Kim Novak to receive Venice Film Festival Career Award | Mint

Rome, June 9 (Reuters) -Kim Novak, a Hollywood -Diva from the 1950s and 1960s who played in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo”, will be honored with an award for lifelong achievements at the Venice Film Festival of this year, the organizers said on Monday. The best known for her starring role in the 1958 psychological thriller, Novak also has significant roles in classical people such as ‘Kiss Me, stupid’ by Billy Wilder, as well as ‘Picnic’ and ‘The Man with the Golden Arm’. The 92-year-old actor will get the so-called Golden Lion for ‘accidentally a screen legend’, the artistic director of the Festival Alberto Barbera said in a statement. “Kim Novak was one of the most beloved icons of an entire era of Hollywood films, from her pleasant debut during the mid-fifties to her premature and voluntary captivity of Los Angeles’s gilded cage for a short time,” Barbera said and called her independent and non-conformist. The documentary “Kim Novak’s vertigo” by Swiss American film director Alexandre Philippe, who was made in collaboration with the actor, will continue at the festival to accompany the award, the organizers said. “I am deeply, deeply touched to receive the prestigious Golden Lion award from such a tremendously respected film festival. To be recognized for my work at this time in my life is a dream come true,” Novak said in the statement. The 82nd edition of the Venice Film Festival will run from August 27 to September 6, 2025. Werner Herzog, veteran German director of “Fitzcarraldo”, will also receive a Golden Lion for Lifelong Achievements this year. The lineout of films in competition will be unveiled in July. (Reporting by Giulia Segreti, editing by Alvise Armellini, William Maclean)