{"id":2300629,"date":"2026-02-26T04:50:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T04:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2300629"},"modified":"2026-02-26T04:50:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T04:50:02","slug":"park-chan-wook-to-preside-over-79th-cannes-film-festival-jury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/park-chan-wook-to-preside-over-79th-cannes-film-festival-jury\/","title":{"rendered":"Park Chan-Wook to Preside Over 79th Cannes Film Festival Jury"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Park Chan-wook<\/a> will preside over the jury of the 79th edition of the Cannes Film Festival.<\/p>\n

The celebrated South Korean director, screenwriter and producer will succeed French actor Juliette Binoche<\/a>, whose jury handed the Palme d\u2019Or to Jafar Panahi<\/a>\u2019s Iranian drama \u201cIt Was Just an Accident<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Known for his baroque and subversive work, Park<\/a> has a long history with Cannes. He presented his feature debut, \u201cOldboy<\/a>,\u201d at the 2004 festival, where it won the Grand Prize and later became a cult film. He\u2019s returned to the competition with most of his films since then, including \u201cThirst<\/a>,\u201d which picked up the Jury Prize in 2009, \u201cThe Handmaiden<\/a>\u201d in 2016 and \u201cDecision to Leave<\/a>,\u201d which won best director in 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cPark Chan-wook\u2019s inventiveness, visual mastery, and penchant for capturing the multiple impulses of women and men with strange destinies have given contemporary cinema some truly memorable moments,\u201d said festival president Iris Knobloch<\/a>…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Park Chan-wook will preside over the jury of the 79th edition of the Cannes Film Festival. The celebrated South Korean director, screenwriter and producer will succeed French actor Juliette Binoche, whose jury handed the Palme d\u2019Or to Jafar Panahi\u2019s Iranian drama \u201cIt Was Just an Accident.\u201d Known for his baroque and subversive work, Park has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2300630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2300629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Park-Chan-Wook-to-Preside-Over-79th-Cannes-Film-Festival-Jury.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2300629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2300631,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300629\/revisions\/2300631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2300630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}