This month, the Cannes Film Festival will be celebrating its 75th anniversary.
The fest’s current highest honor, the Palme D’Or, was first awarded in 1955 to Delbert Mann’s working-class romance “Marty,” and has gone to, in recent years, “Titane,” “Parasite,” “Shoplifters,” and “The Square.” Honorary Palme D’Ors are not awarded every year, and are typically given to actors and filmmakers with an impressive body of work, but who have never been honored at Cannes otherwise. At the 2022 festival, as was reported in Deadline, actor and director Forest Whitaker will be honored with a Palme D’Or.
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