10 · 16 · 15 Martin Scorsese receives the Lumière Award in Lyon Share with twitter Share with facebook Share with mail Copy to clipboard Tonight the Grand Lyon Film Festival gave the Lumière Award to Martin Scorsese, the extraordinary director, producer, screenwriter and film historian. With this award, the Lumière Institute (presided by filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier and Thierry Frémaux, general delegate of the Cannes Film Festival) recognizes a distinguished figure of the film world each year. This prize has been received by filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino, Clint Eastwood, Milos Forman, Gerard Depardieu and Ken Loach. This year, Mexican actress and producer Salma Hayek (Special Guest at FICM 2003) was responsible for presenting the trophy to Scorsese in the Convention Center Auditorium of Lyon, where more than 2,500 people gathered to celebrate the director’s career. Martin Scorsese and Salma Hayek. Image from El Excelsior / AP. According to the Mexican newspaper El Excelsior, Scorsese thanked the Grand Lyon Film Festival, a festival created to “truly celebrate film” in “the place where it all began.” Later, he spoke in defense of the conservation and restoration of the world film patrimony, a cause that the filmmaker has worked for during more than 25 years. In 1990, Scorsese created The Film Foundation in the United States, which has restored dozens of masterpieces. In 2007, in Cannes he founded, together with Gian Luca Farinelli and Thierry Frémaux, the World Cinema Foundation to finance the restoration of films from Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe and Africa. The Lumière Gand Lyon Film Festival is one of the most important platforms of the seventh art and is characterized by promoting the rediscovery of cinema, exhibiting retrospectives and restored films that honor its history. This year, the festival celebrates the 120-year anniversary of cinema in the city where it was born. In addition, the program of the Lyon Festival 2015 includes the “¡Viva México!” program, a screening of classic Mexican films organized in collaboration with FICM, with the support of the UNAM film archive, the Cineteca Nacional and the Fundación Televisa. On Monday, October 12, Daniela Michel, general director of FICM, inaugurated the “¡Viva México!” program in Lyon, presenting the first screening of Enamorada (1946), by Emilio Fernández, which was selected from a list of international films by Martin Scorsese himself. You can read more about the presentation of the Lumière Award to Martin Scorsese: here.
