Palm Springs to honour Cotillard, Tarantino

London: The upcoming Palm Springs Film Festival will have stars like actress Marion Cotillard, director Quentin Tarantino and Dame Helen Mirren take away some of the top honours. French actress Cotillard, who was previously feted at the event in 2008 for her role in `La Vie En Rose`, will take home the best actress prize for her performance in movie-musical `Nine`, Daily Express reported.

"Following a distinguished career in French cinema, Marion Cotillard has firmly established herself as a major actress in American films. Her performance in Rob Marshall`s `Nine` is nothing short of breathtaking," a statement from festival chairman Harold Matzner reads. Mirren is slated to pick up the coveted Career Achievement Award at the festival`s gala prizegiving on January 5 next year, at the Palm Springs Convention Centre. Tarantino, famed for movies like `Pulp Fiction` and `Hostel`, will be handed the Sonny Bono Visionary Award, named after the festival`s founder, for his contribution to cinema. "Quentin Tarantino is one of the most gifted, iconoclastic film-makers of his generation, and with `Inglourious Basterds`, he`s created a hugely entertaining, revisionist take on history as it might have been," the statement added. The festival, which will run from January 5-18, was set up in 1990 by the city`s then-Mayor, singer-songwriter Sonny Bono, who turned to politics before his death in 1998. PTI