{"id":2314181,"date":"2026-03-05T17:35:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2314181"},"modified":"2026-03-05T17:35:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:35:25","slug":"peter-jackson-to-receive-2026-cannes-film-festival-honorary-palme-dor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/peter-jackson-to-receive-2026-cannes-film-festival-honorary-palme-dor\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Jackson to Receive 2026 Cannes Film Festival Honorary Palme d\u2019Or"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The 2026 Cannes Film Festival is coming into focus, with Park Chan-wook<\/a> set to serve as the competition jury president, and April 9 set as the official announcement date for this year\u2019s lineup.<\/p>\n

As announced on Thursday, iconic Oscar-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson<\/a> will receive the festival\u2019s Honorary Palme d\u2019Or \u201cin recognition of a body of work that blends Hollywood blockbusters and films d\u2019auteur with extraordinary artistic vision and technological audacity,\u201d per the festival. Jackson<\/a> is, of course, the director behind the \u201cLord of the Rings<\/a>\u201d and \u201cHobbit<\/a>\u201d film series, as well as early cult favorites like \u201cBad Taste<\/a>\u201d and \u201cHeavenly Creatures<\/a>,\u201d 2022\u2019s documentary \u201cThe Beatles: Get Back<\/a>,\u201d the \u201cKing Kong<\/a>\u201d remake, and more.<\/p>\n

Jackson will be feted at the festival\u2019s opening ceremony on Tuesday, May 12.<\/p>\n

Festival president Iris Knobloch<\/a> said the festival \u201cwelcomes and thanks a filmmaker of boundless creativity who has brought prestige to the heroic fantasy genre.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 2026 Cannes Film Festival is coming into focus, with Park Chan-wook set to serve as the competition jury president, and April 9 set as the official announcement date for this year\u2019s lineup. As announced on Thursday, iconic Oscar-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson will receive the festival\u2019s Honorary Palme d\u2019Or \u201cin recognition of a body of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2314182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2314181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Peter-Jackson-to-Receive-2026-Cannes-Film-Festival-Honorary-Palme.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2314181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2314183,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314181\/revisions\/2314183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2314181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2314181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2314181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}