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

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.

Robert De Niro is bestowed with a honorary Palme d'Or for Lifetime Achievement, and Leonardo DiCaprio presents it to him. DiCaprio and De Niro first starred together in the 1993 film This Boy's Life and were reunited in Killers of the Flower Moon, which screened in the official selection at Cannes 2023.

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,