Tim Burton, visionary director bat Man, beetle juice, ed wood s Edward Scissor HandsThey will be honored with the 2022 Lumiere Award, a lifetime achievement award, at this year’s Lumiere Film Festival.
Burton will be attending the Lumiere Festival in Lyon, France, October 20-23 and will receive his gong on Friday, October 21.
The American director joins previous Lumière Award winners such as Jane Campion, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Von Kar-Wye and Quentin Tarantino.
Opening the Barton Awards on Wednesday, the Lumer festival called him “an artist who has given world cinema a world of rare coherence with unprecedented influence on popular culture.”
Burton’s unique blend of Gothic horror and Baroque comedy, combined with his inimitable visual style, spans his entire directorial career, starting with his 1984 shorts. frankenweinThrough your early successes Pee Wee’s Great Adventure (1985), Battle Juice (1988), bat Man (1989) Edward Scissor Hands (nineteen ninety), Batman returns (1992) and ed wood (1994, for adaptations of children’s books Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) and Alice in Wonderland (2010), his last, for Disney’s 2019 live-action adaptation dambo. Burton is in post-production Wednesday, his first series for Netflix. The series stars Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams, a member of the “normal” horror family of the Addams Family.
“Burton’s cinema reveals his fascination with the monstrous, the marginal, the thorn in the side of American normality and its endless residential suburbs,” the festival noted. Skeletons, witches, elves, ghosts, robots, anthropomorphic apes, catwomen and headless horsemen haunt the filmmaker’s works.
The Lumer Film Festival 2022 will take place from the 15th to the 23rd of October.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
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