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The award celebrates an actor's or actress' lifetime
achievements. Previous recipients include Diane Keaton and
Morgan Freeman.
Schwarzenegger, who first came to fame as a bodybuilder who won
the Mr Universe title at age 20, returned to making movies after
two terms as California Governor from 2003 to 2011.
Few however have enjoyed the success of "The Terminator" or
"Conan the Barbarian" in which he starred in the 1980s and '90s.
"I'm happy to be back into acting and I'm also very happy that I
did my public service ... so I will be doing many more movies,"
he said at the festival on Wednesday night.
The Austrian-American Schwarzenegger, 68, also presented his new
movie "Maggie" at the festival, in which he plays a farmer
struggling to look after his dying daughter.
Last month television network NBC said Schwarzenegger would
replace U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as
the host of reality show "The Celebrity Apprentice".
(Writing by Reuters Television and Marie-Louise Gumuchian in
London; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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