Juliette Binoche, who won an Oscar for her portrayal of a nurse in "The English Patient", was named as jury president for the 2025 Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday.

Cannes: The Oscar winner, who received Best Actress at the festival in 2010 for "Certified Copy," will oversee the competition jury.

French actor Juliette Binoche will succeed Greta Gerwig as jury president of the Cannes Film Festival at the upcoming 78th edition.

The 78th edition of the prestigious Cannes Film Festival has announced French actor Juliette Binoche as the President of its Jury for 2025. This is only the second time in the festival's history that a woman has been chosen to lead the jury two years in a row. In 2024, Greta Gerwig led the jury.

Award-winning actor Juliette Binoche has been appointed president of 2025 Cannes Film Festival jury, marking a full circle moment in her career

The Cannes Film Festival announced Tuesday that it had chosen Juliette Binoche, one of France's best-known actors, to preside over its 78th edition which will take place in May.

The French actress will head up the competition jury at the 78th edition of the event, which unspools from 13-24 May

Oscar winner Juliette Binoche is set as the president of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival jury 40 years after she first walked la croisette.

Binoche has worked with directors like David Cronenberg, Anthony Minghella, Abbas Kiarostami, Krzysztof Kieślowski and Hirokazu Kore-eda