Clint Eastwood Honored By Cannes Before Film Festival Begins
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Clint Eastwood accepts a special Cannes ‘Palme d’or’ for lifetime achievement in Paris, France
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FIRST PUBLISHED: February 26, 2009 7:55 PM EST
LAST UPDATED: February 26, 2009 8:27 PM EST
PARIS, France --
Clint Eastwood has received a special top Cannes film festival honor — three months before this year’s festival opens on the Riviera.
Festival President Gilles Jacob presented Eastwood with the special Palme d’Or, or Golden Palm, at a private ceremony Wednesday at the chic Parisian restaurant Le Fouquet’s.
The privilege honored what a festival statement said was “the talent of a grand master at the summit of his craft.” Jacob said it also was a “testimony of my admiration and a quarter-century of complicity.”
“I’m very flattered,” said Eastwood, who was surrounded by his family.
He praised the support of French filmmakers who “encouraged me to go on” when he made his directorial debut in 1970, “and where in my own country people were much more reticent.”
“People were saying we’re not even sure we like this guy as an actor much less as a director,“Eastwood said in accepting the award.
Eastwood, who is 78, was in Paris to promote his latest movie, “Gran Torino,” which he directed and in which he stars.
A Palme d’Or will be attributed by a jury to the top film at the Cannes festival, which this year runs from May 13 to 24.
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