Jacques Audiard’s Mexico-set musical Emilia Perez swept France’s Lumiere Awards on Monday night (January 20), profitable 5 prizes together with finest movie.
The Oscar and Bafta hopeful was the frontrunner going into the 30th version of the awards with six nominations, and took house prizes for almost all of them together with finest director, finest screenplay, finest rating for Camille and Clément Ducol, and finest actress for Karla Sofía Gascón.
Audiard set a brand new document at this 12 months’s Lumieres, profitable finest movie for a 3rd time after 2006’s The Beat That My Coronary heart Skipped and 2019’s The Sisters Brothers, and finest director for a fourth time.
The director, who’s in South America to help the discharge of the movie, was not current on the ceremony. He despatched a video message from his lodge room to just accept one of the best movie award, echoing his Golden Globes speech: “I would like Emilia Perez to be a beacon of sunshine for individuals who aren’t fortunate sufficient to counting amongst their pals somebody as highly effective and passionate as Karla Sofia Gascón, and for individuals who are frightened in the present day, this prize may be thought-about as a name to maintain your heads excessive and to proceed to battle and hope for higher days forward. As Emilia would say, bingo.”
The Lumiere recognition follows the movie’s Golden Globes and European Movie Awards wins and forward of the Oscar nominations on Thursday the place the movie is shortlisted in six classes and nominated in 11 Bafta classes.
13 prizes have been awarded by worldwide press correspondents from 38 international locations on the ceremony held on the Discussion board des photos in Paris.
Louise Courvoisier’s Holy Cow took house prizes for finest first movie and earned Clément Faveau essentially the most promising actor award. Abou Sangare gained finest actor for his position as an undocumented Guinean asylum seeker in Boris Lojkine’s Souleymane’s Story. Ghjuvanna Benedetti gained essentially the most promising actress prize for Julien Colonna’s father-daughter Corsican mob drama The Kingdom.
Finest documentary went to Mati Diop’s Dahomey, which is shortlisted for each documentary and worldwide function Oscars. One other Oscar hopeful, Gints Zilbalodis’s Move, took house the award for finest animated function. Mohammad Rasoulof was in Paris to just accept the award for The Seed Of The Scared Fig, named finest worldwide co-production.
Nicolas Bolduc gained finest cinematography for Alexandre de la Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte’s epic adaptation The Rely Of Monte-Cristo, which has bought almost 10 million tickets on the French field workplace.
Aside from Berlin’s Golden Bear-winning Dahomey, the entire different prize-winning movies debuted at Cannes 2024.
The checklist of winners follows:
Finest movie
Emilia Perez dir. Jacques Audiard
Finest director
Jacques Audiard for Emilia Perez
Finest screenplay
Jacques Audiard for Emilia Perez
Finest documentary
Dahomey dir. Mati Diop
Finest animated movie
Move dir. Gints Zilbalodis
Finest actress
Karla Sofía Gascón for Emilia Perez
Finest actor
Abou Sangare for Souleymane’s Story
Most promising actress
Ghjuvanna Benedetti for The Kingdom
Most promising actor
Clément Faveau for Holy Cow
Finest first movie
Holy Cow dir. Louise Courvoisier
Finest worldwide co-production
The Seed Of The Sacred Fig dir. Mohammad Rasoulof
Finest cinematography
Nicolas Bolduc for The Rely Of Monte-Cristo
Finest music
Camille and Clément Ducol for Emilia Perez