Demi Moore, Chloé Zhao, Ruth Negga join Cannes jury
by Fred Topel · UPIMay 4 (UPI) -- The Cannes Film Festival announced its jury for the 79th festival. The Cannes Film Festival runs May 12 - 23.
Demi Moore, Ruth Negga, Chloé Zhao, Stellan Skarsgård, Laura Wandel, Diego Céspedes, Isaach De Bankolé, and Paul Laverty join jury president Park Chan-wook.
Moore starred in The Substance which premiered at Cannes 2024 and led to her Oscar nomination. Negga appeared in 2016's Loving which also screened in competition.
Skarsgård starred in Sentimental Value, which won the 2025 Grand Prix at Cannes and also led to an Oscar nomination for him, his costars Elle Fanning, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas and Renata Reinsve and writer/director Joachim Trier.
As director, Zhao's first film Songs My Brothers Taught Me screened at Cannes after premiering at Sundance. She recently adapted and directed Hamnet.
Wandel is a Belgian writer/director whose films have played in the Un Certain Regard section and others developed at the La Résidence lab. Director Céspedes won the Un Certain Regard prize last year for his first feature film, The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo.
De Bankolé is an actor who has appeared in films at Cannes such as Chocolat (1988) and Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai. He will be seen in Dune: Part Three.
Laverty wrote Palme d'Or winners The Wind That Shakes the Barley and I, Daniel Blake. Director Park has brought Oldboy, Thirst, The Handmaiden and Decision to Leave to Cannes.
Palme d’Or winners shine at Cannes photocall
Left to right, Elle Fanning, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Joachim Trier, Renate Reinsve and Stellan Skarsgård pose with the Grand Prix Award for "Sentimental Value" during the Palme D'Or winners photocall at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France, on May 24, 2025. Photo by Rocco Spaziani/UPI | License Photo