Actor and director Mel Gibson will receive the Crystal globe for his career in film.
At 57, the filmmaker has almost fifty films as an interpreter, among which his roles in the sagas stand out.Mad Max" Y "Lethal Weapon«, Which led him to stardom, and four films as a director.
In 1993 he made his directorial debut with «The faceless man«, A film that he himself starred in.
With his second film as director «Braveheart»Won the Oscars for best film and best director and the film ended up winning five statuettes out of the ten nominations with which they started 1995.
Almost a decade after "Braveheart," Mel Gibson he returned with two films that were very excessive for the public who were looking for the hyper-realism of historical moments such as «Passion of Christ" and "Apocalypto«, Two great films that nobody was indifferent to fiction.
For the whole of this career the American actor will receive the Honorific Crystal Globe from the Karlovy Vary Festival, which will screen his latest directorial work to date, "Apocalypto".
Last year the recipient of this distinction was the veteran British actress Judi Dench, Robert De Niro y Helen Mirren they were two of the last to also receive this honorary award.