35 years after winning the Best Actress award for Evil Angels, Meryl Streep returns as the guest of honor at the opening ceremony of the 77th Cannes Film Festival, where she will receive the Festival’s Honorary Palme d’or.
Cannes Film Festival
The international Festival de Cannes is one of the world’s most widely publicized events and certainly the most important film festival in terms of worldwide impact. “In order to achieve this level of longevity, the Festival de Cannes has remained faithful to its founding purpose: to draw attention to and raise the profile of films, with the aim of contributing towards the development of cinema, boosting the film industry worldwide and celebrating cinema at an international level. And to this day, this profession of faith constitutes the first article of the Festival regulations.
” -Thierry Frémaux, General Delegate
Cannes Film Festival (Festival de Cannes) started in 1946 and takes place in Cannes, France, Europe
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Meryl Streep to Receive Honorary Palme d’or at Cannes Film Festival
Meryl Streep © Brigitte Lacombe
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Greta Gerwig, Lily Gladstone, Omar Sy Among Cannes Film Festival Jury
Greta Gerwig © Ben Rayner / Ebru Ceylan © Nuri Bilge Ceylan / Lily Gladstone © Lindsay Siu / Eva Green © Xavier Torres-Bacchetta / Nadine Labaki © Jihad Hojeili / Juan Antonio Bayona © Germán Romani / Pierfrancesco Favino © Pablo Arroyo / Kore-eda Hirokazu © Mikiya Takimoto / Omar Sy © Selly SY (courtesy Cannes Film Festival) Chaired by Greta Gerwig, the Jury for the 77th Cannes Film Festival will include Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan, American actress Lily Gladstone, French actress Eva Green and Lebanese director and screenwriter Nadine Labaki, as well as Spanish director and screenwriter Juan Antonio Bayona, Italian actor Pierfrancisco Favino, Japanese director Kore-eda Hirokazu, and French actor and producer Omar Sy.
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Cannes Classics 2024 Unveils Film Lineup with Faye Dunaway, Elizabeth Taylor, Jim Henson
Jim Henson Idea Man (Disney+) Featuring celebrations, restored prints and documentaries, the Cannes Classics selection of the 77th Cannes Film Festival will be marked by the presence of great artists including Faye Dunaway, Wim Wenders, Sylvia Chang, Costa-Gavras, Raymond Depardon, Marco Bellocchio, Ron Howard, Frederick Wiseman, Dong-ho Kim, Montxo Armendáriz and more.
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Cannes Film Festival Reveals 8 Projects in Inaugural Immersive Competition
Maya: The Birth of a Superhero by Poulomi Basu and CJ Clarke (JAPC) Cannes Film Festival revealed the eight projects presented in the new Immersive Competition including collective location-based virtual reality and mixed reality experiences, and projection mapping and holographic works. These carefully selected immersive works showcase the cutting edge of this new era in storytelling, challenging convention, embracing new technologies, and above all celebrating new artists as well as old.
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Belgian Actress Lubna Azabal Heads Jury of Cannes Film Festival’s Shorts and La Cinef Competition
© Lubna Azabal © Dominique Charriau/Getty Images / Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar @ Guy Ferrandis / Paolo Moretti © Angèle Marignac-Serra ECAL / Claudine Nougaret © Raymond Depardon / Vladimir Perišić © Philippe Lebruman 11 short films from 10 countries and for its 27th edition La Cinef will present 14 live-action and 4 animated short films in competition at the 77th Cannes Film Festival.
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New Films by Oliver Stone, Michel Hazanavicius, Rúnar Rúnarsson Added to Cannes Film Festival
(© Shochiku Co., Ltd. – Rhapsody in August by Akira Kurosawa (1991) / Graphic creation © Hartland Villa) The 77th Cannes Film Festival unveiled the Official Poster featuring a scene from the film Rhapsody in August, directed by the great Japanese master Akira Kurosawa, 81 at the time.
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Restoration of Napoléon by Abel Gance to Open Cannes Classics at Cannes Film Festival
Napoléon by Abel Gance © La Cinémathèque française After taking more than sixteen years to bring Abel Gance’s masterwork back to life, the restored Napoléon (1st period) will be unveiled on May 14 as a world premiere as the opening film of Cannes Classics at the 77th Festival de Cannes
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Studio Ghibli to Receive Honorary Palme d’or at Cannes Film Festival
© Hayao Miyazaki / Studio Ghibli Cannes Film Festival will bestow its most prestigious honor, the honorary Palme d’or, on Studio Ghibli, the Japanese animation studio created by Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. This is the first time the award traditionally given to a cinema legend, will be given to a group.
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77th Cannes Film Festival Unveils Official Selection – The Apprentice, Megalopolis, The Shroud
The Apprentice (APPRENTICE PRODUCTIONS ONTARIO INC. / PROFILE PRODUCTIONS 2 APS / TAILORED FILMS LTD. 2023) The 77th Cannes Film Festival set to take place May 14-25, 2024, unveiled the Official Selection films in Competition, Un Certain Regard, Out of Competition, Midnight Screenings, Cannes Premiere and Special Screenings.
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George Lucas to Receive Honorary Palme d’or of Cannes Film Festival
George Lucas (credit Nicolas Genin / wikimedia) Legendary director, screenwriter and producer George Lucas will receive the Honorary Palme d’or on Saturday, May 25, at the Closing Ceremony of the 77th Festival de Cannes.
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Kevin Costner’s ‘Horizon, An American Saga’ to World Premiere at Cannes Film Festival
Horizon, An American Saga (Warner Bros.) Kevin Costner will present the first part of his multi-episode Western film Horizon, An American Saga as a World Premiere, Out of Competition at the 77th Cannes Film Festival. The film about the conquest of the American West, directed by Costner, who stars with Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington and Jena Malone, will be released in 4 episodes over several months.
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World Premiere of Quentin Dupieux’s Comedy ‘The Second Act’ to Open 77th Cannes Film Festival
The Second Act (© Chi-Fou-Mi Productions) The world premiere of The Second Act (Le Deuxième Acte) the latest film from French director and screenwriter Quentin Dupieux, who is also a musician, will open the 77th edition of Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday, May 14. The four-part comedy will be released in all French cinemas on the same day.