Tarantino competes for second trophy at Cannes Film Festival

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Tarantino will show his remake of 'Grindhouse', 'Death Proof', the Coens, 'No Country for Old Men', and Van Sant will show 'Paranoid Park', about a skateboarder who accidentally kills a security guard.

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In competition: American directors Quentin Tarantino, the Coen brothers and Gus Van Sant — all past winners of the Cannes Film Festival — will compete again for the coveted Palm d'Or

The three Americans have already won the top prize, the Palme d'Or.

The Coens won in 1991 for 'Barton Fink'. Tarantino won in 1994 for 'Pulp Fiction', and Van Sant was honored in 2003 for 'Elephant'.

Another Cannes contender this year, Bosnian director Emir Kusturica, has taken it twice. In 1985 for 'When Father Was Away on Business' and again in 1995 for "Underground'. His new movie is "Promise Me This."

Organisers unveiling the selection for the 60th edition of the film festival also announced that Michael Moore, controversial winner of the Palme d'Or prize in 2004, will be back on the Croisette.

His documentary 'Sicko', about the U.S. health care system, is not in the main competition but Moore's presence in Cannes, where he won the top prize in 2004 for his anti-Bush polemic 'Fahrenheit 9/11', will no doubt generate valuable publicity.

The opening film will be Chinese film maker Wong Kar Wai's 'My Blueberry Nights', starring Jude Law, Ed Harris, Natalie Portman and jazz singer Norah Jones in a story about a woman travelling across America.

Also launching in the full glare of the festival publicity will be 'Ocean's 13', the third in the heist series starring George Clooney, and 'A Mighty Heart', a movie based on the 2002 kidnap and murder of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan starring Angelina Jolie.

On the jury, which is headed this year by British director Stephen Frears, will be Turkish Nobel prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk.