Robert De Niro, a legend of American cinema, will be awarded a Golden Gold Palm during the opening ceremony of the 78th Cannes Festival (May 13-24), the organizers announced today.

“I feel very strong feelings for the Cannes Festival. Especially today, while so many things in the world separate us, Cannes unite us. It’s like getting home, “the 81 -year -old actor commented in a press release issued by the festival.

Fourteen years after taking over the chairmanship of the Jury in 2011, the actor, director and producer will be honored for his entire career, marked by roles who remained in history, such as his legendary collaboration with Martin Skressez at 1976.

“There are faces that replace the 7th art and atrocities that forever mark the love for cinema,” he emphasizes in the festival’s press release, which welcomes a “myth of cinema”, whose interpretation “emerges in the absence of a smile or during a look”.

Having emerged in the films of Brian de Palma in the late 1960s, Robert De Niro’s name is written in history as he embodies Vito Corleone in the movie “The Godfather 2”, a role for which he was honored with Oscar Bi.

“From the junk to Megalofozo, “the festival still writes. “De Niro will not stop lending his natural authority to faces of the Italian-American mafia“, Until it makes them a trademark.

Oscar for a male role for the “angry idol”, two golden palm trees (taxi driver and mission), founder of the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, Robert De Niro reinforced himself in the comedy (groom).