MUMBAI: Helen Mirren will receive the 21stPalm Springs International Film Festival‘s Career Achievement Award on 5 January.

Mirren won the Oscar for The Queen in 2007 and picked up an Indie Spirit lead actress nomination on 1 December for her role as Sofya Tolstoy opposite Christopher Plummer in The Last Station.

Said festival chairman Harold Matzner, "Mirren is one of the most outstanding actresses of her generation and she delivers another fine performance in The Last Station." 

Mirren‘s other films include The Long Good Friday, The Madness Of King George, Gosford Park, Excalibur, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover and upcoming projects such as Brighton Rock, Love Ranch, The Debtand The Tempest.

The festival will go on till 18 January.