Jodie Foster To Judge Cannes Films

PARIS (AP) â€” Jodie Foster will head the jury at the 54th Cannes Film Festival in May, festival officials announced Tuesday. <br><br>Foster, who has a French mother and speaks French fluently, ``has received

Tuesday, January 16th 2001, 12:00 am

By: News On 6

PARIS (AP) â€” Jodie Foster will head the jury at the 54th Cannes Film Festival in May, festival officials announced Tuesday.

Foster, who has a French mother and speaks French fluently, ``has received the highest honors. It was time for her to come to Cannes,'' Gilles Jacob, the festival's president, said in a statement.

``I've dreamed since my childhood of having the honor of being president of the Cannes jury,'' the statement quoted Foster as saying.

The festival runs from May 9-20, but the rest of the jury will not be announced until the end of April.

Foster won best actress Oscars for ``The Accused'' in 1989 and ``The Silence of the Lambs'' in 1992.