Actress Penelope Cruz, star of the film "Everybody Knows," poses during a photocall at the 71st Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, May 9, 2018. 

The world's most prestigious celebration of cinema opened Tuesday on the French Riviera. 

Jury member Kristen Stewart attends the opening ceremony of the 71st Cannes Film Festival, May 8, 2018. 

Isabelle Adjani poses on the red carpet prior to the opening night screening of the film "Everybody Knows" at the Cannes Film Festival, May 8, 2018. 

Jury member Chloe Sevigny arrives for the opening ceremony and screening of "Everybody Knows," May 8, 2018. 

Singer Shy'm poses on the red carpet at the opening night screening of the film "Everybody Knows," May 8, 2018. 

Jury member Lea Seydoux arrives for the opening night screening of the film "Everybody Knows," May 8, 2018. 

Georgia May Jagger poses on the red carpet at the opening night screening of the film "Everybody Knows," May 8, 2018. 

Cast members Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem arrive for the opening night ceremony and screening of their film "Everybody Knows" at the 71st Cannes Film Festival, May 8, 2018.

Jury president Cate Blanchett at the 71st Cannes Film Festival, May 8, 2018.

The dress of Tallia Storm is seen as she arrives for the screening of the film "Yomeddine" at the Cannes Film Festival, May 9, 2018. 

Louise Bourgoin waves as she arrives for the screening of the film "Yomeddine" at the Cannes Film Festival, May 9, 2018.

Model Catrinel Menghia arrives for a screening of the film "Yomeddine" at the Cannes Film Festival, May 9, 2018. 

Marica Pellegrinelli poses upon arriving for the screening of the film "Yomeddine" at the Cannes Film Festival, May 9, 2018. 

Un Certain Regard jury member Virginie Ledoyen poses during a photocall at the Cannes Film Festival, May 9, 2018.

Actors Wang Likun and Kiko Mizuhara arrives for a screening of the film "Yomeddine" at the Cannes Film Festival, May 9, 2018. 

Actor Christoph Waltz arrives for a screening of the film "Yomeddine" at the Cannes Film Festival, May 9, 2018. 

Singer Li Yuchun (a.k.a. Chris Lee) poses before a screening of the film "Yomeddine," Cannes, France, May 9, 2018. 

Actress Julianne Moore poses on the red carpet before a screening of the film "Yomeddine" at the Cannes Film Festival, May 9, 2018. 

Director Martin Scorsese arrives at the Cannes Film Festival, May 9, 2018. 

Anna Chipovskaya arrives for a screening of the film "Summer" (Leto) at the Cannes Film Festival, May 9, 2018. 

Actor Irina Starshenbaum holds up a banner with the name of director Kirill Serebrennikov, next to fellow cast members Teo Yoo and Roman Bilyk, before a screening of the film "Summer" (Leto)," May 9, 2018.  

Serebrennikov, who is under house arrest in Russia, was not allowed to attend the festival. The filmmaker, who was critical of Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea, has been charged with fraud and confined. Supporters have called his arrest politically motivated.

A guest wears a shirt demanding the release of film director Kirill Serebrennikov.

Director Wanuri Kahiu, of "Rafiki," poses with actors Sheila Munyiva and Samantha Mugatsia before a screening of "Summer," May 9, 2018. 

Un Certain Regard jury president Benicio Del Toro appears at a phgotocall at the Cannes Film Festival, May 9, 2018. 

Frederique Bel poses on the red carpet before a screening of "Sorry Angel (Plaire, aimer et courir vite)," at the 71st Cannes Film Festival, May 10, 2018.

Model Stella Maxwell poses before a screening of "Sorry Angel (Plaire, aimer et courir vite)," at the 71st Cannes Film Festival, May 10, 2018.

Actress Lupita Nyong'o arrives on the red carpet before a screening of "Sorry Angel (Plaire, aimer et courir vite)," at the 71st Cannes Film Festival, May 10, 2018.

Actress Amber Heard poses on the red carpet before a screening of "Sorry Angel (Plaire, aimer et courir vite)," at the 71st Cannes Film Festival, May 10, 2018.

