Complex sentence: In 2002 Sylbert was to have received the Hollywood Film Festival's Life Achievement Award, his widow gave the committee permission to name the award after her late husband in perpetuity and it given to Harold Michelson his longtime art director and colleague.
Split into simpler sentences: In 2002 Sylbert was to have received the Hollywood Film Festival's Life Achievement Award. His widow gave the committee permission to name the award after him in perpetuity and that year it was given to Harold Michelson, his longtime art director and colleague.