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Riley Keoughhas a lot to celebrate this weekend.
The Golden Globe nominee marked her 33rd birthday a day early on Saturday, posing for a mirror selfie in an orange two-piece bikini and some pearl-studded gold hoop earrings.
“It’s my birthday in Greece and I won the Camera d’Or… 🤷♀️what the heck. God bless,” Keoughwrotein the Instagram caption.
Keough’s birthday post comes after she won the coveted Caméra d’Or alongside co-director Gina Gammell forWar Ponyat Saturday’s closing ceremony for the 75th Cannes Film Festival. The award goes to the festival’s best feature directorial debut.
War Ponystars first-time actor Jojo Bapteise Whiting as Bill, a young Oglala-Lakota native navigating life on the reservation while striving for his next hustle. Although Whiting couldn’t be in attendance at Cannes, his mother Tonya Masten attended with a framed photo of her son.
“I’m very overwhelmed. I haven’t really taken it all in yet,” Keoughtold PEOPLEafter her film’s premiere earned a six-minute ovation. “It’s been wonderful … we’re just excited.”
Thefilm debuted at CannesalongsideBaz Luhrmann’sElvis, a visually-striking biopic about the titular King of Rock and Roll,Elvis Presley, who happens to be Keough’s late grandfather.
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Keough previously caught an early look at the film with momLisa Marie Presleyand grandmotherPriscilla Presley. She said it “was a real honor to know Baz was doing this movie” as sheopened up about her reaction to the filmat theVarietyWomen in Motion panel during Cannes.
“In the first five minutes, I could feel how much work Baz andAustin [Butler]put into trying to get it right. That made me emotional immediately,” Keough said. “I started crying five minutes in and didn’t stop. There’s a lot of family trauma and generational trauma that started around then for our family. I felt honored they worked so hard to really get his essence, to feel his essence. Austin captured that so beautifully.”
source: people.com
