KARLOVY VARY, Czech Republic -- Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur's gritty thriller Jar City won the $20,000 crystal globe grand prix Saturday at the closing of the 42nd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
Accepting his award from Danny DeVito on stage at the festival's Thermal Hotel headquarters, Kormakur held aloft the award -- a nude muse with a crystal globe -- and said: "We make only about five films a year and three are here at this festival. Now we've got this."
DeVito had earlier accepted a lifetime achievement award from festival president Jiri Bartoska.
DeVito -- who starred in the festival's closing film, Jake Paltrow's The Good Night-- joked that he would have to "go home with a woman holding my ball."
Best director went to Norway's Bard Breien for his wickedly funny take on disability, The Art of Negative Thinking.
Dressed in a bright red suit and zebra-striped shoes, Breien said: "Scandinavians are often asked why we are obsessed with making films about deeply depressed alcoholic lonely people, but now I can see to have success in Eastern Europe you here are just as depressed!"
Best actor went to Sergey Puskepalis for his debut performance in Russian director Alexey Popogrebsky's Simple Things.
Popogrebsky, who accepted the award on his behalf, remarked that Puskepalis was actually a theater director who had not acted before.
Accepting his award from Danny DeVito on stage at the festival's Thermal Hotel headquarters, Kormakur held aloft the award -- a nude muse with a crystal globe -- and said: "We make only about five films a year and three are here at this festival. Now we've got this."
DeVito had earlier accepted a lifetime achievement award from festival president Jiri Bartoska.
DeVito -- who starred in the festival's closing film, Jake Paltrow's The Good Night-- joked that he would have to "go home with a woman holding my ball."
Best director went to Norway's Bard Breien for his wickedly funny take on disability, The Art of Negative Thinking.
Dressed in a bright red suit and zebra-striped shoes, Breien said: "Scandinavians are often asked why we are obsessed with making films about deeply depressed alcoholic lonely people, but now I can see to have success in Eastern Europe you here are just as depressed!"
Best actor went to Sergey Puskepalis for his debut performance in Russian director Alexey Popogrebsky's Simple Things.
Popogrebsky, who accepted the award on his behalf, remarked that Puskepalis was actually a theater director who had not acted before.
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