Hollywood and Broadway legend Barbra Streisand shall be awarded an Honorary Palme d’Or at this yr’s Cannes Film Festival, organizers introduced Wednesday, honoring a profession that has spanned greater than six a long time.
“It is with pride and deep humility that I am delighted to join the circle of Honorary Palme d’Or winners, whose work has inspired me for so long,” mentioned the Broadway icon. She will obtain the award on the pageant’s closing ceremony in May.
Streisand will add the prize to a legendary assortment that features 4 Emmys, ten Grammys, two Oscars, and a Tony. She is considered one of solely 22 folks to have achieved the elite EGOT standing, profitable the highest U.S. prizes in tv, music, cinema and theatre.
After her begin as breakout star in theatre on Broadway, Streisand advanced into a world icon throughout each the movie and music industries.
She gained the Best Actress Oscar for her first movie position in 1968’s “Funny Girl” at simply 26 earlier than taking residence a second in 1977 for “Evergreen”, the unique tune from “A Star Is Born”, wherein she additionally performed the lead position.
Streisand later stepped behind the digicam to jot down, direct, and produce the movie “Yentl” — the story of a younger girl who disguises herself as a person to review the Talmud.
The undertaking, based mostly on a brief story by Isaac Bashevis Singer, took 14 years to deliver to the display, however acquired seven Oscar nominations in 1984.
“It was the first time Hollywood had given such a large production budget to a female filmmaker,” famous the Cannes pageant.
Streisand can be the one feminine artist to have had an album high the charts in every of the final six a long time.
For Cannes director Thierry Fremaux, the prize recognises Streisand’s contribution because the “legendary synthesis between Broadway and Hollywood, between the music hall stage and the big screen”.
New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson, greatest recognized for The Lord of the Rings trilogy, will even be awarded an Honorary Palme d’Or through the pageant.
Past recipients of an honorary Palme d’Or embody U.S. actors Harrison Ford and Denzel Washington, in addition to legendary Japanese animators Studio Ghibli.
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