He previously chaired the jury in 1983 when Jean-Luc Godard's First Name: Carmen was awarded the Golden Lion.
The movie won the Golden Lion (Best Picture) at the Venice Film Festival.
On the live-action front there is the latest from Takeshi Kitano, whose police thriller Hana-Bi won the Golden Lion in 1997.
Indian director Mira Nair is heading up the festival jury, fresh from winning the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for Monsoon Wedding.
Mr Morgan, a father-of-two from Monmouthshire, was found with an axe embedded in his skull outside the Golden Lion pub in Sydenham, south-east London.
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With four of this year's competition entrants hailing from Italy, though, it is entirely possible the Golden Lion will go to something closer to home.
Plant the trees, secure the soil, and you save the money, while simultaneously giving people employment and securing the future for animals like the golden lion tamarin.
Movies being screened include Drew Barrymore's "Whip It, " Mia Hansen-Love's Cannes winner "The Father of My Children" and "Lourdes" by Jessica Hausner, a 2009 Venice Golden Lion nominee.
It signals a move away from poetic symbolism and metaphors and towards a more direct style of story-telling, and won the Golden Lion award in Venice in 2000.
Among the favourites for the Golden Lion are Japanese directors Takeshi Kitano, with Achilles and the Tortoise, and Hayao Miyasaki, for the animated feature Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea.
He also was behind "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, " where a one-eyed centaur battles a part-lion, part-eagle creature known as a griffin.
Apollo becomes a tall, youthful soldier with long golden hair, Arnold a lumbering warrior, having the torso of a bear and the majestic head of a lion, and Tom aging tenfold into withered old man, his true age becoming only too apparent.
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