This Sporting Life won Richard Harris a Best Actor Award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival.
 Some directors, such as Carlos Saura and Milo Forman, had withdrawn their films from the competition
== History ===== The early years ===The Cannes Film Festival has its origins in 1938 when Jean Zay, the French Minister of National Education, on the proposal of high-ranking official and historian Philippe Erlanger and film journalist Robert Favre Le Bret decided to set up an international cinematographic festival

