Pop star Kylie Minogue and actor Robert de Niro are to receive Germany's top showbiz honour, the Golden Camera, organisers have announced. De Niro, 64, will receive the lifetime achievement award, while Minogue, 39, will be honored as best international music act. Now in its 43rd year, the Golden Cameras reward excellence in film, television and music. Previous winners include Bruce Willis, George Clooney and Cate Blanchett. The Golden Camera is awarded in seven national and five international categories. "Robert De Niro has made himself a legend in his own time. The movie industry owes him for innumerable never-to-be-forgotten moments," the jury panel said. While Minogue will receive her honor "for her brilliant comeback after recovering from cancer". The award itself is a 600g 18 carat gold-plated sterling silver replica of the first electronic TV camera. The ceremony will be held at Berlin's Axel Springer Arcade on 6 February.
 

Film director Francis Ford Coppola has hit out at acting greats Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Jack Nicholson, saying the trio lacked "passion". The five-time Oscar-winner told GQ magazine they "all live off the fat of the land" and did not have ambition. The 68-year-old maker of the Godfather trilogy said De Niro, one of his leading men, "never spends any money - he just puts it in his mattress". He added Nicholson had a "mean streak" and was "a bit like Marlon Brando". "He's intelligent, always wired with the big guys and the big bosses of the studios," said Coppola. "He was always kind of a joker." De Niro was more likely to pursue an acting role that he was "hungry" for than Nicholson, whom the film director added had "money and influence and girls".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He claimed Pacino always harbored ambitions to act in theatrical classics and added the actor once said: "Oh, I was raised next to a furnace in New York and I'm never going to go to Los Angeles."

Francis Ford Coppola

The actor was Oscar-nominated for his performances in the first two parts of The Godfather trilogy. The film-maker compared the trio to younger actors, saying that they lack the conviction to get really stuck into a role. "I don't feel that kind of passion to do a role and be great coming from these guys, because if it was there, they would do it. "I mean, they're all in a position to do it," Coppola added. "I don't know what any of them want any more."
"Nicholson little bit like Brando, except Brando went through some tough times."Francis Ford Coppola on Jack Nicholson