Lumière Film Festival Explained

Lumière Film Festival
Founded:2009
Location:Lyon Metropolis, France

The Lumière Film Festival is an annual film festival held each October in Lyon Metropolis, France, since 2009. The festival is named in honor of the Lumière Brothers, who invented the Cinematography in Lyon in 1895, and is organized by the Institut Lumière.

The festival focuses on the history of cinema with the line-up dedicated to the works of the past through restored prints, retrospectives and tributes.[1] The Lumière Award (Prix Lumière), an award that recognizes the achievement and contributions of an international film personality, is also presented annually at the festival.[2]

Lumière Award recipients

YearRecipientNote(s)
2009Clint Eastwood[3]
2010Miloš Forman[4]
2011Gérard Depardieu[5]
2012Ken Loach[6]
2013Quentin Tarantino[7]
2014Pedro Almodóvar
2015Martin Scorsese[8]
2016Catherine Deneuve[9]
2017Wong Kar-wai[10]
2018Jane Fonda[11]
2019Francis Ford Coppola[12]
2020Dardenne brothers[13]
2021Jane Campion[14]
2022Tim Burton[15]
2023Wim Wenders[16]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Girard-Perregaux, Tribute to Quentin Tarantino, Lumière Award 2013 . 21 October 2014 . Watchonista.
  2. Web site: Pedro Almodóvar, Lumière Award 2014. 21 October 2014. Lumière. https://web.archive.org/web/20190907024652/http://2014.festival-lumiere.org/en/programme/prix-lumiere.html. 7 September 2019. live.
  3. Web site: Clint Eastwood, premier lauréat du prix Lumière . 21 October 2014 . Le Figaro. 19 October 2009 .
  4. Web site: Prix Lumière : Milos Forman . 21 October 2014 . Lumière.
  5. Web site: Prix Lumière 2011 : Gérard Depardieu ! . 21 October 2014 . Lumière.
  6. Web site: The Lumière Award presented to Ken Loach . 21 October 2014 . Lumière.
  7. Web site: Reliving the Lumière Award Ceremony 2013 . 21 October 2014 . Lumière.
  8. Web site: Martin Scorsese, 7e Prix Lumière . 18 June 2015 . Gala.
  9. Web site: Le Prix Lumière 2016 décerné à Catherine Deneuve . 20 June 2016 . AlloCiné.
  10. Web site: Prix Lumière 2017. Lumière. 11 June 2018.
  11. Web site: Prix Lumière 2018. www.festival-lumiere.org. 11 June 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20200320002912/http://2018.festival-lumiere.org/en/program/lumiere-award-2018.html. 20 March 2020. live.
  12. Web site: Prix Lumière 2019. www.festival-lumiere.org. 20 September 2019.
  13. Web site: Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne – Prix Lumière 2020 . . 16 July 2020 . Institut Lumière . 8 October 2020.
  14. Web site: Jane Campion – Lumière Award 2021 . . Institut Lumière . 21 October 2021.
  15. Web site: Tim Burton to Receive Lyon Festival's 2022 Lumiere Award . Elsa Keslassy . 20 July 2022 . Variety . 20 July 2022.
  16. Web site: Wim Wenders : Prix Lumière 2023 (prog) - Wim Wenders : Prix Lumière 2023 (prog) . 2023-10-09 . www.festival-lumiere.org.