{"id":411637,"date":"2026-05-04T18:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/411637\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T18:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:19:08","slug":"park-chan-wooks-cannes-jury-adds-demi-moore-chloe-zhao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/411637\/","title":{"rendered":"Park Chan-wook’s Cannes Jury Adds Demi Moore, Chlo\u00e9 Zhao"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDemi Moore<\/a>, Chlo\u00e9 Zhao and Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd will sit on Park Chan-wook\u2019s jury at this year\u2019s Cannes Film Festival<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe jury will be completed by Irish-Ethiopian actress and producer Ruth Negga, Belgian director and screenwriter Laura Wandel, Chinese director and screenwriter Chlo\u00e9 Zhao, Chilean filmmaker Diego C\u00e9spedes, IvorianAmerican actor Isaach De Bankol\u00e9 and Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe jury will be awarding the Palme d\u2019or to one of the 22 films in Competition. Jafar Panahi\u2019s \u201cIt Was Just an Accident\u201d won last year\u2019s top prize from Juliette Binoche\u2019s jury. <\/p>\n

\n\tMoore was last at Cannes in 2024 for her big comeback in Coralie Fargeat\u2019s \u201cThe Substance\u201d which won best screenplay award and earned her Golden Globe, SAG, and Critics Choice wins, along with BAFTA and Oscar nominations. She will next appear in Neon\u2019s \u201cI Love Boosters,\u201d directed by Boots Riley, and is set to star in \u201cStrange Arrivals\u201d alongside Colman Domingo.<\/p>\n

\n\tZhao last directed \u201cHamnet\u201d which won an Oscar for Jessie Buckley, as well as a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. She broke through in 2021 with \u201cNomadland,\u201d winning two Oscars for best film and director.
She launched the production company Book of Shadows in 2023 and Kodansha Studios in 2025.<\/p>\n

\n\tSkarsg\u00e5rd was at Cannes last year with Joachim Trier\u2019s \u201cSentimental Value\u201d which won him a Golden Globe, as well as an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor. The family drama went on to win best international film at the Oscars. <\/p>\n

\n\tLaverty has worked with Ken Loach and producer Rebecca O\u2019Brien for 30 years and wrote Loach\u2019s two Palme d\u2019or winning films \u201cThe Wind that Shakes the Barley\u201d in 2006 and \u201cI, Daniel Blake\u201d in 2016. <\/p>\n

\n\tNegga is best known for her performance in Jeff Nichols\u2019 \u201cLoving\u201d which earned her an Oscar nomination, and starred in Rebecca Hall\u2019s \u201cPassing;\u201d Wandel last directed \u201cAdam\u2019s Sake\u201d which played at Cannes\u2019 Critics Week. <\/p>\n

\n\tDe Bankol\u00e9 will soon be seen Denis Villeneuve\u2019s anticipated \u201cDune: Part Three,\u201d and previously starred in \u201cBlack Panther\u201d and \u201cThe Brutalist.\u201d Cespedes won the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes last year with his debut feature, \u201cThe Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe lineup of this 79th edition <\/a>will bring together the next film by James Gray, Asghar Farhadi, Pedro Almod\u00f3var, Pawe\u0142 Pawlikowski, Ira Sachs, Hirokazu Kore-eda, L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Nemes and Ryusuke Hamaguchi, among others. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Demi Moore, Chlo\u00e9 Zhao and Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd will sit on Park Chan-wook\u2019s jury at this year\u2019s Cannes Film…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[14400,430,3628,1099,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-411637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-cannes-film-festival","tag-celebrities","tag-chloe-zhao","tag-demi-moore","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}