Forest Whitaker

Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning actor, producer, and director, Forest Whitaker was met with a standing ovation at the opening ceremony for the 75th Cannes Film Festival when he received an honorary Palme d’Or lifetime achievement.   He follows such luminaries as Jodie Foster, Jeanne Moreau, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jane Fonda, Manoel de Oliveira, and Agnes Varda.

Forest Whitaker spoke with the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 2006 about playing Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland. He won a Golden Globe as Best Actor in a Drama for this performance.