List of Cannes Film Festival jury presidents

Each year, the jury of the Cannes Film Festival is chaired by an internationally recognized personality of cinema. Being appointed to this position is the recognition of an outstanding career.

Since 1960, there has been only one personality to get this honor twice: Jeanne Moreau in 1975 and 1995. The last non-professional film personality to be president of the jury is the American writer William Styron in 1983.

Since 1987, the Official Selection includes a separate jury and its President in the frame of the Caméra d'Or which chooses its best feature film presented in one of the Cannes' selections (Official Selection, Directors' Fortnight, or International Critics' Week). Since 1998, another separate jury and its President have been added for the films of the Un Certain Regard section.

Jury Presidents

Main Competition

Year	President^[1]	Profession
1946	Georges Huisman	Historian and politician
1947
1949
1951	André Maurois	Author
1952	Maurice Genevoix	Author
1953	Jean Cocteau	Filmmaker and author
1954	Jean Cocteau
1955	Marcel Pagnol
1956	Maurice Lehmann	Actor
1957	André Maurois	Author
1958	Marcel Achard
1959	Marcel Achard
1960	Georges Simenon
1961	Jean Giono
1962	Tetsurō Furukaki	Journalist and diplomat
1963	Armand Salacrou	Author
1964	Fritz Lang	Filmmaker
1965	Olivia de Havilland	Actress
1966	Sophia Loren	Actress
1967	Alessandro Blasetti	Filmmaker
1968	André Chamson	Author
1969	Luchino Visconti	Filmmaker
1970	Miguel Ángel Asturias	Author and diplomat
1971	Michèle Morgan	Actress
1972	Joseph Losey	Filmmaker
1973	Ingrid Bergman	Actress
1974	René Clair	Filmmaker
1975	Jeanne Moreau	Actress
1976	Tennessee Williams	Author
1977	Roberto Rossellini	Filmmaker
1978	Alan J. Pakula	Filmmaker
1979	Françoise Sagan	Author
1980	Kirk Douglas	Actor
1981	Jacques Deray	Filmmaker
1982	Giorgio Strehler	Opera and theater director
1983	William Styron	Author
1984	Dirk Bogarde	Actor
1985	Miloš Forman	Filmmaker
1986	Sydney Pollack	Filmmaker
1987	Yves Montand	Actor
1988	Ettore Scola	Filmmaker
1989	Wim Wenders
1990	Bernardo Bertolucci
1991	Roman Polanski
1992	Gérard Depardieu	Actor
1993	Louis Malle	Filmmaker
1994	Clint Eastwood	Filmmaker and actor
1995	Jeanne Moreau	Actress
1996	Francis Ford Coppola	Filmmaker
1997	Isabelle Adjani	Actress
1998	Martin Scorsese	Filmmaker
1999	David Cronenberg
2000	Luc Besson
2001	Liv Ullmann	Actress
2002	David Lynch	Filmmaker
2003	Patrice Chéreau	Opera and theater director
2004	Quentin Tarantino	Filmmaker
2005	Emir Kusturica
2006	Wong Kar-wai
2007	Stephen Frears
2008	Sean Penn	Actor
2009	Isabelle Huppert	Actress
2010	Tim Burton	Filmmaker
2011	Robert De Niro	Actor
2012	Nanni Moretti	Filmmaker and actor
2013	Steven Spielberg	Filmmaker
2014	Jane Campion	Filmmaker
2015	Joel Coen and Ethan Coen	Filmmakers
2016	George Miller	Filmmaker
2017	Pedro Almodóvar	Filmmaker
2018	Cate Blanchett	Actress
2019	Alejandro González Iñárritu	Filmmaker
2020^[a]	Spike Lee	Filmmaker and actor
2021	Spike Lee	Filmmaker and actor
2022	Vincent Lindon	Actor
2023	Ruben Östlund	Filmmaker
2024	Greta Gerwig	Filmmaker and actress
2025	Juliette Binoche	Actress

Caméra d'Or

Year	President	Profession
1987	Maurice Le Roux	Composer and conductor
1988	Danièle Delorme	Actress and producer
1989	Raf Vallone	Actor and footballer
1990	Christine Boisson	Actress
1991	Geraldine Chaplin	Actress
1992	André Delvaux	Filmmaker
1993	Micheline Presle	Actress
1994	Marthe Keller	Actress
1995	Michel Deville	Filmmaker
1996	Françoise Fabian	Actress
1997	Françoise Arnoul	Actress
1998	Tran Anh Hung	Filmmaker
1999	Michel Piccoli	Actor
2000	Otar Iosseliani	Filmmaker
2001	Maria de Medeiros	Actress
2002	Geraldine Chaplin	Actress
2003	Wim Wenders	Filmmaker
2004	Tim Roth	Actor
2005	Abbas Kiarostami	Filmmaker
2006	Dardenne brothers	Filmmakers
2007	Pavel Lungin	Filmmaker
2008	Bruno Dumont	Filmmaker
2009	Roschdy Zem	Actor and filmmaker
2010	Gael García Bernal	Actor
2011	Bong Joon-ho	Filmmaker
2012	Carlos Diegues
2013	Agnès Varda
2014	Nicole Garcia	Actress and filmmaker
2015	Sabine Azéma
2016	Catherine Corsini
2017	Sandrine Kiberlain	Actress
2018	Ursula Meier	Filmmaker
2019	Rithy Panh	Filmmaker
2021	Mélanie Thierry	Actress
2022	Rossy de Palma
2023	Anaïs Demoustier
2024	Baloji (co-president)	Filmmaker
2024	Emmanuelle Béart (co-president)	Actress
2025	Alice Rohrwacher	Filmmaker

