Cannes Film Festival jury: Lily Gladstone, Eva Green and J. A. Bayona join Greta Gerwig
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We’re just two weeks away from the 77th Cannes Film Festival, and this morning the august French institution revealed who will determine the winners of this year’s awards. A cross-section of international talent will join “Barbie” and “Lady Bird” director Greta Gerwig, who will lead the panel, in an effort to undoubtedly compare apples to oranges and try to make sense of a diverse slate of films from directors like David Cronenberg, Francis Ford Coppola, Sean Baker, Ali Abbasi, and many others.
Lily Gladstone, who won several Best Actress awards last year (but not the Oscar!) for her revolutionary turn in “Killers of the Flower Moon,” is the other American joining Gerwig. The actress, currently seen on FX/Hulu’s “Under the Bridge,” is returning to Cannes one year after Martin Scorsese and Apple Original Films brought “Flower Moon” to the French Riviera festival for its out-of-competition debut.
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Others clocking in for jury duty include:
The French actress Eva Green, widely known for Hollywood productions like “Casino Royale” and “Penny Dreadful.”
Spanish director J.A. Bayona, whose work includes “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” (the second in the recent trilogy, and also the best) and the recent Oscar-nominated Foreign Language picture “Society of the Snow,” which was a “most viewed” streaming success for Netflix all around the world.
The quite prolific Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, himself a Palme D’Or-winner with the weirdly heartwarming drama about theft “Shoplifters” from 2018, which was also nominated for the Best Foreign Language Oscar.
Lebanese director Nadine Labicki, whose 2018 film “Capernaum,” a disturbing look at children caught up in cycles of poverty, premiered in competition at Cannes and was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Oscar, and whose 2011 film “Where Do We Go From Here?” won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival
French actor Omar Sy, perhaps best known for the comic-drama “The Intouchables,” but also seen in some Hollywood productions like two “Jurassic World” movies (though not Bayona’s!), “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” and voicing an alien robo-vehicle Hot Rod in “Transformers: The Last Knight.”
And lastly, the Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino, who is in the upcoming Maria Callas biopic with Angelina Jolie directed by Pablo Larrain, and Turkish screenwriter Ebru Ceylan who has worked on many films by her Palme D’Or-winning director-husband Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
How the Cannes jury actually works is a mystery understood only by a select few, but there have been tales of epic battles between strong-minded individuals. If you ever wondered how some of the more middling competition titles have come out as winners (“Dheepan” probably being the most famous recent example) this is probably the cause.
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