Pixar, the 3D animation studio behind Toy Story, Monsters, Inc and Wall-E, was awarded the Venice film festival's lifetime achievement award on Sunday – the first time the accolade has been given to a group rather than an individual film-maker.
"What sort of football authority would tell their best young players to avoid participating in what is likely to be the greatest sporting festival of their lifetime?" wrote Des Kelly, a columnist for the Daily Mail, who called such a body "a pig-ignorant committee".
[The New York Times] A once-in-a-lifetime festival in the Coachella Valley will feature the likes of Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones and Neil Young.
Resnais was never nominated for an Oscar, though he did receive a string of awards from major international film festivals, including a lifetime achievement award from Cannes in 2009.
The band's involvement was vital to Mr. Tollett's idea for a new event: a once-in-a-lifetime festival of rock giants, including Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, the Who and Roger Waters of Pink Floyd, all performing over three days at the same spot in the Southern California desert where Mr. Tollett had built Coachella into the concert world's most successful franchise.
The pieces of a once-in-a-lifetime festival experience are all there.
In 2003, the Venice Film Festival gave him a lifetime achievement award, but Mr. Manfredi, already ailing, could not attend.
Davis died in France at 81, on her way home from a film festival, leaving behind a lifetime of work that epitomized female strength and dignity.
This year's festival will bestow a lifetime achievement award on the fire-breathing German saxophonist PETER BR ZMANN, who recently turned 70; he'll play three sets, in three combo settings, on Wednesday night.
