Omar Sy and Eva Green will be part of the jury for the 77th edition

The 77^e Cannes Festival, which will be held from May 14 to 25, announced Monday April 29 the composition of its jury, which includes Omar Sy, one of the best-known faces of French cinema.

The festival has chosen four men and four women who will officiate under the presidency of director Greta Gerwig, a figure of American auteur cinema who became queen of the box office with barbie in 2023 (the film brought in 1.38 billion euros in revenue). At 40, she is the youngest president of the Cannes Film Festival since Sofia Loren in 1966.

By becoming a member of its jury, Omar Sy, 46, takes a new step in his career, since his first steps in schoolboy humor (Omar and Fred) to his beginnings in Hollywood, as an actor and producer, through his popular successes in France (Untouchables).

The actor, who will debate with the other members of the jury to decide between the twenty-two films in competition, should cause a sensation on the red carpet: he is both one of the favorite personalities of the French and a popular performer around the world , especially since the success of the Netflix series Lupine.

Dress rehearsal before the Games

At her side will sit the French actress Eva Green, 43, known as well for her roles in France (most recently that of Milady in The three Musketeers) than in Hollywood, with Tim Burton in particular (Dark Shadows), or alongside Daniel Craig in the James Bond films.

A year after walking the red carpet for Killers of the Flower Moonby Martin Scorsese, a role for which she was nominated for an Oscar, actress Lily Gladstone, Native American, also joins the Festival jury, of which she is the youngest at 37 years old.

Added to this list is the Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino (The traitor), 54 years old; Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, 61, Palme d’Or in 2018 for A family matter ; Spanish filmmaker Juan Antonio Bayona (The Snow Circle), 48 years old; Lebanese director Nadine Labaki, 50; and Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan, 48 years old.

With its entire jury, its twenty-two films in competition to succeed Anatomy of a fallby Justine Triet, Palme d’Or in 2023, and more than a hundred films announced, including in the parallel selections, the great world cinema festival is now ready to open.

Two months before the Olympic Games, this major event will be a dress rehearsal in terms of security for the authorities.

In addition to the tens of thousands of festival-goers, this year again, very big names in cinema are expected: the creator of Star WarsGeorges Lucas, for an honorary Palme d’Or, the godfather of Hollywood Francis Ford Coppola, in search of a third Palme for Megalopolisstar actors, like Demi Moore, Emma Stone, Selena Gomez, Adam Driver or Richard Gere.

The start will be given on the evening of May 14 with the opening ceremony, presented by Camille Cottin, and the screening of Quentin Dupieux’s latest comedy, with Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon and Louis Garrel, The Second Actwhich is released at the same time in theaters.