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 ("Golden Camera") 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.
| Year | President[1] | Nationality | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georges Huisman | France | ||
| André Maurois | |||
| Maurice Genevoix | |||
| Jean Cocteau | |||
| Marcel Pagnol | |||
| Maurice Lehmann | |||
| André Maurois | |||
| Marcel Achard | |||
| Georges Simenon | Belgium | ||
| Jean Giono | France | ||
| Tetsurō Furukaki | Japan | ||
| Armand Salacrou | France | ||
| Fritz Lang | Austria, Germany | ||
| Olivia de Havilland | United Kingdom, United States | ||
| Sophia Loren | Italy | ||
| Alessandro Blasetti | |||
| André Chamson | France | ||
| Luchino Visconti | Italy | ||
| Miguel Ángel Asturias | Guatemala | ||
| Michèle Morgan | France | ||
| Joseph Losey | United States | ||
| Ingrid Bergman | Sweden | ||
| René Clair | France | ||
| Jeanne Moreau | |||
| Tennessee Williams | United States | ||
| Roberto Rossellini | Italy | ||
| Alan J. Pakula | United States | ||
| Françoise Sagan | France | ||
| Kirk Douglas | United States | ||
| Jacques Deray | France | ||
| Giorgio Strehler | Italy | ||
| William Styron | United States | ||
| Dirk Bogarde | United Kingdom | ||
| Miloš Forman | Czechoslovakia, United States | ||
| Sydney Pollack | United States | ||
| Yves Montand | France | ||
| Ettore Scola | Italy | ||
| Wim Wenders | Germany | ||
| Bernardo Bertolucci | Italy | ||
| Roman Polanski | Poland, France | ||
| Gérard Depardieu | France | ||
| Louis Malle | |||
| Clint Eastwood | United States | ||
| Jeanne Moreau | France | ||
| Francis Ford Coppola | United States | ||
| Isabelle Adjani | France | ||
| Martin Scorsese | United States | ||
| David Cronenberg | Canada | ||
| Luc Besson | France | ||
| Liv Ullmann | Norway | ||
| David Lynch | United States | ||
| Patrice Chéreau | France | ||
| Quentin Tarantino | United States | ||
| Emir Kusturica | Serbia | ||
| Wong Kar-wai | Hong Kong | ||
| Stephen Frears | United Kingdom | ||
| Sean Penn | United States | ||
| Isabelle Huppert | France | ||
| Tim Burton | United States | ||
| Robert De Niro | |||
| Nanni Moretti | Italy | ||
| Steven Spielberg | United States | ||
| Jane Campion | New Zealand | ||
| Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | United States | ||
| George Miller | Australia | ||
| Pedro Almodóvar | Spain | ||
| Cate Blanchett | Australia | ||
| Alejandro González Iñárritu | Mexico | ||
| Spike Lee | United States | ||
| 2021 | |||
| Vincent Lindon | France | ||
| Ruben Östlund | Sweden | ||
| 2024 | Greta Gerwig | United States |
The Caméra d'Or ("Golden Camera") is an award of the Cannes Film Festival for the best first feature film presented in one of the Cannes' selections (Official Selection, Directors' Fortnight or International Critics' Week).
| Year | President | Nationality | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maurice Le Roux | France | ||
| Danièle Delorme | |||
| Raf Vallone | Italy | ||
| Christine Boisson | France | ||
| Geraldine Chaplin | United Kingdom, United States | ||
| André Delvaux | Belgium | ||
| Micheline Presle | France | ||
| Marthe Keller | Switzerland | ||
| Michel Deville | France | ||
| Françoise Fabian | |||
| Françoise Arnoul | |||
| Anh Hung Tran | |||
| Michel Piccoli | |||
| Otar Iosseliani | Georgia | ||
| Maria de Medeiros | Portugal | ||
| Geraldine Chaplin | United Kingdom, United States | ||
| Wim Wenders | Germany | ||
| Tim Roth | United Kingdom | ||
| Abbas Kiarostami | Iran | ||
| Dardenne brothers | Belgium | ||
| Pavel Lungin | Russia | ||
| Bruno Dumont | Belgium, France | ||
| Roschdy Zem | France | ||
| Gael García Bernal | Mexico | ||
| Bong Joon-ho | South Korea | ||
| Carlos Diegues | Brazil | ||
| Agnès Varda | France | ||
| Nicole Garcia | |||
| Sabine Azéma | |||
| Catherine Corsini | |||
| Sandrine Kiberlain | |||
| Ursula Meier | Switzerland | ||
| Rithy Panh | Cambodia | ||
| Mélanie Thierry | France | ||
| Rossy de Palma | Spain | ||
| 2023 | Anais Demoustier | France | |
| 2024 | Baloji and Emmanuelle Béart | Belgium, France |
Un Certain Regard is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's official selection. This section presents 20 "original and different" works which seek international recognition.
| Year | President | Nationality | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lambert Wilson | France | ||
| Jane Birkin | United Kingdom | ||
| Ariane Ascaride | France | ||
| Anne Fontaine | |||
| Abderrahmane Sissako | Mali | ||
| Jeremy Thomas | United Kingdom | ||
| Alexander Payne | United States | ||
| Monte Hellman | |||
| Pascale Ferran | France | ||
| Fatih Akin | Turkey | ||
| Paolo Sorrentino | Italy | ||
| Claire Denis | France | ||
| Emir Kusturica | Serbia | ||
| Tim Roth | United Kingdom | ||
| Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark | ||
| Pablo Trapero | Argentine | ||
| Isabella Rossellini | Italy | ||
| Marthe Keller | Switzerland | ||
| Uma Thurman | United States | ||
| Benicio del Toro | Puerto Rico | ||
| Nadine Labaki | Lebanon | ||
| Andrea Arnold | United Kingdom | ||
| Valeria Golino | Italy | ||
| John C. Reilly | United States | ||
| Xavier Dolan | Canada |