Honorary Palme d’Or awarded to Michael Douglas

The actor of Basic Instinct And Wall Street Michael Douglas will receive the Honorary Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, “who will salute his brilliant career and his commitment to cinema”, at the opening ceremony on May 16, the festival announced. “After more than 50 years of career, it is an honor to return to the Croisette to open the Festival and speak our common language, that of cinema”, responded the 78-year-old actor in a statement.

Michael Douglas presented four films in competition at Cannes: The Chinese Syndrome by James Bridges in 1979, Basic Instinct by Paul Verhoeven in 1992, Free fall by Joel Schumacher in 1993 and My life with Liberace by Steven Soderbergh in 2013. His father, Kirk Douglas, chaired the festival jury in 1980.

Multiple Oscar winner

Michael Douglas won the Oscar for best actor in 1988 for the role of New York stockbroker Gordon Gekko in Wall Street by Oliver Stone. The following, Wall Street: Money never sleepswas screened out of competition at Cannes in 2010. He was also rewarded as a producer with Flight over a cuckoo’s nest by Milos Forman, Oscar for best film in 1976.

The 76th edition of the Festival, which will be held from May 16 to 27, has yet to announce the composition of its jury, chaired by Swedish director Ruben Östlund, who won his second Palme d’or last year with his film Without filter.