Screen stars join Palme d'Or jury

Salma Hayek recently starred in After The Sunset

Actress Salma Hayek and Spanish actor Javier Bardem will sit on the jury at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

They will join Nobel laureate in literature Toni Morrison on the nine-person panel that will pick this year's Palme d'Or winner.

Bosnian-born director Emir Kusturica - who won the festival's top prize in 1985 and again in 1995 - will chair the jury panel.

The 58th Cannes Film Festival will run from 11 to 22 May.

Organisers of the event said Face/Off director John Woo, Indian actress Nandita Das, French directors Agnes Varda and Benoit Jacquot and German film-maker Fatih Akin, would make up the panel.

A total of 20 films will compete for the Palme d'Or.

Last year, the prize was won by Michael Moore for his controversial film Fahrenheit 9/11.