The film " found success in Europe , where Perkins won an award for his performance at the Cannes Film Festival , but in America critics and audiences were generally unenthusiastic . " According to Bosley Crowther , " Taylor 's derivative screen play has a few flights of fancy and wit , but on the whole it is solemn and pedestrian " ; " Perkins not only has the most engaging role but he also plays it in the most engaging fashion and almost carries the picture by himself . " Years later , Andrea Foshee , writing for Turner Classic Movies , agreed : Co-star Anthony Perkins was just coming off his smash 1960 success as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock 's '' Psycho '' , a role that would typecast him for the rest of his career . Yet , as the charming , aimless Philip in '' Goodbye Again '' , Perkins clearly demonstrates his versatility as an actor in a role that could n't be further removed from his turn as a cross-dressing schizophrenic killer . Perkins won the Best Actor Award at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival and Anatole Litvak was nominated for the Palme d'Or
1961 Cannes Film Festival
1961 Cannes Film Festival
Goodbye Again (1961 film)