Richard Gere To Be Honoured With Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary Film Festival

Richard Gere will get a lifetime honor next month at the 50th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic.

He will receive the festival's Crystal Globe for "Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema".

The actor will present the festival's opening film, Oren Moverman's Time Out Of Mind, a psychological drama that sees Gere play a homeless man seeking to reach his estranged daughter, played by Jenna Malone, known for her role as Johanna Mason in The Hunger Games franchise.

Gere, who first appeared in Richard Brooks' 1977 Looking For Mr Goodbar and, the following year, Terrence Malick's Days Of Heaven', made his name in Paul Schrader’s 1980 hit American Gigolo and in Taylor Hackford's An Officer And A Gentleman, which brought him his first nomination for a Golden Globe.

He won over audiences worldwide with his portrayal of millionaire Lewis in Garry Marshall's 1990 romantic comedy Pretty Woman, starring alongside Julia Roberts. His last Golden Globe nomination three years was for his role in Nicolas Jarecki's Arbitrage.

The actor is also known for taking a stand on a wide range of social issues, including human rights in Tibet and AIDS.

The festival, which runs July 3-July 11, will close with a hit from this year's Sundance program, Leslye Headland's Sleeping With Other People, which the festival calls "a romantic comedy is a wink across a quarter of a century to Rob Reiner's cult film When Harry Met Sally."