04/05/2023 - The jury tasked with handing out the Palme d’Or includes Brie Larson, Julia Ducournau, Maryam Touzani, Rungano Nyoni, Paul Dano, Denis Ménochet, Atiq Rahimi and Damián Szifrón

Director Julia Ducournau (© Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Getty Images), director Damián Szifrón (© Gabriel Machado), director Rungano Nyoni (© Gabriel Gauchet), actor-director Paul Dano (© Jay L. Clendenin/Getty Images), director Ruben Östlund (© Julien Lienard/Getty Images), actor Denis Ménochet (© Sabine Villiard), actress-director Brie Larson (© Randy Holmes/Getty Images), director Atiq Rahimi (© Frédéric Stucin) and director Maryam Touzani (© Lorenzo Salemi) (© Cannes Film Festival)

The members of the official competition jury at the 76^th Cannes Film Festival (16-27 May), chaired by Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund (see the news), have now all been unmasked. The jury will comprise a total of nine members.

There are four women involved, with US actress-director Brie Larson (winner of the Oscar for Best Actress in 2016 for Room [+see also:
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Also being summoned to judge the 21 films in the running for the 2023 Palme d’Or (see the news) are US actor Paul Dano (seen last year in The Batman and The Fabelmans), his French counterpart Denis Ménochet (very popular recently in The Beasts [+see also:
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As a reminder, the Un Certain Regard jury will be chaired by John C Reilly (see the news), and the one weighing up the short films and the Cinef selection will be presided over by Ildikó Enyedi (see the news). As for the Caméra d’or jury (handed to the best feature debut in any of the selections), it will be chaired by French thesp Anaïs Demoustier, who will be backed up by actor Raphaël Personnaz, DoP Nathalie Durand, writer-director Mikael Buch, Sophie Frilley (TitraFilm) and journalist Nicolas Marcadé.

(Translated from French)