MUMBAI: Academy Award winner Alan Arkin will be honoured by the Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF) when it confers the prestigious Career Achievement Award at this year‘s event scheduled to take place between 1 to 5 December in Nassau.

Arkin will be on hand for the tribute that will be presented to him by Abigail Breslin who received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress starring alongside Arkin in Little Miss Sunshine.

Arkin is known to many moviegoers for his memorable roles in timeless comedies such as Edward Scissorhands , Little Miss Sunshine and The In Laws.

Arkin began his career with the Second City improvisational troupe in Chicago and from there moved on to Broadway. He won a Tony for his first stage role -- the lead in the Broadway version of Carl Reiner‘s Enter Laughing . He received an Oscar nomination for his first movie role -- as a Soviet sailor in the film farce The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! in 1966.

Past recipients include Johnny Depp, Nicolas Cage, Laurence Fishburne, Daryl Hannah and Roger Corman.