The Los Angeles Film Critics Association will give its Career Achievement Award to actor Richard Widmark, 90, at the group's awards ceremonies in January. Widmark worked with top directors during his 45-year film career, including Henry Hathaway in Kiss of Death (1947), Down to the Sea in Ships (1949), O. Henry's Full House (1952), and Garden of Evil (1954); Elia Kazan in Panic in the Streets (1950); Samuel Fuller in Pickup on South Street (1953); Vincente Minnelli in The Cobweb (1955); Stanley Kramer in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961); and John Ford in Two Rode Together (1961) and Cheyenne Autumn (1964). He was nominated once for an Academy Award – as best supporting actor for his performance as a smirking psychopathic murderer in Kiss of Death.
Full list of winners at the 2005 Chicago International Film Festival