29/04/2024 - The jury set to select the Palme d’Or winner includes Lily Gladstone, Eva Green, Ebru Ceylan, Nadine Labaki, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Juan Antonio Bayona, Pierfrancesco Favino and Omar Sy

The 2024 Competition jury (© Cannes Film Festival)

Led by American filmmaker Greta Gerwig (read our news), the nine members comprising the official competition jury of the 77th Cannes Film Festival (running 14 – 25 May) have now been revealed.

Four women are set to join jury president Gerwig: American actress Lily Gladstone (nominated for this year’s Best Actress Oscar thanks to Killers of the Flower Moon), her French colleague Eva Green (nominated for 2020’s Best Actress César via Proxima [+see also:
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Joining them on the judging panel to decide between the 22 films battling it out for this year’s Palme d’Or are Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda(selected to compete in Cannes seven times, resulting in the 2018 Palme d’Or for Shoplifters, the Jury Prize in 2013, two male acting awards in 2004 and 2022, and the Best Screenplay trophy in 2023), his Spanish counterpart Juan Antonio Bayona (revealed in Critics’ Week 2007 by way of The Orphanage [+see also:
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interview: JA Bayona
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interview: Michele Placido
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Q&A: Marco Bellocchio
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interview: Mario Martone
interview: Pierfrancesco Favino
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For the record, the Un Certain Regard jury president Xavier Dolan (read our news) is set to be flanked by German-Luxembourg actress Vicky Krieps (named Best Actress in the 2022 Un Certain Regard section thanks to Corsage [+see also:
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interview: Marie Kreutzer
film profile], at her very best in Phantom Thread, among other works, and recently gracing The Dead Don’t Hurt [+see also:
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interview: Viggo Mortensen
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The Caméra d’Or jury, meanwhile, will be jointly led by French actress Emmanuelle Béart (nominated for the Best Actress César five times between 1990 and 2001, and whose first directorial effort - the documentary Such A Resounding Silence [+see also:
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(Translated from French)