Feed subject: Lumière Award winners Joel and Ethan hail cinema joy

Joel and Ethan Coen received the Lumière Award at the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon on October 16, 2026. Variety covered the ceremony and the preceding masterclass, where the brothers spoke about the value of collective viewing and their long-running collaboration.

Theater experience

Joel Coen told the audience, “The joy of sitting in a movie theater with a crowd of people, there’s no substitute for that,” according to Variety.

Self-deprecation and process

Ethan Coen opened the session by joking, “I always feel I am not worthy.” The pair described their writing as a joint effort, with Joel noting they “always written together” and Ethan quipping that adapting books sometimes involved simply retyping them.

Variety’s report does not list specific films screened or additional anecdotes beyond the supplied quotes.