Shirley MacLaine to get AFI Existence Achievement Award

Shirley MacLaine Shirley MacLaine will get the 40th AFI Lifetime Achievement Award, the American Film Institute introduced Sunday. The 77-year-old actress, who won a Best Actress Oscar for 1983's Relation to Endearment, will be provided the award in a gala tribute in La on June 7. TV Land will broadcast the ceremony later that month. "Shirley MacLaine is really a giant of personality which has illuminated screens small and big across six decades," Howard Stringer, chairman from the institute's board of trustees, stated inside a statement. "From ingénue to screen legend, Shirley has entertained a worldwide audience through song, dance, laughter and tears, and her career as author, director and producer is even more proof of her adoration for the talent and her apparently never-ending talents." Catch on present day latest news She authored first autobiographical book, Don't Disappear the Mountain, in 1970. It had been then other best-sellersaddressing herbeliefs aboutreincarnation, UFOs and spirituality. Previous AFI lifetime achievement award readers include Morgan Freeman, Mike Nichols and Michael Douglas.