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"Jean-Paul Belmondo has been given a Palme d&amp;#039;Or by the Cannes Film Festival. The French New Wave star was presented with the award last night during a special evening dedicated to him, which also included the screening of documentary Belmondo: The Career by Vincent Perrot and Jeff Domenech. Belmondo said: &amp;quot;I am very moved by this Palme d&amp;#039;or which has touched my heart. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;d like to thank all those here today, people I know or don&amp;#039;t know. A big thank-you from the bottom of my heart.&amp;quot; Festival director Thierry Fr\u00E9maux said: &amp;quot;The international photographers had laid down their cameras in order to applaud him on the red steps. We had been trying to persuade him to accept this tribute for several years.&amp;quot; Belmondo rose to prominence in the 1960s with his performances in Jean-Luc Godard&amp;#039;s Breathless and Pierott Le Fou, and Jean-Pierre Melville&amp;#039;s Leon Morin, Priest and The Fingerman. He also played the title role in Alain Resnais&amp;#039;s 1974 movie Stavisky. &amp;gt; Read our complete Cannes Film Festival coverage "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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