“Warriors” and “48 Hours” director Walter Hill will receive Fantastic Fest’s Lifetime Achievement Award, followed by a retrospective of his work at select Alamo Drafthouse locations nationwide in January.
Mr. Hill will be presented with the award as part of Fantastic Fest’s opening weekend festivities at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in Austin, Texas, followed by a screening and Q&A of his 1987 western “Extreme Prejudice.” Hill is the first Fantastic Fest winner to receive a retrospective screening of his film.
“Walter Hill is one of the greatest pulp artists in American cinema,” Fantastic Fest programmer and Alamo Drafthouse director Jake Isgur said in a statement. “It has been a lifelong dream of ours to share his work with audiences around the world, and we can’t wait to make it a reality.”
Hill’s directorial credits include Streets of Fire, Red Heat, Hard Times, Southern Comfort, and The Long Riders, and he also has a screenwriting credit on Sam Peckinpah’s The Getaway. Hill won an Emmy Award for directing an episode of the drama series “Deadwood.”
Hill has been part of the Alien franchise since Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic, with credits as executive producer on Alien and producer on Alien 3, Alien: Resurrection, Alien vs. Predator, Alien vs. Predator: Requiem, Prometheus, Alien: Covenant and Alien: Romulus.
Before making his directorial debut with Hard Times in 1975, Hill wrote the screenplays for Hickey and Boggs, The Getaway, The Thief Who Came to Dinner, The Macintosh Man, and The Drowning Pool.
Previous recipients of Fantastic Fest’s Lifetime Achievement Award include Park Chan-wook, Bong Joon-ho, Yuen Woo-ping, Clint Mansell, Takashi Miike, Jess Franco, and Malcolm McDowell. The full Fantastic Fest lineup will be announced in August.
