After a lot hypothesis over who’d be becoming a member of beforehand introduced Cannes jury president Ruben Östlund on the ticket, the 76th version has lastly unveiled its full jury.
Östlund can be joined by Moroccan director Maryam Touzani (The Blue Caftan), There Will Be Blood / The Batman actor Paul Dano, Captain Marvel actress Brie Larson, French actor Denis Ménochet (Inglorious Basterds, Jusqu’à la garde), British-Zambian screenwriter and director Rungano Nyoni (I Am Not A Witch), Afghan creator Atiq Rahimi (‘The Thousand Rooms of Dream and Concern’, ‘The Persistence Stone’), Argentinian director and screenwriter Damián Szifrón (Wild Tales, To Catch a Killer), and Titane director Julia Ducournau, who gained the highest prize in 2021.
It’s a powerful jury and one to get enthusiastic about, particularly as a result of many of the Class of 2023 have shut ties with Cannes.
Ducournau introduced her first quick, 2011’s Junior, on the Croisette, following up with Critics’ Week entry Grave (Uncooked) in 2016, solely to win the Palme d’Or in 2021 with the face-melting cinematic gut-punch Titane – turning into the primary solo feminine winner of the prize. (Jane Campion shared the Palme d’Or in 1993 for The Piano, with Chen Kaige and his movie Farewell My Concubine.)
Nyoni’s breathtaking debut movie I Am Not A Witch had its world premiere in Cannes’ Administrators’ Fortnight sidebar again in 2017, whereas Touzani’s acclaimed first function movie, Adam, screened in Un Sure Regard and was short-listed for an Oscar.
Elsewhere, Szifrón’s deliriously acerbic Wild Tales screened in Cannes in 2014, and Dano walked the Cannes pink carpet for Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth in 2015 and Bong Joon Ho’s Okja in 2018.
As for the 2023 jury president Östlund, he finds himself within the elite membership of two-time Palme d’Or winners, having claimed Cannes’ prime prize each for The Triangle of Unhappiness final 12 months and for The Sq. in 2017. Beforehand, his 2008 sophomore effort Involuntary screened in Un Sure Regard, his 2011 function Play premiered in Administrators’ Fortnight, and his worldwide breakthrough Drive Majeure screened in Un Sure Regard in 2014. So, just about his complete profession has had Cannes as a backdrop.
The jury will award the Palme d’Or to one of many 21 movies introduced in competitors. The awards can be introduced on 27 Might on the closing ceremony. The ultimate pageant screening for its closing evening, Pixar’s Elemental, will comply with the Palme d’Or announcement.
As beforehand introduced, the Un Sure Regard sidebar part and subsequent jury can be presided over by Oscar nominee John C. Reilly, with French director and screenwriter Alice Winocour (Proxima, Revoir Paris), German actress Paula Beer (Undine, Afire), Franco-Cambodian director and producer Davy Chou (Return To Seoul), and Belgian actress Émilie Dequenne (Rosetta, Shut) additionally serving as jurors.
Take a look at the complete 2023 Cannes Movie Pageant line-up right here.
The 76th version of Cannes will run from 16 – 27 Might.