Lumière Awards

"Prix Lumières" redirects here. For other uses, see Lumière Award.

Lumière Awards
Current: 30th Lumière Awards
The Lumière trophy since 2018
Awarded for	Excellence in Francophone cinema
Country	France
Presented by	Académie des Lumières
First awarded	1996
Last awarded	2023
Website	academiedeslumieres.com

The Lumière Awards (French: Prix Lumières), officially the Lumières de la presse internationale, are French film awards presented by the Académie des Lumières to honor the best in the French-speaking cinema of the previous year. The awards ceremony is organized by the Académie des Lumières which consists of over 200 representatives of the international press based in Paris. Today they are regarded as one of the most prestigious French film industry awards, and are considered France's equivalent to the Golden Globe Awards.[1]

History

The Lumière Awards were initiated in 1995 by French producer Daniel Toscan du Plantier and American journalist and ex-Newsweek's Paris correspondent Edward Behr. Their idea was to replicate the Golden Globes, which were presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.[2] The Lumière Awards is usually presented a month before the César Awards, the French national film award.[3]^[citation needed] Le Figaro described the Lumières as "one of the barometers of the French awards season and are a good indication of the films that will be acclaimed by the César Awards, when they are nominated in January".[4]

Directing Board

The president of the Academy is Lisa Nesselson, the vice-presidents are Pamela Bienzobas and José Maria Riba, the treasurer is Min Liu, the general secretary is Jacques Kermabon and the general delegate is Anne Guimet.

Award categories

Current categories

• Best Film: since 1996
• Best Director: since 1996
• Best Actor: since 1996
• Best Actress: since 1996
• Best Screenplay: since 1996
• Best Male Revelation: since 2000
• Best Female Revelation: since 2000
• Best First Film: since 2014
• Best Cinematography: since 2008
• Best Music: since 2016
• Best Documentary: since 2016
• Best Animated Film: since 2017
• Best International Co-Production: since 2020
• Honorary Lumière Award

Discontinued categories

• World Audience Award
• Special Jury Prize
• Best Foreign Film
• Best French-Language Film

Ceremonies

Edition	Date	President(s)	Best Film
1st Lumière Awards	29 January 1996	Isabella Rossellini	La Haine
2nd Lumière Awards	13 January 1997	Philippe Noiret	Ridicule
3rd Lumière Awards	15 December 1998	Fanny Ardant	Marius and Jeannette
4th Lumière Awards	16 January 1999	Jean Reno	The Dreamlife of Angels
5th Lumière Awards	2 February 2000	Claudia Cardinale	The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
6th Lumière Awards	24 January 2001	Frédéric Lopez	The Taste of Others
7th Lumière Awards	25 February 2002		Amélie
8th Lumière Awards	14 February 2003	Carole Laure	Amen.
9th Lumière Awards	17 February 2004	Patrice Chéreau	The Triplets of Belleville
10th Lumière Awards	16 February 2005	Alain Corneau	The Chorus
11th Lumière Awards	21 February 2006	Claudia Cardinale	The Beat That My Heart Skipped
12th Lumière Awards	5 February 2007	Isabelle Mergault	Tell No One
13th Lumière Awards	13 January 2008	Claude Lelouch	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
14th Lumière Awards	19 January 2009	Jeanne Balibar	The Class
15th Lumière Awards	15 January 2010	Régis Wargnier	Welcome
16th Lumière Awards	14 January 2011	François Berléand	Of Gods and Men
17th Lumière Awards	13 January 2012	Catherine Jacob	The Artist
18th Lumière Awards	18 January 2013	Victoria Abril	Amour
19th Lumière Awards	20 January 2014	Carole Bouquet	Blue Is the Warmest Colour
20th Lumière Awards	2 February 2015	Claudia Cardinale, Victoria Abril Carole Laure, Catherine Jacob and Isabelle Mergault	Timbuktu
21st Lumière Awards	8 February 2016		Mustang
22nd Lumière Awards	30 January 2017		Elle
23rd Lumière Awards	5 February 2018	Jean-Paul Belmondo and Monica Bellucci	BPM (Beats per Minute)
24th Lumière Awards	4 February 2019	Claude Lelouch and Anouk Aimée for the film A Man and a Woman (1966); Jane Birkin	The Sisters Brothers
25th Lumière Awards	27 January 2020		Les Misérables
26th Lumière Awards	19 January 2021		Love Affair(s)
27th Lumière Awards	17 January 2022		Happening
28th Lumière Awards[5]	16 January 2023		The Night of the 12th
29th Lumière Awards[6]	22 January 2024		Anatomy of a Fall
30th Lumière Awards	20 January 2025		Pending

See also

• César Awards
• Louis Delluc Prize
• Magritte Awards
• Golden Globe Awards

References

1. "Les nominations aux Lumières, Golden Globes à la française". Le Monde (in French). 23 December 2013. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
2. L'Académie des Lumières Archived 17 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine "À l'image des Golden Globe Awards décernés chaque année par l'Association de la presse étrangère de Hollywood, l'Académie des Lumières veut souligner le grand intérêt que porte au cinéma français la presse internationale largement représentée à Paris."
3. "Présentation". l'Académie des Lumières. Archived from the original on 17 October 2013. Retrieved 17 December 2013.
4. Jamet, Constance (14 December 2023). "Anatomie d'une chute fait aussi le plein de nominations aux prix Lumières". Le Figaro (in French). Retrieved 16 December 2024.
5. Leffler, Rebecca (17 January 2023). "Dominik Moll's 'The Night Of The 12th' scoops best film prize at France's Lumiere Awards". Screen Daily. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
6. Lemercier, Fabien (14 December 2023). "Anatomie d'une chute domine les nominations pour les Lumières". Cineuropa (in French). Retrieved 14 December 2023.

External links

• Official website
• Lumière Awards at IMDb
• Lumière Awards at AlloCiné
• Lumière Awards at Facebook