18/01/2010

Awarded, rather like the Golden Globes, to the best artists of French and Francophone cinema by foreign journalists based in Paris, the 15th Lumière Awards crowned Philippe Lioret’s Welcome [+see also:
film review
trailer
making of
interview: Philippe Lioret
film profile] Best Film of the Year (also winner of the LUX Prize of the European Parliament in November 2009).

The other favourite, Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Jacques Audiard
interview: Jacques Audiard and Tahar R…
film profile], took home Best Director and Best Actor (Tahar Rahim) instead. Meanwhile, the Lumière for Best Actress went to Isabelle Adjani for her performance in Skirt Day [+see also:
trailer
film profile].

Best Screenplay was presented to Mia Hansen-Løve for The Father of My Children [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Mia Hansen-Løve
film profile].

Lumière award-winners 2010:

Best Film
Welcome - Philippe Lioret

Best Director
Jacques Audiard - A Prophet

Best Screenplay
Mia Hansen-Love - The Father of My Children

Best Actress
Isabelle Adjani - Skirt Day

Best Actor
Tahar Rahim - A Prophet

Best Female Newcomer
Pauline Etienne - Silent Voices [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Qu'un seul tienne et les au…
film profile]

Best Male Newcomer
Vincent Lacoste and Anthony Sonigo - The French Kissers [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile]

Best French-language Film (from outside France)
I Killed My Mother - Xavier Dolan (Quebec)

TV5 Monde International Audience Award
Hand of the Headless Man [+see also:
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trailer
film profile] - Stéphane and Guillaume Malandrin (Belgium/Netherlands/France)

CST (Advanced Technical Image and Sound Commission) Award
Glynn Speeckaert (DoP) - In the Beginning [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile]

(Translated from French)