Cannes will welcome Tom Cruise's new "Mission: Impossible" film, as well as movies by Wes Anderson, Ari Aster, and Richard Linklater starring Tom Hanks, Emma Stone, and Joaquin Phoenix.
  • 2025 Cannes Film Festival runs from May 13-24.
  • Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning will premiere out of competition.
  • Robert De Niro will receive an Honorary Palme d'Or at the festival's opening ceremony.

Cinematic competition is already heating up on the sunny shores of southern France, as the 2025 Cannes Film Festival lineup prepares to welcome hot contests between directorial debuts from Scarlett Johansson and Babygirl star Harris Dickinson, as well as new projects from Hollywood heavy hitters like Emma Stone, Pedro Pascal, Joaquin Phoenix, as well as Tom Cruise's new Mission: Impossible film.

Announced Thursday morning, the 2025 Cannes Film Festival lineup includes exciting new movies primed to take the upcoming awards season race by storm, as the festival has increasingly proven to be a breeding ground for major Oscar contenders in recent years. Last year, The Substance, Emilia Pérez, and Best Picture winner Anora all debuted at the event.

Joining the main competition to compete for the esteemed Palme d'Or prize are new offerings from directors Ari Aster (the Hereditary helmer's western Eddington, starring Stone, Pascal, and Phoenix), Richard Linklater (New Wave), and Wes Anderson's ensemble The Phoenician Scheme, featuring Benicio Del Toro, Michael Cera, Bryan Cranston, Riz Ahmed, and Tom Hanks.

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Outside of the main competition, the secondary Un Certain Regard section will see feature directorial debuts from Johansson (the June Squibb-starring Eleanor the Great) and Dickinson (Urchin, led by Fear the Walking Dead's Frank Dillane) face off in contest.

Cruise's Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning will also premiere at the festival in an out-of-competition slot, continuing the festival's tradition of balancing prestige titles and awards-leaning projects with big-budget Hollywood spectacles.

U2 musician Bono's latest project, Stories of Surrender, is also heading to Cannes for a special screening outside of any competitive rosters.

Other notable filmmakers joining the main competition include Kelly Reichardt (The Mastermind), the Dardenne brothers (The Young Mother's Home), and Julia Ducournau, who returns this year with the Tahar Rahim-starring Alpha, four years after she won the Palme d'Or with her epic car-sex dramatic fantasy Titane.

Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche will preside over the festival's yet-to-be-announced jury, which will vote to bestow the Palme d'Or and other awards in the main competition.

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As previously announced, legendary Hollywood star Robert De Niro will also receive a special award at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. The festival will present the 81-year-old with the Honorary Palme d'Or at the opening ceremony in May.

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In addition to the aforementioned Oscar contenders that debuted at Cannes in 2024, the festival has also shepherded other major awards contenders into the conversation in the recent past, including Palme d'Or-winning drama Anatomy of a Fall, The Zone of Interest, Triangle of Sadness, Drive My Car, Another Round, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and Parasite, among others.

The 2025 Cannes Film Festival runs from May 13-24 in France. See the main festival lineup on Cannes' website.