Russian director Nikita Michalkov to receive award at Karlovy Vary festival

The Russian film director Nikita Michalkov will receive a Crystal Globe award for contribution to world cinema at this year’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, organisers said on Tuesday. Michalkov’s best known film is 1994’s Burnt by the Sun, which won an Academy Award for best foreign film. Other guests include the British actor Jude Law, Scottish producer Andrew Macdonald and his director brother Kevin, and Thelma Schoonmaker, winner of three Oscars for best editor for her work on the films of Martin Scorcese. The festival, which is being held for the 45th time, gets underway in the west Bohemian spa town at the end of next week.