The actress Kristin Scott Thomas will open the 63rd edition of the Festival on May 12th by inviting the President Tim Burton and his Jury on stage at the Palais des Festivals. She will equally animate the closing ceremony when the Awards will be announced, Sunday May 23rd.
Kristin Scott Thomas is re-cast in the role she played in 1999, succeeding Edouard Baer who held the position for two years running in 2008 and 2009.
Filmography
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - Sam Taylor-Wood (2012)
The Woman in the Fifth - Pawel Pawlikowski (2011)
The Galapagos Affair - Andy DeEmmony (2010)
Bel Ami - Declan Donnellan
Nick Ormerod
(2011)
Crime d'amour - Alain Corneau (2010)
Contre toi - Lola Doillon (2010)
Nowhere Boy - Sam Taylor Wood (2009)
Confessions of a Shopaholic - de P.J. Hogan(2009)
Largo Winch (2009)
Easy Virtue (2008)
Seuls two (2008)
The Other Boleyn Girl - Justin Chadwick (2008)
Il y a longtemps que je t'aime (2008)
The Golden Compass (2007)
The Other Boleyn Girl (2007)
Mauvaise pente (2007)
The Walker (2007)
Ne le dis à personne ( Tell No One) - Guillaume Canet (2006)
la Doublure - Francis Veber (2006)
Keeping Mum Niall Johnson (2005)
Chromophobia (2005)
Man to Man - Régis Wargnier (2005)
Arsène Lupin - Benjamin Dewaele (2004)
Petites coupures - Pascal Bonitzer (2003)
Résistantes de Eric Rochant (2003)
The Tulse Luper suitcases de Peter Greenaway (2002)
Gosford Park - Robert Altman (2001)
Life as a House (2001)
Up at the Villa (2000)
Play (2000)
Random Hearts - Sydney Pollack (1999)
The Revengers' Comedies - Malcolm Mowbray (1998)
The Horse Whisperer (1998)
Souvenir (1998)
Amour et confusions (1997)
The English Patient - Anthony Minghella (1996)
The Pompatus Love (1996)
Somebody to Love (1996)
Mission: Impossible - Brian De Palma (1996)
Davies
Angels and Insects (1995)
Le Confessionnal - Robert Lapage
(1995)
Les Milles (1995)
Richard III (1995)
En mai, fais ce qu'il te plaît (1995)
Plaisir d'frir (1995)
Un été inoubliable (1994)
Four Weddings and a Funeral - Mike Newell (1994)
Bitter Moon - Roman Polanski (1992)
Valentino! I Love You (1991)
Mio caro dottor Gräsler (The Bachelor) (1991)
Aux yeux du monde (1990)
Bal du gouverneur, Le (1990)
Force majeure (1989)
Bille en tête (1989)
A Handful Dust - Charles Sturridge
(1988)
La Méridienne - Jean-François Amiguet(1988)
Agent trouble - Jean-Pierre Mocky (1987)
Djamal et Juliette (1987)
Under the Cherry Moon (1986)
Charly (1985)
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