The jury will be completed by Irish-Ethiopian actress and producer Ruth Negga, Belgian director and screenwriter Laura Wandel, Chinese director and screenwriter Chloé Zhao, Chilean filmmaker Diego Céspedes, Ivorian American actor Isaach De Bankolé and Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty.

The jury will be awarding the Palme d’or to one of the 22 films in Competition. Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident” won last year’s top prize from Juliette Binoche’s jury.

Zhao last directed “Hamnet” which won an Oscar for Jessie Buckley, as well as a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. She broke through in 2021 with “Nomadland,” winning two Oscars for best film and director.
She launched the production company Book of Shadows in 2023 and Kodansha Studios in 2025.

Skarsgård was at Cannes last year with Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value” 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.

Laverty has worked with Ken Loach and producer Rebecca O’Brien for 30 years and wrote Loach’s two Palme d’or winning films “The Wind that Shakes the Barley” in 2006 and “I, Daniel Blake” in 2016.

De Bankolé will soon be seen Denis Villeneuve’s anticipated “Dune: Part Three,” and previously starred in “Black Panther” and “The Brutalist.” Cespedes won the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes last year with his debut feature, “The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo.”