Jacques Audiard’s musical film Emilia Pérez swept the 30th edition of France’s Lumière Awards on Monday evening, winning Best Film, Director and Screenplay as well Actress for Karla Sofia Gascón and Music for Camille and Clément Ducol.
The wins add further steam to the Cannes Jury Prize winner’s awards season run following its quadruple Golden Globes triumph and European Film Awards victory, where it also clinched Best Film, Director, Screenplay and Actress for Gascón.
The movie is currently on six of the 10 announced category shortlists for the 97th the Academy Awards and nominated in 11 categories for the 2025 Baftas film awards.
Further awards seasons hopefuls also featured in the Lumière prizes, with Mati Diop’s Berlinale Golden Bear winner Dahomey – which made it into Best International Feature Film (for Senegal) and Documentary Academy Award shortlists – won Best Documentary.
Latvian director Gints Zilbalodis’s Flow – which is also on the Best International Feature Film shortlist and is eligible for the Academy Awards’ Animated Feature Film category – clinched Best Animation.
Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of The Sacred Fig, which is also shortlisted for Best International Feature Film (for Germany), won Best International Co-production.
Other winners of the evening included Louise Courvoisier’s low budget rural drama and French box office breakout Holy Cow, which won Best First Film, while its young star Clément Faveau was feted with the Male Revelation prize.
Best Actor went to Abou Sangare for his performance as a young. asylum-seeking bicycle courier in Paris preparing for a make-or-break interview with immigration authorities.
Ghjuvanna Benedetti clinched Female Revelation for her performance in Julien Colonna’s The Kingdom as the daughter of the leader of a Corsica crime family forced to reconnect with her estranged father.
Nicolas Bolduc won Best Cinematography for his work on French sumptuously shot, swashbuckling revenge tale and box office hit The Count of Monte Cristo.
The Lumière awards, which are regarded as France’s equivalent of the Golden Globes, were voted on by members of the international press hailing from 38 countries this year.
The full list of winners in bold and nominations:
Best Film
All We Imagine As Light by Payal KapadiaEmilia Pérez by Jacques AudiardJim’s Story by Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie LarrieuSouleymane’s Story by Boris LojkineMisericordia by Alain Guiraudie
Best DirectorJacques Audiard for Emilia PérezMatthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière for The Count Of Monte-CristoAlain Guiraudie for MisericordiaBoris Lojkine for Souleymane’s StoryFrançois Ozon for When Fall Is Coming
Best ScreenplayJacques Audiard for Emilia PérezAlain Guiraudie for MisericordiaBoris Lojkine and Delphine Agut for Souleymane’s StoryJonathan Millet and Florence Rochat for Ghost TrailFrançois Ozon for When Fall Is Coming
Best DocumentaryBye Bye Tiberias by Lina SoualemDahomey by Mati DiopMadame Hofmann by Sébastien LifshitzOrlando, My Political Biography by Paul B. PreciadoJourney into Gaza by Piero Usberti
Best AnimationInto The Wonderwoods by Vincent Paronnaud and Alexis DucordFlow by Gints ZilbalodisThe Most Precious Of Cargoes by Michel HazanaviciusMaya, Donne-Moi Un Titre by Michel GondrySavages by Claude Barras
Best ActressKarla Sofía Gascón for Emilia PérezHafsia Herzi for BorgoAgnès Jaoui for This Life Of MineAnamaria Vartolomei for MariaHélène Vincent for When Fall Is Coming
Best ActorAdam Bessa for Ghost TrailPaul Kircher for And Their Children After ThemKarim Leklou for Jim’s StoryPierre Niney for The Count Of Monte-CristoAbou Sangare for Souleymane’s Story
Female RevelationMaïwène Barthélemy for Holy CowGhjuvanna Benedetti for The KingdomMalou Khebizi for Wild DiamondClara-Maria Laredo for In His ImageMegan Northam for Rabia
Male RevelationSayyid El Alami for And Their Children After ThemClément Faveau for Holy CowFélix Kysyl for MisericordiaPierre Lottin for When Fall Is ComingMalik Frikah for Beating Hearts
Best First FilmWild Diamond by Agathe RiedingerGhost Trail by Jonathan MilletThe Kingdom by Julien ColonnaRabia by Mareike EngelhardtHoly Cow by Louise Courvoisier
Best International Co-ProductionPuan by Maria Alché and Benjamín NaishtatGrand Tour by Miguel GomesGreen Border by Agnieszka HollandThe Seed Of The Sacred Fig by Mohammad RasoulofThe Other Way Around by Jonás Trueba
Best CinematographyNicolas Bolduc for The Count Of Monte-CristoJosée Deshaies for The BeastTristan Galand for Souleymane’s StoryPaul Guilhaume for Emilia PérezClaire Mathon for Misericordia
Best MusicBertrand Bonello and Anna Bonello for The BeastCamille et Clément Ducol for Emilia PérezAmaury Chabauty for And Their Children After ThemAlexandre Desplat for The Most Precious Of CargoesYuksek for Ghost Trail
