Lumière Awards

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{{Infobox award

| name = Lumière Awards

| image = Lumière Award trophy.jpg

| caption = The Lumière trophy since 2018

| current_awards = 30th Lumière Awards

| awarded_for = Excellence in Francophone cinema

| presenter = Académie des Lumières

| country = France

| year = 1996

| year2 = 2025

| website = {{url|academiedeslumieres.com}}

}}

The Lumière Awards ({{langx|fr|Prix Lumières}}), officially the Lumières de la presse internationale, are French film awards presented by the {{lang|fr|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.{{Cite news |date=23 December 2013 |title=Les nominations aux Lumières, Golden Globes à la française |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/cinema/article/2013/12/23/les-nominations-aux-lumieres-golden-globes-a-la-francaise_5998768_3476.html |access-date=16 December 2024 |work=Le Monde |language=fr}}

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.[http://www.academielumieres.com/l__academie_des_lumieres_du_cinema.ws L'Académie des Lumières] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017225322/http://www.academielumieres.com/l__academie_des_lumieres_du_cinema.ws |date=17 October 2013 }} "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." The Lumière Awards is usually presented a month before the César Awards, the French national film award.{{cite web|title=Présentation|url=http://www.academielumieres.com/l__academie_des_lumieres_du_cinema.ws|website=l'Académie des Lumières|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017225322/http://www.academielumieres.com/l__academie_des_lumieres_du_cinema.ws|archive-date=17 October 2013|access-date=17 December 2013|publication-date=}}{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}} 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".{{Cite web |last=Jamet |first=Constance |date=14 December 2023 |title=Anatomie d'une chute fait aussi le plein de nominations aux prix Lumières |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/cinema/anatomie-d-une-chute-fait-aussi-le-plein-de-nominations-aux-prix-lumiere-20231214 |access-date=16 December 2024 |website=Le Figaro |language=fr}}

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

= Discontinued categories =

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

Ceremonies

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! Edition

! Date

! President(s)

! Best Film

|29 January 1996

|La Haine

|13 January 1997

|Ridicule

|15 December 1998

|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

|14 February 2003

|Amen.

|17 February 2004

|The Triplets of Belleville

|16 February 2005

|The Chorus

| 21 February 2006

|The Beat That My Heart Skipped

| 5 February 2007

|Tell No One

|13 January 2008

|The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

|19 January 2009

|The Class

|15 January 2010

|Welcome

|14 January 2011

|13 January 2012

|The Artist

| 18 January 2013

|Amour

|20 January 2014

|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{{Cite web|url=https://www.screendaily.com/news/dominik-molls-the-night-of-the-12th-scoops-best-film-prize-at-frances-lumiere-awards/5178145.article |title= Dominik Moll's 'The Night Of The 12th' scoops best film prize at France's Lumiere Awards|first= Rebecca|last= Leffler|date=17 January 2023|access-date=17 January 2023 |website= Screen Daily |language=en}}

| 16 January 2023

| The Night of the 12th

29th Lumière Awards{{cite web|url=https://cineuropa.org/fr/newsdetail/453708|title=Anatomie d'une chute domine les nominations pour les Lumières|last=Lemercier|first=Fabien|date=14 December 2023|website=Cineuropa|language=fr|access-date=14 December 2023}}

| 22 January 2024

| Anatomy of a Fall

30th Lumière Awards

| 20 January 2025

| {{pending}}