Park Chan-wook is set to serve as jury president at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, with Chloé Zhao among the jurors for this year’s main competition.
Zhao joins a lineup that includes actors Demi Moore, Stellan Skarsgård, Ruth Negga and Isaach De Bankolé, alongside Chilean director Diego Céspedes, Belgian filmmaker Laura Wandel, and screenwriter Paul Laverty.
The jury will oversee the 22-film In Competition slate at the 79th edition of the festival, which runs from May 12 to May 23 on the French Riviera.
Zhao, coming off her Oscar-nominated Hamnet, previously won Best Picture and Best Director for Nomadland, and first premiered at Cannes with Songs My Brothers Taught Me in 2015. Park, known for Oldboy, The Handmaiden, and Decision to Leave, was announced earlier this year as jury president.
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Several jurors return to Cannes with strong ties to the festival. Demi Moore appeared in 2024’s The Substance, while Stellan Skarsgård starred in Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, which won the Grand Prix and later received Oscar nominations.
Ruth Negga was Oscar-nominated for Loving, which premiered at Cannes in 2016, while Isaach De Bankolé has long been associated with the festival through films like Chocolat.
Among the filmmakers, Laura Wandel has presented multiple works at Cannes, including Playground, while Diego Céspedes won the Un Certain Regard Prize last year for The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo.
Paul Laverty, a frequent collaborator of Ken Loach, has written two Palme d’Or winners: The Wind That Shakes the Barley and I, Daniel Blake.
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This year’s competition lineup features films from Pedro Almodóvar, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Asghar Farhadi, Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Na Hong-jin, among others, in a slate that leans strongly international.
The festival will open on May 12 with Pierre Salvadori’s The Electric Kiss, screening out of competition, with winners set to be announced at the closing ceremony on May 23.
