Lumière Awards: Oscar Hopefuls ‘Emilia Pérez’, ‘Flow’, ‘Dahomey’ & ‘The Seed Of The Sacred Fig’ Take Top Honors

Melanie Goodfellow

20 January 2025 at 4:00 pm·4-min read

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.

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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 Kapadia
Emilia Pérez by Jacques Audiard
Jim’s Story by Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu
Souleymane’s Story by Boris Lojkine
Misericordia by Alain Guiraudie

Best Director
Jacques Audiard for Emilia Pérez
Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière for The Count Of Monte-Cristo
Alain Guiraudie for Misericordia
Boris Lojkine for Souleymane’s Story
François Ozon for When Fall Is Coming

Best Screenplay
Jacques Audiard for Emilia Pérez
Alain Guiraudie for Misericordia
Boris Lojkine and Delphine Agut for Souleymane’s Story
Jonathan Millet and Florence Rochat for Ghost Trail
François Ozon for When Fall Is Coming

Best Documentary
Bye Bye Tiberias by Lina Soualem
Dahomey by Mati Diop
Madame Hofmann by Sébastien Lifshitz
Orlando, My Political Biography by Paul B. Preciado
Journey into Gaza by Piero Usberti

Best Animation
Into The Wonderwoods by Vincent Paronnaud and Alexis Ducord
Flow by Gints Zilbalodis
The Most Precious Of Cargoes by Michel Hazanavicius
Maya, Donne-Moi Un Titre by Michel Gondry
Savages by Claude Barras

Best Actress
Karla Sofía Gascón for Emilia Pérez
Hafsia Herzi for Borgo
Agnès Jaoui for This Life Of Mine
Anamaria Vartolomei for Maria
Hélène Vincent for When Fall Is Coming

Best Actor
Adam Bessa for Ghost Trail
Paul Kircher for And Their Children After Them
Karim Leklou for Jim’s Story
Pierre Niney for The Count Of Monte-Cristo
Abou Sangare for Souleymane’s Story

Female Revelation
Maïwène Barthélemy for Holy Cow
Ghjuvanna Benedetti for The Kingdom
Malou Khebizi for Wild Diamond
Clara-Maria Laredo for In His Image
Megan Northam for Rabia

Male Revelation
Sayyid El Alami for And Their Children After Them
Clément Faveau for Holy Cow
Félix Kysyl for Misericordia
Pierre Lottin for When Fall Is Coming
Malik Frikah for Beating Hearts

Best First Film
Wild Diamond by Agathe Riedinger
Ghost Trail by Jonathan Millet
The Kingdom by Julien Colonna
Rabia by Mareike Engelhardt
Holy Cow by Louise Courvoisier

Best International Co-Production
Puan by Maria Alché and Benjamín Naishtat
Grand Tour by Miguel Gomes
Green Border by Agnieszka Holland
The Seed Of The Sacred Fig by Mohammad Rasoulof
The Other Way Around by Jonás Trueba

Best Cinematography
Nicolas Bolduc for The Count Of Monte-Cristo
Josée Deshaies for The Beast
Tristan Galand for Souleymane’s Story
Paul Guilhaume for Emilia Pérez
Claire Mathon for Misericordia

Best Music
Bertrand Bonello and Anna Bonello for The Beast
Camille et Clément Ducol for Emilia Pérez
Amaury Chabauty for And Their Children After Them
Alexandre Desplat for The Most Precious Of Cargoes
Yuksek for Ghost Trail

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