At Tuesday night’s Cannes Film Festival opening gala, Leonardo DiCaprio presented his friend and co-star Robert De Niro with the Honorary Palme d’Or. “The thing about Bob is, he doesn’t say much, but when he does,

Cannes Film Festival opening night featured a tribute to Robert De Niro by Leonardo DiCaprio, and a Quentin Tarantino appearance.

Robert De Niro turned a Cannes Film Festival event honoring his work into a critique of “philistine” President Trump and a call for action.

The Cannes Film Festival is now in full swing, opening its slate with three highly anticipated world premieres: Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, starring Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, and Angela Bassett; Mascha Schilinski’s thriller Sound of Falling; and Sergei Loznitsa’s drama, Two Prosecutors.

The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival launched with lots of politics and a special tribute to Robert De Niro that saw the Oscar-winning legend slam Donald Trump as “America’s philistine president.

Flash forward to 2025, and Leo was enlisted to present his former costar with an honorary Palme d'Or — one of the most prestigious awards in all of film — at the Cannes Film Festival, which kicked off this week.

In 2024 Guiney was here with Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness. Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe and Jesse Plemons starred in that competitor for the Palme d’Or. Is it a different business in the less heated Un Certain Regard?