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The "Birdman" and "Spotlight" actor was in Paris on Monday to
receive the medal, awarded by French Minister of Culture and
Communication Fleur Pellerin.
"I don't know who you are Michael Keaton and that is just fine,"
Pellerin said.
"But I know you are an actor with extraordinary talent and
dexterity, capable of taking on the most diverse of roles, from
the most tragic to the most comical, sliding from one to the
other without ever running out of breath."
Academy Award nominee Keaton has appeared in a range of movies
including "Batman", "Much Ado About Nothing", "Beetlejuice", as
well as starring as Boston Globe journalist Walter "Robby"
Robinson in Catholic Church sex abuse probe film "Spotlight".
"I've always looked for different things to do from the
beginning ... People think it's always your choice, it's seldom
your choice," Keaton said after the ceremony.
"It's my choice in that they're offered to me and I choose
whether to do it or not but I've always chosen things, sometimes
for good reasons, sometimes for probably not good reasons maybe
even for stupid reasons but mostly I've chosen ... they've been
interesting."
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