Ron Howard To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award
NEW YORK (CBS) Oscar-winning filmmaker Ron Howard will be honored with a lifetime achievement award Saturday at the 46th Chicago International Film Festival.
The 56-year-old actor, producer and director has a career spanning more than 50 years with early roles on "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Happy Days" and later evolving as a filmmaker behind such classics as "Splash," "Apollo 13" and the critically-acclaimed "A Beautiful Mind," for which he won a Best Director Oscar.
"For the better part of four decades, Ron Howard has maintained a reputation as one of the world's most admired directors," festival founder and artistic director Michael Kutza said to the Hollywood Reporter.
"He has mastered all genres including action spectaculars, moving dramas, chilling thrillers and character-driven comedies. His films have left a significant imprint on film history and have changed the way we look at movies."
Howard will receive the Silver Hugo Career Achievement Award at a presentation at the Museum of Science and Industry during the festival's Summer Gala on June 12.
Several cast members from Ron Howard's upcoming production, tentatively known as "Cheaters," are scheduled to attend. The movie, starring Vince Vaughn and Winona Ryder, is now being shot in Chicago. Brie Dorsey, a rep for the film festival confirmed to Celebrity Circuit that actor Brian Dennehy and NASA astronaut Jim Lovell, whose "Apollo 13" book was the basis of Howard's 1995 film, also will attend.
The event will be hosted by journalist Bill Kurtis. Howard will join the company of Steven Spielberg, Orson Welles, Sigourney Weaver, Jodie Foster and Clint Eastwood who are previous recipients of the career honor.