The Cannes Film Festival unveiled the list of the 19 films in the main competition on Thursday.
Francis Ford Coppola, Yórgos Lánthimos, David Cronenberg, Jacques Audiard, Paul Schrader and Paolo Sorrentino are among the directors with films in contention for the Palme d'Or prize for best picture.
Emma Stone, Richard Gere, Demi Moore, Uma Thurman, Selena Gomez and Gary Oldman are a few of the bold-faced names involved in the films.
One or two more competition films may still be added to the festival, which is taking place for the 77th time this year and runs from May 14 to 25, organizers said.
It was already known that "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga," the sequel to George Miller's cult film series, will be screened out of competition. The film is due to be presented in the presence of the Australian director and the film stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth and Tom Burke.
The festival is set to open with "Le Deuxième Act" (The Second Act) by French director and musician Quentin Dupieux. The comedy starring Léa Seydoux and Vincent Lindon will also be screened out of competition.
"Horizon: An American Saga" by and starring Kevin Costner will also be presented out of competition. Costner is joined in the Western epic by Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington and Jena Malone.
Filmmaking legend Francis Ford Coppola is competing with "Megalopolis," a science fiction film set in the near future, in which New York is hit by a major disaster. Adam Driver stars.
Coppola has already won the Palme d'Or for "The Conversation" and "Apocalypse Now."
Richard Gere and Uma Thurman are back together in front of the camera for Paul Schrader's "Oh Canada," which focusses on draft evaders who fled the United States.
Jacques Audiard, who has already won the Palme d'Or for "Demons and Miracles," will be showing "Emilia Perez," a musical set in the Mexican drug cartel scene.
Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov, who lives in exile in Germany, is presenting an adaptation of "Limonov" by Emmanuel Carrère, a biography of the Russian writer and dissident Eduard Limonov. It is his fourth invitation to the main competition after "Leto," "Petrov's Flu" and "Tchaikovsky's Wife."
Greek director Yórgos Lánthimos hopes to win big with "Kinds of Kindness." It stars Emma Stone, who was also in his Oscar-winning film "Poor Things" last year.
Paolo Sorrentino will present "Parthenope," a story about a beautiful young woman who wants to be recognized for more than just her looks. The film with Gary Oldman is set in Naples, the 53-year-old's hometown.
This year's honorary award will go to US director George Lucas, who created the "Star Wars" franchise.
The jury president is "Barbie" director Greta Gerwig. The 40-year-old is the first US director to chair the jury at the film festival and is also the youngest president of the jury since Sophia Loren, who took over the presidency in 1966 at the age of 31.