page_title: 2018 Cannes Film Festival
section_title: Main competition
hierarchical_section_title: 2018 Cannes Film Festival / Juries / Main competition
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Cate Blanchett au festival de Cannes.
context_page_description: The 71st annual Cannes Film Festival was held from 8 to 19 May 2018. Australian actress Cate Blanchett acted as President of the Jury. The Japanese film Shoplifters, directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, won the Palme d'Or.
  Asghar Farhadi's psychological thriller Everybody Knows, starring Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz and Ricardo Darín, opened the festival and competed in the Main Competition section. It was the second Spanish-language film to open Cannes, following Pedro Almodóvar's Bad Education, which screened on the opening night of the 2004 festival.
  The official festival poster features Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina from Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 film Pierrot le Fou. It is the second time the festival poster was inspired by Godard's film after his 1963 film Contempt at the 2016 festival. According to festival's official statement, the poster is inspired by and paid tribute to the work of French photographer Georges Pierre.
context_section_description: Cate Blanchett, Australian actress, Jury President
  Chang Chen, Taiwanese actor
  Ava DuVernay, American director
  Robert Guédiguian, French director
  Khadja Nin, Burundian singer-songwriter
  Léa Seydoux, French actress
  Kristen Stewart, American actress
  Denis Villeneuve, Canadian director
  Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russian director
caption: Cate Blanchett, President of the main competition Jury.
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