Cate Blanchett

Cate Blanchett appeared in Cannes for the out-of-competition screening of How to Train Your Dragon 2, in which she voices the estranged mother of the main character. "The whole process of trying to bring something to life — in advance of the animation — purely with your voice, I found it a really interesting challenge," she told THR when she was photographed at the Hotel Carlton Cannes.

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‘Foxcatcher’

Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo and Steve Carell star in Bennett Miller's drama Foxcatcher, which premiered to rave reviews. "This movie was not fun, at all. It pretty much sucked the whole time, and it was a very, very painful experience, but in the best way," said Tatum, who was photographed at the Hotel Carlton Cannes. (Watch their video interview here.)

Kristen Stewart

Kristen Stewart plays an assistant to an aging actress in Olivier Assayas' Clouds of Sils Maria. The actress took a day off from shooting American Ultra to make an appearance at the Cannes Film Festival.

James McAvoy

James McAvoy flew to Cannes for just 24 hours, fresh off his promotional tour for X-Men: Days of Future Past. The actor, who was photographed at the Hotel Carlton Cannes on May 17, stars in The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby opposite Jessica Chastain.

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Chloe Grace Moretz

Chloe Grace Moretz, who most recently starred in Carrie and Kick-Ass 2, plays a young actress in Clouds of Sils Maria.

‘The Rover’

David Michod (left) directs The Rover, starring Guy Pearce (center) and Robert Pattinson. Pearce plays a man on the hunt for a gang of dangerous criminals, while Pattinson plays his protege.

Marion Cotillard

French actress Marion Cotillard worked with brothers Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne for the first time in Two Days, One Night. They described her as "perfect" for the role.

Christina Hendricks

Mad Men star Christina Hendricks was able to arrange her busy shooting schedule to fly out to Cannes for less than 48 hours, her first time attending the famous French film festival. "I'm nervous and I'm excited," she told THR in an interview just hours before her big red-carpet premiere.

Tommy Lee Jones

Tommy Lee Jones' directorial effort The Homesman focuses on a group of frontier women heading east. "The movie looks at what life was like for women on the Plains in the early West. That’s not something we’ve seen often on film," he told THR.

Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda returns to Cannes as an ambassador of L'Oreal. The actress revealed that she is busy writing a book, titled Amanda's Secrets.

John Cusack

John Cusack stars as a self-help guru in David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars. "There's a lot of those type of people who seem to market their pure will to succeed, and they put a spiritual hue around that," he said of the character.

Berenice Bejo

Actress Berenice Bejo stars in The Search, directed by her husband, Michel Hazanavicius. The film centers on a woman who forms a bond with a young boy in war-torn Chechnya.

CANNES VIDEO: Berenice Bejo and Michel Hazanavicius on Their War Movie 'The Search'

Jessica Chastain

"Jess is like my sister in real life," says Jessica Chastain of The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them co-star Jess Weixler. "She went to the Berlin Film Festival, and I went to the festival with her, and I carried her coat on the red carpet and supported her."

Dardenne Brothers

Belgian filmmaking duo Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne return to Cannes with Two Days, One Night, starring Marion Cotillard. The two-time Palme d'Or-winning duo call Cotillard (the first big star they've ever cast) "perfect." (Watch the interview here.)

Kellan Lutz

Kellan Lutz took a tank for a ride for an Expendables 3 stunt in Cannes. The stars of the action threequel rode on tanks before a press conference and a party later that night celebrating the film.

Salma Hayek

Salma Hayek produced animated film The Prophet, based on Khalil Gibran's philosophical novel. "Everybody that became involved in the film has been touched by the book, and I can tell you, they did not do it for the money!" she told THR. 

Ricardo Darin

Ricardo Darin stars in Wild Tales, the in-competition film made of six separate stories. The Argentine actor's previous work includes Nine Queens, El Hijo de la Novia and The Secret in Their Eyes.

Sarah Gadon

Sarah Gadon also appears in David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Jeffrey Dean Morgan stars in the Western-with-a-Danish-twist The Salvation.

Zhang Yimou

Chinese director Zhang Yimou's latest film, Coming Home, is set during the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution.

Rosario Dawson

Rosario Dawson stars in Atom Egoyan's film The Captive. "Immediately after I got here, we had some caviar because I figured, 'Hey, we should celebrate!'" the actress said of arriving in France.

