Denzel Washington received a surprise Palme d’Or at Monday night’s world premiere of Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest in Cannes.
The Oscar-winning actor, attending the festival for the first time in his career, sat through a montage of his credits cued up by festival head Thierry Fremaux prior to the screening.
Lee then took to the stage to present the award to his longtime collaborator, who have worked on five films dating back to Mo’ Better Blues in 1990.
Their fifth collaboration screened out of competition and is a New York-set reimagining of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 classic High And Low in which a music mogul gets entangled in a ransom plot. The cast includes Jeffrey Wright, Dean Winters, Michael Potts, and rapper A$AP Rocky.
A24 produced with Escape Artists and Mandalay Pictures and will distribute in North America on August 22 before the film debuts on AppleTV+ around the world.
Cannes continues through May 24.
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