The majority of them are men.
Check out the powerful women who’ve made a memorable impression at Cannes over the years, ahead.
“Time and time again we don’t get our share of representation.
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Excuse me gentlemen, but the guys seem to eat all the cake.”
Since winning the Camera d’Or forSuzaku, Kawase has become a regular presence at the Cannes Film Festival.
Her dramaThe Mourning Forestscored the festival’s second-highest honor, the Grand Prix, in 2007.
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Kawase was laterannouncedas the president of the Cinefondation and Short Films competition in 2016.
“It washorrible,” Seydoux said.
[Kechiche] is a genius, but hes tortured.
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But it was a good learning experience for me, as an actor."
In 2014, Coppola was selected to serve on the festival jury under president Jane Campion.
The group chose Nuri Bilge Ceylan’sWinter Sleep, a three-hour Turkish drama, to win the Palme d’Or.
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Often, men would serve consecutively, as Georges Huisman did for three iterations in the 1940s.
In subsequent years, it was far less common to see multiple-term jury presidents.
Moreau remains the only person to have held the title of Cannes Jury President twice since 1960.
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She also won an honorary Palme d’Or for lifetime achievement at the festival in 2003.
In 2011, she co-wrote the dramaPolisse,which scored the festival’s Jury Prize, with Maiwenn.
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