Surprise win for Omar Sy at Lumière Awards
While Best Film of the Year was awarded on Friday evening at the 17th Lumière Awards (awarded, rather like the Golden Globes, to the best artists of French and Francophone cinema by foreign journalists based in Paris) to the major favourite, Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist [+see also:
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The Lumière for Best Director went to Maïwenn for Poliss [+see also:
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film profile], while the title for Best French-language Film (from outside France) was handed to Scorched [+see also:
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List of award winners:
Best Film
The Artist - Michel Hazanavicius
Best Director
Maïwenn - Poliss
Best Screenplay
Robert Guédiguian and Jean-Louis Milesi - The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Best Actress
Bérénice Béjo - The Artist
Best Actor
Omar Sy - Untouchable
Best Female Newcomer
Alice Barnole, Adèle Haenel and Céline Sallette – House of Tolerance [+see also:
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Best Male Newcomer
Denis Ménochet - The Adopted [+see also:
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Best Cinematographer
Pierre Haïm - Poliss
Best French-language Film (from outside France)
Scorched - Denis Villeneuve (Canada)
(Translated from French)
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