Chloé Zhao, Stellan Skarsgård, Demi Moore, and More Join This Year’s Cannes Competition Jury

The eight members of the jury will serve under previously announced president Park Chan-wook.

With the 2026 Cannes Film Festival mere days away from rolling out the red carpet next to the azure French sea, it’s time to see who will be tasked with picking the best of the annual festival’s films and performances.

On Monday afternoon, the festival announced which eight luminaries will be rounding out the Competition jury. They include: American actress and producer Demi Moore, Irish-Ethiopian actress and producer Ruth Negga, Belgian director and screenwriter Laura Wandel, Chinese director and screenwriter Chloé Zhao, Chilean director and screenwriter Diego Céspedes, Ivorian-American actor Isaach De Bankolé, Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty, and Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård.

As was previously announced in February, Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook will serve as the jury president of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival, which runs May 12-23. The Korean filmmaker has competed in Cannes’ main competition with “Decision to Leave,” “The Handmaiden,” “Thirst,” and “Oldboy.” “Thirst” won the Jury Prize in 2009, while “Decision to Leave” won Best Director in 2022.

Park is the first Korean individual to serve as the main competition jury president; Korea’s first and only Palme d’Or winner was Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” from the 2019 festival.

Many of the jury members have their own deep roots at the festival.

In 2024, Moore starred in “The Substance,” which won Best Screenplay at the fest, while Negga starred in Jeff Nichols’ 2016 Competition title “Loving,” which later garnered her an Oscar nom. Wandel has screened her shorts and features at Cannes, Laverty won Best Screenplay at Cannes for his 2002 feature “Sweet Sixteen,” Zhao brought her “Songs My Brothers Taught Me” to the Croisette in 2015, and Céspedes won the Un Certain Regard Prize at the 2025 Festival de Cannes for his debut feature, “The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo.”

And both De Bankolé and Skarsgård have starred in a number of Cannes films, from “Chocolat” to “Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai” for the former and “Breaking the Waves” and “Sentimental Value” for the latter.

Park and his jury will have the honor of awarding the Palme d’or to one of the 22 films in Competition, after Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident,” presented by Juliette Binoche’s Jury, in 2025. The winners will be announced on Saturday, May 23 at the Closing Ceremony, broadcast live by France Télévisions in France and by Brut. internationally.

The festival will open on May 12 with Pierre Salvadori’s French-language “The Electric Kiss,” as per festival tradition to launch with a local title. Receiving honorary Palme d’Ors this year will be filmmaker Peter Jackson and actor/filmmaker Barbra Streisand.

You can see the current Cannes lineup, including the Competition titles the jury will be assessing for the Palme d’Or and more accolades, right here.