(From L) Members of the Jury the 77th version of the Cannes Movie Pageant 2024, led by US director and president of the Jury. (Picture by LOIC VENANCE / AFP)
PARIS, France — An eight member jury led by Greta Gerwig will resolve the winner of this 12 months’s Palme d’Or, the highest prize of the Cannes Movie Pageant, which kicks off Tuesday.
Greta Gerwig
A former muse of US indie cinema, Gerwig, 40, turned a field workplace sensation final 12 months with “Barbie”, the primary movie by a lady director to surpass $1 billion on the field workplace.
Gerwig made her title as an actor in low-key slice-of-life tales, most notably “Frances Ha”, which she co-wrote along with her husband, director Noah Baumbach.
She then turned to directing with quirky teen comedy-drama “Woman Chook” (2017) and “Little Ladies” (2020), and can subsequent adapt beloved youngsters’s novel “The Chronicles of Narnia”.
Omar Sy
Considered one of France’s hottest celebrities, Sy is now a global star because of the Netflix present “Lupin”.
The 46-year-old’s breakthrough was 2011 hit “The Intouchables” that earned him a Cesar Award for finest actor. He appeared at Cannes in 2022 for “Father and Soldier” about African recruits throughout World Warfare I.
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Eva Inexperienced
Inexperienced, 43, was found by director Bernardo Bertolucci for 2003’s racy coming-of-age story “The Dreamers”.
She has change into a fixture of gothic and historic epics resembling “300: Rise of an Empire”, “Darkish Shadows” and “Kingdom of Heaven” and starred within the latest French remake of “The Three Musketeers”, however she is maybe best-known for breaking James Bond’s coronary heart in “On line casino Royale”.
Hirokazu Kore-Eda
A fixture at Cannes, the Japanese director, 61, has gained a number of prizes on the pageant for his quietly highly effective tales of odd households in tough conditions, together with the Palme d’Or in 2018 for “Shoplifters” and finest screenplay for final 12 months’s “Monster”.
Lily Gladstone
Gladstone, 37, gained a number of awards for her position in Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon”, which premiered at Cannes final 12 months, a breakthrough for Native American actors in Hollywood.
She beforehand starred in Kelly Reichardt’s “Sure Ladies” and can subsequent seem in Apple’s “Fancy Dance”.
US actress and member of the Jury of the 77th Cannes Movie Pageant Lily Gladstone (L) and US director and president of the Jury of the 77th Cannes Movie Pageant Greta Gerwig wave throughout a dinner with fellow members of the jury. (Picture by LOIC VENANCE / AFP)
Pierfrancesco Famine
Considered one of Italy’s high actors, Favino, 54, was a mafia boss-turned-informant within the 2019 Cannes entry “The Traitor”, and gained finest actor on the following 12 months’s Venice Movie Pageant for “Padrenostro” a few father focused by left-wing terrorists.
He’ll subsequent seem alongside Angelina Jolie in Maria Callas biopic “Maria”.
Juan Antonio Bayona
The 49-year-old Spanish director earned an Oscar nomination this 12 months for “Society of the Snow” in regards to the survivors of a aircraft crash within the Andes, which gained 12 Goya Awards in Spain.
His earlier movies embrace the award-winning horror “The Orphanage”, and “The Inconceivable” in regards to the 2004 Asian tsunami starring Naomi Watts.
Ebru Ceylan
A photographer and artwork director, Ceylan, 48, is best-known for her work alongside her husband, director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, co-writing movies together with “Three Monkeys” (2008), “As soon as Upon a Time in Anatolia” (2011) and the Palme d’Or-winning “Winter Sleep” (2014).
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Nadine Labaki
Winner of the third-place Jury Prize in 2018 for “Capernaum” about an abused little one suing his dad and mom, the Lebanese director, 50, has additionally been a daily at Cannes. She gained a residency on the pageant in 2004 to develop her movie “Caramel” a few magnificence salon, which turned the biggest-ever worldwide success for Lebanese cinema.
