Tarantino given festival honour

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Tarantino was recently honoured by London film critics

Movie director Quentin Tarantino is to be honoured for his career achievements at the Palm Springs Film Festival in the US next month.

The maker of Reservoir Dogs will be given the Sonny Bono Visionary Award, named after the event’s late founder.

Oscar winner Marion Cotillard will collect an award for achievement in acting, a year after winning the breakthrough accolade.

The California festival is due to take place from 5-18 January.

‘Breathtaking’

Festival chairman Harold Matzner hailed Tarantino as "one of the most gifted, iconoclastic film-makers of his generation".

He also noted the director’s most recent release, Inglourious Basterds, as a "hugely entertaining, revisionist take on history".

Cotillard currently appears in star-studded musical film Nine

Cotillard, who won the best actress Academy Award in 2008 for playing singer Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose, was the first actress to win the top acting award for a French language picture.

Mr Matzer said: "Following a distinguished career in French cinema, Marion Cotillard has firmly established herself as a major actress in American films."

He added that the star’s latest performance in musical film Nine is "breathtaking".

Previous winners of the Desert Palm actress achievement award include Kate Winslet and Halle Berry – both Oscar winners.