Veteran Hollywood director Michael Mann shall be honored with the Lumière Award on the 2025 Lumière Pageant, a French occasion targeted on traditional cinema.
Lumière Institute and pageant director Thierry Frémaux referred to as Mann — director of such options as Warmth, The Final of the Mohicans, The Insider, Ali and Collateral — a significant artist “straight out of Hollywood mythology…whose mark on cinema is eternal.”
In a press release, the Institut Lumière mentioned Mann’s filmmaking was “each rooted in a powerful Hollywood custom and embodies a private and revolutionary cinema by way of his alternative of topics, his method to directing, storytelling and aesthetics. With true independence — and at occasions, a sure solitude — he is likely one of the most essential filmmakers within the historical past of cinema.”
Mann is the newest Hollywood icon to obtain the Lumière honor, following such administrators as Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Quentin Tarantino and Tim Burton, in addition to actresses Jane Fonda and Isabelle Huppert, final 12 months’s honoree.
Mann, who attended the Lyon pageant in 2017 for a screening of Warmth launched by Guillermo del Toro, will return in particular person to obtain the award on Oct. 17. The seventeenth Lumière pageant runs Oct. 11-19.
Along with his characteristic work, Mann is credited as one of many artistic forces behind the Eighties TV phenomenon Miami Vice, which he executive-produced by way of its five-season run. He returned to the adventures of Crockett and Tubbs with the 2006 characteristic adaptation, starring Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx.
Mann returned to the small display screen with the acclaimed HBO Max sequence Tokyo Vice, govt producing and directing the pilot episode.
His newest characteristic, Ferrari, starred Adam Driver as automobile racing legend Enzo Ferrari. Mann is at present in preproduction on the long-awaited sequel to Warmth, following the success of his novel adaptation, Head 2, which was a New York Occasions best-seller.