American actress Kim Novak will be awarded the Lifetime Achievement Golden Lion at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival, which takes place from August 27 to September 6, La Biennale di Venezia said on Monday.

Kim Novak, the glamorous and fiercely independent star of one of the greatest films ever made, Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo,” will be honored with a lifetime achievement award at the Venice Film Festival this fall.

Kim Novak, a Hollywood diva from the 1950s and 1960s who starred in Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo", will be honoured with a lifetime achievement award at this year's Venice Film Festival, organisers said on Monday.