Quentin Tarantino is to receive the 2009 Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film at a pre-event for the 2010 Santa Barbara International Film Festival in California.
Douglas has agreed to present the honour to the Inglourious Basterds director at a gala dinner on 22 October (09).
Festival executive director Roger Durling says, "We are beyond excited to be able to honour a man who has turned filmmaking on its ear. He has forever changed the direction of American cinema."
The 25th Santa Barbara International Film Festival will run from 4-14 February, 2010.
Reservoir Dogs was Quentin Tarantino's debut movie released back in 1992 which gave audiences a first look at the nonlinear storylines and stylistically excessive violence that he is now so famous.
But it was Pulp Fiction in 1994 that really put the filmmaker on the map. The film took cinema by storm as it became the first indie picture to break the $100 million barrier.
Tarantino returned to the big screen last week with the release of World War II movie Inglourious Basterds.
With an all star cast of Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger and Michael Fassbender the movie has been a hit with the critics as well as topping the box office in the U.S. and the UK.
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