The Cannes Film Festival has picked its full jury.
Oscar-nominated The Killers of the Flower Moon lead Lily Gladstone, French stars Eva Green and Omar Sy and Italian actor Pierfrancisco Favino are among the A-listers who will join Barbie director Greta Gerwig, this year’s jury president for the 77th Cannes Film Festival, selecting the winners, including the best film Palme d’Or, from the 2024 competition lineup.
A trio of international Oscar-nominated directors: Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki (Capernaum), Spain’s Juan Antonio Bayona (Society of the Snow) and Japanese director Kore-eda Hirokazu (Shoplifters), as well as Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan, co-writer of 2014 Palme d’Or winner Winter Sleep (with director husband Nuri Bilge Ceylan), complete the five-women, four-man jury.
Among the films in the running for this year’s Palme d’Or are Francis Ford Coppola’s long-anticipated Megalopolis; Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things follow-up Kinds of Kindness; Bird from Scottish director Andrea Arnold; David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds; and Ali Abbasi’s Donald Trump drama The Apprentice.
The 2024 Cannes Festival kicks off May 14 with The Second Act, a surreal comedy from French director Quentin Dupieux (Smoking Causes Coughing) starring Léa Seydoux and Vincent Lindon. It will premiere out of competition, as will George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the latest in the Australian apocalypse franchise, starring Anya Taylor-Joy; and Kevin Costner’s Western epic Horizons: An American Saga – Chapter 1.
Cannes juries have a strong track record in picking breakout award season contenders. Last year’s Palme winner, Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, went from success on the Croisette all the way to the Oscars, where the French film won the Academy Award for best original screenplay and scored a best actress nom for breakout star Sandra Hüller.
The 77th Cannes Film Festival runs May 14-25.