Robert De Niro will be honored at this year’s Cannes Film Festival with an honorary palm d’Or for lifetime. He will receive this award at the opening ceremony for the 78th festival 14 years after he chaired the jury in 2011. The ceremony will be held on May 13, 2025. The next day he will hold a masterclass at Debussy Theater.
“I have so close feelings for festival de Cannes …” said De Niro in a statement on Monday. “Especially now that there is so much in the world that pulls us apart, Cannes unites us – storytellers, filmmakers, fans and friends. It’s like coming home.”
De Niro began his career with a young Brian de Palma in early gemstones “Greetings”, “The Wedding Party” and “Hello, Mom!” (He would be reunited with the Palma years later “The untouchables”). In 1973 he would start in Martin Scorsese “Mean Streets”, which would start a decades long collaboration which would also include “Taxi driver”, “Raging Bull”, “Goodfellas”, “Cape Fear”, “Casino”, “The Irishman” and “Killers of the Flower Moon.” He has also played countless iconic roles in other films such as “The Godfather Part II”, “The Deer Hunter”, “Once Upon a Time in America” and “Heat”, among many others.
De Niro can currently be seen in “Alto Knights,” Play two different characters (real Mobsters Frank Costello and Vito Genovese). He also recently played in his first streaming series, “Zero Day” for Netflix.
Per The Cannes Announcement, “After 9/11, Robert de Niro Founded the Tribeca Film Festival in 2002 to Help New Yorkers Reclaim The Battered Neighborhood. He then Revealed Another Fact of His Personality: His Political Commitment. Never Ceased to Explore the Violence of American Society in Films That Show the New Wicked Face of Organized Crime, The Decline of the State, The Trauma from the Vietnam War and the manipulation of souls of the entertainment industry. “
2025 Cannes Film Festival goes May 13-24 in France.
