{"id":2665,"date":"2026-06-28T13:39:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T13:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2665"},"modified":"2026-06-28T13:39:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T13:39:52","slug":"when-amelie-and-maggie-gyllenhaal-won-at-karlovy-vary-a-look-back-as-the-czech-fest-turns-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2665","title":{"rendered":"When \u2018Am\u00e9lie\u2019 and Maggie Gyllenhaal Won at Karlovy Vary: A Look Back as the Czech Fest Turns 60"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tThe Karlovy Vary International Film Festival\u00a0(KVIFF) is back for its\u00a060th edition in what is its 80th year since its foundation. Double anniversary alert!  <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2663\">Karlovy Vary\u2019s Double Anniversary: Meet the Program Team Behind the Czech Film Fest\u2019s 60th Edition<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tA deep dive into the long history of the Czech fest can unearth all sorts of special memories and surprises among the winners of its main Crystal Globe award and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWe don\u2019t have time to go through it all. But in honor of the 60th edition of KVIFF, running July 3-11, <em>THR<\/em> decided to shine a spotlight on six of the hidden, and not-so-hidden, cinematic gems that have won the main festival award.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>In 1954, the Hollywood blacklist and <em>Salt of the Earth<\/em> came to town<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn a sign of the Karlovy Vary festival\u2019s early interest in looking beyond Eastern Europe, it programmed Herbert J. Biberman\u2019s drama about Mexican workers at a zinc mine who call a general strike.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDuring the time of the Eastern Bloc, it surely helped that the movie focuses on social issues. After all, it is all about the solidarity and resolve of the workers and their families. But in fact, the film was made entirely outside the traditional studio system by three blacklisted Hollywood figures, with Biberman joining forces with screenwriter Michael Wilson and producer Paul Jarrico.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe film even won the main award, with the KVIFF website listing it as sharing the Grand Prix with <em>True Friends<\/em>, directed by Mikhail Kalatozov from the USSR.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>In 1970, Ken Loach took Karlovy Vary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tBritish auteur Ken Loach also brought his social lens to the Czech film festival, screening his widely celebrated <em>Kes<\/em> there.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tYoung star David Bradley later won a BAFTA Film Award for playing the lead role of a working-class English boy who spends his free time caring for and training his pet kestrel. Colin Welland also earned a best supporting actor BAFTA for his work in the film. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tLoach himself got nominated at the BAFTAs but didn\u2019t win. He did, however, leave KVIFF with its top honor for <em>Kes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>In 1978, Ji\u0159\u00ed Barto\u0161ka\u2019s breakthrough film came out on top<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tFor more than 30 years, until his death last May, Ji\u0159\u00ed Barto\u0161ka was known as the president and public face of KVIFF. But Czechs also knew him as an actor for decades. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tOne visit to Karlovy Vary, long before his fest leadership, led him to being cast by director Frantisek Vl\u00e1cil in the thriller movie <em>Shadows of a Hot Summer<\/em>, a project that, as it turned out, launched his film career.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2661\">Prime Video\u2019s \u2018Every Year After\u2019 Renewed for Season 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe film also went on to KVIFF and ended up winning its main award, shared with, you guessed it!, a movie from the USSR, namely Stanislav Rostotskiy\u2019s <em>White Bim Black Ear<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>In 2001, Karlovy Vary fell in love with <em>Am<\/em>\u00e9lie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tAudrey Tautou is Am\u00e9lie in Jean-Pierre Jeunet\u2019s movie. But you knew that!<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDespite being caught in her imaginative world, the titular young waitress decides to help people find happiness, leading her on a journey that may allow her to find true love. But you knew that, too!<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWhat you may not know yet is that <em>Am\u00e9lie<\/em> won the Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary in 2001, as listed on its website. <\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>In 2006, Maggie Gyllenhaal and <em>Sherrybaby<\/em> won big<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tLaurie Collyer\u2019s drama <em>Sherrybaby<\/em> stars Gyllenhaal as a young woman who gets released from prison and is recovering from a\u00a0heroin addiction. But trying to rebuild her life on the outside, and especially repairing her relationship with her young daughter,\u00a0is harder than she hoped. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tGyllenhaal is back at KVIFF this year to receive the fest\u2019s President\u2019s Award. But did you know she received a statuette at the Czech festival before?<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHer return this year comes 20 years after <em>Sherrybaby<\/em> left Karlovy Vary with its Crystal Globe award and Gyllenhaal herself was won the best actress honor for her work in the film.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>In 2007, Icelandic Noir left its mark<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\tA murder and brain illness feature in Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Korm\u00e1kur\u2018s <em>Jar City<\/em>, which he brought to KVIFF.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cA desperate man is trying to locate the genetic origin of his little daughter\u2019s brain illness,\u201d read the ominous synopsis on the fest\u2019s website back in the day. \u201cA solitary detective is investigating the murder of an old eccentric whose eventful past changes this seemingly ordinary case into a bizarre mystery. Both storylines gradually become intertwined in Baltasar Korm\u00e1kur\u2019s latest film \u2013 the biggest Icelandic box-office hit of all time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe movie stars Ingvar Sigurdsson (<em>Everest<\/em>, <em>The Northman<\/em>) and \u00c1g\u00fasta Eva Erlendsd\u00f3ttir\u00a0(<em>Justice<\/em> <em>League<\/em>), among others, and it showed the appeal of Nordic noir before it continued its triumphant march around the globe. After all, <em>Jar City<\/em> won the Crystal Globe at KVIFF in 2007. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2659\">CNN Staff Braces for Possible Bari Weiss Era as Paramount-Warner Bros. 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