Michael Douglas will be celebrated with a lifetime achievement award by Italy’s Taormina Film Festival where a fresh copy of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” the multiple Oscar-winning New Hollywood classic that Douglas produced, will screen in the fest’s 8,000-seat open-air ancient Greek amphitheater.
Douglas who, at age 31, in collaboration with Saul Zaentz, produced the Miloš Forman-directed drama starring Jack Nicholson that in 1975 swept all the major Oscar categories – winning best picture, director, actor, actress and screenplay – will be making the trek to the Sicilian sea resort. The restored “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” print will screen June 10 in Taormina on opening night
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