Casey Affleck, fresh off his Oscar win for “Manchester by the Sea,” will receive the Festival President’s Award at the 52nd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic this summer, KVIFF organizers announced on Monday.
Affleck will be given the award, which the festival has created for “actors, directors and producers who have contributed in a fundamental way to the development of contemporary world cinema,” as part of a presentation of the David Lowery film “A Ghost Story,” which premiered at this year’s Sundance and will be released in July by A24.
Affleck’s character is killed early in the film, and he spends most of his time as a child’s Halloween-costume version of a ghost, draped in a white sheet with eyeholes.