Omar Sy, Eva Green and Hirokazu Koreeda… Discover the jury of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival

Eight arbitrators were appointed to award the Palme d’Or on May 25, as part of a jury headed by director Greta Gerwig.

We have known since December the identity of the president of the jury for the 77th Cannes Film Festival, which will be held from May 14 to 25: Greta Gerwig. It remains to be known the composition of the team that will support the American director Barbie. Eight judges have been appointed to judge the festival’s official selection:

• Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebro Ceylon,
• American actress Lily Gladstone,
• French actress Eva green,
• Lebanese director and screenwriter Nadine Labaki,
• Spanish director, producer and screenwriter Juan Antonio Bayona,
• Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino,
• Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda,
• French actor and producer Omar C.

On Saturday, in his hometown of Trappes in the Paris region, Omar Sy opened a cinema in his name. Two days later, here he was, a member of the Cannes Film Festival jury, and this is proof of that: Untouchable To the chain LupineThe actor, who divides his life between France and the United States, has become an international star.

Eva Green also has a career in both Hollywood and France, which took her from Ridley Scott’s camera (kingdom sky(For that Martin Campbell)Royal Casino(And Martin Bourbolon)The three musketeers). In Cannes, she will sit down with Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan, particularly known for co-writing the 2014 Palme d’Or. Hibernationl Nuri Bilge Ceylan.

Lily Gladstone was revealed thanks to Martin Scorsese. She is descended from the Blackfoot and Nez Perce tribes, and is the first Native American to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress, for her role in the film Moonflower Killers. For his part, Italian Pierfrancesco Favino toured under the supervision of Ron Howard, Marco Bellocchio, and Gianni Amelio.

Three directors alongside Greta Gerwig

Lebanese director Nadine Labaki is a regular at the Croisette restaurant. Her first film as a director, Caramelwas submitted to the Directors’ Half selection in 2007. In 2018, at the Cannes Film Festival, the Jury Prize was awarded to his fifth feature film, Capernaum.

You’ll find two colleagues, the Spaniard Juan Antonio Bayona, a multi-award winner with an impressive collection of 17 goyas and an Oscar nomination for his latest film Snow circle. He is also known worldwide for directing the fifth part of the film series Jurassic ParkBaptized Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. The jury is completed by the illustrious Palme d’Or winner, Japan’s Hirokazu Kore-eda Hirokazu, who in 2018 won the Family matterAnd won the grand prize at the festival.

The jury will award the Palme d’Or to one of the 22 competing films that succeeds Anatomy of a fallwritten by Justine Treat, which was awarded by the judging panel of Ruben Östlund in 2023. The winners will be revealed on Saturday, May 25 on the broadcast of Televisions France.