UK juror nominations for Cannes Lions are CLOSED!

Cannes Lions will be back from Monday, 19 June to Friday, 23 June 2023.

In our role as UK rep, we are responsible for putting forward UK jurors for the festival, and so we are now calling for nominations.

The main criteria for being on the Jury are:

Highly creative, innovative, leaders in their field, well known and respected in their industry, a specialist in their category of interest;
Ideally creatives should be at CCO or ECD level;
Ideally, should have won Lions in the past five years or won other recognised global awards;
We understand there are certain categories where the Lions have been won by non-specialists or that top level executives are not credited on certain pieces of work. For these reasons, it may be the case that not all the candidates have won Lions but they must be pure specialists, senior and acknowledged in their field and have won other major international awards relevant to their category;
Preference will be given to Lions winners.
We are committed to gender parity on the juries so please be conscious of this, we will not accept an unequal gender split of nominations;
Ethnic diversity on our juries is paramount – please be conscious of this when sending nominations so we can continue to build truly diverse juries;
Although we are a Global Festival, all our judging is done in English. It is therefore imperative that all jurors have a level of English where they can participate confidently in all discussions and deliberations in the jury room and be able to represent their country accordingly.

In order to ensure you are nominating the right people for each category, please carefully read through the Lions Definitions and complete Jury Criteria here.

You can find the list of categories that we are able to put nominations forward for at the end of this page.

All nominees will need to be available and committed to all aspects of judging, whether it be in Cannes or at home. Dates and the format of judging will be confirmed in due course but there will be prelim judging before the festival which all nominees will need to be available for.

To be on the Cannes Lions jury is the highest accolade in the industry. Demand to be on the jury is therefore extremely high but places are limited so please only nominate your top contenders and which category they are most qualified to judge. Please also note that nominating someone does not guarantee them a place on the jury and that the Cannes Lions team will make the final selections.

Nominations are now closed!

List of categories we can put nominations forward: