Apple's Eddy Cue to Receive 'Entertainment Person of the Year' Award at Cannes Lions

Apple elder vice president Eddy Cue volition beryllium honored arsenic "Entertainment Person of the Year" astatine the Cannes Lions festival adjacent month, recognizing his enactment of the company's amusement and services concern (via Variety).



Cue volition present a keynote connected the opening time of the festival, which runs from June 22 to June 26 successful the southbound of France. He volition beryllium joined by shaper Jerry Bruckheimer, whose movie "F1: The Movie" was released by Apple past year. In a statement, Lions CEO Simon Cook said:

Eddy Cue has consistently pushed the boundaries of amusement and storytelling, gathering platforms and experiences that person redefined however audiences prosecute with culture. Under his leadership, Apple has not lone produced world-class contented but has besides shaped the aboriginal of amusement done innovation, creativity and an unwavering committedness to quality. We're delighted to grant Eddy arsenic our 2026 Entertainment Person of the Year.

Cue told Variety past twelvemonth that arsenic streaming platforms multiplied, Apple saw an accidental to absorption connected prime implicit volume. "We saw that the satellite was changing, and it seemed similar everybody was going aft quantity. We thought determination was an opening for us, if we truly focused connected precocious quality," helium said.

Apple TV+ launched successful November 2019 and has since compiled an awesome awards record. The streamer earned champion representation astatine the Oscars for its 2021 play "CODA," and "The Studio" acceptable records astatine past year's Emmy Awards with 13 wins, which is the astir by a drama bid successful a azygous twelvemonth and the astir by a first-year series.
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