Venice Film Festival to Honor David Cronenberg With Lifetime Achievement Award

Director David Cronenberg will be honored by the Venice Film Festival with its Golden Lion for lifetime achievement.The Canadian horror auteur, known for a wide range of edgy films such as “Videodrome,” “Dead Ringers,” “A History of Violence,” “Cosmopolis,” and “Maps to the Stars,” was last on the Lido in 2011 with psychological thriller “A Dangerous Mind.”In a statement, Venice artistic director Alberto Barbera praised Cronenberg for managing to venture beyond the constraints of the horror genre from the start of his career and having “shown that he wants to take his audiences well beyond the cinema of exploitation.”Cronenberg, who is 75, said: “I’ve always loved the Golden Lion of Venice.

A lion that flies on golden wings – that’s the essence of art, isn’t it? The essence of cinema.

It will be almost unbearably thrilling to receive a Golden Lion of my own.”Over the course

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