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Cannes to Honor Bernardo Bertolucci with Honorary Palme d'Or Award

by Sophia Savage | April 11, 2011 5:55 AM
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The 64th Cannes Film Festival will award its 2011 Honorary Palme d'Or award to Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci, whose films include Prima della Revoluzione (1964), Novecento (1976), The Conformist (1970), The Last Emperor (1987), Stealing Beauty (1996) (which elicited boos and flapping chairs when it and young Liv Tyler debuted at Cannes) and The Dreamers (2003, pictured with Bertolucci). Bertolucci joins the likes of Woody Allen and Clint Eastwood, who have both received the award within the past decade.

Cannes's Gilles Jacob and Thierry Frémaux state:

"The quality of his work, which appears today in all its uniqueness and the extent of which we receive every day intact, the strength of his commitment to cinema and the ties that bind make this for Cannes the first legitimate recipient."

They will present the award to Bertolucci during the Cannes Opening Ceremony on May 11.

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  • Idalah Luria | May 1, 2011 2:54 AMReply

    Hoping he takes his 20 pieces of Palm d’Or and hangs himself.

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