Lifetime award for Polanski
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Film director Roman Polanski is awarded a lifetime achievement prize by the European Film Academy.
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Sir Elton John and Warren Beatty are among six stars honoured for lifetime contributions to US culture.
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Most directors do not go on to make one of their best films after receiving their lifetime achievement Oscars. But most directors do not have the stamina of Sidney Lumet.
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Elfriede Jelinek, known best for her autobiographical novel turned movie, The Piano Teacher, won the Nobel Prize for Literature this Thursday for her in-depth plays and novels covering subjects on violence on women, sexuality and European politics.
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Star Wars creator George Lucas will receive the American Film Institute's lifetime achievement award.
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The Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to three Americans yesterday, including Leonid Hurwicz, a 90-year-old professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota, the oldest person ever to win a Nobel.
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Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement: Peter Eisenman, for his role as teacher, mentor, and architect.
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Film-maker Roman Polanski is to direct Pompeii, a film adaptation of the Robert Harris novel.
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SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain  - Actor Richard Gere launched a broadside at the Bush administration when he picked up a lifetime achievement award during the San Sebastian International Film Festival on Sunday.
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Oliver Stone will receive a lifetime achievement award at the Stockholm International Film Festival, which celebrates its 15th anniversary this week.
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"The Lives of Others," a drama about how  East Germany's Stasi security police shattered the lives of  ordinary people, won top prize at the European Film Awards on  Saturday held in Poland's capital.
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Julie Andrews, whose film career has ranged from magical nanny in an Oscar-winning performance in "Mary Poppins" to regal queen in "The Princess Diaries," will receive a life achievement award from the Screen Actors Guild.
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"The Lives of Others" , a drama about how East Germany's Stasi security police shattered the lives of ordinary people, won top prize at the European Film Awards on Saturday held in Poland's capital.Comment
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Oscar winning director Roman Polanski is to team up with thriller writer Robert Harris to recreate the last days of Pompeii, the author told a British Sunday newspaper.
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Fred Koenekamp, who lensed "Patton," "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.," "Papillon" and "The Towering Inferno," will receive the American Society of Cinematographers' lifetime achievement award.
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The gritty crime drama "No Country For Old Men" became the front-runner for Oscar glory on Sunday after winning top prize at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on a night of traditional Hollywood glamour and emotion over the sudden death of Heath Ledger.
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Influential rock bands The Doors and the Grateful Dead will receive lifetime achievement Grammy Awards next year, along with jazz saxophone player Ornette Coleman and the late opera singer Maria Callas, organizers said on Tuesday.