Josephine Skriver poses on the red carpet before a screening of "Sorry Angel (Plaire, aimer et courir vite)," at the 71st Cannes Film Festival, May 10, 2018.

Huma Qureshi arrives on the red carpet before a screening of "Sorry Angel (Plaire, aimer et courir vite)," at the 71st Cannes Film Festival, May 10, 2018.

Actress Deepika Padukone poses on the red carpet before a screening of "Sorry Angel (Plaire, aimer et courir vite)," at the 71st Cannes Film Festival, May 10, 2018.

Petra Nemcova poses on the red carpet before a screening of "Sorry Angel (Plaire, aimer et courir vite)," at the 71st Cannes Film Festival, May 10, 2018.

Sylvie Tellier poses on the red carpet before a screening of "Sorry Angel (Plaire, aimer et courir vite)," at the 71st Cannes Film Festival, May 10, 2018.

Marion Cotillard and Jessica Chastain pose during a photocall for the film "355" at the Cannes Film festival, May 10, 2018. 

Actress Carey Mulligan poses during a photocall for the film "Kering Women in Motion" at the Cannes Film Festival, Cannes, France, May 10, 2018.

Actor Mads Mikkelsen poses during a photocall for the film "Arctic" during the Cannes Film Festival, at Cannes, France, May 10, 2018. 

Director Pawel Pawlikowski (the Oscar-winner "Ida") and actress Joanna Kulig appear in a press conference for the film "Cold War (Zimna wojna)," at Cannes, France, May 11, 2018. 

Jury president Cate Blanchett appears on the red carpet at the premiere of the film "Cold War" at the 71st Cannes Film Festival, May 10, 2018. 

Regina Todorenko arrives on the red carpet for a screening of the film "Ash Is Purest White (Jiang hu er nv)," at the Cannes Film Festival, May 11, 2018.

Victoria Silvstedt poses on the red carpet for a screening of the film "Ash Is Purest White (Jiang hu er nv)," at the Cannes Film Festival, May 11, 2018.

Director Pedro Almodóvar, director Luis Ortega, "The Angel" cast member Lorenzo Ferro and Cecilia Roth pose before a screening of the film "Ash Is Purest White (Jiang hu er nv)," at the Cannes Film Festival, May 11, 2018.

Bella Hadid arrives for the screening of the film "Ash Is Purest White (Jiang hu er nv)," at the Cannes Film Festival, May 11, 2018.

Filmmaker Christopher Nolan is photographed at the Cannes Film Festival, May 12, 2018. Nolan will be presenting an "unrestored" 70mm print of Stanley Kubrick's landmark sci-fi film, "2001: A Space Odyssey," to celebrate its 50th anniversary.

Director Jean-Luc Godard speaks via video conference about his film "The Picture Book (Le livre d'image)," at the Cannes Film Festival, May 12, 2018.

Director Ramin Bahrani poses with cast members Michael B. Jordan, Sofia Boutella and Michael Shannon at a photocall for the film "Fahrenheit 451," at the Cannes Film Festival, May 12, 2018. 

Marion Cotillard poses at a photocall for the film "Angel Face (Gueule d'ange)," at the Cannes Film Festival, May 12, 2018.

Aishwarya Rai arrives on the red carpet for a screening of the film "Girls of the Sun (Les filles du soleil)," at the Cannes Film Festival, in Cannes, France, May 12, 2018. 

Helen Mirren poses on the red carpet for a screening of the film "Girls of the Sun (Les filles du soleil)," at the Cannes Film Festival, in Cannes, France, May 12, 2018. 

Eighty-two women from the film industry pose on the red carpet to highlight the limited number of female filmmakers who have been selected for the festival's competition lineup over its 71 years, at the Cannes Film Festival, Saturday, May 12, 2018. 

Jury president Cate Blanchett and filmmaker Agnes Varda lead eighty-two women from the film industry protesting the limited number of female filmmakers who have been selected for the festival's competition lineup over its 71 years, at the Cannes Film Festival, Saturday, May 12, 2018. 

Females figures from the film industry, including actress Marion Cotillard (second from left), arrive on the red carpet to represent the limited number of female filmmakers who have been selected for the festival's competition lineup over its 71 years.

Salma Hayek joins the protest on the Cannes red carpet, May 12, 2018.

