of Advanced Imaging Society announced the Academy Award®-winning director and producer. Damien Chazelle will receive the annual Gene Kelly Visionary Award in 2023. AIS Lumiere Award.
Chazelle joins previously announced winners James Cameron When John Landau (Voices For the Earth Award) will be presented at the 13th Annual Awards Luncheon on Friday, February 10, 2023. The Beverly Hills HotelThe inaugural Gene Kelly Visionary Award was presented to an Academy Award®-nominated writer/director. Guillermo del Toro 2022.
“Like Gene Kelly, Damien Chazelle is an American original whose films explode with boundless wit, intelligence and style, and a Hollywood dawn that transitioned from silent to talkie with his latest film Babylon. It expresses the period appropriately.” To tell Jim ChavinAIS president. “We are thrilled to have this opportunity to honor him this year.”
It’s Kelly’s widow and biographer who presents the award to Chazelle Patricia Ward KellyKelly said of Chazelle: “Damien’s passion for film and music is certainly what binds him and Gene. [Kelly]But so is his brilliance, pursuit of excellence, great vision and determination to break new ground. As soon as I met Damian it was clear that he wanted to learn as much as he could and would be a strong contender for this award. We are so proud to present him with the Gene Kelly Visionary Award at the 2023 Lumiere Awards. ”
The latest from Chazelle Babylon, is a visual and technical marvel. The film presents a stunning vision of Los Angeles as an iconic American city and a decadent foray into the enchanting celebration, frenzied spirit, and dark complexity that defined the emergence of early Hollywood and the film industry. It offers both. The film’s personal stories wisely shed light on the turbulent and volatile realities of many early Hollywood players as the industry moved from the world of silent films to “talkies.” In just a few short years, Hollywood, home to these creatives, has grown from a small desert frontier town to one of the most famous and thriving metropolitan destinations in the world. Babylon takes us on a wild adventure of Hollywood dreamers. Up-and-coming newcomers and aging movers live hectic lives and change their destinies in the midst of dramatic changes in society and the film industry. As we consider the magnificence, creative adventure and blinding horror of the Roaring Twenties in the early days of Hollywood, Babylon To audiences, the powerful underwater forces that helped lay the raucous, hedonistic foundations of Hollywood we know and love – irrepressible energy, whimsical exploration and a euphoric sense of excitement. – A unique and fleeting glimpse of.
For the past decade, the Lumiere Awards have honored storytellers by presenting the industry’s most respected creative and technical leaders. In addition to awards for films, episodes, and new media content, the association will award awards for best musical film, best musical scene or performance, best immersive audio, and more.
