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Vanessa Redgrave to Receive Career Prize at Venice Film Fest

by Associated Press

   ROME --

   British actress Vanessa Redgrave will receive the prestigious Golden
   Lion career prize at this year's Venice Film Festival.

   Each year, the Venice Biennale awards two prizes to celebrate careers
   in cinema, one to a movie director and one to an actor or actress.
   Together with Redgrave, Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg will
   receive the Golden Lion at the festival, which runs Aug. 29-Sept. 8.
   Redgrave, a six-time Oscar-nominated actress, won the Academy Award in
   1978 for her performance in "Julia." She won a Tony Award for best
   actress in a play for "Long Day's Journey into Night" in 2003.
   In a statement released Tuesday by organizers, Redgrave said she was
   "extraordinarily happy" to learn about the prize.
   Venice festival organizers are to release the line-up for the film
   festival on Wednesday.