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Friday, April 18, 2003
Soderbergh, Ryan sit on Cannes jury
By AP
PARIS -- Meg Ryan and Steven Soderbergh will sit on the nine-member jury awarding the Palme d'or at the Cannes Film Festival next month, organizers have announced.
Ryan, the star of romantic comedies including When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless In Seattle, and Soderbergh, director of Erin Brockovich and Ocean's Eleven and who won an Oscar for Traffic, will take part in the jury headed by French director Patrice Chereau.
Aishwarya Rai will become the first Indian actress on the Cannes jury. Along with Rai, a former Miss World, the jury features veteran French actor Jean Rochefort, actress Karin Viard and writer Erri De Luca of Italy.
Also judging this year's festival, which runs May 14-25, is Bosnia's Danis Tanovic, who directed No Man's Land, and China's Jiang Wen, director of Missing Gun. Chereau, the jury president, is known for his historical drama La Reine Margot.
Cannes president Gilles Jacob is scheduled to announce this year's official film selection on April 23.
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