UK Jury Nominations for Cannes Lions 2027 are now OPEN!

Cannes Lions will be back in June 2027!

Jury nominations for Cannes 2027 are now OPEN!

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 for creative categories;
Ideally, should have won Lions in the past five years or won other recognised global awards. Preference will be given to Lions Winners.
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;
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;

In order to ensure you are nominating the right people for each category, please carefully read through the Cannes Lions 2027 Jury Criteria and Category Definitions.

All nominees will need to be available and committed to all aspects of judging in Cannes.

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.

Please fill out this form to submit your nominations. The deadline to do this is Thursday 8 October 2027.

We look forward to seeing your nominations!

List of categories you can put nominations forward for: