The 2024 Cannes Film Festival has announced its all-star lineup of jurors to decide this year’s Palme d’Or.
As previously announced, “Barbie” director Greta Gerwig will serve as jury president. Fellow recent Oscar nominee Lily Gladstone is part of the jury, as well as writer/director J.A. Bayona, Eva Green, Omar Sy, Pierfrancisco Favino, director Kore-eda Hirokazu, screenwriter Nadine Labaki, and screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan.
The 2024 Cannes Film Festival will take place May 14-25. The jury will have the honor of awarding the Palme d’Or to one of the 22 films in competition, with contenders including Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis,” Sean Baker’s “Anora,” David Cronenberg’s “The Shrouds,” Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Kinds of Kindness,” and Paul Schrader’s “Oh, Canada.”
New films from Paolo Sorrentino (“Parthenope”), Mohammad Rasoulof (“The Seed of the Sacred Fig”), Karim Aïnouz (“Motel Destino”), and Andrea Arnold (“Bird”) are also debuting in competition.
The winners will be announced on Saturday, May 25 at the Closing Ceremony, broadcast live by France Télévisions in France and by Brut internationally.
“Star Wars” creator George Lucas will be receiving an honorary Palme d’Or. Last year in 2023, Justine Triet’s Academy Award-winning feature “Anatomy of a Fall” took home the top title of Palme d’Or, as awarded by Ruben Östlund’s jury.
The Un Certain Regard jury, which has yet to be announced, will have Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan as jury president. Dolan’s Cannes accolades include “Laurence Anyways” in Un Certain Regard and “Mommy,” which was Dolan’s first feature in competition. “Mommy” tied with Jean-Luc Godard’s “Goodbye to Language” to win the Jury Prize. Dolan later joined the jury chaired by the Coen brothers at the 68th Festival de Cannes. Dolan debuted “It’s Only the End of the World” at the festival the following year, and “Matthias & Maxime” premiered in competition in 2019.
The Cannes staple filmmaker previously hinted at possible retirement in a 2022 interview with Le Journal de Montreal.
“Me, in that world, I no longer necessarily feel the need to tell stories and to relate to myself. I want to take time to be with my friends and family,” Dolan said. “I want to shoot commercials and build myself a house in the country one day when I have enough money saved. I don’t say that in a sad way at all. I just want to live something else, other experiences.”
