Editing Luc Besson (section)

==Legacy and honours==
Besson won the [[Lumière Award for Best Director]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm-12302/palmares/|title=Le Cinquième élément|work=[[AlloCiné]]|trans-title=The Fifth Element|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140112160411/http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm-12302/palmares/|archive-date=12 January 2014|access-date=30 January 2015}}</ref> and the [[César Award for Best Director]], for his film ''[[The Fifth Element]]'' (1997).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/1998/film/news/resnais-seizes-7-cesars-1117468216/|title=Resnais seizes 7 Cesars|last1=Williams|first1=Michael|date=1 March 1998|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141225145633/http://variety.com/1998/film/news/resnais-seizes-7-cesars-1117468216/|archive-date=25 December 2014|access-date=30 January 2015}}</ref> He was nominated for Best Director and [[Cesar Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]] [[César Award]]s for his films ''[[Léon: The Professional]]'' (1994)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allocine.fr/festivals/festival-128/edition-18353028/palmares/|title=Prix et nominations : César 1995|work=[[AlloCiné]]|trans-title=Awards and Nominations: César 1995|access-date=24 May 2019}}</ref> and ''[[The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc]]'' (1999).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allocine.fr/festivals/festival-128/edition-18352983/palmares/|title=Prix et nominations : César 2000|work=[[AlloCiné]]|trans-title=Awards and Nominations: César 2000|access-date=24 May 2019}}</ref> 

Among Besson's awards are the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film Critics Prize, Fantasporto Audience Jury Award-Special Mention, Best Director, and Best Film, for ''Le Dernier Combat'' in 1983; the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Silver Ribbon-Best Director-Foreign Film, for ''La Femme Nikita'', 1990; the [[Alexander Korda]] Award for Best British Film, ''Nil by Mouth'', 1997; and the Best Director Cesar Award, for ''The Fifth Element'', 1997.<ref name="Luc Besson 2000"/>

Besson was awarded the [[Inkpot Award]] in 2016.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.comic-con.org/awards/inkpot| title = Inkpot Award| date = 6 December 2012}}</ref>