Venice, Italy - The Venice Film Festival is to honour with a filmmaker's award, screen star Sylvester Stallone, best known for his roles in the action blockbuster Rocky and Rambo films, organizers said Wednesday.

Stallone is set to pick up the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award on September 12 during the closing ceremony of this year's edition of the Venice Film Festival which starts September 2.

In a statement, organizers noted how Stallone had written all the scripts in the Rocky and Rambo films, in which he played the title-character roles of respectively, boxer Rocky Balboa and Vietnam war veteran, John Rambo.

"His (Stallone's) is a cinema capable of tenderness even when dripping with blood," the statement said.

"Stallone travelled through the light and the darkness of the American Dream - each of those films remarkably anchored in its own present time," the statement added.

The world's oldest film festival, known for its promotion of art-house films, has previously bestowed the award to Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, Japanese filmmaker and actor Takeshi Kitano and French director Agnes Varda. (dpa)