- In 2013 Claude Lanzmann received the Honorary Golden Bear for 'Lifetime Achievement' at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival. It was the first time that a documentary filmmaker received this honor from the Berlinale.
- Since 2013 Claude Lanzmann is a member of the 'Documentary Branch' of the 'Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' (AMPAS).
- Older brother of Jacques Lanzmann and Evelyne Rey.
- Since 1986 Claude Lanzmann is the director of "Les Temps modernes", an intellectual magazine founded in 1945 by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.
- Napalm (2017) is his first and only documentary about North Korea. Lanzmann first visited the reclusive state in 1958 and returned four times after that.
- Author, journalist at Les Temps modernes, he was a longtime friend of Sartre and de Beauvoir, he is the older brother of Jacques Lanzmann.
- He was made a Commander of the Légion d'honneur in 2006 and promoted to Grand Officer in 2011.
- He was the son of Paulete (Grobermann) and Armand Lanzmann. His family were Eastern European Jewish immigrants to France.
- France gave him a national homage at the Invalides on 12 July 2018.
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