‘Anatomy Of A Fall’ & ‘The Animal Kingdom’ Take Top Prizes At French Lumière Awards

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Justine Triet’s Anatomy Of A Fall continued its prize-winning run on Monday at France’s 29th Lumière Awards clinching Best Film and Best Screenplay, while its German star Sandra Hüller won Best Actress.

The Lumières fete the best films, performances and technical achievements of French cinema across 13 categories.

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.

In other key prizes, Thomas Cailley 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.

Triet’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner Anatomy of a Fall, which was nominated in six Lumière categories, is on an award-winning streak.  

The movie swept the board at the European Film Awards in Berlin last December and has since won Best non-English Language Film and Best Screenplay at the Golden Globes and Best International Film at the Critics Choice Awards among other prizes.

The movie is also nominated for seven Baftas and expectations are running high that the drama will figure prominently in the main Oscar nomination categories when they are announced on Tuesday (Jan 23).

France side-stepped Anatomy of a Fall as its submission for the Academy Awards’ Best International Feature Film in favour of The Taste Of Things, for which Trần Anh Hùng won Best Director at Cannes last year.

The latter film, which has made it onto the 15-title Best International Feature Film shortlist, was feted with Best Cinematography for Jonathan Ricquebourg at Monday night’s Lumières Awards ceremony.

A further Oscar hopeful picking up a Lumières prize was Kaouther Ben Hania’s French-Tunisian co-production Four Daughters, which won best documentary.

The hybrid work is among the 15 titles in the shortlists for Best International Feature Film and Best Documentary Feature.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s feature About Dry Grasses, which was Turkey’s Oscar submission but failed to get nominated, won Best International Coproduction.

Full List Of Winners (in bold) & Nominations

Best Film

Anatomy of a Fall by Justine Triet

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

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

Best Documentary

Four Daughters by Kaouther Ben Hania

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vincent Must Die by Stéphan Castang

Best International Coproduction

The Blue Caftan by Maryam Touzani

About Dry Grasses by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

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

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

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