Los Angeles, Aug. 20 -- Actor Naomi Watts will be honoured with the Zurich Film Festival's Golden Eye Award for her role in Ben Shirinian's 'The Housewife'.

In Zurich, she will present the film, in which she plays the enigmatic wife of a suspected Nazi. The actress will personally accept the award on September 26 and discuss her career during a ZFF Masters session, Variety reported.

The festival described Watts, who has earned two Academy Award nominations, as "an artist renowned for her emotional depth, versatility and unwavering commitment to her roles."

In 'The Housewife', she plays an elegant and inscrutable woman living in 1960s New York whose flawless facade gradually begins to crack when a young journalist from the New York Time...