FILE - Actor Edgar Ramirez, right, kisses fellow actor Robert De Niro during a photo call for "Hands of Stone" at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France on May 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan, File)
FILE - American actor Robert De Niro, left, appears with French Minister of Culture, Jack Lang, after receiving the French Medal of Art and Letters during the 44th Cannes Film Festival in Southern France on May 17, 1991. (AP Photo/Jose Goitia, File)
FILE - Jury member Uma Thurman, right, and jury president Robert De Niro attend the opening ceremony for the 64th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, on May 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, FIle)
FILE - Director Martin Scorsese, and actor Robert De Niro appear after the premiere of the film "Killers of the Flower Moon" at the 76th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, on May 20, 2023. (Photo by Scott Garfitt/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - Robert De Niro poses for photographers at the photo call for the film "Killers of the Flower Moon'" at the 76th international film festival, Cannes, southern France on May 21, 2023. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP, File)
CANNES, France (AP) — Robert De Niro will receive an honorary Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, a culmination for the 81-year-old actor whose history with the French film festival stretches back half a century.
In 1976, De Niro starred in two films — Martin Scorsese's and Bernardo Bertolucci's “1900" — that premiered in competition at Cannes. “Taxi Driver" was an immediate sensation, and went home with the festival's top prize, the Palme d'Or.
Since then, De Niro has been a regular on the Croisette, returning with “The King of Comedy†in 1983, Sergio Leone's “Once Upon a Time in America†in 1984 and Roland Joffé's “The Mission†in 1986. Joffé's film also won the Palme, making De Niro the rare actor to star in two Palme d'Or winners.
Though De Niro helps run his own film festival back in New York, , he has remained a mainstay in Cannes. He presided over the jury in 2011 that selected Terrence Malick's “The Tree of Life†for the Palme. Most recently, he and Scorsese returned to premiere .
“I have such close feelings for Festival de Cannes," De Niro said when his honorary Palme d'Or was announced last month. “Especially now when there’s so much in the world pulling us apart, Cannes brings us together — storytellers, filmmakers, fans, and friends. It’s like coming home.â€
De Niro is to receive the award in the festival's opening ceremony on May 13.
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