The Los Angeles Film Critics Association announced yesterday that director Sidney Lumet will be honored with the group's 2007 Career Achievement Award at their annual awards dinner, to be held January 12, 2008. Previous winners include Jerry Lewis, Andre de Toth, Arthur Penn, Billy Wilder and Conrad Hall, among others; in 2005, Richard Widmark was spotlighted for his work, while Robert Mulligan was honored last year. Lumet's long and distinguished career spans more than five decades, and includes Fail-Safe, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, Prince of the City and The Verdict, as well as this fall's buzz-heavy Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, starring Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Marisa Tomei.