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Elsa Keslassy
International Correspondent
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Laurent BLEVENNEC French President Emmanuel Macron honored five major figures in international cinema at a ceremony held at the Élysée Palace in Paris on July 15: Illumination founder and CEO Chris Meledandri, the producer behind the “Despicable Me” and “Minions” movies — the highest-grossing animated franchise of all time, with more than $5.7 billion at the global box office; “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones” creator George Lucas; Jodie Foster, the two-time Oscar winner known for “Taxi Driver,” “The Silence of the Lambs” and “A Private Life;” Sigourney Weaver, whose credits include “Alien,” “Avatar” and “Call My Agent;” and French filmmaker Claude Lelouch, the Oscar-winning director of “A Man and a Woman.”
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