Prix spécial du jury au Festival de Cannes, 1958.
Grand prix technique de la commission supérieure technique du cinéma francais pour la recherche d'une écriture sonore concourant à l'action, Cannes, 1958.
Selection of the 10 best movies of the year, Cinema critics association, New-York, 1958.
Prix Méliès de l'association francaise de la critique de cinéma, Paris, 1958.
and other prices in Italy, Spain, Finland, Mexico

In Mon OncleTati plays again the figure Monsieur Hulot, the uncle of. The son of his sister, who is married with the successful plastic manufacture Monsieur Arpel. The greatest joy in the life of Hulot's sister is her super modern house with a lot of technical gadgets and a full automatic kitchen. Hulot lives in a simple eccentric house in a old neighborhood.

Gerard doesn't enjoy the house and rather plays outside with his uncle and friends from the neighborhood..

Arpel decides to give Hulot a job at his plastic factory. There starts Hulot a battle with machines that produces a long rubber hose.

Mon Oncle explains Tati's vision about automated, modern society and how it takes the simplicity of life. It is shown by the contrast between Hulot easy going life and the ultra modern house of his sisters.

During a party with the neighbors tries Hulot's sister to math him with a single, heavy smoking neighbor. Hulot tries to get rid of her.

Mon Oncle is Tati's first colormovie and shows the design of the typical fifties style. There are two version of the movie. One in the French language and one in English. After each scene was recorded in French, the English version was record. The English version of Mon Oncle is 10 minutes shorter. Tati has canceled parts of the dialogue which he did not find important.