- Russian: 6
- Serbo-Croatian: 5
- French and English: 4
- English and Italian: 3
- Portuguese: 3
- Arabic and French: 2
- English and German and French: 2
- French and English and German: 2
- Greek: 2
- Arabic and English: 1
- Chinese Mandarin: 1
- Danish: 1
- Danish and Swedish: 1
- Dutch: 1
- English and Bengali: 1
- English and French: 1
- English and French and German: 1
- Finnish: 1
- French and English and Hebrew and German and Russian: 1
- French and German: 1
- French and Italian and Spanish: 1
- French and Spanish: 1
- German and English: 1
- German and French: 1
- Hungarian and Russian: 1
- Italian and French: 1
- Italian and French and German: 1
- Italian and Sardinian and Latin: 1
- Japanese and English: 1
- Polish and English: 1
- Portuguese and English and French: 1
- Portuguese and Italian: 1
- Serbo-Croatian and English: 1
- Slovak: 1
- Slovak and German: 1
- Spanish and French and German: 1
- Ukranian: 1
- Wolof: 1
- Wolof and French: 1
Sound/Silent:
- Mono Sound: 392
- Silent: 15
- Stereo Sound: 5
- 4-Track Stereo Sound: 3
- Silent/Mono Sound: 2
- 6-Track Stereo Sound: 1
Festivals by Total Running Time/Average Running Time per Film:
- 3rd (1965): 2812/100:26
- 12th (1974): 2811/100:24
- 2nd (1964): 2759/91:58
- 17th (1979): 2746/114:25
- 14th (1976): 2588/117:39
- 5th (1967): 2575/99:02
- 15th (1977): 2528/105:20
- 8th (1970): 2522/90:05
- 4th (1966): 2515/81:08
- 10th (1972): 2491/103:47
- 16th (1978): 2463/98:32
- 6th (1968): 2450/94:14
- 11th (1973): 2267/119:19
- 7th (1969): 2258/98:10
- 13th (1975): 2189/104:15
- 9th (1971): 2126/118:07
- 1st (1963): 2079/99:00
Total: 42179/100:55
Films Over Two-and-a-Quarter Hours
- Les Vampires (3rd, 417)
- Napoléon (5th, 333)
- 1900 (15th, 317)
- The Memory of Justice (14th, 278)
- Bonaparte and the Revolution (9th, 275)
- Molière (17th, 260)
- Out 1: Spectre (12th, 253)
- 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)
- Milestones (13th, 195)
- Céline and Julie Go Boating (12th, 193)
- Israel Why (11th, 185)
- Red Beard (3rd, 185)
- Andrei Rublev (11th, 183)
- Elective Affinities (16th, 180)
- A Touch of Zen (14th, 180)
- Kings of the Road (14th, 175)
- A Woman Under the Influence (12th, 155)
- Nana (14th, 150)
- Spione (16th, 150)
- Woman in the Dunes (2nd, 147)
- Cyrano and d’Artagnan (2nd, 145)
- Le Joli Mai (1st, 145)
- Oh! What a Lovely War (7th, 144)
- Dersu Uzala (14th, 142)
- La Luna (17th, 142)
- Dodes’ka-den (9th, 140)
- Hamlet (2nd, 140)
- The Nun (6th, 140)
- Ossessione (14th, 140)
- Perceval le Gallois (16th, 140)
- Lacombe Lucien (12th, 138)
- The Merry Widow (7th, 137)
- The Big City (2nd, 136)
Longest Streaks of Consecutive Director Appearances (Three or More Theatrical Features)
- Bernardo Bertolucci: 8 [La commare secca to La Luna]
- Robert Bresson: 7 [The Trial of Joan of Arc to The Devil, Probably]
- Luis Buñuel: 5 [The Milky Way to That Obscure Object of Desire]
- Jean-Luc Godard: 5 [Alphaville to 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her]
- Alain Resnais: 5 [Muriel, or the Time of Return to Stavisky…]
- Jacques Rivette: 5 [The Nun to Duelle {discounting Out 1: Noli me tangere}]
- Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet: 5 [Not Reconciled to Moses und Aron]
- François Truffaut: 5 [Day for Night to The Green Room]
- Werner Herzog: 4 [Signs of Life to Land of Silence and Darkness]
- Ermanno Olmi: 4 [One Fine Day to The Circumstance]
- 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]
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder: 3 [Despair to The Marriage of Maria Braun]
- Milos Forman: 3 [Black Peter to The Firemen’s Ball]
- James Ivory: 3 [Autobiography of a Princess to The Europeans]
- Miklós Jancsó: 3 [Red Psalm to Electra, My Love]
- Akira Kurosawa: 3 [Red Beard to Dersu Uzala]
- Ken Loach: 3 [Kes to Black Jack]
- Marcel Ophuls: 3 [The Sorrow and the Pity to The Memory of Justice]
- Eric Rohmer: 3 [Love in the Afternoon to Perceval le Gallois]
- Agnès Varda: 3 [Les Créatures to Lions Love]
- Krzysztof Zanussi: 3 [Family Life to The Illumination]
Number of world premieres: 34
Number of Palme d’Or winners: 1
Number of Golden Bear winners: 3
Number of Golden Lion winners: 4
Number of Golden Leopard winners: 2
Number of Best Picture winners: 0
Number of New York Film Critics Circle Best Film winners: 2
Number of Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Film Winners: 0
Number of National Society of Film Critics Best Film winners: 3
Number of documentaries (feature or short): 54
Films directed in part or whole by women: 36
Number of directorial debuts: 63
Number of final features: 13
Films premiered the same year as their festival appearance: 267
Films premiered the year before their festival appearance: 81
Films premiered more than one year before their festival appearance (non-retrospective): 28
Number of retrospectives: 42
Galas that premiered in a different year from their festival appearance: 8
Films that showed multiple times in the Main Slate: 4
Films released the same year as their festival appearance: 112
Films released one or two years after their festival appearance: 108
Films released more than two years after their festival appearance: 58
Films never released: 113
Retrospective films released before their festival appearance: 26
Replacement film released before its festival appearance: 1
Films better known by their original titles rather than the English translation: 49
Films whose English titles differ from a direct translation of the original title: 61
Films whose primary language differs from the primary production country’s official language(s): 44
Selected Notable Recurring Actors
- Jean-Pierre Léaud: 14
- Juliet Berto: 9
- Bulle Ogier: 9
- Michael Lonsdale: 8
- Ingrid Caven: 7
- Gérard Depardieu: 7
- Michel Piccoli: 7
- Delphine Seyrig: 6
- Bruno Ganz: 4
- Bernadette Lafont: 4
- Robert De Niro: 3
- Catherine Deneuve: 3
- Isabelle Huppert: 2
New York Film Festival Editions Ranked
- 12th (1974)
- 8th (1970)
- 1st (1963)
- 11th (1973)
- 14th (1976)
- 17th (1979)
- 5th (1967)
- 3rd (1965)
- 6th (1968)
- 13th (1975)
- 4th (1966)
- 10th (1972)
- 7th (1969)
- 15th (1977)
- 9th (1971)
- 2nd (1964)
- 16th (1978)