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British producer David Puttnam, whose long list of credits includes “Chariots of Fire,” “The Killing Fields” and “The Mission,” will be honored by the Rome Film Festival with its inaugural Industry Lifetime Achievement Award.

Puttnam, whose work has earned a combined total of 10 Oscars, 10 Golden Globes, 25 BAFTAs and nine Emmys — as well as one Palme d’Or (for “The Mission”) — will receive the prize from Britain-based Italian director and screenwriter Uberto Pasolini (“Full Monte”), who began his career with Puttnam as a location scout on “Killing Fields.”

Puttnam, who is 84, started producing movies in his native London during the early 1970s and has worked with directors such as Alan Parker, Ken Russell, Adrian Lyne and Ridley Scott, among others, shepherding some of the most critically acclaimed and often commercially successful films of the 1980s.

In 1986, Puttnam moved to the U.S. to become CEO of Columbia Pictures and resigned 16 months…

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