The 76th Festival de Cannes already had a jury president in two-time Palme d’Or winner Ruben Ostlünd. It now has eight extra members to fill out its jury. Two of these members simply occur to be Oscar winner Brie Larson and Emmy and BAFTA Award nominee Paul Dano.
The different members of the jury embrace one other Palme d’Or winner, “Titane” director Julia Ducournau, “Wild Tales” Oscar nominee Damián Szifrón famous French actor Denis Menochet, BAFTA Award-winning filmmaker Rungano Nyoni, Moroccan director Maryam Touzani, and novelist and filmmaker Atiq Rahimi.
Unlike the 2023 jury, which was chock stuffed with AMPAS members, the 2023 version solely contains 5: Larson, Ostlünd, Dano, Touzani, and Szifrón. With each Ostlünd’s “Triangle of Sadness” and Bong Joon-ho’s “Parasite” profitable each the Palme and incomes Best Picture nominations (the latter profitable in 2020), the jury choices have garnered extra consideration from awards watchers over the previous few years.
This yr’s in-competition class contains extremely anticipated premieres together with Todd Haynes’ “May December,” Karim Aïnouz‘s “Firebrand,” Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest,” Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City,” Alice Rohrwacher’s “La Chimera,” Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Monster” and Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days.” Expected awards titles Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” and Peter Sohn’s “Elemental” are debuting out of the competitors.
Other notable screenings out of competitors embrace James Mangold’s “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” the Sam Levinson-directed sequence “The Idol” and Michel Gondry’s “The Book of Solutions” in Director’s Fortnight.
The competition beforehand introduced the Un Certain Regard jury could be headed by John C. Reilly and embrace German actress Paula Beer, director Davy Chou, Belgian actress Émilie Dequenne, and French filmmaker Alice Winocour.
The 2024 Cannes Film Festival will run from May 16-27. Look for full protection together with critiques and commentary on The Playlist.