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Kevin Costner to Guest on Awards Chatter Podcast

The Hollywood Reporter and Campari are happy to ask attendees of the upcoming Cannes Movie Competition to a really particular occasion on the fest: a dwell in-depth interview with Kevin Costner, the legendary actor and Oscar-winning filmmaker, adopted by a cocktail reception.

On Sunday, Might 19, at 11:30am Cannes time, Costner will sit down with THR’s govt awards editor Scott Feinberg within the Campari Lounge of the Palais to file an episode of THR’s Awards Chatter podcast that may embody his life, profession and the movie that brings him to the Croisette this yr: Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1. He co-wrote, produced, directed and stars within the epic western. (The Warner Bros. movie will premiere out of competitors on the fest on Might 19 en path to a June 28 theatrical launch.)

Given the venue’s restricted area, these wishing to attend are requested to RSVP by way of this hyperlink by Friday, Might 17.

Costner, after all, has been one in all Hollywood’s most admired main males for 40 years, having starred in movies equivalent to 1985’s Silverado, 1987’s The Untouchables, 1988’s Bull Durham, 1989’s Area of Desires, 1990’s Dances with Wolves (which he additionally directed), 1991’s JFK, 1992’s The Bodyguard, 2000’s 13 Days, 2003’s Open Vary (which he additionally directed), 2005’s The Upside of Anger, 2014’s Black or White, 2016’s Hidden Figures and 2020’s Let Him Go, in addition to TV applications together with Hatfields & McCoys (2012) and Yellowstone (2018-).

Feinberg’s award-winning Awards Chatter podcast, which debuted in 2015, has welcomed greater than 500 friends for career-retrospective conversations, together with Hollywood A-listers Martin Scorsese, Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Meryl Streep, George Clooney, Barbra Streisand, Daniel Craig, Jennifer Lawrence, Lorne Michaels, Carol Burnett, Jerry Seinfeld, Cate Blanchett, Bono, Penélope Cruz, Will Ferrell, Dolly Parton, Norman Lear, Nicole Kidman, Denzel Washington, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Adam Sandler, Tina Fey, Elton John, Sophia Loren, Jimmy Fallon, Billie Eilish, Tom Hanks, Jane Fonda, Spike Lee, Dua Lipa, Conan O’Brien, Julia Roberts, Robert De Niro, Angelina Jolie, David Letterman, Julianne Moore, Eddie Murphy, Olivia Rodrigo, Al Pacino, Ava DuVernay, Stephen Colbert, Selena Gomez, Jimmy Kimmel, Glenn Shut, Jay Leno, Michelle Williams, Michael Douglas and Sydney Sweeney; and non-showbiz friends equivalent to Malala Yousafzai, Invoice Gates, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Buzz Aldrin, Gloria Steinem, Kobe Bryant, Fran Lebowitz, José Andrés and Dr. Ruth Westheimer.

Campari, the long-lasting purple bitter, returns to the Competition de Cannes for a 3rd yr as an Official Associate to proceed its function as curator of aperitivo events and rejoice these real-life moments that grow to be outstanding tales that make it to the display screen. 

Cannes 2024 Names Film Festival Competition Jury

The Cannes Movie Competition has picked its full jury.

Oscar-nominated The Killers of the Flower Moon lead Lily Gladstone, French stars Eva Inexperienced and Omar Sy and Italian actor Pierfrancisco Favino are among the many A-listers who will be part of Barbie director Greta Gerwig, this yr’s jury president for the 77th Cannes Movie Competition, deciding on the winners, together with the perfect movie Palme d’Or, from the 2024 competitors lineup.

A trio of worldwide Oscar-nominated administrators: Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki (Capernaum), Spain’s Juan Antonio Bayona (Society of the Snow) and Japanese director Kore-eda Hirokazu (Shoplifters), in addition to Turkish screenwriter and photographer Ebru Ceylan, co-writer of 2014 Palme d’Or winner Winter Sleep (with director husband Nuri Bilge Ceylan), full the five-women, four-man jury.

Among the many movies within the operating for this yr’s Palme d’Or are Francis Ford Coppola’s long-anticipated Megalopolis; Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Issues follow-up Sorts of Kindness; Chicken from Scottish director Andrea Arnold; David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds; and Ali Abbasi’s Donald Trump drama The Apprentice.

The 2024 Cannes Competition kicks off Could 14 with The Second Act, a surreal comedy from French director Quentin Dupieux (Smoking Causes Coughing) starring Léa Seydoux and Vincent Lindon. It’s going to premiere out of competitors, as will George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the newest within the Australian apocalypse franchise, starring Anya Taylor-Pleasure; and Kevin Costner’s Western epic Horizons: An American Saga – Chapter 1.

Cannes juries have a powerful observe document in choosing breakout award season contenders. Final yr’s Palme winner, Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, went from success on the Croisette all the way in which to the Oscars, the place the French movie received the Academy Award for greatest unique screenplay and scored a greatest actress nom for breakout star Sandra Hüller.

The 77th Cannes Movie Competition runs Could 14-25.