Organizers said Monday that Italian
director Liliana Cavani will be awarded a lifetime achievement
Golden Lion at the 80th Venice Film Festival this year.
"I am very happy and grateful to the Biennale di Venezia for
this wonderful surprise," said the 90-year-old film-maker.
Cavani is best known internationally for her 1974 film The Night
Porter.
She first took part in the festival in 1965 when she won the
best documentary prize with Philippe Pétain: Processo a Vichy.
The festival said it would also give a career Golden Lion to
Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai.
The world's oldest cinema festival takes place from August 30 to
September 9 this year.
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