After a female-majority jury last year when the festival was dominated by the #MeToo movement, five men and four women will decide this year's winner of Cannes' top Palme d'Or prize.
He may now have five Oscars under his belt for the likes of"Birdman" and"The Revenant", but it all began for the Mexican director at Cannes way back in 2000 with"Amores Perros".A regular on the Croisette since that staggering debut - although he has never picked up the Palme - this year he returns as the head of the jury.
She made her Cannes debut at just eight in Inarritu's"Babel", six years after making her screen debut as a toddler in the Oscar-nominated"I Am Sam" alongside Sean Penn and her older sister, Dakota Fanning.
She first came to notice in Georgian Otar Iosseliani's"Chasing Butterflies" in 1992 and won the African Academy best actress award in 2015 for"Eye of the Storm", where she played a lawyer defending a former child soldier on war crimes charges.
Williams was also the lead in Reichardt's first film at Cannes,"Wendy and Lucy", which was also widely acclaimed, and her next movies,"Meek's Cutoff" and"Night Moves" were both premiered at the rival Venice film festival.Many had predicted that her latest film,"First Cow", might make the Cannes' line-up this year, but it is still in post-production.
He switched to fiction in 2001 with the acclaimed"Last Resort" which he followed up with"My Summer of Love".He made his dark masterpiece"Ida" after moving back from Britain to his native Poland. His story of a nun who discovers she was born Jewish during World War II won him the best foreign language film Oscar but the wrath of some conservative Catholics at home.
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