Michael Douglas will receive the honorary Palme D’or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival to celebrate his career and his engagement for cinema.
Last year it was Tom Cruise who got the honorary Palme. At the same time he ended up premiering “Top Gun: Maverick” on the Croisette and the rest as they say is history. Past winners also include Forest Whitaker, Agnès Varda, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jodie Foster and Manoel de Oliveira.
Douglas, son of the late legendary Kirk, has been acting since the early ‘70s. His notable performances were featured in such films as “The China Syndrome,” “Romancing the Stone,” “Fatal Attraction,” “Wall Street,” “The War of the Roses,” “Basic Instinct,” “Falling Down,” “The Game,” “Wonder Boys,” “Traffic” and “Behind the Candelabra.”
What’s your favorite Michael Douglas performance? I’ll have to go with his stoned college professor in Curtis Hanson’s “Wonder Boys.”