Clint Eastwood will be celebrated with the Hollywood Film Festival’s director of the year award at the festivals awards gala Oct. 27 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Eastwood’s Angelina Jolie-starrer, Changeling is due out Oct. 24, and Grand Torino, in which Eastwood plays a veteran forced to confront his prejudices, is scheduled for release by Warner Bros. in Dec.

The week-long festival begins Oct. 22. at the ArcLight Theatres in Hollywood.