Robert De Niro might be among the many tributes on the 2025 Cannes Movie Competition. The beloved actor/director/producer will obtain the coveted honorary Palme d’Or for lifetime achievement in the course of the opening ceremony on Might 13.
De Niro previously presided over the Cannes jury in 2011 and iconically starred in Martin Scorsese’s 1976 Palme d’Or winner “Taxi Driver” and “The King of Comedy,” which opened the pageant in 1983. De Niro returned most lately to the Croisette for one more Scorsese collaboration with “Killers of the Flower Moon.”
“There are faces that stand in for the seventh Artwork, and features of dialogue that go away an indelible mark on cinephilia. Along with his interiorized model, which surfaces in a mild smile or a harsh gaze, Robert De Niro has grow to be a cinematic legend,” the official announcement for De Niro’s honor on the 78th annual pageant reads.
De Niro stated in a press assertion, “I’ve such shut emotions for Competition de Cannes…particularly now when there’s a lot on the planet pulling us aside, Cannes brings us collectively: storytellers, filmmakers, followers, and associates. It’s like coming house.”
The 78th Competition de Cannes will happen from Tuesday, Might 13, to Saturday, Might 24. After receiving his Palme on Might 13, De Niro will meet festival-goers for a masterclass on the stage of the Debussy Theatre on Might 14.
Meryl Streep and George Lucas each obtained honorary Palmes in 2024.
De Niro started his profession collaborating with auteurs Brian De Palma (“The Wedding ceremony Get together,” “Greetings,” “Hello, Mother!”) and Martin Scorsese, famously beginning with Scorsese’s “Imply Streets.” The duo has labored collectively for greater than a half-century since, together with “Raging Bull,” which received De Niro Greatest Actor (he additionally had landed an Oscar for Greatest Supporting Actor for Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Godfather Half II”). De Niro’s profession spans movies with Quentin Tarantino, David O. Russell, Michael Mann, Harold Ramis, and Jay Roach. De Niro directed his first function movie “A Bronx Story” in 1993
Along with performing and directing, De Niro based TriBeCa Productions in 1989 with fellow producer Jane Rosenthal. The duo later started the TriBeCa Movie Competition in 2002 to assist New Yorkers reclaim their battered neighborhood after 9/11. De Niro’s political dedication has prolonged to changing into a “fervent defender of an egalitarian, humanist society,” as additionally mirrored within the roles he has chosen and tasks he has produced, starting from options highlighting organized crime, the decline of the State, the trauma of the Vietnam Struggle, and the “manipulation of souls by the leisure trade.”
The official choice for the 2025 Cannes Movie Competition might be introduced on Thursday, April 10.