Sharjah24 – Reuters: Two-time Oscar-winner Jodie Foster will be honoured with the Cannes Film Festival's Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's cinema showcase.
The actress, director and producer, who first walked the red carpet at Cannes as a 13-year-old when she starred in "Taxi Driver", will be presented with the honorary Palme d'or during the opening ceremony of the 74th Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday (July 6).
Foster receives the prize "in recognition of a brilliant artistic journey, and a unique personality with a modest yet strong commitment to some of the major issues of our time," festival organisers said in a press release.
Seven films either starring or directed by Foster have screened at Cannes, organisers said.
With a career spanning over five decades, Foster, 58, made her acting debut as a child in the late 1960s.
She was only 12-years-old when she was cast in the role of "Iris", an underage prostitute, in Martin Scorsese's 1976 thriller "Taxi Driver".
Foster went on to star in several Hollywood hits including "Contact", "Anna and the King", "Panic Room" and "Flight Plan".
She won her first Academy Award for her role in the 1998 drama "The Accused" and received her second acting Oscar for the 1991 horror "The Silence of the Lambs".
Her directorial work includes the films "The Beaver" and "Money Monster", which both premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
While in recent years Foster has focused on her career behind the camera, earlier in 2021 she could be seen in one of the lead roles in the Guantanamo Bay movie "The Mauritanian".
Usually held in May, the Cannes Film Festival was cancelled last year due to the coronavirus pandemic, and will run between July 6 and 17 this year.
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