A fortnight before the race for the Palme d’Or, the 77th Cannes Film Festival announced on Monday the composition of its jury chaired by Greta Gerwig. There we find in particular Omar Sy, one of the faces of French cinema in the world.
The festival, which will be held from May 14 to 25, has chosen four men and four women who will officiate under the presidency of director Greta Gerwig. This figure of American auteur cinema became queen of the box office with “Barbie” last year. At 40, she is the youngest president since Sophia Loren in 1966, then aged 31.
On his jury is Omar Sy, 46 years old. The French actor is taking a new step in an exceptional career from his first steps in schoolboy humor (“Omar and Fred”) to his early career in Hollywood, as an actor and producer, through his popular successes in France (“Untouchables”).
Cannes has chosen one of the stars of a French cinema which aims to be more representative of the diversity of society: Omar Sy was born in the Paris suburbs, in Trappes, to parents who came from the border between Senegal and Mauritania.
The actor, who will debate with the other members of the jury to decide between the 22 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, notably since the success of the Netflix series “Lupin”.
Lily Gladstone, youngest member of the jury
At his side will be 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, or alongside Daniel Craig in the James Bond films.
A year after walking the red carpet for Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon”, a role for which she was nominated for an Oscar, actress Lily Gladstone, from a Native American background, also joins the jury, including At 37 she is the youngest.
Added to this list are the Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino (“The Traitor”), 54 years old, the Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, 61 years old, Palme d’Or in 2018 for “A Family Affair”, the Spanish filmmaker Juan Antonio Bayona (“The Circle of Snows”, released in France on Netflix), 48 years old, the Lebanese director Nadine Labaki, 50 years old, and the Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan, 48 years old.
Presented by Camille Cottin, the opening ceremony will be held on May 14.
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