The Cannes Film Festival is pleased to salute one of the greatest personalities of contemporary cinema, a man with an extraordinary career who combines great spectacle with innovation, mythology with modernity and cinephilia with technology.
A huge figure in Hollywood cinema, director, screenwriter and producer George Lucas will receive the Honorary Palme d’Or next Saturday, May 25 during the Closing Ceremony of the 77th Cannes Film Festival, broadcast live on France 2.
“The Cannes Film Festival has always held a special place in my heart,” says George Lucas. I was surprised and delighted when my first film, THX-1138, was selected to be screened on the Croisette in 1971. Since then, I have returned to the Festival numerous times as a screenwriter, director and producer. I am truly honored by this special recognition which means a lot to me. »George Lucas
At the mere mention of his name, an entire section of the 7th Art lights up and a few unforgettable musical notes (by John Williams!) resonate. Inseparable from the Star Wars and Indiana Jones sagas , George Lucas has forever given the blockbuster its nobility and unparalleled pleasure to spectators around the world.
George Lucas’s beginnings in the industry were marked by his collaboration with Francis Ford Coppola who helped him produce THX 1138 (1971), the adaptation of one of his experimental short films made at the University of Southern California . From his first feature film, George Lucas stages the themes that are dear to him: science fiction to denounce the recording and surveillance society, love to fight against destiny and uniformity, the reversibility of values morals to debate the place of good and evil.
With American Graffiti , an ode to American youth, George Lucas reveals Harrison Ford and achieves the first great success which will then allow him to embark on his most ambitious project.
A visionary intergalactic odyssey reinventing the codes of cinematographic genres in a movement specific to the New Hollywood, Star Wars has nothing to envy of mythology, a discipline which has fascinated George Lucas since his university career, through the construction of the characters, the springs of the intrigue and the breadth of its cultural significance. Like Tolkien in literature, he imagines a universe, with its geography, its populations, its languages, its moral values and even its vehicles. This exceptional ambition, which initially frightened the producers of 20th Century Fox and led to grueling post-production, was nevertheless the recipe for unprecedented success: the film moved American crowds and became a true socio-cultural phenomenon. worldwide, which still continues today.
In 40 years and through the 9 episodes of the saga – 4 of which were directed by himself – George Lucas built a Hollywood empire. With his company Lucasfilm and its numerous subsidiaries purchased in 2012 by The Walt Disney Company, George Lucas touches everything. Through his constantly renewed passion for technology, he became one of the pioneers of the visual effects industry: he created the company Industrial Light & Magic and helped develop numerous visual technologies, including the computer-assisted camera. . On the sound side, he contributes to the evolution of stereo thanks to his company THX. He is also at the origin of the famous animation studio Pixar. Finally, George Lucas is an outstanding producer: beyond the 3 Star Wars trilogies , he is associated with the development of legendary films by several directors ranging from Akira Kurosawa’s Kagemusha to the Indiana Jones saga , which he imagined .
The Honorary Palme d’Or will be presented to him on the stage of the Grand Théâtre Lumière during the Closing Ceremony on Saturday May 25, 2024.
The Closing Ceremony of the 77th Cannes Film Festival will be broadcast on Saturday May 25 live on France Télévisions and Brut. Camille Cottin will be the mistress of ceremonies .
Photo: George Lucas © JAKS Productions. All rights reserved – Courtesy of the Cannes Film Festival.
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