Costa-Gavras will receive the San Sebastian Film Festival's Donostia Award for lifetime achievement.
Costa-Gavras' career spans more than five decades and two dozen films tacking many political themes. He has been president of the Cinematheque Francaise since 2007.
The Donostia honor was created in 1986 to recognize outstanding contributions to world cinema. Spanish actress Penelope Cruz, who is gracing this year's festival poster, is another 2019 Donostia recipient. Last year's honorees were actors Judy Dench and Danny DeVito, as well as Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda.
Said Costa-Gavras: "You never forget the country of your birth, especially when it is a country like Greece.” He added: “I fled my country because, back then, all it offered to young people of my social class was a life of submission to a theocratic-democracy. As an immigrant, France allowed me to surpass my wildest dreams. My 'Greekness' took hold of me again when the Colonels seized power. The expression of my personal resistance was.
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