Australian director and screenwriter Peter Weir, best known for The Truman Show and Picnic at Hanging Rock, will be honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the 2024 Venice Film Festival.
The festival announced on Thursday local time it would award Weir the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement for his role as one of the "great directors of modern cinema".
Weir was a leading figure in 1970s Australian cinema, with his cult classic films Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Cars That Ate Paris.
His domestic success was followed by Gallipoli and The Year of Living Dangerously and opened up "Hollywood's doors to him", as festival director Alberto Barbera noted.
Films such as The Truman Show and Dead Poets Society also became classics.
"In his films, Weir combines reflections on personal themes and a need to reach as vast an audience as possible," Barbera said.
"Celebrating a taste for storytelling and innate romanticism, Weir has reinforced his own role in the Hollywood establishment, all the while keeping his distance from the American movie industry."
In 1986, Weir's first foray into Hollywood, Witness, earned him an Oscar for best director, along with claiming best original screenplay and best editing.
Weir would go on to receive an Honorary Oscar Award in 2022.
Weir said the award was a "considerable honour" in a statement.
"The Venice International Film Festival and its Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement are part of the folklore of our craft," he said.
In 1982, Weir received the Order of Australia for his service to the film industry.
The Venice International Film Festival is scheduled to run from August 28 to September 7.