24th Lumières Awards

The 24th Lumières Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Lumières, took place on 4 February 2019 to honour the best in French films of 2018. The nominations were announced on 17 December 2018.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Nominees

Best Film

The Sisters Brothers - Jacques Audiard

Amanda - Mikhaël Hers
Guy - Alex Lutz
Mademoiselle de Joncquières - Emmanuel Mouret
In Safe Hands - Jeanne Herry

Best Director

Jacques Audiard — The Sisters Brothers

Jeanne Herry — In Safe Hands
Xavier Legrand — Custody
Gaspar Noé — Climax
Pierre Salvadori — The Trouble with You

Best Actor

Alex Lutz — Guy

Romain Duris — Our Struggles
Vincent Lacoste — Amanda
Vincent Lindon — At War
Denis Ménochet — Custody

Best Actress

Élodie Bouchez — In Safe Hands

Cécile de France — Mademoiselle de Joncquières
Léa Drucker — Custody
Virginie Efira — An Impossible Love
Mélanie Thierry — Memoir of War

Best Male Revelation

Félix Maritaud — Sauvage

Anthony Bajon — The Prayer
William Lebghil — The Freshmen
Andranic Manet — A Paris Education
Dylan Robert — Shéhérazade

Best Female Revelation

Ophélie Bau — Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno

Galatea Bellugi — The Apparition
Andréa Bescond — Little Tickles
Jeanne Cohendy — Head Above Water
Kenza Fortas — Shéhérazade

Best First Film

Custody - Xavier Legrand

Little Tickles - Andréa Bescond and Eric Métayer
The Wild Boys - Bertrand Mandico
Sauvage - Camille Vidal-Naquet
Shéhérazade - Jean-Bernard Marlin

Best Screenplay

The Trouble with You — Pierre Salvadori, Benoît Graffin and Benjamin Charbit

Little Tickles — Andréa Bescond and Eric Métayer
In Safe Hands — Jeanne Herry
The Freshmen — Thomas Lilti
Mademoiselle de Joncquières — Emmanuel Mouret

Best Cinematography

Benoît Debie — The Sisters Brothers

Benoît Debie — Climax
Laurent Desmet — Mademoiselle de Joncquières
Julien Hirsch — One Nation, One King
David Ungaro — To the Ends of the World

Best Music

Vincent Blanchard and Romain Greffe — Guy

Camille Bazbaz — The Trouble with You
Alexandre Desplat — The Sisters Brothers
Pierre Desprats — The Wild Boys
Grégoire Hetzel — An Impossible Love

Best Documentary

Samouni Road - Stefano Savona

Cassandro the Exotico! - Marie Losier
Each and Every Moment - Nicolas Philibert
No Man Is an Island - Dominique Marchais
Young Solitude - Claire Simon

Best Animated Film

Dilili in Paris - Michel Ocelot

Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion - Louis Clichy and Alexandre Astier
Mutafukaz - Shojiro Nishimi and Run
Pachamama - Juan Antín

Best Film from a French-speaking Country

Girl - Lukas Dhont

Capernaum - Nadine Labaki
Chris the Swiss - Anja Kofmel
The Insult - Ziad Doueiri
Our Struggles - Guillaume Senez

References

^ "The nominees for the Lumières Awards unveiled". Cineuropa. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
^ Keslassy, Elsa (17 December 2018). "France's Lumieres Awards Unveil Nominations". Variety. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
^ "France's Lumière awards unveil mixed bag of nominations". Screen. Retrieved 26 December 2018.