17th Lumières Awards

January 2012 event

The 17th Lumières Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Lumières, was held on 13 January 2012. The ceremony was presided by Catherine Jacob. The Artist won the award for Best Film.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

Best Film	Best Director
The Artist Le Havre The Minister The Intouchables House of Tolerance	Maïwenn — Polisse Aki Kaurismäki — Le Havre Michel Hazanavicius — The Artist Bertrand Bonello — House of Tolerance Pierre Schoeller — The Minister
Best Actor	Best Actress
Omar Sy — The Intouchables André Wilms — Le Havre Olivier Gourmet — The Minister JoeyStarr — Polisse Jean Dujardin — The Artist	Bérénice Bejo — The Artist Catherine Deneuve — Beloved Karin Viard — Polisse Chiara Mastroianni — Beloved Marina Foïs — Polisse Valérie Donzelli — Declaration of War Clotilde Hesme — Angel & Tony
Most Promising Actor	Most Promising Actress
Denis Ménochet — The Adopted Guillaume Gouix — Jimmy Rivière Grégory Gadebois — Angel & Tony Raphaël Ferret — Guilty Mahmud Shalaby — Free Men	Adèle Haenel, Céline Sallette & Alice Barnole — House of Tolerance Anamaria Vartolomei — My Little Princess Zoé Héran — Tomboy
Best Screenplay	Best French-Language Film
The Snows of Kilimanjaro — Jean-Louis Milesi and Robert Guédiguian The Minister — Pierre Schoeller Polisse — Emmanuelle Bercot and Maïwenn House of Tolerance — Bertrand Bonello The Artist — Michel Hazanavicius	Incendies The Kid with a Bike The Giants Curling Where Do We Go Now?
Best Cinematography	Honorary Lumières Award
Pierre Aïm — Polisse	Francis Veber