Singer/actress Liza Minnelli paid tribute to her moviemaker father Vincente Minnelli as she picked up a lifetime achievment award in Los Angeles.

The Cabaret star accepted the Jack Valenti Lifetime Achievement Award at Los Angeles-Italia Film Festival on Friday (20Feb15), and she used the moment to honour her late dad.

She told the audience at the ceremony, "My father, Vincente Minnelli, directed some of the greatest motion pictures Hollywood has produced, and from him I received two wonderful things: my love of movies and my Italian heritage."

Minnelli follows in the footsteps of previous winners of the prize, named after longtime president of the Motion Picture Association of America Jack Valenti, including Al Pacino and Anjelica Huston.