Jacqueline Bisset to receive Lifetime Achievement Award
Los Angeles
July 19, 2018
Golden Globe-winning English actress Jacqueline Bisset will be honoured with
the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Odessa international film festival.
She will be awarded a Golden Duke at the festival's closing ceremony,
scheduled to be held in the Ukrainian Black Sea port city this Saturday,
reported the Hollywood Reporter.
Bisset began her film career in 1965,
first coming to prominence in 1968 with roles in 'The Detective', 'Bullitt', and
'The Sweet Ride', for which she received a most promising newcomer Golden Globe
nomination.
She gained mainstream recognition in 1968 when she replaced
Mia Farrow for the role of Norma MacIver in 'The Detective', opposite Frank
Sinatra. The film was made at Fox, whose executives had been impressed by
Bisset's performance in Two for the Road.
In the 1970s, she starred in
Airport (1970), Day for Night (1973) which won the Academy Award for Best
Foreign Language Film.
Bisset also received France's highest honour, the
Legion d'honneur, in 2010.
Los Angeles
July 19, 2018
Golden Globe-winning English actress Jacqueline Bisset will be honoured with
the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Odessa international film festival.
She will be awarded a Golden Duke at the festival's closing ceremony,
scheduled to be held in the Ukrainian Black Sea port city this Saturday,
reported the Hollywood Reporter.
Bisset began her film career in 1965,
first coming to prominence in 1968 with roles in 'The Detective', 'Bullitt', and
'The Sweet Ride', for which she received a most promising newcomer Golden Globe
nomination.
She gained mainstream recognition in 1968 when she replaced
Mia Farrow for the role of Norma MacIver in 'The Detective', opposite Frank
Sinatra. The film was made at Fox, whose executives had been impressed by
Bisset's performance in Two for the Road.
In the 1970s, she starred in
Airport (1970), Day for Night (1973) which won the Academy Award for Best
Foreign Language Film.
Bisset also received France's highest honour, the
Legion d'honneur, in 2010.
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