Barbra Streisand Sends Thank You Video Message to Cannes Film Festival for Honorary Palme: ‘Merci Beaucoup and Vive La Cinema!’

May 23, 2026 11:59am PT Barbra Streisand Sends Thank You Video Message to Cannes Film Festival for Honorary Palme: ‘Merci Beaucoup and Vive La Cinema!’

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A knee injury may have kept Barbra Streisand away from Cannes this year, but it wasn’t enough to stop her sending a special video message for the festival’s closing ceremony, where she was honored in absentia with the Palme d’Or.

The statuette was brought on stage by Isabelle Huppert, who gave a speech that highlighted Streisand’s achievements in film, music and on the stage and also her support for the LGBTQ+ community and religious and ethnic minorities. Then there followed a video reel that included clips from “The Way We Were,” “The Mirror Has Two Faces,” “Nuts,” “A Star is Born,” “Up the Sandbox” and “Funny Girl,” before the icon herself appeared on the big screen in the Palais to a delighted audience.

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