17/12/2018 - In Safe Hands, The Sisters Brothers, Amanda, Guy and Mademoiselle de Joncquières will lock horns for the Best Film Award

Similar to the Golden Globes, in that they are handed out to the best artists in French and French-language cinema by foreign journalists working in Paris, the 24th Lumières Awards will be handed out on 4 February 2019 at a ceremony set to be held at the Arab World Institute. 

Among the hopefuls are three titles that have racked up four nominations each and will be duking it out for the Award for Best French Film of the Year: In Safe Hands [+see also:
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film profile] by Emmanuel Mouret. In this, the most important category, they will be going head to head with Alex Lutz’s Guy [+see also:
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interview: Pierre Salvadori
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Receiving nominations for the Best Actress gong are Elodie Bouchez (for In Safe Hands), who is the only one to have already won the prize (in 1999, for The Dreamlife of Angels), Cécile de France (Mademoiselle de Joncquières), Léa Drucker (Custody), Virginie Efira (An Impossible Love [+see also:
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Among the five hopefuls for the Lumière Award for Best Actor are two former winners: Vincent Lindon (running with At War [+see also:
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Here is the full list of nominees:

Best Film
Amanda [+see also:
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The Sisters Brothers [+see also:
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interview: Jacques Audiard
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Guy [+see also:
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Mademoiselle de Joncquières [+see also:
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interview: Emmanuel Mouret
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In Safe Hands [+see also:
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Best Director
Jacques Audiard - The Sisters Brothers 
Jeanne Herry – In Safe Hands
Xavier Legrand – Custody [+see also:
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interview: Xavier Legrand
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Gaspar Noé – Climax [+see also:
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interview: Souheila Yacoub
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Pierre Salvadori – The Trouble With You [+see also:
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interview: Pierre Salvadori
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Best Actress
Elodie Bouchez – In Safe Hands
Cécile de France – Mademoiselle de Joncquières
Léa Drucker – Custody 
Virginie Efira – An Impossible Love [+see also:
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Mélanie Thierry – Memoir of War [+see also:
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interview: Emmanuel Finkiel
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Best Actor
Romain Duris – Our Struggles [+see also:
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interview: Guillaume Senez
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Vincent Lacoste – Amanda
Vincent Lindon – At War [+see also:
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interview: Stéphane Brizé
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Alex Lutz – Guy
Denis Ménochet – Custody 

Best Screenplay
Andréa Bescond and Eric Métayer – Little Tickles [+see also:
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Jeanne Herry – In Safe Hands
Thomas Lilti – The Freshmen [+see also:
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Emmanuel Mouret – Mademoiselle de Joncquières
Pierre Salvadori, Benoît Graffin and Benjamin Charbit – The Trouble With You

Best Cinematography
Benoît Debie – Climax
Benoît Debie – The Sisters Brothers 
Laurent Desmet – Mademoiselle de Joncquières
Julien Hirsch – One Nation, One King [+see also:
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interview: Pierre Schoeller
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David Ungaro – To the Ends of the World [+see also:
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interview: Guillaume Nicloux
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Best New Actor 
Anthony Bajon – The Prayer [+see also:
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interview: Cédric Kahn
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William Lebghil – The Freshmen 
Andranic Manet – A Paris Education [+see also:
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interview: Jean-Paul Civeyrac
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Félix Maritaud – Sauvage [+see also:
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interview: Camille Vidal-Naquet
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Dylan Robert – Shéhérazade [+see also:
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Best New Actress 
Ophélie Bau – Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno [+see also:
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Galatéa Bellugi – The Apparition [+see also:
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interview: Xavier Giannoli
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Andréa Bescond – Little Tickles 
Jeanne Cohendy – Head Above Water [+see also:
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Kenza Fortas – Shéhérazade 

Best Debut Film
Little Tickles - Andréa Bescond and Eric Métayer
The Wild Boys [+see also:
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interview: Bertrand Mandico
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Custody - Xavier Legrand
Sauvage - Camille Vidal-Naquet
Shéhérazade - Jean-Bernard Marlin

Best Film from a French-speaking Country
Capernaum [+see also:
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Chris the Swiss [+see also:
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interview: Anja Kofmel
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Girl [+see also:
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interview: Lukas Dhont
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The Insult [+see also:
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interview: Ziad Doueiri
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Our Struggles - Guillaume Senez 

Best Animated Film
Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion [+see also:
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Dilili in Paris [+see also:
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Mutafukaz [+see also:
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Pachamama [+see also:
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Best Documentary
Cassandro the Exotico! [+see also:
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Each and Every Moment [+see also:
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No Man Is an Island [+see also:
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Young Solitude [+see also:
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interview: Claire Simon
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Samouni Road [+see also:
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interview: Stefano Savona
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Best Music
Camille Bazbaz – The Trouble With You
Vincent Blanchard and Romain Greffe – Guy
Alexandre Desplat – The Sisters Brothers 
Pierre Desprats – The Wild Boys 
Grégoire Hetzel – An Impossible Love

(Translated from French)