Previous winners of the Cecil B DeMille Award - named for the famed director of The Ten Commandments and The Greatest Show on Earth - include Robert DeNiro, Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, Al Pacino and Morgan Freeman, who was awarded the honour earlier this year.

BBC: Jodie Foster

Pieces of trivia are interspersed between the costumes: did you know that the ruby red slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz were designed to contrast with the yellow brick road and show off the new wonders of Technicolor?

BBC: Hollywood comes to London��s V&A