After Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Jane Fund, Francis Ford Coppola, Quentin Tarantino and Tim Burton, this is another great name for Hollywood cinema, which will receive a light prize this year: Michael Man!
This award was created by Thierry Frams to mark the person for all his work and the link that maintains it with the history of cinema. It has become one of the most prestigious prices recognized by profession and international press for years.
Michael he, 40 years impressive career
As the Lumner Festival organizers pointed out in the press release, “He is an excellent American artist whose huge career has been covered by more than 40 years of movie, during which he director the greatest holy monster in several directions: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Daniel Day-Louis, Tom Cruise, James Kayan, Natalie Portman or Gong Lee.
It is located in the powerful tradition of both Hollywood, and it depicts personal and innovative cinema through its approach, its approach, narration and aesthetics. In real independence and sometimes in some loneliness, he is one of the most important directors in the history of cinema, the great director and actors of the actors.
Mixing the author’s demand with the pleasure of the public, Michael Mann knows the great successes of society in the United States, France and all over the world, and criticism appreciates his particular contribution to the 7th art history. “
Festival Director Thierry Frams said: “Put a light price for Michael Mann Rue Du Premier-Film is both a dream and a pride. Directly from Hollywood mythology is the main artist whose trace of cinema is forever. “We no longer consider his masterpieces,” said Bertrand Taverner. Stylist, author, Michael Mann has put in his films a vision of the world and history that never separates the focal scene. Its acceptance in Lyon the following October will be a big event for all the lovers of cinema. “
Michael Mann will receive Lumière Prize on Friday, October 17, 2025. It will succeed in Clint Eastwood, Milo Forman, Wong Kar-Wai, Jane Fonda, Ken Lachi, Jane Campon, Catherine Denu, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Tarantino and the winner of the 2024 Isabele.
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Back to Michael Mann’s trip
After studying at London International Cinematography School, Michael Man began his career, documentary films, advertising spots and short film Juanpuri, for which he received the jury prize at the Cannes Festival in 1970. Five years later, he became a script author to TV and work especially on Starsky and Hutch series. Michael Mann then went to sell his first television film in 1979 as a free man, a drama held in the prison world.
Michael Mann continues in the Thriller Register in 1981 The Solitary Feature Feature Feature Feature Feature. The director continues in 1983 with the Black ForeTress, with a masterful mix of fantastic and war film. The director then is very popular in the creation and production of two Cops series in Miami, the elevated star of that time with Don Johnson. Based on this success, he is the first director to get acquainted with the unhealthy world of Thomas Harris, adapting to the movie theater in 1986, his novel by Dragon Rouge. Dr. Hannibal Lecti first appears in the sixth sense of Brian Cox. The smooth and freezing style of the film creates a great deal of fragmentation.
After a new transition to Takedown television in 1989 and in 1992, the Mohican’s latest fresco by the historic fresco, a film director who is recognized as one of the most talented in the 80’s, returns to his first love in the police film. Along with the heat, the filmmaker orchestrations face face to face between Robert de Niro and Al Pacino. Its brilliant directions towards the actors and the care of each plan are still perceived by two films inspired by real facts: Revelations in 2000, named the Oscar in the best film and best director in categories, and in 2002, on the terrible career of famous boxers.
Two years later, for collateral, Michael Manas made a taxi driver’s and night travel theater in Los Angeles, which Jamie Fox interpreted hostage by Tom Cruis. In 2006, the filmmaker adapted his series, with the Miami Vice -Vice -Miami -two policemen with Jay Fox and Colin Farrell in the roles of tuberculosis and crocettes.
After the production of the Kingdom of Peter Berg and Hankok, Michael Mann returns to the camera in 2009 and brings Johnny Depp for the first time with Marion Kotillard, in the public enemies, focused on John Dillinger, the famous 1930s. In 2014, the director returns to Hacker -Hacker. The film is followed by cybercrime hunting by Chris Hemsworth, a former hacker who was forced to cooperate with the government.
In 2023, Adam driver portrayed the legend of F1 Enzo Ferrari at Ferrari Biopic with Penelope Cruz. At the same time, Michael Mann returns to the television with The Series Tokyo Vice, whose first episode he has made.
As a writer, he signed Meg Gardiner The Novel Heat 2 (from the number one from the New York Times to the best sales list), which is currently made of his next feature film.
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