The Cannes jury class of 2023 has finally been unveiled.
The festival has rounded out its jury led this year by Triangle of Sadness director and 2022 Palme dOr winner Ruben stlund with a star-studded roster of actors and directors.
Jury members include: actors Paul Dano and Brie Larson, Moroccan director Maryam Touzani, French actor Denis Mnochet, British-Zambian screenwriter and director Rungano Nyoni, Afghan author Atiq Rahimi, Argentinian director and screenwriter Damin Szifrn and director Julia Ducournau, who won the Palme dOr in 2021 for her film Titane.
The jury will award the Palme dOr to one of the 21 films playing in competition. The awards will be revealed on May 27 at the festivals closing ceremony.
Ostlunds selection as jury president was announced by Cannes on Feb. 27, leaving a considerable gap of just over two months before the full jury reveal. As in past years, most jury members have helmed or starred in films that have played at the festival.
Touzanis acclaimed first feature film, Adam, screened in Un Certain Regard and was short-listed for an Oscar, while Mnochet broke out in Quentin Tarantinos Inglourious Basterds, which played in competition in 2009. Nyonis first feature film I Am Not a Witch also played in Cannes, while Rahimis book Earth and Ashes was adapted for the screen by the author and played at the festival in 2004.
Elsewhere, Szifrns Wild Tales made waves in Cannes in 2014, while the same can be said for Ducournaus surrealist drama Titane in 2021.
Captain Marvel star Larson appears to be a relative newcomer to Cannes despite starring in many indie films. Shell next appear in Fast X this summer as well as Lessons in Chemistry. Dano has starred in two Cannes titles: Paolo Sorrentinos Youth and Bong Joon-hos Okja.
stlund is a Cannes regular, having won the festivals top prize twice, for Triangle of Sadness in 2022 and for The Square in 2017. Before that, he presented two films at Un Certain Regard, including Force Majeure, which won the Jury Prize.
I am happy, proud and humbled to be trusted with the honor of jury president for this years competition at the Festival de Cannes, said stlund, who will be the first Swede to head the jury in 50 years, following the footsteps of Ingrid Bergman. Nowhere in the film world is the anticipation as strong as when the curtain rises on the films in competition at the festival.
The 76th edition of Cannes will run from May 16 to 27.