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Holly Hunter, Frank Langella, Isabella Rossellini to Head Film Festival Juries

Frank Langella
(© Tristan Fuge)
Frank Langella
(© Tristan Fuge)

Three time-Tony Award winner Frank Langella will head the the 2010 international jury at the Zurich Film Festival, while Oscar winner Holly Hunter will serve on the jury of the Stockholm International Film Festival, and stage and screen star Isabella Rossellini will head the Berlin International Film Festival jury next year, according to Variety.

Langella received an Academy Award nomination for the film version of Frost/Nixon, for which he won his third Tony Award. He also received Tony Awards for his work in Seascape and Fortune’s Fool. He co-stars in the Oliver Stone-directed Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps, which will be making its German premiere at the Zurich festival, which runs September 23-October 3. Additional Zurich jury members will include American author Barry Gifford, Argentine writer-director Julia Solomonoff, Mexican filmmaker Carlos Cuaron, Swiss actor Anatole Taubman, and U.S. journalist Sharon Swart.

Hunter’s Broadway credits include Crimes of the Heart and The Wake of Jamey Foster. She won an Oscar for The Piano, and received an Emmy nomination for Saving Grace. The Stockholm festival will run November 11- 21.

Rossellini starred in Terrence McNally’s The Stendahl Syndrome Off-Broadway. Among her film credits are Blue Velvet, Death Becomes Her, and The Saddest Music in the World.