CANNES, France (AP) — Robert De Niro will obtain an honorary Palme d’Or on the Cannes Movie Pageant, a fruits for the 81-year-old actor whose historical past with the French movie pageant stretches again half a century.
In 1976, De Niro starred in two movies — Martin Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver” and Bernardo Bertolucci’s “1900″ — that premiered in competition at Cannes. “Taxi Driver” was an instantaneous sensation, and went house with the pageant’s high prize, the Palme d’Or.
Since then, De Niro has been an everyday on the Croisette, returning with “The King of Comedy” in 1983, Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in America” in 1984 and Roland Joffé’s “The Mission” in 1986. Joffé’s movie additionally gained the Palme, making De Niro the uncommon actor to star in two Palme d’Or winners.
Although De Niro helps run his personal movie pageant again in New York, the Tribeca Pageant, he has remained a mainstay in Cannes. He presided over the jury in 2011 that chosen Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life” for the Palme. Most just lately, he and Scorsese returned to premiere “Killers of the Flower Moon” in 2023.
“I have such close feelings for Festival de Cannes,” De Niro said when his honorary Palme d’Or was announced last month. “Especially now when there’s so much in the world pulling us apart, Cannes brings us together — storytellers, filmmakers, fans, and friends. It’s like coming home.”
De Niro is to obtain the award within the pageant’s opening ceremony on Could 13.
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