The Cannes Film Festival has named the eight members of its main Competition jury who will join previously announced president Greta Gerwig in deciding the Palme d’Or and other key prizes at 77th edition running from May 14 to 25.
They are Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan, U.S. actress Lily Gladstone, French actress Eva Green, Lebanese director and screenwriter Nadine Labaki, Spanish director and screenwriter J.A. Bayona, Italian actor Pierfrancisco Favino, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda and French actor and producer Omar Sy.
The wife and long-time collaborator of Nuri Bilge Ceylan, screenwriter and photographer Ceylan co-wrote 2014 Palme d’Or winner Winter Sleep and also took co-writing credits on Cannes selected films Three Monkeys (Best Director Prize 2008), Once upon a time in Anatolia (Grand Prix 2011), The Wild Pear Tree (2018) and About Dry Grasses (2023).
Ceylan also appeared as an actress and took art director credits on her husband’s early films Distant (2002) and Climates (2006). She also writes stories and articles for various literary and artmagazines and continues to work on films, photography, and video art.
Gladstone, who hails from the Blackfeet and Nez Perce Tribal Nations, was the first Native American to be Oscar nominated for Best Actress for her performance in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, which world premiered Out of Competition in Cannes last year. She won the 2023 Golden Globe and the 2024 Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance in the role.
The actress first started gaining attention with Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women (2016), with other notable credits including Morrisa Maltz’s The Unknown Country (2022). Gladstone can be seen currently in Hulu’s limited series Under the Bridge and will next be seen in Apple’s series by Erica Tremblay’s Fancy Dance.
Green cut her acting teeth in theatre before moving into cinema with Bernardo Bertolucci’s Innocents: The Dreamers (2003).
She has alternated between Hollywood productions, such as Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven (2004), Casino Royale (2006), 300: The Birth of an empire (2014), Sin City: I Killed for Her (2014) – and independent films including David Mackenzie’s Perfect Sense (2011), Gregg Araki’s White Bird (2014) and Alice Winocour’s Proxima (2019).
The actress also enjoyed success with fantasy series Penny Dreadful (2014). She has made three films with Tim Burton: Dark Shadows (2012), Miss Peregrine and the Peculiar Children (2016), Dumbo (2017). She recently played in the French blockbuster The Three Musketeers.
Labaki won the Cannes Jury Prize in 2018 for Capernaum, which went on to be nominated for a Golden Globe and an Oscar for Best Foreign Film.
Her ties with Cannesl go back two decades when she participated in its La Résidence de la Cinéfondation program in 2004 to write and develop her first feature Caramel. In 2011, she presented Where Do We Go Now? in the Un Certain Regard selection. Other credits include O Milagre for the sketch film Rio, I Love You. She is currently working on her next feature.
Bayona’s first feature film The Orphanage premiered in Cannes Critics’ Week in 2007. In 2012, he directed The Impossible, which won five Goya Awards, including Best Director, and was nominated for in the Oscar and Golden Globe awards in the category of Best Actress for Naomi Watts.
In 2016 he directed A Monster Calls, followed by Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the fifth instalment of the Jurassic Park film series. His latest film, the Academy Award nominated Society of the Snow won twelve Goya Awards.
Favino first gained recognition for his performance in Gabriele Muccino’s debut hit The Last Kiss (2001). Awarded for his performance in Michele Placido’s Romanzo Criminale (2005), he pursued a parallel career in Hollywood with Ron Howard’s Angels and Demons and Rush, Spike Lee’s Miracle at St. Anna and Marc Foster’s World War Z.
He won praise for his performance as Tommaso Buscetta in Marco Bellocchio’s The Traitor, which premiered in Competition in Cannes 2019. The actor returned to the festival in 2022 with Mario Martone’s Nostalgia, also in Competition.
In between times, he starred in Hammamet by Gianni Amelio and Padrenostro by Claudio Noce (2020), for which he won Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival. He recently worked with Pablo Larraìn on Maria and Gabriele Salvatores on Naples to New York.
Kore-eda cut his director’s teeth on documentary programs for television and started making waves internationally with Maborosi (1995) and After Life (1998).
He has since become a Cannes regular showing Distance (2001), Nobody Knows (Best Actor Award, 2004), Air Doll (2009), Like Father, Like Son (Jury Prize, 2013), Our little Sister (2015) and After the Storm (2016).
In 2018, Shoplifters won the Palme d’or at Cannes’ 71st edition and was also nominated for the 91st Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Kor-eda started making films outside his native Japan with the French mother-and-daughter drama The Truth (2019) and Korean-set film Broker (2022). His latest feature Monster won Best Screenplay in Cannes last year.
Sy, who has successfully forged a career in his native France as well as Hollywood, is arguably the most bankable French star of the moment. He broke out at home and internationally as the co-star of Éric Toledano & Olivier Nakache’s record-breaking hit The Intouchables (2011), having previously collaborated with them on Tellement proches (2009). They would reunite on Samba (2014).
Other notable French credits include Micmacs (2009) by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Mood Indigo (2013) by Michel Gondry, Chocolat (2016) by Roschdy Zem, Yao (2019) by Philippe Godeau and The Lost Prince (2020) by Michel Hazanavicius.
His international credits include X- Men: Days of Future Past (2014), Jurassic World (2015-2022), Ron Howard’s Inferno (2016). In 2022, he starred in Mathieu Vadepied’s Father & Soldier, which opened Un Certain Regard and went on to be a hit at home. He will next be seen in Joe Carnahan’s Shadow Force and John Woo’s The Killer. In 2023, he founded the production studio Carrousel Studios with producer-director Louis Leterrier and entrepreneur/producer Thomas Benski.
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