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Donna Langley Quotes Viola Davis While Discussing Her Status as One of Hollywood’s Most Powerful Execs: ‘I Hope My Ceiling Is Somebody Else’s Floor’
NBC Universal chairman Donna Langley is the first executive to receive the Kering Women in Motion Award; Amanda Nell Eu accepted young talent prize.
Amanda Nell Eu and Donna Langley pose with their awards alongside Kering chairman and CEO François-Henri Pinault and the Cannes Film Festival’s Iris Knobloch and Thierry Frémaux. The “Wicked” star doubled down on the sentiment during the ceremony, appearing in a clip reel with a handful of other A-listers (Emily Blunt, Ariana Grande, Tom Cruise, Cynthia Erivo and Diane von Furstenberg) who saluted Langley’s efforts. The guest list for the black-tie dinner included Julianne Moore, Uma Thurman, Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert and Justine Triet, who returned to Cannes after winning last year’s Palme d’Or for “Anatomy of a Fall.” This year’s jury president “Barbie” director Greta Gerwig and jurors Lily Gladstone, Eva Green, Omar Sy, Nadine Labaki and Juan Antonio Bayona were in attendance too, as was Jacques Audiard and his “Emilia Pérez” stars Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón and Édgar Ramírez; “The Apprentice” leads Sebastian Stan and Maria Bakalova; “The Shroud” star Diane Kruger and filmmaker David Cronenberg; Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Julie Gayet, Anaïs Demoustier, Rossy De Palma, Pierre Niney and Romain Gavras.
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