26th Lumières Awards

26th Lumières Awards
26th Lumières Awards
Date	19 January 2021
Hosted by	Laurie Cholewa; Laurent Weil
Highlights
Best Film	Love Affair(s)
Most awards	Josep, Summer of 85 and Two of Us (2)
Most nominations	Two of Us (6)
Television coverage
Network	Canal+

The 26th Lumières Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Lumières, took place on 19 January 2021 to honour the best in French-speaking cinema of 2020.[1] The show was hosted by French journalists Laurie Cholewa and Laurent Weil. Canal+ broadcast the ceremony.

Love Affair(s) won the Best Film. The ceremony paid tribute to Spanish journalist and a Lumières long-standing member, José María Riba.[2]

Winners and nominees

The nominations were announced on 14 December 2020.[3] Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).

Best Film Love Affair(s) – Emmanuel Mouret‡ Bye Bye Morons – Albert Dupontel The Girl with a Bracelet – Stéphane Demoustier Summer of 85 – François Ozon Two of Us – Filippo Meneghetti	Best Director Maïwenn – DNA‡ Albert Dupontel – Bye Bye Morons Filippo Meneghetti – Two of Us Emmanuel Mouret – Love Affair(s) François Ozon – Summer of 85
Best Actor *Sami Bouajila – A Son* as Fares Ben Youssef*‡ Jonathan Cohen – Enormous* as Frédéric Girard Albert Dupontel – Bye Bye Morons as Jean-Baptiste Cuchas Nicolas Maury – My Best Part as Jérémie Meyer Jérémie Renier – Slalom as Fred	Best Actress *Martine Chevallier and Barbara Sukowa – Two of Us* as Madeleine Girard and Nina Dorn*‡ Laure Calamy – My Donkey, My Lover & I* as Antoinette Emmanuelle Devos – Perfumes as Anne Walberg Virginie Efira – Bye Bye Morons as Suze Trappet Camélia Jordana – Love Affair(s) as Daphné
Most Promising Actor *Félix Lefebvre and Benjamin Voisin – Summer of 85* as Alexis Robin and David Gorman*‡ Guang Huo – Night Ride* as Jin Djibril Vancoppenolle – Small Country: An African Childhood as Gabriel Alexandre Wetter – Miss as Alex Jean-Pascal Zadi – Simply Black as himself	Most Promising Actress *Noée Abita – Slalom* as Lyz*‡ Najla Ben Abdallah – A Son* as Meriem Ben Youssef Nisrin Erradi – Adam as Samia Mélissa Guers – The Girl with a Bracelet as Lise Fathia Youssouf – Cuties as Amy
Best First Film Two of Us – Filippo Meneghetti‡ Arab Blues – Manele Labidi Labbé Cuties – Maïmouna Doucouré Simply Black – Jean-Pascal Zadi and John Wax Slalom – Charlène Favier	Best Screenplay The Girl with a Bracelet – Stéphane Demoustier‡ Josep – Jean-Louis Milesi Love Affair(s) – Emmanuel Mouret My Donkey, My Lover & I – Caroline Vignal Two of Us – Filippo Meneghetti and Malysone Bovarasmy
Best Cinematography Summer of 85 – Hichame Alaouié‡ Love Affair(s) – Laurent Desmet The Salt of Tears – Renato Berta Slalom – Yann Maritaud Two of Us – Aurélien Marra	Best Music Josep – Sílvia Pérez Cruz‡ Appearances – Bertrand Burgalat Calamity Jane – Florencia di Concilio Marona's Fantastic Tale – Pablo Pico Night Ride – Rone
Best Documentary The Monopoly of Violence – David Dufresne‡ Adolescents – Sébastien Lifshitz La cravate – Etienne Chaillou and Mathias Théry If It Were Love – Patric Chiha Kongo – Corto Vaclav and Hadrien La Vapeur	Best Animated Film Josep – Aurel‡ Calamity Jane – Rémi Chayé Little Vampire – Joann Sfar Marona's Fantastic Tale – Anca Damian
Best International Co-Production The Man Who Sold His Skin ( / / / / / ) – Kaouther Ben Hania‡ Abou Leila ( / / ) – Amin Sidi-Boumédiène Adam ( / / ) – Maryam Touzani A Son ( / / / ) – Mehdi M. Barsaoui La Llorona ( / ) – Jayro Bustamante Yalda ( / / / / / ) – Massoud Bakhshi You Will Die at Twenty ( / / / / / ) – Amjad Abu Alala

Films with multiple nominations and awards

Films that received multiple nominations
Nominations	Film
6	Two of Us
5	Love Affair(s)
4	Bye Bye Morons
	Slalom
	Summer of 85
3	The Girl with a Bracelet
	Josep
	A Son
2	Adam
	Calamity Jane
	Cuties
	Marona's Fantastic Tale
	My Donkey, My Lover & I
	Night Ride
	Simply Black

Films that received multiple awards
Awards	Film
2	Josep
	Summer of 85
	Two of Us

References

Keslassy, Elsa (19 January 2021). "'Love Affairs,' 'Two of Us' Take Top Prizes at France's Lumieres Awards". Variety. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
"Lumières: French 2021 Oscar entry among annual foreign press award-winners". Radio France Internationale. 20 January 2021. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
"26th Lumières Awards Nominations" (PDF). The Académie des Lumières (in French). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2022. Retrieved 22 August 2021.

External links

Official website

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[1] Keslassy, Elsa (19 January 2021). "'Love Affairs,' 'Two of Us' Take Top Prizes at France's Lumieres Awards". Variety. Retrieved 22 August 2021.

[2] "Lumières: French 2021 Oscar entry among annual foreign press award-winners". Radio France Internationale. 20 January 2021. Retrieved 22 August 2021.

[3] "26th Lumières Awards Nominations" (PDF). The Académie des Lumières (in French). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2022. Retrieved 22 August 2021.

Lumières Awards
Current awards	Best Film Best Director Best Actor Best Actress Most Promising Actor Most Promising Actress Best Screenplay Best French-Language Film Best First Film (Prix Heike Hurst) Best Cinematography (Prix CST) Best Music Best Documentary Best Animated Film Special Jury Prize Honorary Award
Retired awards	World Audience Award Best Foreign Film
Award ceremonies	1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

26th Lumières Awards

Winners and nominees

Films with multiple nominations and awards

See also

References

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