Ellen Burstyn, whose credits include “The Last Picture Show,” “The Exorcist” and “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” will receive the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival. Film Festival, the festival said Tuesday.

The festival’s artistic director, Alberto Barbera, described Burstyn as “an actress of rare intensity and truth,” adding that she had brought “depth and complexity to unforgettable female characters who embody the contradictions and transformations of contemporary women.”

Barbera continued: “Revealed in Peter Bogdanovich’s ‘The Last Picture Show,’ which portrayed the decline of small-town America, and elevated to global stardom by the success of William Friedkin’s ‘The Exorcist,’ Burstyn won the best actress Oscar for Martin Scorsese’s ‘Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,’ the cinematic manifesto about women reclaiming their identity and their freedom.”

He noted that he “worked with some of the biggest film directors of the time,” mentioning Alain Resnais on “Providence,” Paul Schrader on “Hardcore,” Bob Rafelson on “The King of Marvin Gardens,” Paul Mazursky on “Alex in Wonderland” and “Harry and Tonto,” Darren Aronofsky on “Requiem for a Dream” and Christopher Nolan on “Interstellar.”

He also said: “Burstyn made fragility and methodical discipline the tools of an acting approach based on emotional truth, care and generosity towards the characters. Her art, which could illuminate everyday pain and resilience with dignity, irony and courage, remains an absolute model of acting authenticity and civic engagement within the art of acting.”

Burstyn said in a statement: “Wow! Not only do I get to travel to one of my favorite cities in the entire world, but I also get to return home with a Golden Lion in my arms. The Lifetime Achievement Award from the Venice Film Festival! I feel so honored, so happy, so full of gratitude. Wow, really!”

The Golden Lion will be awarded to Burstyn on the occasion of the screening of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s short film “Flesh Impact”. Dedicated to Marilyn Monroe on the 100th anniversary of her birth, the film showcases Burstyn’s “rare talent as a performer,” the festival said.

The cast also includes Dakota Johnson, Peter Sarsgaard and Sepideh Moafi. Johnson plays Monroe at the height of her fame, while Burstyn plays a version of Monroe that the world never got the chance to see. “Flesh Impact” takes its title from a phrase once used to describe Monroe’s aura: that she seemed so real and luminous on camera that viewers felt like they could touch her through the screen.

Burstyn will star alongside Taika Waititi in Kornél Mundruczó’s “Place to Be.”

The 83rd edition of the Venice Film Festival will be held from September 2 to 12.