Cannes 2023: an honorary Palme d'Or for American actor Michael Douglas. Michael Douglas, 55 years of career will receive an honorary golden palm to "salute his brilliant career and his commitment to cinema" At 78, Michael Douglas said he was "honored to return to the Croisette to open the festival" No one better than him will have embodied in the Hollywood imagination the characters of thriller, powerful, toxic, hunted by their demons, says the organizing committee.