Current stars to have walked the red carpet have included Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Lawrence, Sigourney Weaver, Greta Gerwig, Kevin Bacon, Elijah Wood, Clint Eastwood, Kylie Minogue, Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton.
Despite not being quite as high profile as the likes of Cannes, Venice or Sundance, Edinburgh can boast to be the world's oldest continually running film festival.
In that time it has hosted the UK premieres of many box office blockbuster and critical hits including Blade Runner, Alien, Back to the Future, Taxi Driver, Annie Hall, The Usual Suspects, Amelie, and The Hurt Locker.
Back in the 1950s and 1960s it was a glamorous affair that attracted many of the great filmmakers of the era.
With the closing of its home at Edinburgh’s Filmhouse cinema, the festival’s future was at threat, but it is returning for a truncated edition this year under the auspices of the Edinburgh International Festival.
Here are 20 pictures to take you back to those happier days.
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13. Special guests
American film director John Huston and producer Walter Wanger at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 1954. Photo: Unknown
14. Diamond mime
Duncan Macrae and French actor, mime and filmmaker Jacques Tati at a reception at the Edinburgh Film House in 1955. Photo: Unknown
15. Presentation
The Film Festival Award for 1963 is presented to Brazilian Consul Dashwood Evans for the film 'The Given Word'. Photo: Unknown
16. Making a Cameo
Actor Michael Redgrave in the Cameo Cinema during the 1954 festival. Photo: Unknown