Un Certain Regard

Year	President	Profession
1999	Lambert Wilson	Actor
2000	Jane Birkin	Actress
2001	Ariane Ascaride	Actress
2002	Anne Fontaine	Filmmaker
2003	Abderrahmane Sissako	Filmmaker
2004	Jeremy Thomas	Producer
2005	Alexander Payne	Filmmaker
2006	Monte Hellman
2007	Pascale Ferran
2008	Fatih Akin
2009	Paolo Sorrentino
2010	Claire Denis
2011	Emir Kusturica
2012	Tim Roth	Actor
2013	Thomas Vinterberg	Filmmaker
2014	Pablo Trapero	Filmmaker
2015	Isabella Rossellini	Actress
2016	Marthe Keller
2017	Uma Thurman
2018	Benicio del Toro	Actor
2019	Nadine Labaki	Actress and filmmaker
2021	Andrea Arnold	Filmmaker
2022	Valeria Golino	Actress and filmmaker
2023	John C. Reilly	Actor
2024	Xavier Dolan	Actor and filmmaker
2025	Molly Manning Walker	Filmmaker

Notes

^ The 2020 Cannes Film Festival was ultimately cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in France

References

^ "Festival de Cannes - Archives - Juries - Long film". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2 February 2014.

[2] The 2020 Cannes Film Festival was ultimately cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in France

[nmref1-1] "Festival de Cannes - Archives - Juries - Long film". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2 February 2014.

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v t e Cannes Film Festival
Awards	Palme d'Or Grand Prix Jury Prize Best Director Best Actor Best Actress Best Screenplay Un Certain Regard Short Film Palme d'Or Caméra d'Or Cinéfondation
Awards given by independent entities	Prix de la FIPRESCI François Chalais Prize Trophée Chopard CST Award for Best Artist-Technician L'Œil d'or Prize of the Ecumenical Jury Palm Dog Award Queer Palm Cannes Soundtrack Award Pierre Angénieux Excellens in Cinematography
Parallel events	Directors' Fortnight Critics' Week Marché du Film
By year	1946 1947 1949 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
By country	Argentina Chile
List of jury presidents List of jury members List of records

v t e Cannes Film Festival jury presidents
1946–1975	Georges Huisman (1946) Georges Huisman (1947) Georges Huisman (1949) André Maurois (1951) Maurice Genevoix (1952) Jean Cocteau (1953) Jean Cocteau (1954) Marcel Pagnol (1955) Maurice Lehmann (1956) André Maurois (1957) Marcel Achard (1958) Marcel Achard (1959) Georges Simenon (1960) Jean Giono (1961) Tetsurō Furukaki (1962) Armand Salacrou (1963) Fritz Lang (1964) Olivia de Havilland (1965) Sophia Loren (1966) Alessandro Blasetti (1967) André Chamson (1968) Luchino Visconti (1969) Miguel Ángel Asturias (1970) Michèle Morgan (1971) Joseph Losey (1972) Ingrid Bergman (1973) René Clair (1974) Jeanne Moreau (1975)
1976–2000	Tennessee Williams (1976) Roberto Rossellini (1977) Alan J. Pakula (1978) Françoise Sagan (1979) Kirk Douglas (1980) Jacques Deray (1981) Giorgio Strehler (1982) William Styron (1983) Dirk Bogarde (1984) Miloš Forman (1985) Sydney Pollack (1986) Yves Montand (1987) Ettore Scola (1988) Wim Wenders (1989) Bernardo Bertolucci (1990) Roman Polanski (1991) Gérard Depardieu (1992) Louis Malle (1993) Clint Eastwood (1994) Jeanne Moreau (1995) Francis Ford Coppola (1996) Isabelle Adjani (1997) Martin Scorsese (1998) David Cronenberg (1999) Luc Besson (2000)
2001–present	Liv Ullmann (2001) David Lynch (2002) Patrice Chéreau (2003) Quentin Tarantino (2004) Emir Kusturica (2005) Wong Kar-wai (2006) Stephen Frears (2007) Sean Penn (2008) Isabelle Huppert (2009) Tim Burton (2010) Robert De Niro (2011) Nanni Moretti (2012) Steven Spielberg (2013) Jane Campion (2014) Joel and Ethan Coen (2015) George Miller (2016) Pedro Almodóvar (2017) Cate Blanchett (2018) Alejandro González Iñárritu (2019) Spike Lee (2021) Vincent Lindon (2022) Ruben Östlund (2023) Greta Gerwig (2024) Juliette Binoche (2025)