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Jamie Lee Curtis to be feted with Golden Lion award for Lifetime Achievement at 2021 Venice Film Festival
FirstpostJamie Lee Curtis will pick up the Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement on 8 September, when the latest instalment of her Halloween slasher franchise, Halloween Kills, will be screened on Venice’s Lido out of competition. The Venice Film Festival is awarding its lifetime achievement award this year to Jamie Lee Curtis, the American actor best known for her decades-long run in the Halloween slasher franchise. Curtis will pick up the Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement on 8 September, when the latest instalment, Halloween Kills, is screened on Venice’s Lido out of competition. Festival director Alberto Barbera said Curtis’ four-decade career as well as her work as a children’s book author and commitment to charitable causes put her in “that rarefied group of Hollywood actors who best reflect the qualities that are the very soul of the global film industry and its legacy.” Recent winners of the lifetime Golden Lion include Tilda Swinton, Pedro Almodovar and Vanessa Redgrave.
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