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CANNES, France (AP) — Robert De Niro will receive an honorary Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, a culmination for the 81-year-old actor whose history with the French film festival stretches back half a century.
In 1976, De Niro starred in two films — Martin Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver” and Bernardo Bertolucci’s “1900" — that premiered in competition at Cannes. “Taxi Driver” was an immediate sensation, and went home with the festival’s top prize, the Palme d’Or.
Since then, De Niro has been a regular 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 film also won the Palme, making De Niro the rare actor to star in two Palme d’Or winners.
De Niro appears with French Minister of Culture, Jack Lang, after receiving the French Medal of Art and Letters at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. (AP Photo/Jose Goitia)
De Niro appears with French Minister of Culture, Jack Lang, after receiving the French Medal of Art and Letters at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. (AP Photo/Jose Goitia)
De Niro appears with fellow actor Sam Wanamaker, left, and director Irwin Winkler at Cannes in 1991, where they premiered "Guilty by Suspicion." (AP Photo/Gilbert Tourte)
De Niro appears with fellow actor Sam Wanamaker, left, and director Irwin Winkler at Cannes in 1991, where they premiered "Guilty by Suspicion." (AP Photo/Gilbert Tourte)
Though De Niro helps run his own film festival back in New York, the Tribeca Festival, he has remained a mainstay in Cannes. He presided over the jury in 2011 that selected Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life” for the Palme. Most recently, he and Scorsese returned to premiere “Killers of the Flower Moon” in 2023.
Jury member Uma Thurman, right, and jury president Robert De Niro attend the opening ceremony for the 64th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, on May 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, FIle)
Jury member Uma Thurman, right, and jury president Robert De Niro attend the opening ceremony for the 64th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, on May 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, FIle)
“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 receive the award in the festival’s opening ceremony on May 13.
Robert De Niro poses for photographers at the photo call for the film “Killers of the Flower Moon’” at the 76th international film festival, Cannes, southern France on May 21, 2023. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP, File)
Robert De Niro poses for photographers at the photo call for the film “Killers of the Flower Moon’” at the 76th international film festival, Cannes, southern France on May 21, 2023. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP, File)
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