• Renowned Hollywood actor Michael Douglas will be honoured with the Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Film Festival of India in Goa. The film festival will be held from November 20 to 28.

• In his career of over five decades, Douglas, 79, has starred in several critically-acclaimed and blockbuster movies such as ‘Wall Street’, ‘Fatal Attraction’, ‘The War of the Roses’, ‘Basic Instinct’, ‘Falling Down’, ‘The American President’, ‘Traffic’ and ‘Behind the Candelabra’.

• Douglas, son of Hollywood icon Kirk Douglas, had won an Oscar for his 1975 production ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ and then bagged the Best Actor trophy for ‘Wall Street’.

• Douglas will be accompanied by his spouse, eminent actress and philanthropist Catherine Zeta Jones.

• The Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award, instituted in the IFFI in 1999, is presented to individuals whose exceptional contributions have significantly enriched and elevated the world of cinema. Past recipients include Bernardo Bertolucci, Carlos Saura, Martin Scorsese, Dilip Kumar, Krzysztof Zanussi and Wong Kar-wai.

International Film Festival of India (IFFI)

• The International Film Festival of India (IFFI) was founded in 1952, and is now being held annually in the month of November. 

• It was held in Goa for the first time in 2004. The festival has since found a home in the coastal state as in 2014 Goa was declared the permanent venue for this festival.

• It is jointly organised each year by the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC), The ministry of information and broadcasting and the Entertainment Society of Goa (ESG).

• Its goal is to provide a single platform for ambitious filmmakers, cineastes, and industry professionals to have access to excellent cinema from across the world.

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