This year’s Cannes Film Festival has barely started and already has been an attention-grabbing affair, from new rules for its red carpets, nerves about potential U.S. tariffs and the return of Tom Cruise.

Flash forward to 2025, and Leo was enlisted to present his former costar with an honorary Palme d'Or — one of the most prestigious awards in all of film — at the Cannes Film Festival, which kicked off this week.

The 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival launched with lots of politics and a special tribute to Robert De Niro that saw the Oscar-winning legend slam Donald Trump as “America’s philistine president.

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio and filmmaker Quentin Tarantino arrive for a Cannes Film Festival Masterclass by Robert De Niro, the day after the iconic actor received an honorary Palme d'Or. (May 14)

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?

The Oscar winning auteur struck a pose with wife Daniella Tarantino, caught up with Leonardo DiCaprio and dropped the mic, literally, after declaring that the 2025 Cannes Film Festival is officially open.

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,