The famous American actor Robert De Niro will receive a Palme d’O or honorary trophy at the opening ceremony of the 78th edition of the Cannes Festival (May 13-24), the organizers of the event announced on Monday.
“I have very strong feelings for the Cannes festival. Especially now, when so many things happen in the world, Cannes brings us together: screenwriters, filmmakers, fans and friends. It’s like returning home.”commented the 81-year-old actor in a statement published by the festival organizers, according to AFP, quoted by Agerpres.
Robert de Niro – actor, director and producer – will be honored for his entire career, marked by roles, including a legendary collaboration with Martin Scorsese such as “Taxi Driver”, a film rewarded with the Palme D’Or trophy in 1976.
The trophy will be handed to him 14 years after presiding the jury of the Cannes Festival (in 2011).
“There are faces that are replaced by the seventh art and replicas that have marked the cinema for allNa “, it is said in the statement of the Cannes Festival, who greets”A myth of cinema ”whose acting play “It blooms in the gentleness of a smile or in the hardness of a look.”
Oscar award for best -role actor
Robert de Niro debuted in Brian de Palma’s films in the late 1960s and entered the history of cinema after embodimently on Vito Corleone in “”The Godfather: Part II ”, directed by Francis Ford Coppola (1974), a score that I brought the Oscar for best supporting actor.
Robert de Niro. Photo shutterstock
“From an insignificant offender to the biggest mafia”wrote the organizers of the festival in the statement, “De Niro borrows his natural authority to some personalities of the Italo-American mafia ”characters who became the signature of the New York actor.
The Oscar for the best actor, for the role of “Raging Bull”
Then rewarded with the Oscar for the best actor thanks to the “Raging Bull” movie, with two Palme d’Or trophies for the best actor in the lead role (“Taxi Driver” “ and “The Mission“), Robert De Niro, the founder of the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, also knew how to reinvent himself in comedies (“Meet the Parents ”) or in more dark secondary roles (“Joker“).
On May 14, the American actor will hold a masterclass for the festival participants.
His most recent appearance on the cruise took place in the spring of 2023, on the occasion of the launch of the movie “Killers of the Flower Moon ”directed by Martin Scorsese.
