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October 3, 2024
1974
The Festival honors Robert Wise, Vincente Minnelli, Angela Lansbury, and Slovakian writer and director Ján Kadár. The Gold Hugo for Best Feature goes to Georgy Shengalaya’s Prosmani, from the USSR, and French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier’s The Clockmaker of St. Paul holds its World Premiere.
October 3, 2024
1973
The Festival presents a complete retrospective of the work of Indian auteur Satyajit Ray, and honors David L. Wolper and the classic Warner Bros. musicals. Rainier Werner Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant wins a Special Jury Prize, and Greek master Theo Angelopolous’s first feature,...
October 3, 2024
1972
For the second year in a row, José Luis López Vázquez wins the Silver Hugo for Best Actor, this time for his turn in Mi Querida Señorita, while British filmmaker Mike Leigh’s directorial debut Bleak Moments wins the Gold Hugo for Best Film. Honorees include documentarian Frederick Wiseman, Abel G...
October 3, 2024
1971
The 7th Chicago International Film Festival honors Sonja Henie, director Franklin Schaffner, and producer Donald Siegel. Polish director Krysztof Zanussi’s Family Life and Claude Jutra’s Mon Oncle Antoine are among the year’s premieres, with Zanussi’s film winning the Special Jury Prize and Jutra...
October 3, 2024
1970
Illinois Governor Richard B. Ogilvie lends his support to the Festival, writing “too often, the avant-garde image of the filmmaker has been interpreted as antithetical to the mid-American ethic. But that is a view which disregards an essential element of that ethic: its firm foundation in the con...
