Kevin Spacey wins Performance Award for his voice role in “Control”

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Kevin Spacey has won an award for his role in the micro-budget thriller “Control.”

The actor, who does not appear on screen in the film, won an award for Best Performance in a Thriller at the Folkestone Independent Film Awards.

“Control” by Gene Fallaize was also named best thriller.

Other actors honored at the ceremony include Jessica Hynes, who received the award for Best Actor for her role in Peter Blach’s The Seagull, while Robert Englund received an award for Best Voice for his role in Under the Bed.

The awards ceremony is scheduled to take place on July 20 in Folkestone, Kent. It is unclear whether Spacey will attend.

The award is the latest honor for the “House of Cards” actor, whose career ended in 2017 after he was accused of sexual harassment by Anthony Rapp. It was announced earlier this month that he is set to receive a lifetime achievement award in Taormina, Sicily. That award, which is part of the Nations Awards and has nothing to do with the Taormina Film Festival, is set to be presented on July 21, and Spacey is scheduled to make an appearance during the ceremony.

Last month, several Hollywood stars, including Sharon Stone and Liam Neeson, made statements to the American newspaper The Telegraph calling for the actor’s return to the industry.

Following Rapp’s allegations, Spacey was immediately dropped from a number of high-profile film and television projects and has struggled to find work since, instead fighting a multitude of legal battles in civil and criminal courts on both sides of the Atlantic.

Last summer, he was acquitted of nine counts of sexual assault against five men in a British criminal court. One of the men is continuing his fight in the British civil courts, with a trial tentatively scheduled for next year. Spacey’s original accuser, Anthony Rapp, lost a $40 million sexual assault lawsuit against Spacey in 2022.

His first film after his acquittal was the micro-budget thriller “Control,” in which Spacey plays a menacing figure who manages to hijack a government official’s car to seek revenge. The role is all singing and Spacey does not appear on screen.