MUMBAI: The Chicago International Film Festival recently presented Ron Howard with a Career Achievement Award.

Howard will be in Chicago for the next several months working for an untitled comedy that also stars Vince Vaughn, Winona Ryder, Kevin James, Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany.

Actor (and Chicagoan) Said actor Vince Vaughan that the director‘s bald head was the real reward for all the great films he made in his career. Noted films of Howards include Splash, Backdraft, Apollo 13, Frost/Nixon and A Beautiful Mind for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director.