Oscar-winning Scottish actress Tilda Swinton and acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui will be honored with lifetime achievement awards at this year’s Venice International Film Festival, organizers unveiled on Monday.

Swinton, who won a best supporter actress Oscar for “Michael Clayton” in 2007, is one of the most versatile performers of her generation, with credits ranging from Marvel epics “Doctor Strange” and “Avengers: Endgame” to Lynne Ramsay’s family drama “We Need to Talk About Kevin” to Wes Anderson’s upcoming “The French Dispatch.”

Swinton is a regular on the Lido, most recently in 2018, when Luca Guadagnino’s “Susperia” remake, in which she co-stars, had its world premiere.

“This great festival has been dear to my heart for three decades: To be honored by her in this way is extremely humbling,” Swinton said in a statement. “To come to Venice, this year of all years, to celebrate immortal cinema and her defiant survival in the face of all the challenges that evolution might throw at her — as at us all — will be my sincere joy.”

Hui, one of Asia’s most prolific and acclaimed directors, helped transform Hong Kong cinema as part of the so-called Hong Kong New Wave of the 1970s and 1980s with films such as “The Secret” (1979), “Boat People” (1982) and “Love in a Fallen City” (1984). Hui has tried her hand at everything from melodrama to thrillers, from martial arts movies to cinematic autobiography. Characteristic for the Hong Kong New Wave, she has managed to combine a commercial approach with arthouse sensibilities. Her 2014 feature “The Golden Era,” premiered in Venice, as did her 2011 drama “A Simple Life.”

“I am so happy to receive this news and honored for the award! So happy that I feel I cannot find the words,” said Hui. “I just hope everything in the world will turn better soon and everybody can feel again as happy as I am in this moment.”

(SD-Agencies)