Beloved French actor Isabelle Huppert will receive the Lumière Award in the city of Lyon in October. Created by Cannes chief Thierry Frémaux, the Lumière Film Festival celebrates classic and contemporary cinema each fall. The Lumière Award honors a leading figure in the world of cinema and their entire body of work.
Huppert succeeds German director Wim Wenders who was awarded the prize in 2023. Former recipients include Tim Burton, Jane Campion, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Clint Eastwood, Francis Ford Coppola, Ken Loach, Catherine Deneuve, Jane Fonda, Pedro Almodóvar, Miloš Forman, the Dardenne brothers and Wong Kar-wai, among others. “It’s a great honor for me to receive the Lumière Award.
It’s a magnificent prize, and so is its festival. It’s an award that bears the name of the inventors of cinema! Receiving it fills me with joy and pride,” said Huppert. A prolific actor who shoots an average of two to three films a year, Huppert has earned global recognition for her work over more than five decades.
She won her firs major award in 1978 in Cannes with “Violette,” the first of eight films she did with French New Wave icon Claude Chabrol. Huppert is famous for portraying complex women unafraid to challenge conventions. Her role as a sexually repressed piano instructor who enters into a sadomasochistic relationship with one of her pupils in Michael Haneke’s “The Piano Teacher” won her best actress nod in Cannes in 2001.
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