2026 Cannes Festival Honors Barbra Streisand, More in Film — See Winners
The festival’s top honors also went to Federico Luis, Isabelle Kabano and Emmanuel Marre at the closing ceremony.
- On Saturday, the 79th annual Cannes Film Festival honored Barbra Streisand with the honorary Palme d'Or during its closing ceremony. Unable to attend due to a knee injury, she accepted the award via a special video message.
- Medical advice regarding a knee injury forced Streisand to cancel her planned appearance, while French actress Isabelle Huppert presented the statuette on stage, highlighting the icon's career and support for the LGBTQ+ community.
- A video reel featured clips from 'Funny Girl', 'The Way We Were', and 'Nuts' before Streisand discussed her directorial debut, 'Yentl', noting the project faced 15 years of resistance because "I was a woman" wanting to direct.
- Streisand is the third recipient of the honorary Palme d'Or this year, joining filmmakers Peter Jackson and John Travolta; in her address, she championed cinema's "magical ability to unite us" within a fractured global environment.
- Reflecting on her early influences, Streisand described being "mesmerized" by foreign films from directors like Ingmar Bergman and François Truffaut, expressing deep admiration for France as "a place I have always loved.
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The US actress and singer Barbra Streisand was awarded an honorary palm at the end of the Cannes Film Festival. "She has always resisted the fact that others decide for her. She often said no – that's why we love her so much," said actress Isabelle Huppert in her homage. The 84-year-old Streisand had to cancel her trip to Cannes because of a knee problem and was awarded in absentia. With visible admiration, Huppert spoke about Streisand's career…
Watch Barbra Streisand Accept Her Palme d'Or from the Cannes Film Festival by Video: "Merci beaucoup and Vive La Cinema!”
Barbra Streisand cannes-celled her trip to the Cannes Film Festival because of a knee injury. But she sent a video for the closing ceremony, where she was awarded an honorary Palme d’Or for her contribution to cinema. Isabelle Huppert introduced her after a clip reel highlighting Streisand’s career. The post Watch Barbra Streisand Accept Her Palme d’Or from the Cannes Film Festival by Video: “Merci beaucoup and Vive La Cinema!” appeared first on…
An extraordinary triumph for Argentine cinema inaugurated the closing ceremony of the Festival de Cannes, the most important of the annual calendar of its kind. There, the Palm de Oro for the best short film was given to our compatriot Federico Luis, director of Para los Contrincantes. It is the first time in the 79 years of history of the Festival de Cannes that a figure of the Argentine cinema obtains a Palm de Oro, one of the greatest distinc…
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