French actress Isabelle Huppert will be presented with a career achievement award at the upcoming Montreal World Film Festival. The MWFF, which runs August 21 to September 1, will screen five of her performances, including her latest, Ursula Meier's Home.

The other titles are Violette Noziere (1978), Madame Bovary (1990) and Comedy Of Power (2006), all directed by Claude Chabrol, with whom Huppert has made seven films as well as Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate (1980).

Huppert has been showered with accolades, including the Cesar, the Lumiere and best actress prizes at Cannes, Berlin, Montreal, Venice and San Sebastian.