"Happening" and "Annette" win at the Lumières

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Jan182022

Tuesday, January 18, 2022 at 1:52PM

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

Annette, dir. Leos Carax
Peaceful, dir. Emmanuelle Bercot
★ Happening, dir. Audrey Diwan
Lost Illusions, dir. Xavier Giannoli
Onoda, 10,000 Nights In The Jungle, dir. Arthur Harari

Best director

Jacques Audiard, Paris, 13th District
★ Leos Carax, Annette
Audrey Diwan, Happening
Xavier Giannoli, Lost Illusions
Authur Harari, Onoda, 10,000 Nights In The Jungle

Best screenplay

Antoine Barraud, Madeleine Collins
Leyla Bouzid, A Story Of Love And Desire
Catherine Corsini, The Divide
★ Xavier Giannoli, Lost Illusions
Arthur Harari, Vincent Poymiro, Onoda, 10,000 Nights In The Jungle

Best actress

Suliane Brahim, The Swarm
Virginie Efira, Benedetta
Valérie Lemercier, Aline
Sophie Marceau, Everything Went Fine
★ Anamaria Vartolomei, Happening

Best actor

Damien Bonnard, The Restless
André Dussollier, Everything Went Fine
Vincent Lindon, Titane
★ Benoît Magimel, Peaceful
Benjamin Voisin, Lost Illusions

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

Zbeida Belhajamor, A Story Of Love And Desire
Aïssatou Diallo Sagna, The Divide
Daphné Patakia, Benedetta
★ Agathe Rousselle, Titane
Lucie Zhang, Paris, 13th District

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

February (Bulgaria) dir. Kamen Kalev
Petrov’s Flu (Russia) dir. Kirill Serebrennikov
The Restless (Belgium) dir. Joachim Lafosse
★ The Worst Person In The World (Norway) dir. Joachim Trier
The Father (UK) dir. Florian Zeller

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