Greta Gerwig has been chosen as jury president of the next Cannes Film Festivalscheduled for May 14-25, 2024.
Greta Gerwig, next jury president at Cannes
Thanks to the movie Barbiereleased a few months ago and immediately became a cult throughout the world, Greta Gerwig became the female director to have directed the highest grossing film ever in the history of cinema. This was also the highest-grossing film worldwide in 2023.
The choice to entrust the director born in Sacramento, California, with the role of president of the jury of the Cannes Film Festival is already history. Indeed: this is the first time that an American director has obtained this recognition.
And it is also the second female director ever to occupy this role. Before her, there had only been the New Zealand director Jane Campion in 2014.
Greta Gerwig at the European premiere of Barbie, on July 12, 2023 in London. Credit: Karwai Tang/WireImage
«Cannes is the pinnacle of the universal language of cinema»
The news of his presence at the next Cannes Film Festival as president of the competition jury was given by the film festival itself. On the official site, in fact, we read. «Heroine of our modern times, Greta Gerwig shakes up the status quo between a highly codified film industry and an era that demands greater expansiveness».
Immediately afterwards, a statement from the director herself. «I love movies. I love doing them, I love going there, I love talking about it. As a cinephile, Cannes has always been the pinnacle of everything that the universal language of cinema can be. Being in a place of vulnerability, in a dark theater full of strangers, watching a brand new movie is my favorite place to be.”
And he concluded. «I am amazed, excited and honored to hold the role of president of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival. I can’t wait to see what journeys are in store for all of us!».
Greta Gerwig’s most important works
Gerwig always dreamed of becoming a playwright. Starting as actressThen, she has worked on many projects as a screenwriter. She collaborated with Noah Baumbach – with whom she is romantically linked – for The wacky world of Greenberg, Frances Ha (thanks to which he received a Golden Globes nomination) and Mistress America.
As a director, however, he directed Lady Bird (2017), Little Women (2019) and, of course, Barbiereleased a few months ago.
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