Djimon Hounsou

Djimon Hounsou voices the villain in How to Train Your Dragon 2. "He gave me the name of my character, and that was enough," said the actor of playing Drago Bludvist.

Scott Speedman

Scott Speedman reunited with director Atom Egoyan for his new film The Captive, which premiered in competition. "I wasn't nervous at all," he said of having to attend the red carpet premiere. "Usually, I'd be petrified of having to watch myself with such a huge amount of people."

Zoe Saldana

Zoe Saldana came to Cannes as an ambassador of L'Oreal. She'll next be seen in superhero film Guardians of the Galaxy. Had she ever wanted to play a superhero before? "Just for like a second when you're in the shower going, 'Wouldn't it be nice to fly and have a cape?' And then you forget it," she says. "And then all of a sudden they call you and say, 'Wouldn't it be nice to be green and in the Galaxy?' And you go, 'OK, I'll do it.' " (Watch the interview here.)

Joan Collins

Joan Collins came to Cannes to promote her upcoming Thelma & Louise-style film, The Time of Their Lives.

Kevin Durand

Kevin Durand stars in The Captive. Durand previously worked with director Atom Egoyan on the West Memphis 3 feature Devil's Knot.

Jess Weixler

Jess Weixler stars opposite McAvoy and Jessica Chastain in The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby. Weixler and Chastain have been friends for several years, and were roommates at Juilliard.

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Tamsin Egerton

Tamsin Egerton stars in John Boorman's Queen and Country. The film is a sequel to the 1987 movie Hope and Glory,

Juliette Binoche

Juliette Binoche plays an actress whose career is threatened in Olivier Assayas' Clouds of Sils Maria.

Gong Li

Gong Li stars in Zhang Yimou's Coming Home as a middle school teacher living in China in the early 1970s. 

Mireille Enos

Mireille Enos, who stars on The Killing, came to Cannes with Atom Egoyan's thriller The Captive. She plays a mother whose daughter has been kidnapped. "I've never been on a carpet that was so clean and formal and elegant," she told THR.

Gaspard Ulliel

Gaspard Ulliel stars as the title character in Saint Laurent, the biopic about the famous fashion designer.

Caleb Landry Jones

Caleb Landry Jones stars in John Boorman's Queen and Country. The actor will next appear in Roland Emmerich's gay rights film Stonewall.

Anais Demoustier

French actress Anais Demoustier plays a maid in Bird People, which premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the fest.

Mads Mikkelsen

Hannibal star Mads Mikkelsen plays a Danish cowboy set on revenge in The Salvation.

Atom Egoyan

Director Atom Egoyan said of his project The Captive: "People will say it harkens back to my earlier work, even though it has genre elements. I'm thinking of Speaking Parts, Family Viewing, Exotica — it's sort of in that space. It's an original script. I produced it myself. It's very much a personally driven project."

Sophie Marceau

Actress Sophie Marceau returned to Cannes to promote Tonie Marshall's new feature Sex, Love & Therapy.

John Boorman

John Boorman, who directed Queen and Country, said of the festival: "I always enjoy Cannes. If you are making independent films, it is a great place to sell films. You get a good screening and all the distributors are there and it’s just about the best place to sell your picture. And I always enjoy seeing many old friends and love the mixture of serious cinema and tacky marketplace with a bit of glamour thrown in. It’s a potent mix."

Abderrahmane Sissako

Abderrahmane Sissako, the director of Timbuktu, broke down in tears at a Cannes press conference as he described his film's depiction of brutal Islamist law that shattered the lives of innumerable families. "It's difficult.… We become more and more indifferent to the horrors if we're not careful," he said.

Josh Charles

Good Wife actor Josh Charles stars in Bird People, which follows an American who starts a new life in Paris.

Michel Hazanavicius

The Artist director Michel Hazanavicius chose to direct The Search as his next film after his Oscar win.

CANNES VIDEO: Berenice Bejo and Michel Hazanavicius on Their War Movie 'The Search'

Mike Leigh

Palme d'Or winner Mike Leigh, photographed on the Carlton beach, returned to Cannes with Mr. Turner. His star, Timothy Spall, won the best actor award at the fest.

Nanna Oland Fabricius

The Danish singer-songwriter, better known as Oh Land, makes a move into film with The Salvation, playing the wife of Mads Mikkelsen's character in the Western.

‘The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby’

Ned Benson, Jessica Chastain and Jess Weixler