Coen Brothers Bring Their Trademark Humor to Lumière Award Ceremony With a Profane Thank-You to Cinema’s Inventors

Coen Brothers Bring Their Trademark Humor to Lumière Award Ceremony With a Profane Thank-You to Cinema’s Inventors hakkında magazin dünyasında yaşanan en son ayrıntılar ve sıcak gelişmeler netleşti. Oct 17, 2026 2:20am PT Coen Brothers Bring Their Trademark Humor to Lumière Award Ceremony With a Profane Thank-You to Cinema’s Inventors Javier Bardem pays tribute to the Oscar-winning filmmakers with stories from ‘No Country for Old Men,’ while musical performances and onstage banter mark the Lyon celebration By Lise Pedersen , Elsa Keslassy Add us as a Google Preferred Source Comments To the sound of the Gipsy Kings’ Spanish-language rendition of “Hotel California,” Joel and Ethan Coen took the stage at Lyon’s Lumière Film Festival on Friday evening to receive the Lumière Award, celebrating four decades of filmmaking with a characteristically irreverent tribute to the inventors of cinema. “Thank you to the Lumières for inventing the movie camera, or we’d have been fucked,” joked Ethan, drawing laughs from the audience.

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Related Stories ‘Musk’ Director Alex Gibney Confirms Universal Wavered in Planning Overseas Release, Says He Tried to Interview Elon Musk: ‘His Response Was Writing “Gibney Is a Douche”’ Doc Stories Unveils 12th Annual Film Lineup (EXCLUSIVE) The musical choice itself was a nod to the Coens’ cult comedy “The Big Lebowski,” featuring John Turturro’s flamboyant bowler Jesus Quintana. Popular on Variety The star-studded gathering included Javier Bardem, Frances McDormand, former Lumière prize winner Wim Wenders, Robert Eggers, Michel Hazanavicius and Bérénice Bejo, Benoît Magimel, Antoine de Caunes and Caleb Deschanel, in town for a masterclass and the premiere of Laika’s upcoming stop-motion animated feature “Wildwood.” Accepting the award, Joel reflected on four decades of filmmaking with his brother.

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“We did it because we love cinema and we love storytelling,” he said. “We’ve had, pretty much with certain exceptions, nothing but fun making these films over the decades.” Bardem, who won an Oscar for his chilling portrayal of Anton Chigurh in “No Country for Old Men,” delivered one of the evening’s most colorful tributes, recalling how he initially tried to turn down the role despite being a longtime admirer of the Coens.

“I sat down with them in New York in their office and I was like, ‘Listen, I admire you, I worship you, you are amazing, but I hate violence, I don’t drive, and I can barely speak English. What the hell am I doing here?’” Bardem recalled.

“They gave me no reason whatsoever to do the movie. They were just laughing,” he said.

“I thought, ‘I don’t know what this experience is going to be like, but I know it’s not going to be stressful. So yes, let’s fucking do it.’” Bardem also joked about his character’s infamous haircut, which the Coens had spotted in a photograph from the 1960s.

“I was single at the time – this is 2006 – and I said, ‘I’m gonna be single until the day I wrap.’” Ethan had another story about Bardem’s commitment to the role. The actor had decided his character needed to be pale, he recalled, so during the largely outdoor shoot, a young production assistant would accompany him to the set holding a light blue parasol over his head.

“And he wonders why we laughed at him,” Ethan joked. The actor’s tribute took a more heartfelt turn as he reflected on what working with the brothers had meant to him.

“What they gave me was one masterpiece and the gift of a lifetime, personally and professionally,” Bardem said. “They made a dream come true.

Ten years after me saying that would never happen, it happened. And it was even better than I would have ever imagined.” The evening also featured musical tri

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