Model Naomi Campbell poses before a news conference about her charity fashion gala event, "Fashion for Relief," May 12, 2018, in Cannes, France. 

Diane Kruger arrives for the screening of the film "Sink or Swim (Le grand bain)," at the Cannes Film Festival, May 13, 2018.

Jane Fonda arrives for the screening of the film "Sink or Swim (Le grand bain)," at the Cannes Film Festival, May 13, 2018.

Isabelle Huppert waves on the red carpet before the screening of the film "Sink or Swim (Le grand bain)," at the Cannes Film Festival, May 13, 2018.

Roberto Benigni arrives for the screening of "Happy as Lazzaro (Lazzaro Felice)," at the Cannes Film Festival, May 13, 2018, in Cannes, France.

Actor John Savage arrives for the screening of "Happy as Lazzaro (Lazzaro Felice)," at the Cannes Film Festival, May 13, 2018, in Cannes, France.

Cast member Marziyeh Rezaei poses during the photocall for the film "Three Faces" at the Cannes Film Festival, May 13, 2018.

Sara Sampaio arrives for the charity fashion gala event, "Fashion for Relief," in Cannes, France, May 13, 2018. 

Actress Alba Rohrwacher appears at a pres conference for the film "Happy as Lazzaro (Lazzaro Felice)," directed by her sister, Alice Rohrwacher, at the Cannes Film Festival, May 14, 2018. 

John Travolta, who stars as a mob boss in the biopic "Gotti,"  poses at the Cannes Film Festival, May 14, 2018.

In a breach of protocol, jury member Kristen Stewart removes her high-heel shoes while walking the red carpet before the screening of the film "BlacKkKlansman" at the Cannes Film Festival, May 14, 2018. 

Director Spike Lee at the press conference for his film "BlacKkKlansman" at the Cannes Film Festival, May 15, 2018. The film, a true story about a black man and a Jew who infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan, is scheduled to be released on the first-year anniversary of the Charlottesville rally by white nationalists at which a counter-protestor, Heather Hayer, was murdered.

Lee, who called the killing "an ugly, ugly, ugly blemish on the United States of America," condemned President Trump: "That mother****** did not denounce the mother******* Klan, the alt-right, and those Nazis mother*******. It was a defining moment, and he could have said to the world, not just the United States, that we were better than that. … This right-wing bull**** is not just America, it is all over the world, and we have to wake up."

Director Melanie Thierry arrives for the screening of "Under the Silver Lake" at Cannes, France May 15, 2018. 

Alden Ehrenreich and Emilia Clarke give Chewbacca a hug during a photocall for "Solo: A Star Wars Story," at the 71st Cannes Film Festival, May 15, 2018. 

Stormtroopers stand guard on the red carpet before the screening of "Solo: A Star Wars Story" at the 71st Cannes Film Festival, May 15, 2018. 

Model Winnie Harlow arrives on the red carpet for the Cannes FIlm Festival screening of "Solo: A Star Wars Story," May 15, 2018. 

71st Cannes Film Festival - Screening of the film "Solo: A Star Wars Story" out of competition - Red Carpet Arrivals - Cannes, France May 15, 2018. cast member Emilia Clarke arrives.

Michelle Rodriguez arrives on the red carpet for the Cannes Film Festival screening of the film "Solo: A Star Wars Story," May 15, 2018. 

Actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge is photographed at the screening of "Solo: A Star Wars Story," at Cannes, France, May 15, 2018. 

Aissa Maiga poses at the "Kering Women in Motion" event at Cannes, France, May 16, 2018. 

Sara Sampaio poses at the amfAR's Cinema Against AIDS event, in Antibes, France, May 17, 2018.  

Georgia Fowler poses at the amfAR's Cinema Against AIDS event, in Antibes, France, May 17, 2018.  

Director Terry Gilliam, who spent the past quarter-century trying to get his movie "The Man Who Killed Don Quixote" off the ground despite insurmountable production difficulties, basked in applause as the completed film had its world premiere on the closing night of the Cannes Film Festival, May 19, 2018.

A giant canvas of the official poster for the 71st Cannes Film Festival is seen outside the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France, May 6, 2018.