Park Chan-wook’s Cannes Jury 2026 Adds Demi Moore, Chloé Zhao, Stellan Skarsgård and More

Demi Moore, Chloé Zhao and Stellan Skarsgård will sit on Park Chan-wook’s jury at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

The jury will be completed by Irish-Ethiopian actress and producer Ruth Negga, Belgian director and screenwriter Laura Wandel, Chinese director and screenwriter Chloé Zhao, Chilean filmmaker Diego Céspedes, IvorianAmerican actor Isaach De Bankolé and Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty.

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The jury will be awarding the Palme d’or to one of the 22 films in Competition. Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident” won last year’s top prize from Juliette Binoche’s jury.

Moore was last in Cannes in 2024 for her big comeback in Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance” which won best screenplay award and earned her Golden Globe, SAG, and Critics Choice wins, along with BAFTA and Oscar nominations. She will next appear in Neon’s “I Love Boosters,” directed by Boots Riley, and is set to star in “Strange Arrivals” alongside Colman Domingo.

Zhao last directed “Hamnet” which won an Oscar for Jessie Buckley, as well as a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. She broke through in 2021 with “Nomadland,” winning two Oscars for best film and director.
She launched the production company Book of Shadows in 2023 and Kodansha Studios in 2025.

Skarsgård was at Cannes last year with Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value” which won him a Golden Globe, as well as an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor. The movie went on to win best international film at the Oscars.

Laverty has worked with Ken Loach and producer Rebecca O’Brien for 30 years
and wrote the two Palme d’or, “The Wind that Shakes the Barley” in 2006 and “I, Daniel
Blake” in 2016.

Negga is best known for her performance in Jeff Nichols’ “Loving” which earned her an Oscar nomination, and starred in Rebecca Hall’s “Passing;” Wandel last directed “Adam’s Sake” which played at Cannes’ Critics Week.

De Bankolé will soon be seen Denis Villeneuve’s anticipated “Dune: Part Three,” and previously starred in “Black Panther” and “The Brutalist.” Cespedes won the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes last year with his debut feature, “The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo.”