Michael Douglas will be the guest of honor at the 50th Deauville festival

In 1998, he met his wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones, there.
“Everyone says that the Deauville Festival is special, but few people can say like me that it has changed their life.”

As every year since the creation of this category, the Deauville American Film Festival would like to highlight a strong personality of cinema from across the Atlantic. In 2011, it was Francis Ford Coppola. Two years ago, Thandie Newton. This year, as if to celebrate the golden anniversary of cinema with the Normandy city, it is the turn of Michael Douglas to be the guest of honor of the festival. He, the nepo baby who lived part of his youth in the shadow of his father – Kirk Douglas. The Deauville festival also paid tribute to him in 2020 following his death. For its 50th edition, it is once again the name Douglas, anchored in the history of cinema, which will resonate on the beaches.

Like his father before him, Michael Douglas is a huge actor and producer. In 1975, he entered Hollywood through the front door by producing the brilliant and six-Oscar-winning film, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – a film that his father dreamed of producing, but never succeeded in doing so. Thus, the son first excelled in production before sparkling in front of the camera. After his triumph in Wall Street Oliver Stone's 1988 film, which won him the Oscar for Best Actor, the actor has gone on to star in a series of classics, Basic Instinct, The Game, Fatal Attractioncultivating an image of a seducer on screen.

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Recently, as if to check all the boxes on the acting CV, Michael Douglas tried his hand at superhero films by joining the cast from Ant-Man where he plays the role of Hank Pym. For the first time in his career, he plays on a green background.

An accomplished, recognized and distinguished actor, his nomination is obvious for the festival organizers who stated on this subject: “The Festival has never ceased to salute the career of the major actor and producer of his generation. He will set foot on Norman soil a fifth time!”

Michael Douglas and the Deauville Festival are in love. In 1998, he met Catherine Zeta-Jones, now his wife, there. The actor declared:

“Everyone says that the Deauville Festival is special, but few people can say like me that it has changed their life.”

Before being the guest of honor at this festival, Michael Douglas received the Honorary Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival last year. A double award one year apart.

Far from the big screen which made him known, recently it is on the small screen that the American breaks through by playing Benjamin Franklin in the eponymous series.

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The Deauville Festival will be held from September 6 to 15. This 50th edition should be marked by the accusations of harassment, sexual assault and humiliation that weigh on its director, Bruno Barde. Seven former collaborators of the latter denounced his inappropriate actions in Mediapart.

To learn more about guest of honor Michael Douglas, the documentary Michael, the prodigal son is available on Canal +.