Legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg is set to be honoured at the Berlin International Film Festival, which will be held in February.

In a statement by the festival organisers, it was said that Spielberg will be awarded an honorary Golden Bear, the annual event's top prize. "With an incredible career, Steven Spielberg has not only enchanted generations of viewers all over the world but has also given a new meaning to the cinema' as the factory of dreams," festival co-directors Mariette Rissenbeek and Carlo Chatrian said in a statement.

Spielberg's latest film, The Fabelmans, will have a screening at the festival. 

The Berlin event, the first of the year's major European film festivals, will run from February 16 to 26.