Celebrated Italian film composer Ennio Morricone will act as president of the jury at the event.
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Dressed in his signature white shirt teamed with black velvet jacket and charcoal gray pants, he appeared on stage as if he was the President of the jury.
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Spielberg, who has made 27 films during his 40-year career, takes over from Italian director Nanni Moretti, who was president of the jury for the main competition last year.
The referral was accompanied by some 19 boxes of documents, grand jury transcripts and a videotape of the president's grand jury testimony.
CNN: Transcript: White House Counsel Ruff's opening statement
Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg has been announced as President of the Competition Jury which will award the coveted Palme d'Or prize.
Isabella Camera of Afflitto, President of the international Jury.
That is not an accurate characterization of the president's testimony in front of the grand jury.
She is reciting to the grand jury each of the statements the president made to her after his grand jury testimony.
There were plenty of surprises on awards night but not, perhaps, for those who know Martin Scorsese, the president of this year's jury.
Sixth, surrogates of the president attacked the credibility and the legitimacy of the grand jury investigation.
They're nothing more than an effort to inflate the number of perjury allegations by converting every answer that the president gave to the grand jury about the subject matter of Article II into a new count of perjury.
Campion will be at the festival as president of the Cinefondation and short film jury.
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Members of the Senate, those descriptions of the president's grand jury testimony are absolutely false.
They were the ones who conducted the interrogation of the president before the grand jury.
That characterization of the president's grand jury -- grand jury testimony is not true.
Because it is based on a total misconception of the president's grand jury testimony.
Over and over again, inaccurate descriptions of the president's grand jury testimony have been launched into the public debate -- sometimes innocently, sometimes negligently, but the result has been the same.
Committee spokesman Sam Stratman said before the meeting that any committee vote would be on a resolution to block the release of further documents or the videotape of the president's grand jury testimony.
The parties are also set to do battle over the "finding of fact, " a resolution concluding that the President committed any number of offenses, from misleading the grand jury to coaching witnesses.
Not only does Monica Lewinsky directly contradict this testimony, but the president later had to answer questions in the grand jury about these same set of circumstances, and the president directly contradicted himself.
He is the President of the Evens Foundation, Antwerp, Jury on Intercultural Education Awards.
Now, ladies and gentlemen of the Senate, the president does claim, and he never was asked in front of the grand jury, and he never inserts in front of the grand jury, that all his testimony in the Jones deposition was truthful.
We discovered that the allegations of grand jury perjury against the president were still changing, still expanding, still increasing in number.
The president is also accused of lying before the grand jury and the managers have asked you to convict him and remove him from office because in the prepared statement that he read to the grand jury in August he acknowledged that he engaged in inappropriate conduct with Ms. Lewinsky on certain occasions in early 1996 and once in 1997.
There has been a merging of the president's testimony in the Jones deposition with that of his testimony in the grand jury.
In truth, the president gave a number of different reasons to the grand jury explaining a number of different purposes for seeking out Betty Currie and talking to her about Monica Lewinsky.
And when Mr. Schippers made his closing argument to the House Judiciary Committee, I think he used the truthfulness on one occasion of the president's testimony before the grand jury to support his argument that the president lied in Jones.
Given the president's overall testimony before the grand jury, of what real significance of this disagreement?
Given the president's overall testimony before the grand jury, of what real significance is this disagreement?
And that is where you need to begin your focus as you look at the charge that the president perjured himself in the grand jury, in August of last year.
CNN: Transcript: White House Counsel Ruff's opening statement
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