2014 Cannes Line-up Announced; Watch Trailers

The Cannes Film Festival is (arguably) the start to Oscar season. Some will argue that it's Sundance that kicks the conversation off. However, many of the titles from Sundance do find their way to Cannes, which is recognized as the kick start for many Oscar prognosticators.

Cannes (especially in the last few years) has planted the seeds of Oscar dreams for many films. It was the first time 2011 Best Picture winner The Artist was seen, where Lead Actor Jean Dujardin won the festival's Best Actor award. That same year, Palm d'Or (the festival's Best Picture award) went to Terrence Malick's "Tree of Life" which not only nabbed a Best Picture nomination from the Academy, but 4 other nominations as well. Other films like Amour, The Piano and Pulp Fiction have found their footing at Cannes and went on to Oscar glory.

This year's lineup is one of the starriest in recent memory. Julianne Moore, Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Channing Tatum, Steve Carrell, Hillary Swank, Nicole Kidman and many others all have at least one high-profile film that will be seen for the first time here

The festival takes place starting on May 14th till the 25th, which will yield to the festival's annual awards ceremony.

Below is the festival line-up. I've also put a * next to the films that many are paying close attention too. Their reception at Cannes could affect their footing in the coming Oscar race.

I have also included film's trailers. If I was able to find one, you can click on the film title to view the trailer.

Opening Night:

• Grace Of Monaco, starring Nicole Kidman (dir. Oliver Dehan)*

Official Selection (films in Competition):

• Silas Maria, starring Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, Cholë Grace Moretz (dir. Oliver Assayas)
• Saint Laurent (dir. Bertrand Bonelo)
• Winter's Sleep (dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
• Maps to the Stars, starring Julianne Moore, John Cusack, Mia Wasikowska, Robert Pattinson,  (dir. David Cronenberg)*
• Two Days, One Night (dir. Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
• Mommy (dir. Xavier Dolan)
• The Captive (Atom Egoyan)
• Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc-Godard)
• The Search (Michael Hazanavicius) 
• The Homesman, starring Hillary Swank, Tommy Lee Jones, Hailee Steinfeld and Meryl Streep (dir. Tommy Lee Jones)*
• Still the Water (dir. Naomi Kawase)
• Mr. Turner starring Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville (dir. Mike Leigh) 
• Jimmy's Hall (dir. Ken Loach)
• Foxcatcher, starring Channing Tatum, Steve Carrell, Mark Ruffalo (dir. Bennett Miller)*
• Le Meraviglie (dir. Alice Rohrwacher)
• Timbuktu (dir. Abderrahmane Sissako)
• Wild Tales (dir. Damian Szifron)
• Leviathan (dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev)

Un Certain Regard:

• (Opener)- Party Girl (dir. Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, Samuel Theis)
• Jauja (dir. Lisando Alonso)
• The Blue Room (dir. Mathieu Amalric)
• Misunderstood (dir. Asia Argento)
• Titli (dir. Kanu Behl)
• Eleanor Rigby, starring Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy (dir. Ned Benson)*
• Bird People (Pascale Ferran)
• Lost River (formally titled How To Catch A Monster), starring Christina Hendricks, Eva Mendes, Saoirse Ronan (dir. Ryan Gosling)*
• Amour fou (dir. Jessica Hausner)
• Charles Country (dir. Rolf de Heer)
• Snow in Paradise (dir. Andrew Hulme)
• A Girl at My Door (did. July Jung)
• Xenia (dir. Panos Koutras)
• Run (dir. Philippe Lacôte)
• Turist (dir. Ruben Östlund)
• Beautiful Youth (dir. Jaime Rosales)
• Fantasia (dir. Wang Chao)
• The Salt of the Earth (dir. Wim Wenders, Ribeiro Salgado)
• Away from His Absence (dir. Karen Yedaya)