British director John Boorman will head the main jury at this year's Venice Film Festival. The panel also will include Spike Lee and "Lost in Translation" star Scarlett Johansson.

Festival organizers announced the list Friday. Other members of the jury are filmmakers Wolfgang Becker of Germany, Mimmo Calopresti of Italy and Dusan Makavejev of Serbia-Montenegro; Italian editor Pietro Scalia; and Xu Feng, a producer from Taiwan.

The film festival runs Sept. 1-11.

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