Quentin Tarantino will be honoured with a special prize at the Cesar Awards in Paris.
BBC News reports that the Kill Bill director will be given an award in celebration of his career.
Cesar president Alain Terzian said that the filmmaker is to be honoured as “a great international artist”.
Also in line for prizes at the annual awards, which will take place on February 25 in the French capital and be presided over by Jodie Foster, are Algerian film Of Gods and Men and Roman Polanski’s The Ghost.
The Social Network is further nominated alongside Invictus, Inception, Illegal, Bright Star, Heartbeats and The Secret in their Eyes.