DiCaprio Presented De Niro With The Palme D'Or At The Cannes Opening Ceremony

The festival opened today and will run through May 24.

Hollywood actor Robert De Niro received the Palme d'Or at the opening of the 78th Cannes Film Festival, Variety reported. The festival opened today and will run through May 24.

De Niro accepted the honorary award from his "This Boy's Life" and "Killers of the Flower Moon" colleague Leonardo DiCaprio. After kissing DiCaprio on the cheek, he gave a speech.

"I feel so close to the Cannes Festival <...> Cannes brings us together - storytellers, filmmakers, fans and friends. It's like coming home," he said.

The actor also criticized the current administration of American President Donald Trump in his speech. De Niro called unacceptable the president's proposal to impose a 100 percent duty on foreign films.

"You can't put a price on creativity, but obviously you can put a duty on it <...> of course that's unacceptable," the actor emphasized. He called for "action right now", "to organize, to protest".

The red carpet at the festival was walked by such Palme d'Or winners as film directors Quentin Tarantino and Sean Baker, as well as actors and models Eva Longoria, Julia Garner, Heidi Klum and Alessandra Ambrosio.

The participating theaters will broadcast the ceremony live during the film festival. The opening film Partir un jour ("Leave One Day"), the directorial debut of Amelie Bonnin, will be shown first. In 2025, 382 cinemas in 90 departments of France will participate.

Robet De Niro is the winner of two Oscars in a career spanning six decades. He is best known for his ten collaborations with director Martin Scorsese, including, among others, Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980) and Goodfellas (1990), as well as The Irishman (2019) and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023).

The actor starred in Levinson's 2025 crime drama "Alto Nights" and landed his first major television role in the Netflix political thriller "Day Zero."

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