Lumière Film Festival

For the annual film awards ceremony, see Lumières Award.

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.

Lumière Film Festival

Location	Lyon Metropolis, France
Founded	2009
Website	www.festival-lumiere.org/en/

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

Year	Recipient	Note(s)
2009	Clint Eastwood	[3]
2010	Miloš Forman	[4]
2011	Gérard Depardieu	[5]
2012	Ken Loach	[6]
2013	Quentin Tarantino	[7]
2014	Pedro Almodóvar	[2]
2015	Martin Scorsese	[8]
2016	Catherine Deneuve	[9]
2017	Wong Kar-wai	[10]
2018	Jane Fonda	[11]
2019	Francis Ford Coppola	[12]
2020	Dardenne brothers	[13]
2021	Jane Campion	[14]
2022	Tim Burton	[15]
2023	Wim Wenders	[16]

References

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