Sir Sean Connery shakes and stirs awards audience with fashion sense

Sir Sean Connery stunned crowds at a lifetime achievement award by accepting his prize wearing a brown duffel coat - reports The Scotsman.

The Scots actor looked a million miles away from his most memorable character, the suave spy James Bond, as he stuffed the silver statue in his coat pocket.

After accepting the award which recognises a career spanning more than 50 years, the veteran actor said: "I am very honoured."

Connery was presented with the award at the 18th European Film Awards in Berlin by Jean-Jacques Annaud, who directed the actor in The Name Of The Rose. The 75-year-old, who was sporting a tartan dinner suit underneath his rather unusual jacket, was cheered and applauded as he accepted the award.

Connery, who has appeared in more than 70 feature films and won an Oscar playing Chicago cop Jim Malone in The Untouchables in 1987, later invited everyone at the ceremony to Scotland for the 50th Edinburgh Film Festival, joking: "Just ask for me and you'll get a good seat."

The actor also used the platform to speak out on Scottish independence, saying that he wished "Scotland was independent and had a voice in Europe".

Previous winners of the award include Richard Harris and Sir Alec Guinness.

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