Ang Lee, Kidman join Cannes jury
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April 25, 2013, Thursday
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DOUBLE Oscar-winning director Ang Lee and Australian actress Nicole Kidman will be on the nine-member jury at this year's Cannes Film Festival, organizers said yesterday.
The panel, led by triple Oscar-winner Steven Spielberg, will decide the awards handed out when the world's most important annual cinema showcase closes on May 26.
Taiwan-born Lee, 58, won his second Best Director Oscar this year for "Life of Pi," the story of an Indian boy cast adrift in a lifeboat with a tiger. He won his first Academy Award in 2006 for directing the gay cowboy drama "Brokeback Mountain."
Another jury member is Austrian actor Christoph Waltz who won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar this year for his role in "Django Unchained," while Kidman, 45, won a Best Actress Oscar for the 2002 film "The Hours."
"Eight international movie personalities of very high level will help him (Spielberg) award the prizes. They are all engaged and active in several creation spheres," the organizers said.
Among the prizes is the coveted Palme d'Or for best movie in the main competition which this year has 19 entries.
Last year the prize went to Austrian director Michael Haneke's film "Amour," a story of an elderly couple facing illness and death.
The world's biggest film festival runs from May 15-26.
The panel, led by triple Oscar-winner Steven Spielberg, will decide the awards handed out when the world's most important annual cinema showcase closes on May 26.
Taiwan-born Lee, 58, won his second Best Director Oscar this year for "Life of Pi," the story of an Indian boy cast adrift in a lifeboat with a tiger. He won his first Academy Award in 2006 for directing the gay cowboy drama "Brokeback Mountain."
Another jury member is Austrian actor Christoph Waltz who won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar this year for his role in "Django Unchained," while Kidman, 45, won a Best Actress Oscar for the 2002 film "The Hours."
"Eight international movie personalities of very high level will help him (Spielberg) award the prizes. They are all engaged and active in several creation spheres," the organizers said.
Among the prizes is the coveted Palme d'Or for best movie in the main competition which this year has 19 entries.
Last year the prize went to Austrian director Michael Haneke's film "Amour," a story of an elderly couple facing illness and death.
The world's biggest film festival runs from May 15-26.
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