The Crystal Globe for Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema at the 51st Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will be presented to leading film and theatre actor and two-time Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe.
His first feature role came in Kathryn Bigelow's The Loveless in 1982. From there, he has gone on to perform in over 100 films - in Hollywood (Spider-Man, The English Patient, Finding Nemo, Mississippi Burning), independent U.S. cinema (The Fault in Our Stars, John Wick, American Psycho), and abroad (Theo Angelopoulos’ The Dust Of Time, Wim Wenders' Faraway, So Close, Anton Corbijn’s A Most Wanted Man and the international box-office hit Mr. Bean's Holiday).
He selects projects based on the diversity of roles and opportunities to work with strong directors. He worked in the films of Wes Anderson, Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, Julian Schnabel, Paul Schrader, David Cronenberg, Abel Ferrara, David Lynch, William Friedkin, Werner Herzog, Oliver Stone, Giada Colagrande, and Lars von Trier.
He was twice nominated for an Academy Award (Platoon and Shadow Of The Vampire) and once for a Golden Globe. Among other nominations and awards, he received an LA Film Critics Award and an Independent Spirit Award.
In honour of Willem Dafoe, the Karlovy Vary film festival will show the film Pasolini by Abel Ferrara (July, 2nd 10.30 p.m. Thermal, Grand Hall) and Martin Scorese´s The Last Temptation of Christ (July, 3th 11 p.m. Outdoor Cinema).
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