The fate of the filmmakers at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival lies in the hands of the jury members. This year, the official juries feature a mix of big-name Americans like Samual Jackson to a Polish composer. This is the list of Cannes Film Festival 2006 official juries, both the feature film jury and the Cinefondation and short films jury.
Each juror is followed by links to news or articles about him or her, or that person's films.
Feature film jury
- Wong Kar Wai, President, Chinese director
- Monica Bellucci, Italian actress
- Helena Bonham Carter, English actress
- Lucrecia Martel, Argentinean director
- Ziyi Zhang, Chinese actress
- Samuel L. Jackson, American actor
- Patrice LeConte, French director
- Tim Roth, English director and actor
- Elia Suleiman, Palestinian director[
Cinefondation and short films jury
- Andrei Konchalovsky, President, Russian director
- Tim Burton, American director
- Sandrine Bonnaire, French actress
- Daniel Bruhl, German actor
- Souleymane Cisse, Malian director
- Zbigniew Preisner, Polish composer


