Barbra Streisand Accepts Honorary Palme d’Or by Video at Cannes 79 After Knee Injury
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Updated · Vulture · May 23
Barbra Streisand Accepts Honorary Palme d’Or by Video at Cannes 79 After Knee Injury
12 articles · Updated · Vulture · May 23
Barbra Streisand accepted an honorary Palme d’Or by video at Cannes’ 79th closing ceremony after a knee injury kept her from appearing in person.
Isabelle Huppert presented the tribute, praising Streisand’s singular career and her 15-year fight to direct 1983’s "Yentl," calling it a quiet revolution for women in cinema.
Streisand’s video message traced her love of film to foreign movies she saw near her high school and said studios repeatedly rejected "Yentl" because she was a woman and an actress seeking to direct.
The ceremony closed a Cannes festival marked as Hollywood-light and AI-haunted, with Cristian Mungiu’s "Fjord" winning the Palme d’Or and giving distributor Neon its seventh straight top-prize victory.
Do honorary awards for pioneers like Streisand actually help today's underrepresented female directors?
As Cannes honors Streisand, do new, darker 'Yentl' stage plays challenge her iconic film's legacy?