{"id":962641,"date":"2026-05-16T00:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T00:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/962641\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T00:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T00:16:14","slug":"this-is-beyond-the-oscar-john-travolta-wins-surprise-cannes-honorary-palme-dor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/962641\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;This is beyond the Oscar&#8217;: John Travolta wins surprise Cannes honorary Palme d&#8217;Or"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Travolta called receiving the award &#8220;a humbling moment&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is beyond the Oscar,&#8221; said Travolta, who has twice been nominated for an Academy Award. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Propeller One-Way Night Coach, will premiere on Apple TV&#8217;s streaming service later this month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Set in the &#8220;golden age of aviation&#8221;, the family adventure film is based on his own 1997 children&#8217;s book. He wrote, directed and co-produced the film, and played one of the roles. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The movie also stars his daughter Ella Bleu Travolta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cannes is also giving Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson and performer Barbra Streisand honourary Palme d&#8217;Or awards at this year&#8217;s festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This is not the first time the festival has awarded a surprise honourary Palme. Last year, actor Denzel Washington received one, as did Tom Cruise in 2022. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Travolta called receiving the award &#8220;a humbling moment&#8221;. &#8220;This is beyond the Oscar,&#8221; said Travolta, who has twice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":962642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-962641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116581380288928258","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/962642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}