Francis Ford Coppola will receive a lifetime achievement award from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.

The Irving Thalberg Memorial Award will be Coppola's sixth Oscar from the Academy after preioulsy winning five, mostly "The Godfather" series of movies about Italian American Corleone crime family in the 1940s and 1950s.

Coppola also wrote and directed Vietnam War movie "Apocalypse Now" and the 1974 thriller "The Conversation."

The lifetime achievement is awarded to "a creative producer whose body of work reflects a consistently high quality of motion picture production." It will be handed out at a dinner in November in Los Angeles, ahead of the main Oscar ceremony in February 2011.

Honorary Oscars will also be handed out to French director Jean-Luc Godard, character actor Eli Wallach, 94, and film historian Kevin Brownlow.

In a statement, the Academy president Tom Sherak described each honorees as having "touched movie audiences worldwide and influenced the motion picture industry through their work."