Matt Damon to receive Lifetime Achievement Award

September 25th, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood star Matt Damon likes actor George Clooney because he has a great house and loves to spend on his pals. "George has this beautiful place in Italy where he brings all of his friends and he is an amazingly generous person as well, askmen.com quoted Damon as saying.

September 24th, 2009 SIR IAN MCKELLEN was handed a a lifetime achievement award for his illustrious acting career at a film festival in Spain on Wednesday evening (23Sep09). The veteran star was guest of honour at the San Sebastian International Film Festival, picking up the Donostia Award to mark his 40 years in Hollywood.

September 22nd, 2009 Acclaimed singer/songwriter BUDDY MILLER pulled off a near-clean sweep at the eighth Americana Music Association Honors & Awards show in Nashville, Tennessee last week (17Sep09). Miller took home trophies in almost every category for which he was nominated, including Artist of the Year, Album of the Year for Written In Chalk, Duo/Group of the Year and Song of the Year for Chalk, which he performed with Patty Griffin.

September 21st, 2009 LONDON - Matt Damon is all set to play Scott Thorson, Liberace's gay lover, in a new movie. Damon, famous for his action roles in the Bourne series, has agreed to take up the demanding role.

September 19th, 2009 LONDON - Oscar winning actor George Clooney wants to direct Matt Damon in a new movie called Hamdan v Rumsfeld, about Osama bin Laden's former chauffeur. The actor has singled out Matt, with whom he previously starred in Syriana, to star in the film, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

September 8th, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood actor Matt Damon says he had fun while working on "The Informant" because he could binge on food as well as skip his workout sessions. "It was very, very easy to gain weight.

September 8th, 2009 LONDON - Directors of Pixar Animation Studios in the US have been awarded the Venice Film Festival's lifetime achievement award, making them the first team to bag the honour. Pixar has made 10 films, four of which have won best animation Oscars, with chief creative officer John Lasseter, 52, and other directors helming hits like 'Finding Nemo' and 'Toy Story'.

August 29th, 2009 Oscar winner MATT DAMON is set to be honoured for his film career at an award ceremony next year (10). The actor, whose career took off following the success of 1997's Good Will Hunting, which he wrote with pal Ben Affleck, will be feted with the prestigious American Cinematheque Award, reports Variety.

August 15th, 2009 LONDON - While a whole lot of celebrities across the world are getting hooked onto Twitter, Hollywood actor Matt Damon fears joining the popular social networking site. The Bourne Identity star is scared to join the website in case he is swamped by strange messages from obsessed fans, reports contactmusic.com.

August 3rd, 2009 Award-winning American composer MARVIN HAMLISCH is to be honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award at Belgium's Ghent Film Festival, marking his outstanding career. Hamlisch shares the rare honour of being awarded an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, a Tony and a Pulitzer Prize with late American composer Richard Rodgers - and will be handed his latest accolade during the festival's 17 October (09) World Soundtrack Awards.

July 28th, 2009 LONDON - American singer Tito Jackson recently accepted a Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of his brother late King of Pop Michael Jackson. Tito had performed with The Funk Brothers band as part of the 17th annual Reggae Sumfest in Montego Bay, Jamaica, over the weekend before he accepted the award, reports the Daily Star.

July 23rd, 2009 Oscar winning Hollywood star Matt Damon (Good Will Hunting) was in Delhi and Chennai in India this week for his H2O Africa Foundation, which aims at raising awareness about clean water initiatives. Damon the spokesperson and co-founder of this Foundation (2006), has undertaken the projects in Uganda, Central African Republic, Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Niger.

June 14th, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood star Michael Douglas was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Film Institute in a star-studded ceremony in California. The "Fatal Attraction" actor was presented with the prize by veteran actor Jack Nicholson at Sony Studios in Culver City, California, June 11, reported contactmusic.com.

June 13th, 2009 LONDON - Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones paid tribute to her husband Michael Douglas by reprising her role as Velma Kelly in 'Chicago', after he received the annual AFI Lifetime Achievement Award. Douglas, 64, who has starred in films like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Fatal Attraction and Wall Street, received his lifetime achievement award from actor Jack Nicholson, reports the Sun.

May 11th, 2009 LONDON - Tracey Ullman has been honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Los Angeles branch of The British Academy of Film and Television Arts. The British comedienne was presented with her first-ever BAFTA/LA Charlie Chaplin trophy at the British Comedy Festival and Awards.