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Clint Eastwood gets Cannes Festival honor in advance

The Academy Awards may have been remiss in not including Clint Eastwood in the list of nominees for Best Actor and Gran Torino in the Best Picture category.  However, Clint Eastwood was vindicated because he has been given the top honor for the Cannes Film Festival in advance. The Palme d’Or or Golden Palm Award was given to Clint Eastwood three months before the opening of the Cannes Festival. The honor was bestowed by no less than Festival president Gilles Jacob at the Le Fouquet restaurant in Paris last Wednesday. Gilles Jacob said they were honoring the talent of a grand master at the peak of his quarter-century of complicity.

Clint Eastwood, who came to the ceremony with his family, credited the support given to him by French film makers during his directorial debut in 1970.  It is very flattering, was all Clint Eastwood could say about his award. The 78-year old Clint Eastwood also took the opportunity to promote Gran Torino where he is both star and director. He may have been snubbed by the Oscars but Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino is the biggest winner in the box office.

“Gran Torino” gives Clint Eastwood best career box office opening

During his checkered and illustrious career Clint Eastwood has probably seen it all and may a bit more than what he expected but at the winter box office last week his movie “Gran Torino” managed to rake in $29 million which is incidentally the best movie opening of his career.

What is even more astounding that the movie was initially in limited release for four weeks. But as movie goers started revving up to the story the prints jumped from 84 theaters to 2,808.

It was while directing this movie that Clint had famously commented that this movie would probably be his last as an actor and ever since then there has been tremendous interest amongst old and newbie fans to catch the legend on screen one last time.

I knew Gran Torino would be #1.Go Clint GO! Everything Clint touches turns to gold. Good for him!