Kidman, Lee join Spielberg on Cannes festival jury

Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman and director Ang Lee will join Steven Spielberg next month on the Cannes film festival jury, organizers said on Wednesday.

Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman and director Ang Lee will join Steven Spielberg next month on the Cannes film festival jury, organizers said on Wednesday.

“We will probably never have again that experience in our lives where we got to walk the red carpet together as nominees,” Nicole Kidman said in our recent interview about that special night out with her husband, singer-composer Keith Urban, at the last Golden Globes. “It was so emotional and so important to us.”

Long before Kevin Costner, Bryan Cranston, Christina Hendricks and Nicole Kidman were Emmy nominees, they were kids who loved watching TV.

Australia will be racing for Cannes gold this year with Nicole Kidman and Kylie Minogue lighting up the red carpet and two directors from Down Under competing for the Palme d’Or.

Australian actress Nicole Kidman is in talks to play the late Grace Kelly, the screen legend who married the prince of Monaco, in a film by French director Olivier Dahan, Variety reported Thursday.

Our instruction at the red carpet entrance in last Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards was to ask arriving guests for their IDs only if they didn’t look familiar. Well, an assistant helping us asked Rupert Murdoch for his ID. Before we could say, “Not necessary,” the media tycoon had whisked it out.