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The Night of the 12th triumphs at the Lumières Awards

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- Dominik Moll’s feature walks away with Best Film, Pacifiction takes three trophies home, and Virginie Efira and Benoît Magimel are crowned best actors

The Night of the 12th triumphs at the Lumières Awards
Director Dominik Moll alongside Iranian actresses Zar Amir Ebrahimi and Mina Kavani, who have handed out the Best Film award at the Lumières for The Night of the 12th (© Aurore Maréchal/Académie des Lumières)

Bestowed upon the best works and artists from the world of French film by foreign journalists posted in France during a ceremony which unfolded in Paris’s Forum des Images, the 28th Lumières Awards has named The Night of the 12th [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Dominik Moll
film profile
]
by Dominik Moll Best Film of 2022. The feature film also imposed itself in the screenplay category (thanks to a script penned by the filmmaker alongside Gilles Marchand). Unveiled in the Cannes Première line-up, Moll’s movie sold by Memento International has just been released in Germany.

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The other multi-award-winning film to grace the winners’ list is Pacifiction [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Albert Serra
film profile
]
, a majority French production directed by Spaniard Albert Serra, which bagged itself the Best Director Lumière, the Best Photography prize (Artur Tort), but first and foremost the Best Actor trophy which went to Benoît Magimel. The latter is now the third actor in the history of the Lumières to win the title of Best Actor twice (joining the ranks of Michel Serrault and Mathieu Amalric) and the first to achieve this over a consecutive two-year period.

In terms of actresses, Virginie Efira won out thanks to her performance in Other People’s Children [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Rebecca Zlotowski
film profile
]
by Rebecca Zlotowski.

Also worth a mention are the victories scored by Alice Diop (Best Documentary via We [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Alice Diop
film profile
]
), The Beasts [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Rodrigo Sorogoyen and Isabe…
film profile
]
by Spain’s Rodrigo Sorogoyen (who travelled to Paris for the occasion) in the international co-production category, Léopold Legrand (who earned the title of Best First Film thanks to The Sixth Child [+see also:
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trailer
film profile
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), Nadia Tereszkiewicz and Dimitri Doré who were crowned best newcomers via Forever Young [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
film profile
]
 and Bruno Reidal, Confessions of a Murderer [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Vincent Le Port
film profile
]
respectively, Benjamin Biolay for the score of Flickering Ghosts of Love Gone By, and, on the animation side of things, the duo composed of Amandine Fredon and Benjamin Massoubre via Little Nicholas – Happy As Can Be [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Amandine Fredon and Benjami…
film profile
]

The list of winners is as follows:

Best Film
The Night of the 12th [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Dominik Moll
film profile
]
- Dominik Moll (France/Belgium)

Best Director
Albert Serra - Pacifiction [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Albert Serra
film profile
]
(France/Spain/Germany/Portugal)

Best Actress
Virginie Efira – Other People’s Children [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Rebecca Zlotowski
film profile
]
(France)

Best Actor
Benoît Magimel - Pacifiction

Best Female Newcomer
Nadia Tereszkiewicz – Forever Young [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
film profile
]
 (France/Italy)

Best Male Newcomer
Dimitri Doré - Bruno Reidal, Confessions of a Murderer [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Vincent Le Port
film profile
]

Best Screenplay
Dominik Moll and Gilles Marchand – The Night of the 12th

Best First Film
The Sixth Child [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
- Léopold Legrand

Best Documentary
We [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Alice Diop
film profile
]
- Alice Diop

Best Animation
Little Nicholas – Happy As Can Be [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Amandine Fredon and Benjami…
film profile
]
- Amandine Fredon and Benjamin Massoubre (France/Luxembourg)

Best International Co-Production
The Beasts [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Rodrigo Sorogoyen and Isabe…
film profile
]
- Rodrigo Sorogoyen (Spain/France)

Best Photography
Artur Tort - Pacifiction

Best Score
Benjamin Biolay – Flickering Ghosts of Love Gone By

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(Translated from French)

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