Washington DC [US], May 4 (ANI): The jury of the Cannes Film Festival has expanded as Demi Moore, Chloe Zhao and Stellan Skarsgard have been added to Park Chan-wook’s jury at this year’s festival, reported Variety.
According to the outlet, the jury will be completed by Irish-Ethiopian actress and producer Ruth Negga, Belgian director and screenwriter Laura Wandel, Chinese director and screenwriter Chloe Zhao, Chilean filmmaker Diego Cespedes, Ivorian American actor Isaach De Bankole and Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty.
The jury will be awarding the Palme d’Or to one of the 22 films in Competition. Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident” won last year’s top prize from Juliette Binoche’s jury.
Moore was last at Cannes in 2024 for her big comeback in Coralie Fargeat’s ‘The Substance’, which won the best screenplay award and earned her Golden Globe, SAG, and Critics’ Choice wins, along with BAFTA and Oscar nominations.
She will next appear in Neon’s ‘I Love Boosters,’ directed by Boots Riley, and is set to star in ‘Strange Arrivals’ alongside Colman Domingo.
Zhao last directed ‘Hamnet’ which won an Oscar for Jessie Buckley, as well as a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. She broke through in 2021 with ‘Nomadland,’ winning two Oscars for best film and director.
She launched the production company Book of Shadows in 2023 and Kodansha Studios in 2025, reported Variety.
As for Skarsgard, the actor was at Cannes last year with Joachim Trier’s ‘Sentimental Value’, which won him a Golden Globe, as well as an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor. The family drama went on to win best international film at the Oscars.
Laverty has worked with Ken Loach and producer Rebecca O’Brien for 30 years and wrote Loach’s two Palme d’Or winning films, ‘The Wind that Shakes the Barley’ in 2006 and ‘I, Daniel Blake’ in 2016.
Negga is best known for her performance in Jeff Nichols’ ‘Loving’ which earned her an Oscar nomination, and starred in Rebecca Hall’s ‘Passing’ Wandel last directed ‘Adam’s Sake’ which played at Cannes’ Critics Week.
Actor De Bankole will soon be seen Denis Villeneuve’s anticipated ‘Dune: Part Three,’ and previously starred in ‘Black Panther’ and ‘The Brutalist.’
Cespedes won the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes last year with his debut feature, ‘The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo,’ reported Variety.
The lineup of this 79th edition will bring together the next film by James Gray, Asghar Farhadi, Pedro Almodovar, Pawel Pawlikowski, Ira Sachs, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Laszlo Nemes and Ryusuke Hamaguchi, among others. (ANI)
