The eight-member jury for the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival includes French actor and producer Omar Sy and actress Eva Green, presided by Barbie director Greta Gerwig.
Festival organisers unveiled the jury Monday, with four men and four women, including Omar Sy, one of the biggest names in French cinema, known internationally for hit Netflix show Lupin.
Eva Green, one of the most memorable James Bond actors, recently played Milady in The Three Musketeers and has appeared in a string of Hollywood blockbusters.
Joining them is Oscar-nominated actor Lily Gladstone, who won a string of awards for her performance in Martin Scorsese's 2023 Killers of the Flower Moon.
The 37-year-old will be the youngest member of the jury, which also includes Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan, Lebanese director and screenwriter Nadine Labaki, Spanish director and screenwriter Juan Antonio Bayona, Italian actor Pierfrancisco Favino, and Japanese director Kore-eda Hirokazu, who won the 2018 Palme d'Or for Shoplifters.
Palme d'or
The Jury will award the 2024 Palme d'Or – the festival’s top prize – to one of the 22 films in competition, which include Francis Ford Coppola’s with his long-awaited epic, Megalopolis.
Coppola has twice won the Palme d'Or, for The Conversation in 1974 and for Apocalypse Now in 1979, which was not finished when it premiered at the festival.
A biopic of Donald Trump, The Apprentice, by Iran-born director Ali Abbasi, is also in the running.
The winners will be announced on 25 May at the closing ceremony.
Late additions
There have been late additions to the festival's line-up in recent days, including The Seed of the Sacred Fig by Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, who has faced prison time for criticising the government. It is unclear if he will be able to attend the festival.
Oliver Stone will present his latest documentary, Lula, about the current president of Brazil.
Actor Emma Stone and Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos will present Kinds of Kindness, after their 2023 collaboration, Poor Things, won Lanthimos the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, while Stone picked up an Oscar for Best Actress.
Un Certain Regard
Five jury members have also been selected for the Un Certain Regard, chaired this year by Canadian actor, director, screenwriter and producer Xavier Dolan.
He will be joined by French-Senegalese screenwriter and director Maïmouna Doucouré, Moroccan director, screenwriter and producer Asmae El Moudir, German-Luxembourg actress Vicky Krieps, and American film critic, director, and writer Todd McCarthy.
The parallel competition showcases art and discovery films by young auteurs.
This year, 18 films have been selected, including 8 first films. The 2023 top prize went to director Molly Manning Walker's debut feature How to Have Sex.
(with AFP)
