Actor-producer Robert De Niro, will be conferred with the prestigious Palme d'Or for Lifetime Achievement at Cannes 2025. He will receive the Honorary Palme d바카라™Or at the opening ceremony of the 78th edition of the festival, which is on Tuesday, May 13.
Cannes 2025: Leonardo DiCaprio To Present Robert De Niro With Honorary Palme d'Or
Robert De Niro will receive the Honorary Palme d바카라™Or from Leonardo DiCaprio at the opening ceremony of the 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival
Niro will be presented with the the Palme d'Or by none other than Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio, reported Variety.
On May 14, the 81-year-old actor will attend a special masterclass on the stage of the Debussy Theater, where he is said to talk about his career spanning more than five decades.
For the unversed, DiCaprio and Niro's first collaboration was for the film This Boy's Life (1993). After three decades, they reunited for Martin Scorsese바카라™s Killers of the Flower Moon, which screened as the official selection at Cannes 2023.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro
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Robert De Niro and Cannes
The two-time Oscar winner has a long association with Cannes. Niro served as President of the Cannes jury in 2011. He was last seen at Cannes in 2023, for Killers of the Flower Moon.
In 1976, Robert De Niro participated in two films which were the festival's official selection: Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900 and Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, which received the Palme d'Or. In 1983, he took part in the festival with Scorsese's The King of Comedy, and a year later for Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America.
In 1986, he returned with Roland Joffe's The Mission, which was also the Palme d'Or winner.
Earlier, in a statement, Niro shared, 바카라œI have such close feelings for Festival de Cannes...especially now when there바카라™s so much in the world pulling us apart, Cannes brings us together 바카라” storytellers, filmmakers, fans, and friends'' and added, ''It바카라™s like coming home.''
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