Meryl Streep will receive an honorary Palme d'Or on the opening night of the 77th Cannes Film Festival. diverse to learn.
Attracting an Oscar winner is another achievement for this Cannes edition, which will bring together Hollywood legends. It is worth noting that George Lucas will receive an honorary Palme d'Or during the closing ceremony. In competition are Francis Ford Coppola's “Megalopolis” and Paul Schrader's “Oh, Canada.” George Miller's “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” and Kevin Costner's Western epic “Horizon, an American Saga” are being screened out of competition. Streep will also be in good company at the festival, where “Barbie” director Greta Gerwig is chairing the jury. The duo worked together in the movie 'Little Women'.
The honorary tribute will mark Streep's long-awaited return to Cannes after decades. Her last trip to the festival appears to be in Fred Schepisi's “Evil Angels a Cry in the Dark,” for which she won the Best Actress award in 1989.
“I am extremely honored to receive news of this prestigious award,” Streep said in a statement. “Winning an award at Cannes, for the international community of artists, always represents the highest achievement in the art of filmmaking. To stand in the shadow of those who have previously been honored is both humbling and exciting in equal measure. Streep continued: “I look forward to coming to France to thank Everyone in person next May.”
Cannes Film Festival President Iris Knobloch and General Delegate Thierry Frémaux said: “We all have a bit of Meryl Streep in us!” “We all have something in us that's like 'Kramer vs. Kramer,' 'Sophie's Choice,' 'Out of Africa,' 'The Bridges of Madison County,' 'The Devil Wears Prada,' and 'Mamma Mia!'” the duo said in a statement. “Having spanned nearly 50 years in cinema and embodied countless masterpieces, Meryl Streep is part of our collective imagination, and our shared love of cinema,” Knobloch and Fremaux continued.
A private and reserved actress, Streep rarely appears at film festivals, and Fremaux had been courting her for several years to bring her back to the Croisette in a titular role. In addition to the ceremony, which will pay tribute to her sprawling — and still vibrant — career, Streep may participate in a conversation while in Cannes. She will succeed Michael Douglas, who received the award on opening night last year. Previous Cannes honorees include Jeanne Moreau, Marco Bellocchio, Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Pierre Léod, Jane Fonda, Agnès Varda, Forest Whitaker and Jodie Foster.
Known for playing strong, complex women, Streep has been nominated for 21 Academy Awards, winning three, for Kramer vs. Kramer (for which she is said to have rewritten an important monologue), Sophie's Choice and The Iron Lady. She had a big hit in 1978 with Michael Cimino's “The Deer Hunter” starring Robert De Niro. She also gave featured performances opposite Robert Redford in Sydney Pollack's romantic epic “Out of Africa” and in “The Bridges of Madison County,” where she starred alongside Clint Eastwood. She also excelled in light fare, including “The Devil Wears Prada,” as well as the musical “Mamma Mia!”
As previously announced, the festival will begin with “The Second Act,” directed by Quentin Dupieux, starring Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lyndon, Louis Garrel, and Raphaël Couignard. The opening and closing ceremonies will be conducted by Camille Cottin, who broke through with “Call My Agent!” He starred in the films “Stillwater” and “House of Gucci” and others. High-profile films scheduled to screen at this year's festival include Yorgos Lanthimos' “Kinds of Kindness,” a three-part tale set in the present that reunites the “Poor Things” director with Emma Stone and Willem Dafoe; Jacques Audiard's musical melodrama “Emilia Perez,” starring Zoe Saldana and Selena Gomez; “Parthenope” by Paolo Sorrentino with Gary Oldman; David Cronenberg's “The Shrouds” starring Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger; Ali Abbasi's “The Apprentice,” in which Sebastian Stan plays Donald Trump; and Coralie Farget's “The Substance,” a feminist horror film starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley from Universal Pictures and Working Title Films.
The 77th Cannes Film Festival will be held from May 14 to 25.
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