A PALME OF HONOR FOR MICHAEL DOUGLAS

AT THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL ON MAY 16, 2023

The actor of Basic Instinct and Wall Street Michael Douglas will receive the Palme d'or d'honneur of the Cannes Film Festival, "which will salute his brilliant career and his commitment to cinema", during the opening ceremony on May 16, 2023 , the festival announced on Wednesday.

Michael Douglas, 78, will receive the trophy "which will salute his brilliant career and his commitment to cinema", the organizers announced on Wednesday. This tribute will be paid to him during the opening ceremony on May 16.

"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", reacted Michael Douglas, quoted in a press release. A regular at the festival, the actor came to Cannes for the first time in 1979 and still shone at the top of the steps in 2013 for the preview of My life with Liberace.

An Oscar-winning actor

Michael Douglas won the Oscar for best actor in 1988 for the role of New York stockbroker Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone's Wall Street. The sequel, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, was screened out of competition at Cannes in 2010. He was also rewarded as a producer with Flight Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Milos Forman, Oscar for Best Film in 1976.

"To complete the tribute paid to him, an unpublished documentary by Amine Mesta [Michael Douglas, the prodigal son], to be broadcast soon on Arte, will be visible for two days on the festival site", from May 14 at 6 p.m. to May 16 at 6 p.m., the organizers also said.

The actor thus joins the still small club of seventeen recipients of a palme d'honneur, awarded since the beginning of the 2000s.

Woody Allen, Clint Eastwood, Jeanne Moreau, Jane Fonda and Alain Delon are among the honorees.