French director Louis Malle will head the jury for the 46th Cannes Film Festival.
The festival, which runs May 13-24, is rivaled only by the Academy Awards as the film world's most glittering annual event.Danish director Bille August won the 1992 best-picture Golden Palm with "The Best Intentions," a love story written by Ingmar Bergman.
Malle, 60, shared a Golden Palm award in 1956 with Jacques Cousteau for their underwater documentary, "The Silent World."
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Although most of Malle's films have been shot in French, his current box-office hit, "Damage," was filmed in English.