Festivals - Meryl Streep Guest of Honour at the Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival

By Sabine, 02 may 2024

Meryl Streep will be the guest of honor at the opening ceremony of the 77th Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday May 14. The actress will receive an honorary Palme d’Or. She will return to the Croisette for the first time, 35 years after winning her Interpretation Prize for Un cri dans la nuit.

“I am immeasurably honored to receive the news of this prestigious award. To win a prize at Cannes, for the international community of artists, has always represented the highest achievement in the art of filmmaking. To stand in the shadow of those who have previously been honored is humbling and thrilling in equal part. I so look forward to coming to France to thank everyone in person this May!” Meryl Streep stated.

Kramer vs. Kramer, Sophie's Choice, Out of Africa, The Bridges of Madison County, Death becomes her, Mamma Mia, Florence Foster Jenkins, Pentagon Papers, Meryl Streep has talentedly interpreted a diversity of roles in numerous movie masterpieces. After theater studies and early success on the New York stage, Meryl Streep's career took off with Deer Hunter by Michael Cimino in 1978. It was her first Oscar nomination (she received 21, one record) then his first Oscar with Kramer vs Kramer. From the unforgettable romantic adventurer of Out of Africa (1985) by Sidney Pollack, to the cantankerous editor-in-chief of a fashion magazine in The Devil Wears Prada, she never stops reinventing herself and varying registers and genres. She chooses to play strong and ambivalent women.

Throughout her career, Meryl Streep has never shied away from publicly denouncing the precarious position of women in the film industry, just like director Greta Gerwig, President of the Jury of the 77th Cannes Film Festival, who directed her in The Four Girls of Doctor March.