The great American filmmaker Michael Mann will be honoured with the Lumière Award at the 17th edition of the Lumière Festival in Lyon this fall.
The Institut Lumière praised Mann’s 40-year career marked by classics such as Manhunter, The Last of the Mohicans, Heat, The Insider and Collateral, as well as his direction of “screen legends” including Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and Daniel Day-Lewis.
The Lumière Award honours a figure for their entire body of work and their connection to the history of cinema. Previous Lumière honorees include some of the biggest names in Hollywood, including Martin Scorsese, Jane Fonda, Francis Ford Coppola, Quentin Tarantino, Tim Burton and Isabelle Huppert, who received the award last year.
Lumière Institute and festival director Thierry Frémaux said honouring Mann with a Lumière Award was both “a dream” and a “source of pride”.
“Straight out of Hollywood mythology, he is a major artist whose mark on cinema is everlasting,” said Frémaux. “A stylist and an auteur, Michael Mann has infused his films with a vision of the world and of history that is inseparable from a dazzling cinematic style. Welcoming him to Lyon this October will be a major event for all lovers of cinema.”
Mann previously visited Lyon in 2017 for a screening of Heat introduced by Guillermo del Toro.
He responded to the Lumière Festival’s invitation by saying: “The answer is : great, love to do it. The previous Lumière with Guillermo was a brilliant night. Pure cinema. And a great time. It all sounds brilliant. I’m in.”
After making a festival comeback with the biopic Ferrari at Venice in 2023, Mann is now preparing to shoot Heat 2, the hotly anticipated sequel to his 1995 crime drama starring Pacino and De Niro.
Mann will receive the Lumière Award on 17 October.
The 17th edition of the festival will run from 11 – 19 October.
