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Sir Sean Connery to receive lifetime honour
The original James Bond will be given a lifetime achievemnt award by the European Film Academy in December.
Sep 9 2005
Sir Sean Connery is to receive the European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his incredible body of work.
Connery will receive the honour at the European Film Awards, which will be held in Berlin on December 3.
As the European Film Academy puts it:
Sir Sean Connery has not only famously embodied the world's best known secret agent, James Bond, but in a career which has spanned over fifty years, he has created some of cinema's most unforgettable characters in such films as 'Marnie' by Alfred Hitchcock, 'Murder on the Orient Express' by Sidney Lumet, 'The Wind and the Lion' by John Milius and 'The Untouchables' by Brian De Palma. He has acted in more than seventy films and worked with a great variety of directors including John Boorman for 'Zardoz', Jean-Jacques Annaud for 'The Name of the Rose', John McTiernan for 'The Hunt For Red October', Fred Schepisi for 'The Russia House', and Gus Van Sant for 'Finding Forrester' . It is a great pleasure for the European Film Academy to present the Lifetime Achievement Award to Sir Sean Connery for this impressive dedication to the world of film.
Sir Sean and Lady Connery will be among the guests at the ceremony, where a total of 19 awards will be presented.
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