The 77th Cannes Film 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 box office queen with Barbie in 2023 (the film grossed 1.38 billion euros in recipes). 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, from his first steps in schoolboy humor (Omar and Fred) to his debut in Hollywood, as an actor and producer, by the way by his popular successes in France (Intouchables).

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 his side will sit the French actress Eva Green, 43, known as much for her roles in France (most recently that of Milady in The Three Musketeers) as 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 Moon, by Martin Scorsese, a role for which she was nominated for an Oscar, Native American actress Lily Gladstone also joins the Festival jury, of which she is 37 years the youngest.

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

With its full jury, its twenty-two films in competition to succeed Anatomy of a Fall, by 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 Wars, Georges Lucas, for an honorary Palme d’Or, the godfather of Hollywood Francis Ford Coppola, in quest for a third Palme for Megalopolis, star actors like Demi Moore, Emma Stone, Selena Gomez, Adam Driver and Richard Gere.

The kick-off 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 Act, which will be released in same time in the room.