Feeling Lucky

Living legend of the film world, Clint Eastwood, is to receive the highest honour the Screen Actors Guild can bestow, the Life Achievement Award for career achievement and humanitarian accomplishment - basically one of the best gongs you can get. Whether he was whip-crack-awaying in Rawhide, munching on that cheroot in A Fistful of Dollars or floating in a gently geriatric fashion in Space Cowboys, Clint Eastwood has always managed to do it with the utmost of style. SAG President Melissa Gilbert said, "Clint Eastwood is truly a film icon, a celebrated star of international magnitude. His prolific career as an actor and filmmaker demonstrates a total command of the medium that has rightly earned him the admiration of his peers, the industry and the public." And after forty-two years in the business, he's managed to get a remarkable 55 film appearances under his belt while also becoming the renaissance man of modern movies. Taking multi-tasking to ludicrous levels, the man has produced, directed and starred in twelve films - including Unforgiven, The Bridges of Madison County and Absolute Power - while directing and starring in an additional 8 films. Ever busy even at the ripe old age of 72, Eastwood is currently shooting – and producing – the pyschological drama Mystic River with Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon and Morpheus himself, Laurence Fishburne. But he will be officially honoured at the 9th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on 9 March next year. Clint, we salute you.