Babylon Filmmaker Damien Chazelle Receives Gene Kelly Visionary Award at AIS Lumiere Awards 2023

EXCLUSIVE: Damien Chazelle will receive the Gene Kelly Visionary Award from the Advanced Imaging Society at the 13th annual Lumiere Awards, to be held on February 10 at The Beverly Hills Hotel.

The honor of the AIS goes to this Babylon Filmmaker of Kelly’s widow and biographer Patricia Ward Kelly. Chazelle is only the second prize winner after Guillermo del Toro, who received the first prize last year. He is being honored with the Advanced Imagining Society awards ceremony Avatar: the way of water Contributors James Cameron and Jon Landau, who were to receive the Voices For the Earth award last month.

AIS President Jim Chabin: “Like Gene Kelly, Damien Chazelle is an American original whose films brim with boundless wit, intelligence and style, which he aptly demonstrates as he recounts the beginnings of Hollywood as it transitioned from silent to talkie in his latest work Babylon. We are very happy to be able to honor him this year.”

“Damien’s passion for movies and music definitely connects him with Gene [Kelly]. But also his clarity, his pursuit of excellence, his fine vision and his determination to break new ground,” added Patricia Ward Kelly. “I realized shortly after meeting Damien that he actually wanted to learn as much as possible and would be a good candidate for this award. Honestly, I’m looking forward to seeing everything Damien does! I am very proud to present him with the Gene Kelly Visionary Award at the 2023 Lumiere Awards.”

Chazelle is an Oscar winner and three-time nominee whose most recent film Babylon, released by Paramount on December 23, received nine Critics’ Choice Award nominations and five Golden Globes, among others. Written and directed by Chazelle, the hour-long epic follows the rise and fall of new stars (Margot Robbie) and old stars (Brad Pitt) and an up-and-coming entertainment executive (Diego Calva) in an era of rampant decadence and depravity in early Hollywood . Marc Platt, Matthew Plouffe and Olivia Hamilton were the producers of the picture.

Chazelle made her breakthrough as a filmmaker with the 2014 drum drama whiplashwith Miles Teller and JK Simmons, who won three Oscars as well as the original musical the countryDirected by Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, it scored six goals and made Chazelle, at 32, the youngest ever winner of the Best Director award. first man for Universal, the 2020 Netflix series The Eddie and the indie of 2009 Guy and Madeline on a park bench.

Founded by senior Hollywood executives to identify and promote the adoption of breakthrough film technologies, the Advanced Imaging Society has presented the Lumiere Awards to the industry’s most respected creative and technical leaders over the past decade. In addition to awards for feature film, episodic and new media content, the association presents awards for Best Musical Film, Best Musical Scene or Performance, Best Immersive Audio and more. In addition to the annual awards, the company produces The Insider Show podcast and The remote control Video series with active chapters in China, India and Japan.