Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Perez has topped the nominations for France’s Lumière Awards.
The French-made, Spanish-language movie earned six nominations for greatest movie, director, screenplay, cinematography, music and actress for Karla Sofía Gascón in her starring function because the titular transitioning Mexican drug lord.
The Lumière nominations cap a robust week for Emilia Perez, which garnered 10 nominations for the 2025 Golden Globes,and was the massive winner on the European Movie Awards with 5 prizes.
Scroll down for full checklist of nominees
Boris Lojkine’s Souleymane’s Story, which tracks the day by day lifetime of an undocumented Guinean asylum seeker in Paris, and Alain Guiraudie’s Misericordia carefully trailed with 5 Lumière nominations every.
All three movies will compete for the Lumière for greatest movie alongside Payal Kapadia’s All We Think about as Gentle and Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu’s household melodrama Jim’s Story.
Jonathan Millet’s Ghost Path, which opened Cannes’ Administrators’ Fortnight, and Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière’s The Depend Of Monte-Cristo, which premiered out of competitors on the competition, additionally earned 4 nominations every as did François Ozon’s When Fall is Coming, which debuted at San Sebastian.
The Lumière Awards are voted on by worldwide correspondents from 38 international locations who will award 13 prizes at a ceremony on January 20, 2025.
Final 12 months’s high prize went to Justine Triet’s Anatomy Of A Fall.
Full checklist of Lumière nominations
Greatest movie
All We Think about As Gentle dir. Payal Kapadia
Emilia Perez dir. Jacques Audiard
Jim’s Story dir. Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu
Souleymane’s Story dir. Boris Lojkine
Misericordia dir. Alain Guiraudie
Greatest director
Jacques Audiard for Emilia Perez
Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de La Patellière for The Depend of Monte-Cristo
Alain Guiraudie for Misericordia
Boris Lojkine for Souleymane’s Story
François Ozon for When Fall is Coming
Greatest screenplay
Jacques Audiard for Emilia Perez
Alain Guiraudie for Misericordia
Boris Lojkine and Delphine Agut for Souleymane’s Story
François Ozon for When Fall is Coming
Jonathan Millet and Florence Rochat for Ghost Path
Greatest documentary
Bye Bye Tiberias dir. Lina Soualem
Dahomey dir. Mati Diop
Madame Hofmann dir. Sébastien Lifshitz
Orlando, My Political Biography dir. Paul B. Preciado
Journey into Gaza dir. Piero Usberti
Greatest animated movie
The Magical Adventures of Angelo dir. Vincent Paronnaud et Alexis Ducord
Circulate dir. Gints Zilbalodis
The Most Valuable of Cargoes dir. Michel Hazanavicius
Maya, Give Me a Title dir. Michel Gondry
Savages dir. Claude Barras
Greatest actress
Karla Sofía Gascón for Emilia Perez
Hafsia Herzi for Borgo
Agnès Jaoui for This Lifetime of Mine
Anamaria Vartolomei for Maria
Hélène Vincent for When Fall is Coming
Greatest actor
Adam Bessa for Ghost Path
Paul Kircher for And Their Youngsters After Them
Karim Leklou for Jim’s Story
Pierre Niney for The Depend of Monte-Cristo
Abou Sangare for Souleymane’s Story
Most promising actress
Maïwène Barthélemy for Holy Cow
Ghjuvanna Benedetti for The Kingdom
Malou Khebizi for Wild Diamond
Clara-Maria Laredo pour In His Personal Picture
Megan Northam for Rabia
Most promising actor
Sayyid El Alami for And Their Youngsters After Them
Clément Faveau for Holy Cow
Félix Kysyl for Misericordia
Pierre Lottin for When Fall is Coming
Malik Frikah for Beating Hearts
Greatest first movie
Wild Diamond dir. Agathe Riedinger
Ghost Path dir. Jonathan Millet
The Kingdom dir. Julien Colonna
Rabia dir. Mareike Engelhardt
Holy Cow dir. Louise Courvoisier
Greatest worldwide co-production
Puan dir. Maria Alché and Benjamín Naishtat
Grand Tour dir. Miguel Gomes
Inexperienced Border dir. Agnieszka Holland
The Seed of the Sacred Fig dir. Mohammad Rasoulof
The Different Approach Round dir. Jonás Trueba
Greatest cinematography
Josée Deshaies for The Beast
Nicolas Bolduc for The Depend of Monte-Cristo
Tristan Galand for Souleymane’s Story
Paul Guilhaume for Emilia Perez
Claire Mathon for Misericordia
Greatest music
Bertrand Bonello and Anna Bonello for The Beast
Nicolas Bolduc for The Depend of Monte-Cristo
Amaury Chabauty for And Their Youngsters After Them
Alexandre Desplat for The Most Valuable of Cargoes
Yuksek for Ghost Path