21st Lumières Awards

2016 French film awards ceremony

The 21st Lumières Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Lumières, was held on 8 February 2016, at the Espace Pierre Cardin in Paris to honour the best in French films of 2015. Nominees were announced on 4 January 2016. My Golden Days garnered the most nominations, with a total of seven.^[1]^[2]

Mustang won four awards, out of its six nominations, including Best Film and Best First Film.^[3]^[4]

Winners and nominees

Best Film

Mustang

Summertime
Dheepan
Courted
Marguerite
My Golden Days

Best Director

Arnaud Desplechin — My Golden Days

Jacques Audiard — Dheepan
Catherine Corsini — Summertime
Philippe Garrel — In the Shadow of Women
Xavier Giannoli — Marguerite
Maïwenn — Mon roi

Best Actor

Vincent Lindon — The Measure of a Man & Diary of a Chambermaid

Gérard Depardieu — Valley of Love
André Dussollier — 21 Nights with Pattie
Fabrice Luchini — Courted
Vincent Macaigne — Two Friends
Jérémie Renier — The Wakhan Front

Best Actress

Catherine Frot — Marguerite

Emmanuelle Bercot — Mon roi
Clotilde Courau — In the Shadow of Women
Izïa Higelin — Summertime
Isabelle Huppert — Valley of Love
Elsa Zylberstein — Un plus une

Best Male Revelation

Rod Paradot — Standing Tall

Best Female Revelation

Güneş Nezihe Şensoy, Doğa Zeynep Doğuşlu, Elit Işcan, Tuğba Sunguroğlu & Ilayda Akdoğan — Mustang

Golshifteh Farahani — Two Friends
Sara Giraudeau — Les Bêtises
Baya Medhaffar — As I Open My Eyes
Lou Roy-Lecollinet — My Golden Days
Sophie Verbeeck — All About Them

Best First Film

Mustang

Young Tiger
Two Friends
The Wakhan Front
La Vie pure
Vincent

Best Screenplay

Fatima — Philippe Faucon

Summertime — Catherine Corsini and Laurette Polmanss
My Golden Days — Arnaud Desplechin and Julie Peyr
Mustang — Deniz Gamze Ergüven and Alice Winocour
Marguerite — Xavier Giannoli
21 Nights with Pattie — Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu

Best Cinematography

David Chizallet — Mustang, The Anarchists & I Am a Soldier

Matias Boucard — L'Affaire SK1
Irina Lubtchansky — My Golden Days
Claire Mathon — The Last Hammer Blow, Mon roi & Two Friends
Arnaud Potier — Cowboys
Sylvain Verdet — The Wakhan Front

Best Music

Grégoire Hetzel — Summertime & My Golden Days

Bruno Coulais — Diary of a Chambermaid
Warren Ellis — Mustang
Gesaffelstein — Disorder
Béatrice Thiriet — L'Astragale
Jean-Claude Vannier — Microbe & Gasoline

Best Documentary

(Tie) The Pearl Button & The Missing Picture

Human
South to North
Tomorrow
We Come as Friends

Best French-Language Film

Much Loved

As I Open My Eyes
Next Year
The Rooftops
The Brand New Testament
La Vanité

Honorary Lumières

Isabelle Huppert

Films with multiple nominations and awards

The following films received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Film
7	My Golden Days
6	Mustang
5	Summertime
4	Marguerite
4	Two Friends
3	Mon roi
3	The Wakhan Front
2
	Dheepan
	Courted
	In the Shadow of Women
	21 Nights with Pattie
	Valley of Love
	Diary of a Chambermaid
	La Vie pure
	As I Open My Eyes
	All About Them
	Young Tiger

The following films received multiple awards:

Awards	Film
4	Mustang
2	My Golden Days

References

^ "Nomination des prix Lumières de la presse étrangère". Canal+. 4 January 2016.
^ "Prix Lumières 2016 : Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse et Mustang en tête des nominations". AlloCiné. 4 January 2016.
^ "Prix Lumières 2016 : Le film "Mustang" poursuit son ascension". Metronews. 9 February 2016. Archived from the original on 11 February 2016.
^ "France's Lumiere Awards: 'Mustang' Takes Top Honors". The Hollywood Reporter. 8 February 2016.