Dustin Hoffman to Be Honored at Karlovy Vary Film Festival

Actors Dustin Hoffman, Juliette Binoche and Jeffrey Wright, and cinematographer Robert Richardson will be honored at the 60th Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival.

Hoffman will be presented with the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema at the opening ceremony. Binoche will receive the Crystal Globe with the same title at the closing ceremony. Richardson will receive the same award, but during the festival, and Wright will receive the President’s Award, again during the festival.

The festival will screen Hoffman’s breakthrough film, “The Graduate,” which earned Mike Nichols an Academy Award for best director, and was nominated for Oscars in six other categories. The festival will also screen three of Binoche’s films, “Certified Copy” (2010), “Three Colors: Blue” (1993) and “In-I in Motion” (2025), as well as Wright’s “Basquiat” (1996). Richardson will join director Jana Hojdová in presenting the documentary portrait “Robert Richardson: The White Devil.”

Also attending the festival will be actor Harvey Keitel, who will join a screening of Martin Scorsese’s “Mean Streets.” It is the third time he has visited the festival. At its 39th edition in 2004, Keitel was awarded a Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema.

Among other star guests, Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon will present their horror-comedy “Family Movie” at the festival. The film, co-directed by Bacon and Sedgwick and starring them and their children, Travis and Sosie Bacon, had its world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival, where Variety declared it “a bloody good time.”

More to follow.