« The festival announced Huppert as ‘one of the most famous and celebrated French actresses in the world.’ […] and hailed ‘a global actress who dazzles both screen and stage, who lends herself to the lenses of photography and fashion, and who has won the most prestigious international film awards.’ »

« Isabelle Huppert has collaborated with auteurs from all corners of the world, from preeminent French filmmakers to leading figures in European cinema, from Asian new wave artists to American independent directors. »

« ‘Capable of moving from a sophisticated comedy to a demanding auteur film, [Huppert] never stops filming, turning each of her characters into a singular enigma that she enriches with her genuineness and irony’ the festival said in a statement announcing the award. »

« ‘An emblematic figure of the revival of European cinema at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s, he is the director of Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire, a man who has pursued his trajectory as an artist and has just achieved a smashing double triumph with his two most recent films, Anselm and Perfect Days’ the Institut Lumière said in a statement. »

« The festival said Wenders was ‘an obvious choice’ and called him ‘a voyaging director, a multi-faceted virtuoso and visionary, an accomplished photographer who has never ceased to reinvent himself and has lived a thousand lives.’ »

« Unveiling Burton’s award on Wednesday, the Lumière festival called him ‘an artist who has given world cinema a universe of rare coherence with an unprecedented impact on popular culture.’
[…] ‘Burton’s cinema reveals his fascination with the monster, the marginal, the thorn in the side of an America corseted by its normativity and its endless residential suburbs,’ the festival noted. ‘Skeletons, witches, goblins, ghosts, robots, anthropomorphic monkeys,
catwomen and headless horsemen haunt the work of the filmmaker.’ »

« ‘From his first movies and early successes, Burton establishes his universe, skilfully blending his intensely personal expressivity with novelistic lyricism and pictorial references, traversing the entire history of art,’ said the Lumière Festival in a statement. ‘He cultivates his craft, delving into the gothic and baroque, comedy, horror, romanticism or works tinged with melancholy.’ »

« ‘This fall, Lumière 2022 will offer a dive into a wonderland – somewhere between Americana and its legends, Victorian England, futuristic megalopolises and neighbourhoods of suburbia – in the company of the heroes, monsters, monstrous heroes or heroic monsters of  Tim Burton’s world,’ said the festival in a release »