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Tuesday
Jan182022

"Happening" and "Annette" win at the Lumières 

by Nathaniel R

Some of you may recall that we were thrilled when Happening (also known as L'Evenement) won the Golden Lion at Venice this past September. Audrey Diwan's abortion drama, set in the 1960s when the procedure was still illegal in France, is a riveting film with a superb lead performance. It's also apparently popular in France since it's just won the top prize at the 27th annual Lumière Awards, France's other big movie award beyond their top industry prize (the César). César nominations hit on January 26th so we'll see how films like Titane and Happening and Annette do there, but we already know what the Lumières thought of those three films. The complete list of nominations and wins are after the jump. If we've written about the films there's a link...

Best film

Best director

Best screenplay


Best actress

Best actor


Benoît Magimel plays a man with a fateful illness in Peaceful (also called De son vivant) with Catherine Deneuve as his mother.

Best new actress

Best new actor


  • Alseni Bathily, Gagarine
  • Abdel Bendaher, Ibrahim
  • Sami Outalbali, A Story Of Love And Desire
  • ★ Thimotée Robart, Magnetic Beats
  • Makita Samba, Paris, 13th District

Best first film

  • Gagarine, dirs. Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh
  • Ibrahim, dir. Samir Guesmi
  • Magnetic Beats, dir. Vincent Maël Cardona
  • The Swarm, dir. Just Philippot
  • Skies Of Lebanon, dir. Chloé Mazlo

Best documentary


  • Nine Days In Raqqa, dir. Xavier de Lauzanne
  • Delphine And Carole, dir. Callisto Mc Nulty
  • Gallent Indies, dir. Philippe Béziat
  • Le Kiosque, dir. Alexandra Pianelli
  • The Velvet Queen, dirs. Marie Amiguet, Vincent Munier

The Velvet Queen is about a reknowned wildlife photographer and a novelist trying to find a snow leopard, one of the rarest big cats.

Best animation film

  • Pil’s Adventures, dir. Julien Fournet
  • Princess Dragon, dirs. Anthony Roux, Jean-Jacques Denis
  • The Summit Of The Gods, dir. Patrick Imbert
  • The Crossing, dir. Florence Miailhe
  • Around The World In 80 Days, dir. Samuel Tourneux

Best international co-production


Most of the industry sites (like Variety) dont list The Restless as a nominee but IMDb does and since without that film it's only five we're guessing IMDb is correct. Curiously the Lumieres site no longer seems to be functioning or perhaps the urls have changed?

Best cinematography


Best soundtrack

  • Amine Bouhafa, The Summit Of The Gods
  • Warren Ellis, Nick Cave, The Velvet Queen
  • Evgueni Galperine, Sacha Galperine, Amine Bouhafa, Gagarine
  • ★ Ron Mael, Russell Mael, Sparks, Annette
  • Jim Williams, Titane

 

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Reader Comments (1)

Yes, The Restless is indeed a nominee as international coproduction also. Weird that their site does not work

January 19, 2022 | Registered Commenterpascal le
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