Cannes Film Festival: Martin Scorsese receives honorary award at Cannes

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We start with the Cannes Film Festival. Martin Scorsese was given a rapturous reception at a ceremony in Cannes on Wednesday where the director received the honorary Carrosse d'Or or the Golden Coach award. Let's take a look.

The trophy was given out at the beginning of the festival's Directors' Fortnight, which this year is celebrating its 50th anniversary.

MARTIN SCORSESE US DIRECTOR "I must say that I don't think that I was prepared for the warmth and the extraordinary conversations we've had and this remarkable welcome that I've received here in the past day and a half and I'm very moved by it. And thank you is not enough, thank you is not enough."

In a nod to Scorsese's career, his 1973 film "Mean Streets" was shown after the ceremony. The film first screened at Cannes in 1974.

The 75-year-old New Yorker walked the Cannes red carpet on May 8th ahead of the opening ceremony of the festival's 71st edition. He officially declared proceedings open along with jury president, Australian actress and producer Cate Blanchett.

Meanwhile, Chinese actor Zhang Zhen is among the festival's eight jury members.

At a news conference, Blanchett responsed to a reporter asking if this year is the first year with a female majority jury.

CATE BLANCHETT CANNES FILM FESTIVAL COMPETITION JURY PRESIDENT "And in Thierry's time, there have always been, you know, there's a female head of the jury, then there are four men and four women, so it just happens that I've tipped the balance."

And Blanchett said the Cannes jury will judge on quality not gender.

CATE BLANCHETT CANNES FILM FESTIVAL COMPETITION JURY PRESIDENT "There are several women in competition but they're not there because of their gender, they're there because of the quality of their work, and we'll be assessing them as filmmakers, as we should be."

The news conference was the last time the five-woman, four-man jury speak to the media until the end of the fortnight of movie screenings.

The festival runs from May 8 to May 19.