Diane Kruger cut a stylish figure as she attended the Marche opening night party during the 79th Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday. The actress, 49, slipped into a black cocktail dress with embellished silver floral straps for the glamorous event, held at La Plage du Palmes. She complemented the look with black and white zigzag heels, a black blazer and a silver necklace.
The actress touched down in Cannes on Tuesday, ready to work the social scene for the annual Film Festival. It holds a special place for Diane, who early in her film career gained worldwide recognition and received the Trophée Chopard from the Cannes Film Festival.
This year, Demi Moore joins Hamnet director Chloé Zhao and actor Stellan Skarsgård on the jury for the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. Organisers unveiled the nine-member jury that will deliberate on the films in competition at the annual French Riviera festival in May. As previously announced, South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook is president of the jury. Along with him, Moore, Zhao and Skarsgård, the jurors are: Irish-Ethiopian actor Ruth Negga, Belgian director and screenwriter Laura Wandel, Chilean director and screenwriter Diego Céspedes, Ivorian American actor Isaach De Bankolé and Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty.
Speaking to the Daily Mail at the opening press conference, Demi said she felt 'tremendously honoured to be here'. 'It's such a beautiful experience and one just to be surrounded by cinema and the love of cinema, and the joy of diving in and being surrounded by those who share that is just – I just felt like a joy. And who can complain about the beautiful view of this incredible place? But yes, I just feel tremendously honoured and I'm super excited. I really – I feel like a little kid getting to play a grown-up. You know, prior I had only ever attended the Cannes Film Festival once, and that was only as someone's plus one. And so to be sitting here today, I am really, really tremendously honoured.'
This year, the Cannes Film Festival will honour filmmaker Peter Jackson with a Palme d'Or. Festival organisers announced Jackson as a recipient in March for what they hailed as 'a body of work that blends Hollywood blockbusters and films d'auteur with extraordinary artistic vision and technological audacity'. The Lord of the Rings director, in a statement, called the honour 'one of the greatest privileges of my career'. Last year, Cannes gave honorary Palme d'Or prizes to Robert De Niro and Denzel Washington. This year's edition runs for eleven days from May 12 to the 23rd.
