Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey is to be given a lifetime achievement award on the fringes of the Cannes film festival on Tuesday.
The Better World Fund said that Spacey will be recognised "for his decades of artistic brilliance" at a charity gala in the French Riviera resort.
The actor has won Academy Awards for his roles in The Usual Suspects (1995) and American Beauty (1999), establishing him as one of Hollywood's leading actors. Spacey also gained widespread acclaim for his portrayal of Frank Underwood in the political drama House of Cards, becoming the first actor in a streaming television series to win a Golden Globe.
However, Spacey's career has been dramatically impacted by multiple allegations of sexual misconduct made against him.
The actor was acquitted of nine cases of alleged sex offences in Britain last year, and in 2022, a New York court dismissed a $40 million civil sexual misconduct lawsuit against Spacey.
Earlier this month, new claims of inappropriate sexual behaviour against men emerged in a British television documentary, Spacey Unmasked.
In it, 10 men not involved in the UK court case involving Spacey accuse him of behaving inappropriately towards them.
Spacey has denied any wrongdoing.
Spacey was last on the red carpet at Cannes in 2016.
Source: AFP
