CHARLES DURNING - DURNING TO BE HONOURED WITH LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

DURNING TO BE HONOURED WITH LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Veteran actor CHARLES DURNING is to be given a lifetime achievement award at next year's (Jan08) The Screen Actors Guild award ceremony. The esteemed character actor has been nominated for two Supporting Actor Oscars - 1983s The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and 1984s To Be Or Not To Be. He has also scored eight Emmy nominations. SAG President Alan Rosenberg says, "He is, above all things, a great actor with the talent to which we all aspire: the power to create indelible characters." Durning has already received a similar nomination this year (07) - he was named a Legend Of Acting by the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.