Cannes Film Festival opening night featured a tribute to Robert De Niro by Leonardo DiCaprio, and a Quentin Tarantino appearance.

Flash forward to 2025, and Leo was enlisted to present his former costar with an honorary Palme d'Or — one of the most prestigious awards in all of film — at the Cannes Film Festival, which kicked off this week.

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio and filmmaker Quentin Tarantino arrive for a Cannes Film Festival Masterclass by Robert De Niro, the day after the iconic actor received an honorary Palme d'Or. (May 14)

She held hands with her fellow jurors — a group that includes “Succession” star Jeremy Strong, Oscar-winning actor Halle Berry, “All We Imagine as Light” director Payal Kapadia — at the top of the steps.

In 2024 Guiney was here with Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness. Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe and Jesse Plemons starred in that competitor for the Palme d’Or. Is it a different business in the less heated Un Certain Regard?

This evening's opening night gala in Cannes was briefly interrupted when festival staffers staged a labor protest next to the red carpet. Around a dozen Cannes staffers, covertly stationed next to the red carpet,

Robert De Niro took a fiery stand against U.S. president Donald Trump at Cannes Film Festival's opening ceremony on Tuesday night, calling him a "philistine president." After Leonardo DiCaprio presented him with the festival's honorary Palme d'Or,