Kevin Spacey given lifetime achievement award by Italy’s National Museum of Cinema

The actor, who will go on trial in June in the UK for a number of sexual offences, thanked the museum for having ‘the balls’ to invite him

Kevin Spacey has received a lifetime achievement award from the National Museum of Cinema in a ceremony in Turin, Italy. Spacey was given the Stella della Mole award by Vittorio Sgarbi, undersecretary to the Italian ministry of culture.

In remarks quoted by the Hollywood Reporter, Sgarbi said: “Tonight we’re witnessing Kevin Spacey’s comeback … The one living through cinema is an immortal man, and it is precisely him that we are awarding this prize to tonight.”