NICOLE KIDMAN will join this year's Cannes Film Festival jury. The Vogue cover girl will sit on the 2013 panel alongside chair Steven Spielberg.
The jury will award one of the 19 competing films the esteemed Palme d'Or prize. Also sitting on the panel this year are actor Christoph Waltz; directors Ang Lee, Naomi Kawase and Cristian Mungiu; and actress Vidya Balan.
Competing for the winning title this year are productions includingOnly God Forgives, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and starring Ryan Gosling; Steven Soderbergh's Liberace biopic, Behind The Candelabra; The Immigrant starring Joaquin Phoenix and Marion Cotillard; and the Coen brothers' latest film, Inside Llewyn Davis, with Carey Mulligan and Justin Timberlake playing the leading roles. Last year's winner was Michael Haneke's Amour, which went on to win Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars.
The 2013 Cannes Film Festival runs from May 15 to 26. Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby will premiere as the opening night film, while South African movie Zulu - starring Orlando Bloom and Forest Whittaker - will close the schedule. Neither film are in competition for the Palme d'Or prize.
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