Washington, July 11 -- Veteran Hollywood director Michael Mann will be honoured with the Lumiere Award at the 2025 Lumiere Festival, a French event focused on classic cinema, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Lumiere Institute and festival director Thierry Fremaux said that Mann is a major artist "straight out of Hollywood mythology...whose mark on cinema is everlasting."

In a statement, the Institut Lumiere 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,...