US director David Lynch to receive lifetime award in Venice

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Sep 6, 2006, 16:11 GMT

Venice, Italy - Avant-garde American film director David Lynch was to be awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival later on Wednesday. The award was being presented ahead of the screening of his latest film, Inland Empire. The movie, a thriller starring Jeremy Irons and Laura Dern about a woman who gets mixed up in a mystery, is out of competition in the 63rd edition of the festival, which runs until Saturday. Lynch's masterpieces include Eraserhead (1977), The Elephant Man (1980), Blue Velvet (1986) and Mulholland Drive (2001). His Wild at Heart (1990), starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern, won the Palme d'Or at Cannes. In a statement, organizers said they were rewarding the 60-year-old director for his 'visionary and disturbing style' that has made him 'one of the directors who has most strongly influenced our contemporary imagination' and who is now considered 'the father of independent new film-making in the United States.' © 2006 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur

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