Omar Sy, Eva Green, Hirokazu Kore-eda… Discover the jury of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival

Eight jurors were appointed to award the Palme d’Or on May 25, within a jury chaired by director Greta Gerwig.

Since December, we have known the identity of the president of the 77th jury of the Cannes Film Festival, which will be held from May 14 to 25: Greta Gerwig. It remained to be known the composition of the team which will support the American director of barbie. Eight jurors have just been appointed to arbitrate the official selection of the festival:

• the Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylon,
• American actress Lily Gladstone,
• the French actress Eva Green,
• the Lebanese director and screenwriter Nadine Labaki,
• the Spanish director, producer and screenwriter Juan Antonio Bayona,
• the italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino,
• the Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda,
• French actor and producer Omar Sy.

On Saturday, in his hometown of Trappes, in the Paris region, Omar Sy inaugurated a cinema in his name. Two days later, here he is a juror of the Cannes Film Festival, proof that, Untouchable to the series Lupinethe actor, who divides his life between France and the United States, has become a world star.

Eva Green also has a career in both Hollywood and France, which took her from Ridley Scott’s camera (Kingdom of Heaven) to those of Martin Campbell (Royal Casino) and Martin Bourboulon (The three Musketeers). In Cannes, she will sit with the Turkish screenwriter and photographer, Ebru Ceylan, known more particularly for having co-written the 2014 Palme d’Or, Winter Sleepof Nuri Bilge Ceylan.

Lily Gladstone was revealed thanks to Martin Scorsese. A native of the Blackfoot and Nez Perce tribes, she is the first Native American to be nominated for an Oscar for best actress, for her role in Killers of the Flower Moon. The Italian Pierfrancesco Favino, for his part, toured under the direction of Ron Howard, Marco Bellocchio and Gianni Amelio.

Three directors alongside Greta Gerwig

Lebanese director Nadine Labaki is a regular on the Croisette. Her first film as a director, Caramelwas presented for the Directors’ Fortnight selection in 2007. In 2018, still at Cannes, the Jury Prize was awarded to his fifth feature film, Capernaum.

She will find two colleagues, in the person of the Spaniard Juan Antonio Bayona, multi-awarded with a nice collection of 17 Goyas and an Oscar nomination for his latest film The Snow Circle. He is also known worldwide for having directed the fifth part of the film series Jurassic Parkbaptized Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. The jury is completed by an illustrious Palme d’Or, the Japanese Hirokazu Kore-eda Hirokazu, who, in 2018, with A family matterwon the Festival’s top prize.

The jury will award the Palme d’Or to one of the 22 films in competition, which will succeed Anatomy of a fallby Justine Triet, awarded by the Ruben Östlund jury in 2023. The winners will be revealed on Saturday May 25 on the broadcasts of France Televisions.