Lumières Award Nominations Announced

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Last Summer

VERDICT: Awards Ceremony takes place Jan 22 in Paris

The Lumières Award 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.

Best film

Anatomy Of A Fall
Justine Triet

Last Summer
Catherine Breillat

Sons Of Ramses
Clément Cogitore

The Goldman Case
Cédric Kahn

The Animal Kingdom
Thomas Cailley

Best director

Catherine Breillat for ‘Last Summer
Thomas Cailley for ‘The Animal Kingdom’
Clément Cogitore for ‘Sons Of Ramses’
Cédric Kahn for ‘The Goldman Case
Justine Triet for ‘Anatomy Of A Fall

Best screenplay

Thomas Cailley for ‘The Animal Kingdom’
Quentin Dupieux for ‘Yannick’
Cédric Kahn, Nathalie Hertzberg for ‘The Goldman Case
Iris Kaltenbäck for ‘The Rapture
Justine Triet, Arthur Harari for ‘Anatomy Of A Fall

Best documentary

Four Daughters
Kaouther Ben Hania

Little Girl Blue
Mona Achache

Our Body
Claire Simon

La Rivière
Dominique Marchais

On The Adamant
Nicolas Philibert

Best actress

Catherine Deneuve for ‘Bernadette’
Léa Drucker for ‘Last Summer
Virginie Efira for ‘All To Play For’
Hafsia Herzi for ‘The Rapture
Sandra Huller for ‘Anatomy Of A Fall’

Best actor

Vincent Lacoste for ‘Along Came Love’
Karim Leklou for ‘Vincent Must Die’
Melvil Poupaud for ‘Just The Two Of Us’
Franz Rogowski for ‘Disco Boy’
Arieh Worthalter for ‘The Goldman Case’

Most promising actress

Suzanne Jouannet for ‘La Voie Royale’
Louise Mauroy-Panzani for ‘Ama Gloria’
Park Ji-Min for ‘Return To Seoul
Claire Pommet for ‘Spirit Of Ecstasy’
Ella Rumpf for ‘Marguerite’s Theorem’

Most promising actor

Arthur Harari for ‘The Goldman Case
Samuel Kircher for ‘Last Summer
Milo Machado Graner for ‘Anatomy Of A Fall
Raphaël Quenard for ‘Junkyard Dogs’
Abdulah Sissoko for ‘The Young Imam’

Best first film

Bernadette
Léa Domenach

Junkyard Dogs
Jean-Baptiste Durand

Disco Boy
Giacomo Abbruzzese

The Rapture
Iris Kaltenbäck

Vincent Must Die
Stéphan Castang

Best international co-production

The Blue Caftan
Maryam Touzani

About Dry Grasses
Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Lost Country
Vladimir Periši?

Hounds
Kamal Lazraq

The Old Oak
Ken Loach

Best cinematography

Simon Beaufils for ‘Anatomy Of A Fall
David Cailley for ‘The Animal Kingdom’
Hélène Louvart for ‘Disco Boy
Jonathan Ricquebourg for ‘The Taste of Things
Sylvain Verdet for ‘Sons of Ramses’

Best score

Amine Bouhafa for ‘Four Daughters’
Clément Ducol for ‘Chicken For Linda!’
Andrea Laszlo de Simone for ‘Animal Kingdom’
Chloé Thévenin for ‘The Mountain
Vitalic for ‘Disco Boy

Best animated film

No Dogs or Italians Allowed
Alain Ughetto

Chicken for Linda!
Chiara Malta & Sébastien Laudenbach

Mars Express
Jérémie Périn

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Pierre Földes

The Siren
Sepideh Farsi