Jacques Audiard’s Mexico-set musical Emilia Perez swept France’s Lumiere Awards on Monday night (January 20), profitable 5 prizes together with greatest 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 practically all of them together with greatest director, greatest screenplay, greatest rating for Camille and Clément Ducol, and greatest actress for Karla Sofía Gascón.
Audiard set a brand new report at this yr’s Lumieres, profitable greatest movie for a 3rd time after 2006’s The Beat That My Coronary heart Skipped and 2019’s The Sisters Brothers, and greatest 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 resort room to just accept one of the best movie award, echoing his Golden Globes speech: “I need Emilia Perez to be a beacon of sunshine for many who aren’t fortunate sufficient to counting amongst their pals somebody as highly effective and passionate as Karla Sofia Gascón, and for many who are anxious at this time, this prize may be thought of as a name to maintain your heads excessive and to proceed to combat 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 nations on the ceremony held on the Discussion board des pictures in Paris.
Louise Courvoisier’s Holy Cow took house prizes for greatest first movie and earned Clément Faveau essentially the most promising actor award. Abou Sangare gained greatest actor for his function 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.
Greatest documentary went to Mati Diop’s Dahomey, which is shortlisted for each documentary and worldwide function Oscars. One other Oscar hopeful, Gints Zilbalodis’s Circulation, took house the award for greatest animated function. Mohammad Rasoulof was in Paris to just accept the award for The Seed Of The Scared Fig, named greatest worldwide co-production.
Nicolas Bolduc gained greatest cinematography for Alexandre de la Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte’s epic adaptation The Depend Of Monte-Cristo, which has offered practically 10 million tickets on the French field workplace.
Apart from Berlin’s Golden Bear-winning Dahomey, all the different prize-winning movies debuted at Cannes 2024.
The listing of winners follows:
Greatest movie
Emilia Perez dir. Jacques Audiard
Greatest director
Jacques Audiard for Emilia Perez
Greatest screenplay
Jacques Audiard for Emilia Perez
Greatest documentary
Dahomey dir. Mati Diop
Greatest animated movie
Circulation dir. Gints Zilbalodis
Greatest actress
Karla Sofía Gascón for Emilia Perez
Greatest actor
Abou Sangare for Souleymane’s Story
Most promising actress
Ghjuvanna Benedetti for The Kingdom
Most promising actor
Clément Faveau for Holy Cow
Greatest first movie
Holy Cow dir. Louise Courvoisier
Greatest worldwide co-production
The Seed Of The Sacred Fig dir. Mohammad Rasoulof
Greatest cinematography
Nicolas Bolduc for The Depend Of Monte-Cristo
Greatest music
Camille and Clément Ducol for Emilia Perez
