An independent filmmaker, music composer, screenwriter and producer, John Carpenter has made internationally acclaimed horror and sci-fi films.
The American director John Carpenter, master of fantastic, will receive during the Cannes Film Festival the Golden Coach, annual prize awarded by the French Society of Film Directors (SRF), she announced Thursday in a statement.
"A director hinge" between classical and genre. Since 2002, the filmmakers of the SRF have distinguished one of their peers at the opening of the Directors' Fortnight, a parallel section of the Festival. The Golden Coach - whose name pays homage to Jean Renoir's eponymous film - rewards a director for the innovative qualities of his films, for his audacity and uncompromising staging and production. John Carpenter, 71, will receive his award on May 15th.
"In 2019, the SRF - Society of Film Directors - is proud to salute a creator of raw, fantastic and unconventional emotions, a filmmaker hinge between classical cinema and genre cinema," said the filmmakers' organization in its communicated. An independent filmmaker with a career spanning more than 40 years, John Carpenter, also a music composer, screenwriter and producer, has produced internationally acclaimed horror and sci-fi movies, including Halloween , The Thing , New York 1997 or Invasion Los Angeles .
Martin Scorcese previous laureate. The SRF was born in 1968 after the affair Henri Langlois (named after the director of the Cinémathèque, sacked then reinstated following a movement of filmmakers) and the cancellation of the Cannes Film Festival that year. She then created in Cannes the following year the Directors' Fortnight, uncompetitive section. The Golden Coach had been handed over last year to Martin Scorsese.
The Cannes Film Festival will be held this year from May 14 to 25, with Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu as jury chairman.