Cannes 2026: Demi Moore, Chloe Zhao and Stellan Skarsgard be a part of essential competitors jury

New Delhi: Demi Moore, Ruth Negga and Stellan Skarsgard and Oscar-winning director Chloe Zhao are among the many eight members named to the principle competitors jury on the 79th Cannes Movie Competition. The jury, headed by South Korean auteur Park Chan-wook, will oversee the 22-film ‘In Competitors’ lineup at this yr’s pageant, which runs Might 12 to 23 on the French Riviera.

Additionally on the jury are veteran screenwriter Paul Laverty, Ivorian American actor Isaach De Bankole, Chilean director Diego Cespedes and Belgian director Laura Wandel, a press launch mentioned.

Moore lately earned Golden Globe, SAG and Critics’ Alternative wins for her efficiency in Coralie Fargeat’s body-horror movie ‘The Substance’, which gained the ‘Finest Screenplay’ award at Cannes 2024. Negga acquired an Academy Award nomination for Jeff Nichols’ ‘Loving’, which competed at Cannes in 2016 and has since earned Emmy and Tony nominations for her stage and tv work.

Skarsgard starred in Joachim Trier’s ‘Sentimental Worth’, which gained the Grand Prix on the 2025 pageant and was itself nominated for the prize. Zhao, who gained Academy Awards for ‘Finest Image’ and ‘Finest Director’ for ‘Nomadland’ (2021), acquired a second ‘Finest Director’ nomination this yr for ‘Hamnet’, making her solely the second girl in Oscar historical past to earn two such nominations. She first got here to Cannes together with her debut function ‘Songs My Brothers Taught Me’ in 2015.

Cespedes gained the Un Sure Regard Prize on the 2025 pageant for his debut function ‘The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo’, whereas Wandel’s first function ‘Playground’ gained the FIPRESCI Award at Cannes 2021 within the ‘Un Sure Regard’ part.

Laverty, a longtime collaborator of British director Ken Loach, wrote the screenplays for 2 Palme d’Or winners: ‘The Wind That Shakes the Barley’ (2006) and ‘I, Daniel Blake’ (2016). He has written 14 movies for Loach, 11 of which have performed within the Cannes competitors.

Park Chan-wook, the celebrated South Korean filmmaker behind ‘Oldboy’, ‘The Handmaiden’ and ‘Resolution to Depart’, was introduced as jury president in February. He’s the primary Korean filmmaker to move the Cannes jury, having beforehand gained the Grand Prix for ‘Oldboy’ in 2004, the Jury Prize for ‘Thirst’ in 2009 and the Finest Director award for ‘Resolution to Depart’ in 2022.

The jury will announce the Palme d’Or and different winners on the closing ceremony on Might 23 on the Grand Theatre Lumiere.