Robert De Niro will receive the 44th annual Chaplin Award, which honours major industry talents.
De Niro will take home the 2017 trophy for a four-decade acting career that stretches from early work including Mean Streets, Raging Bull and The Godfather Part II to more recent projects such as Silver Linings Playbook.
He's also the high-profile co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, launched in the wake of 9/11 in an effort to boost the economic prospects of lower Manhattan.
The actor-producer will be honoured by the The Film Society of Lincoln Center at a gala featuring notable guests and presenters as well as movie and interview footage drawn from De Niro's career. He joins a list of previous Chaplin recipients that includes Alfred Hitchcock, Elizabeth Taylor, Meryl Streep, Billy Wilder and last year's honoree, Morgan Freeman.
De Niro's award was announced on the closing night of the New York Film Festival and will be presented at the 44th annual Chaplin Award gala on for May 8.
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