Brie Larson, Paul Dano and Julia Ducournau are among eight people chosen to complete the main competition jury at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, Cannes organizers announced Thursday morning in Paris.
Swedish director Ruben Ostlund, who won the Palme d’Or last year for “Triangle of Sadness,” was previously announced as president of the jury. The presence of Ducournau, who won the top award for “Titane” in 2021, means that the last two La Palma winners will be part of the deliberations to determine who will succeed them this year.
Other members of the jury will be the Moroccan writer and director Maryam Touzani, who was in Cannes last year with “The Blue Caftan”; French actor Denis Menochet, who recently appeared in Ari Aster’s “Beau Is Afraid”; Zambian/British writer-director Rungano Nyoni, whose “I’m Not a Witch” premiered at Cannes; Afghan novelist and writer-director Atiq Rahimi, whose film work often adapts his own best-selling books; and Argentine writer-director Damian Szifron, who earned an Oscar nomination for his 2014 Cannes film “Wild Tales.”
The 5 to 4 division of the jury between men and women is typical of Cannes in recent years. Since 2012, each jury has been split 5-4, with men in the majority eight times and women three times.
Films vying for the Palme d’Or and other awards this year include Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City,” Todd Haynes’ “May December,” Alice Rohrwacher’s “The Chimera,” Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest.” . and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Monster.” Five of this year’s directors – Kore-eda, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Nanni Moretti, Ken Loach and Wim Wenders – are previous Palme winners.
The festival will kick off on May 16 with “Jeanne du Barry,” starring Johnny Depp, and will run through May 27. Prizes will be announced on the last day.