Jodie Foster to Receive Honorary Palme d'Or at In-Person Cannes Film Festival

Jodie Foster will be honored two-fold at the Cannes Film Festival this year, as the actress-director is set to be the guest of honor at the opening ceremony and will receive the Honorary Palme d'Or. In receiving the award, Foster will have a bit of a full-circle moment. When she first attended Cannes as a teenager in 1976, Foster presented Martin Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver,” which won the Palme d’Or that year. The honorary prize has also gone to Jeanne Moreau, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jane Fond...