Veteran Hollywood director Michael Mann will be honored with the Lumière Award at the 2025 Lumière Festival, a French event focused on classic cinema.
Lumière Institute and festival director Thierry Frémaux called Mann, director of such features as Heat, The Last of the Mohicans, The Insider, Ali, and Collateral, a major artist “straight out of Hollywood mythology…whose mark on cinema is everlasting.”
In a statement, the Institut Lumière said Mann’s filmmaking was “both rooted in a strong Hollywood tradition and embodies a personal and innovative cinema through his choice of subjects, his approach to directing, storytelling, and aesthetics. With true independence — and at times, a certain solitude — he is one of the most important filmmakers in the history of cinema.”
Mann is the latest Hollywood icon to receive the Lumière honor, following such directors as Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Quentin Tarantino, and Tim Burton, as well as actresses Jane Fonda and Isabelle Huppert, last year’s honoree.
Mann, who attended the Lyon festival in 2017 for a screening of Heat introduced by Guillermo del Toro, will return in person to receive the award on October 17. The 17th Lumière festival runs Oct. 11-19.
In addition to his feature work, Mann is credited as one of the creative forces behind the 1980s TV phenomenon Miami Vice, which he executive-produced through its five season run. He returned to the adventures of Crockett and Tubbs with the 2006 feature adaptation, starring Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx.
Mann returned to the small screen with the acclaimed HBO Max series Tokyo Vice, executive producing and directing the pilot episode.
His latest feature, Ferrari, starred Adam Driver as car racing legend Enzo Ferrari. Mann is currently in pre-production on the long-awaited sequel to Heat, following the success of his novel adaptation, Head 2, which was a New York Times best-seller.