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French filmmaker Agnes Varda will receive an honorary Palme d'Or at the forthcoming 68th Cannes International Film Festival. She follows in the footsteps of Woody Allen (2002), Clint Eastwood (2009) and Bernardo Bertolucci (2011).
The award goes to renowned directors whose works have achieved global impact but who have never won the Cannes Festival's Palme d'Or, the festival officials explained while announcing the honour on May 9.
Ms Varda will receive the honour at the closing ceremony of Cannes Film Festival on May 24, reports variety.com.
Ms Varda has helmed more than 30 short, documentary and fiction films for both TV and cinema. She has also staged many photography exhibitions and art installations.
Among her films are
Lions Love (... and Lies) (1968);
Documenteur (1981), which was shot in Los Angeles when her husband Jacques Demy went to make
Model Shop for Columbia;
One Sings the Other Doesn't (1976); and
Jacquot (De Nantes) (1990), made in the memory of Mr Demy.
Among major awards, Ms Varda won a Silver Bear in Berlin for
Happiness (1965), a Golden Lion in Venice for
Vagabond (1985), a European Film Award for
The Gleaners and I (2000), and a French Cesar for documentary
The Beaches of Agnes (2008).