Dustin Hoffman, Juliette Binoche, Jeffrey Wright and Platoon cinematographer Robert Richardson will be honored at the upcoming edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Hoffman, Binoche and Richardson will all receive a Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema while Wright will be awarded the festival’s President’s Award.
Further attendees at the festival this year include Harvey Keitel, Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick.
Seven-time Oscar nominee and two-time winner, Hoffman’s career spans more than six decades with credits including The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, Straw Dogs, All the President’s Men, Kramer vs. Kramer, Tootsie, Rain Man and many more. His career is defined by his willingness to play complicated and often socially marginalized protagonists. He is also an important representative of the Stanislavsky method. In 2012, he made his directorial film debut Quartet, starring Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Michael Gambon and Billy Connolly. The film grossed nearly $60M at the box office.
He most recently starred opposite Leo Woodall in Daniel Roher’s feature Tuner, which premiered at Telluride last year and went on to screen at TIFF and Sundance. His upcoming memoir, Look at Me, is set to be published on November 10.
Hoffman will be awarded at the opening ceremony at Karlovy Vary this year while the festival will also screen The Graduate during the event.
Binoche, who will be awarded with her Crystal Globe at the festival’s closing ceremony, first broke out with her role in André Téchiné’s 1985 film Appointment. Her additional credits include Mauvais Sang, Three Colors: Blue, The Lovers on the Bridge, The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The English Patient, the latter of which saw the French actress win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
Further credits include Lasse Hallström’s romantic drama Chocolat, in which she starred alongside Johnny Depp, Michael Haneke’s psychological thriller Caché, Apple TV+ series The New Look. As a director, Binoche worked on essay In-I in Motion, which records a radical art experiment from 2007-2008, in which she and British choreographer Akram Khan decided to create an avant-garde dance-theater performance In-I.
To honor Binoche, Karlovy Vary will screen the films Certified Copy, Three Colors: Blue and In-I in Motion.
Oscar-nominated American actor Wright will be awarded the festival’s President’s Award this year. His credits include Broadway production Angels in America, which earned him a Tony Award, the play’s HBO adaptation of the same name, which earned him an Emmy and a Golden Globe, 1996 biopic Basquiat, Ang Lee’s Ride with the Devil, Jim Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers, Only Lovers Left Alive, Oliver Stone’s biographical film W., The French Dispatch, Asteroid City, The Phoenician Scheme and Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest. He also portrayed CIA agent Felix Leiter alongside Daniel Craig’s James Bond in Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace and No Time To Die and in three parts of The Hunger Games franchise.
He was nominated for an Oscar, Golden Globe and Independent Spirit Award for his work in 2023 comic drama American Fiction and he’s appeared in a host of successful TV series such as Westworld, Broadwalk Empire and The Agency. In Wright’s honor, Karlovy Vary will screen the film Basquiat.
Three-time Academy Award winner Richardson will be awarded a Crystal Globe at the festival this year. After gaining experience in documentary film and second-unit work in the mid 1980s, he began a long-term collaboration with director Stone. He worked on Salvador, Platoon, Wall Street, Born on the Fourth of July, The Doors and JFK. His further credits include Heaven & Earth, Natural Born Killers, Nixon and U-Turn.
In the second half of the 1990s, Richardson collaborated closely with Martin Scorsese, working across films including Casino, Bringing Out the Dead, The Aviator, Shutter Island and Hugo. He’s also worked closely with director Quentin Tarantino, shooting both instalments of Kill Bill, Inglorious Basterds, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
While at the festival, Richardson will join director Jana Hojdová in presenting the documentary portrait Robert Richardson: The White Devil.
Keitel, who was a recipient of a Crystal Globe in 2004, is set to make his third appearance at Karlovy Vary this year. The Bad Lieutenant and Smoke actor will be in town to present a screening of Scorsese’s Mean Streets, in which he starred alongside Robert De Niro.
Both Bacon and Sedgwick will also be in town with their children Travis and Sosie Bacon to present the family’s horror-comedy Family Movie. The film, which is co-directed by Bacon and Sedgwick and stars Travis and Sosie, had its world premiere at SXSW earlier this year.
Finally, last year’s Crystal Globe recipient Stellan Skarsgård is set to be the star in Karlovy Vary’s new trailer. Each year the original festival trailers include a micro-story featuring the previous years’ Crystal Globe recipient.
The 60th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will open with Argentinian-Spanish documentary The Match and will close with Noah Segan’s crime drama The Only Pickpocket in New York.
KVIFF takes place July 3-11, 2026.
