Madrid, Sept 13: Three well-known movie actors will receive lifetime achievement awards at the 51th San Sebastian International Film Festival, organizers said today. Isabelle Huppert, Sean Penn and Robert Duvall Will receive the Donostia Award at the nine-day event, which begins Sept 18 in the seaside town of San Sebastian in Spain's northern Basque region. "Despite the fact that (Huppert) has played the part of, let's say, not very recommendable heroines, she has always given them an ambiguity somewhere between pain and humour which is doubtlessly one of her greatest virtues as an actress," festival organisers said in a statement. The festival organisers said Penn was "an actor who respects his ideas in both his life and his work. In not very many years, Sean Penn has shown that he is the worthy heir of an actor stock dating back to James Cagney in the thirties, Bogart in the forties, or Pacino in the seventies." The festival said it would pay tribute to US actor Duvall, "a face of unmistakable power, Duvall's work always guarantees solidity. Considered as being one of the moment's greatest actors."

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