Editing Michael Powell (section)

==Legacy==
David Thomson writes: <blockquote>I was fortunate enough to know Michael Powell in the last decade of his life. he was in America a good deal at that time: teaching for a term at [[Dartmouth College|Dartmouth]]; as director emeritus with [[Francis Ford Coppola|Coppola]]'s [[American Zoetrope]], as treasured [[Merlin]] in the court of [[Martin Scorsese|Scorsese]]; and in his marriage to the editor, [[Thelma Schoonmaker]]. I had the chance to watch many of his films with him, discussing them and learning the passion of his vision. It is all the more agreeable now to see Michael's influence spreading: the ardent antirealist has inspired so many people; the man in love with color, gesture, and cinema helped to educate viewers as well as filmmakers—not lest in the two volumes of his autobiography, ''A Life in Movies'' ... The great Powell and Pressburger films do not go stale; they never relinquish their wicked fun or that jaunty air of being poised on the brink. To put an arrow in our eye—to leave a nurturing wound—that was Michael's eternal thrill. I do not invoke the figure of Merlin lightly: Powell was English but Celtic, sublime yet devious, magical in the absolute certainty that imagination rules.<ref name="Thomson"/></blockquote>
* Cited as a major influence on many film-makers such as [[Martin Scorsese]], [[Francis Ford Coppola]], [[George A. Romero]] and [[Bertrand Tavernier]].<ref name="Crook">Crook, Steve. [http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Famous.html "Famous Fans of Powell & Pressburger."]  ''Powell-pressburger.org''. Retrieved: 28 September 2009.</ref> Said [[Thelma Schoonmaker]] (Scorsese's long-time film editor and Powell's third wife) of Scorsese, "Anyone he meets, or the actors he works with, he immediately starts bombarding with Powell and Pressburger movies."<ref>Rose, Steve. [https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/may/14/scorsese-michael-powell-red-shoes "Scorsese: my friendship with Michael Powell."] ''guardian.co.uk,'' 14 May 2009. Retrieved: 1 September 2010.</ref> Scorsese and Schoonmaker are working on restoring Powell's films, beginning with ''[[The Red Shoes (1948 film)|The Red Shoes]]'' and ''[[The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp]]''.<ref name=FT.com/>
* The '''Michael Powell Award''' for the Best New British Feature was instigated in 1993 at the [[Edinburgh International Film Festival]] (awarded 1993–2010 and 2012–2021). It was sponsored by the [[UK Film Council]] and was "named in homage to one of Britain's most original filmmakers".<ref>[http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/awards "Awards History."] ''edfilmfest.org.uk''. Retrieved: 7 December 2017.</ref>
* [[Pinewood Studios]], where Powell made many of his most notable films, has named a mixing theatre in the [[post-production]] department after him: The Powell Theatre. A giant picture of the director covers the door to the theatre, where many well-known films are mixed.
* The Film, Radio and Television Department of [[Canterbury Christ Church University]] has its main building named after him: The Powell Building.
*  He has been played on screen by Alastair Thomson Mills in the award-winning short film {{lang|gd|Òran na h-Eala}} (2022) which explores [[Moira Shearer]]'s life changing decision to appear in ''The Red Shoes''. <!--per wikilink-->
*  A celebration entitled 'Cinema Unbound: The Creative Worlds of Powell and Pressburger' was held by the [[British Film Institute]] in 2023, including a UK-wide programme of films and an exhibit of production and promotion materials from ''The Red Shoes.''<ref>{{Cite web|date=29 June 2023|title=BFI unveils Cinema Unbound: The Creative Worlds of Powell and Pressburger|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/news/unveiled-cinema-unbound-creative-worlds-powell-pressburger|access-date=2024-05-15|publisher=British Film Institute|language=en}}</ref>
*  Powell's work was explored in the documentary ''Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger'' (2024), with narration by [[Martin Scorsese]].<ref name="auto"/>