The celebs will probably be out in full power to assist the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) have a good time its 60th edition in its eightieth 12 months this 12 months. Dustin Hoffman, Juliette Binoche and legendary cinematographer Robert Richardson will obtain this 12 months’s Crystal Globes for excellent inventive contributions to world cinema, whereas Jeffrey Wright will probably be honored with KVIFF’s President’s Award.
For its double anniversary, which runs July 3-11, the Czech pageant beforehand additionally booked Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jesse Eisenberg as President’s Award honorees.
“At the opening ceremony of this year’s 60th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema will be presented to legendary actor Dustin Hoffman, winner of two Academy Awards, five Golden Globes, four BAFTA Awards, and many other accolades,” KVIFF organizers stated on Tuesday. “Besides honoring Dustin Hoffman with a Crystal Globe, the Karlovy Vary festival will also be showing his breakthrough film The Graduate, directed by Mike Nichols and based on the novel of the same name by Charles Webb. The film earned Nichols an Academy Award for best director, was nominated for Oscars in six other categories, and also took home five Golden Globes and five BAFTA Awards.”
On the closing ceremony, KVIFF will honor French star Binoche, “the winner of an Oscar, a César and four European Film Awards.” To honor her, the fest may even display the movies Licensed Copy (2010), Three Colours: Blue (1993) and the current documentary In-I in Movement (2025), which she directed.
A 3rd Crystal Globe for Excellent Inventive Contribution to World Cinema will probably be bestowed upon “world-renowned cinematographer Robert Richardson, winner of three Academy Awards and recipient of seven additional Oscar nominations,” the fest stated on Tuesday. “While at the festival, Richardson will join director Jana Hojdová in presenting the documentary portrait Robert Richardson: The White Devil.”
Recognized for his shut collaborations with such administrators as Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino, he’s “one of the most respected cinematographers of the past four decades and one of the few people alive to have received a best cinematography Oscar three times,” particularly for JFK, The Aviator and Hugo, KVIFF highlighted. “Richardson’s work has helped lend a distinctive atmosphere to films starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie Foxx, and Margot Robbie.”
Unveiling its honor for Wright, KVIFF known as him “one of the most versatile artists of his generation,” including: “He is a recipient of Tony, Emmy, and Golden Globe awards, as well as an Oscar nomination.” In his honor, the fest will display the movie Basquiat (1996), “which he personally introduced at the 32nd Karlovy Vary,” as a part of this 12 months’s program.
