| Grand Prix | Gate of Hell, Teinosuke Kinugasa (Japan) |
| Special Jury Prize | Rene Clement, Knave of Hearts (United Kingdom) |
| International Prize | The Last Bridge, Helmut Kautner (Austria) |
| Maria Schell for her performance in The Last Bridge (Austria) |
| National Recognition Awards | The Living Desert, James Algar for Walt Disney (United States) |
| Avant le Deluge, Andre Cayatte (France) |
| Two Acres of Land, Bimal Roy (India) |
| Neapolitan Carousel, Ettore Giannini (Italy) |
| Chronicle of Poor Lovers, Carlo Lizzani (Italy) |
| Five Boys From Barska Street, Aleksander Ford (Poland) |
| The Great Adventure, Arne Sucksdorff (Sweden) |
| The Great Warrior, Skanderberg, Serge Youtkevitch (U.S.S.R.) |
| Special Recognition Prize | From Here to Eternity, Fred Zinnemann (United States) |