Kevin Spacey to receive lifetime achievement award in Italy

The announcement comes two weeks after a jury in the US concluded that Mr Spacey did not molest actor Anthony Rapp when Mr Rapp was 14

Kevin Spacey. Picture: Matt Crossick/PA

An Italian film museum has announced that Kevin Spacey will receive a lifetime achievement award and teach a master class there early next year.

Enzo Ghigo, president of the National Museum of Cinema in the northern city of Turin, said the class and the award honouring Mr Spacey’s contribution to the growth of cinema would take place on January 16.