'Anatomy Of A Fall' triumphs at France’s Golden Globes, the Lumière Awards
Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or winner Anatomy Of A Fall continues its award-wInning streak, having bagged France’s 29th Lumière Awards' Best Film and Best Screenplay, while its German star Sandra Hüller won Best Actress.
The Lumières celebrate the best films, performances and technical achievements of French cinema, and is widely known as the French equivalent of the Golden Globes. They are voted on by the Académie des Lumières, which is made up of France-based international journalists representing 36 countries.
The ceremony was held last night (Monday 22 January) at the Forum des Images in Paris. Scroll down for the full list of winners.
Anatomy of a Fall was nominated in six Lumière categories, and previously swept the board at the European Film Awards in Berlin last December. The celebrated courtroom drama has since won Best non-English Language Film and Best Screenplay at the Golden Globes and Best International Film at the Critics Choice Awards.
The movie is also nominated for seven BAFTAs and is expected to be nominated for several Oscars today (Tuesday 23 January). Many are predicting that lead actress Sandra Hüller has a chance of winning an Academy Award for her role in Anatomy of a Fall. Her stiffest competition comes from Emma Stone, who has been gaining some awards momentum recently for her stunning role in Poor Things.
Read our interview with Sandra Hüller, in which she discusses her roles in both Anatomy of a Fall and the harrowing Holocaust drama The Zone of Interest, which is also expected to be Oscar nominated.
Another Oscar hopeful which won a Lumières prize was Kaouther Ben Hania’s French-Tunisian co-production Four Daughters, which won best documentary.
The formally daring docu-fiction hybrid, which examines the disappearance and radicalization of two Tunisian girls through both dramatic re-enactments and interviews with the real-life subjects, was one of the most memorable documentaries at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Themes of motherhood, generational transference of trauma, and the weight of entrenched patriarchal structures designed to perpetuate the societal oppression of women are explored with a candidness that is deeply impactful.
During the ceremony, Ben Hania tearfully called for a ceasefire in Gaza in her speech. Shortly after, Harari said he was “disgusted by what the Israeli government is doing in Gaza,” prompting applauses from some guests, while others shouted “release the hostages.”
Read our interview with Kaouther Ben Hania.
Elsewhere, other key Lumière prizes went to Thomas Cailley, who won Best Director for Cannes 2023 Un Certain Regard opener The Animal Kingdom, while Arieh Worthalter won Best Actor for his performance in Cédric Khan’s Cannes Directors’ Fortnight opener The Goldman Case.
The Oscar nominations are expected later today, and the French film industry’s next big event, the César Awards, will unveil nominations tomorrow (Wednesday 24 January).
Here is the full list of winners at this year’s Lumière Awards:
Best Film
Anatomy of a Fall by Justine Triet - WINNER
Last Summer by Catherine Breillat
Sons of Ramses by Clément Cogitore
The Goldman Case by Cédric Kahn
The Animal Kingdom by Thomas Cailley
Best Director
Catherine Breillat for Last Summer
Thomas Cailley for The Animal Kingdom - WINNER
Clément Cogitore for Sons of Ramses
Cédric Kahn for The Goldman Case
Justine Triet for Anatomy of a Fall
Best Screenplay
Thomas Cailley, Pauline Munier for The Animal Kingdom
Quentin Dupieux for Yannick
Cédric Kahn, Nathalie Hertzberg for The Goldman Case
Iris Kaltenbäck for The Rapture
Justine Triet, Arthur Harari for Anatomy of a Fall - WINNER
Best Documentary
Four Daughters by Kaouther Ben Hania - WINNER
Little Girl Blue by Mona Achache
Our Body by Claire Simon
La Rivière by Dominique Marchais
On The Adamant by Nicolas Philibert
Best Animation
No Dogs Or Italians Allowed by Alain Unghetto
Chicken For Linda! by Chiara Malta & Sébastien Laudenbach - WINNER
Mars Express by Jérémie Périn
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Pierre Földes
The Siren by Sepideh Farsi
Best Actress
Catherine Deneuve for Bernadette
Léa Drucker for Last Summer
Virginie Efira for All To Play For
Hafsia Herzi for The Rapture
Sandra Hüller for Anatomy of a Fall - WINNER
Best Actor
Vincent Lacoste for Along Came Love
Karim Leklou for Vincent Must Die
Melvil Poupaud for Just The Two Of Us
Franz Rogowski for Disco Boy
Arieh Worthalter for The Goldman Case - WINNER
Female Revelation
Suzanne Jouannet for The Royal Way
Louise Mauroy-Panzani for Àma Gloria
Park Ji-Min for Return To Seoul
Claire Pommet for Spirit of Ecstasy
Ella Rumpf for Marguerite’s Theorem - WINNER
Male Revelation
Arthur Harari for The Goldman Case
Samuel Kircher for Last Summer
Milo Machado Graner for Anatomy of a Fall
Raphaël Quenard for Junkyard Dog - WINNER
Abdulah Sissoko for The Young Imam
Best First Film
Bernadette by Léa Domenach
Junkyard Dog by Jean-Baptiste Durand
Disco Boy by Giacomo Abbruzzese
The Rapture by Iris Kaltenbäck - WINNER
Vincent Must Die by Stéphan Castang
Best International Coproduction
The Blue Caftan by Maryam Touzani
About Dry Grasses by Nuri Bilge Ceylan - WINNER
Lost Country by Vladimir Perišić
Hounds by Kamal Lazraq
The Old Oak de Ken Loach
Cinematography
Simon Beaufils for Anatomy of a Fall
David Cailley for The Animal Kingdom
Hélène Louvart for Disco Boy
Jonathan Ricquebourg for The Taste of Things - WINNER
Sylvain Verdet for Sons of Ramses
Best Music
Amine Bouhafa for Four Daughters
Clément Ducol for Chicken For Linda!
Andrea Laszlo de Simone for The Animal Kingdom
Chloé Thévenin for The Mountain
Vitalic for Disco Boy - WINNER