Lumière Award for Best First Film
| Lumière Award for Best First Film | |
|---|---|
| Country | France |
| Presented by | Académie des Lumières |
| First award | 2014 |
| Currently held by | Holy Cow (2025) |
| Website | academiedeslumieres |
The Lumière Award for Best First Film (French: Lumière du meilleur premier film) is an award presented annually by the Académie des Lumières since 2014. It was previously known as the Heike Hurst Award for Best First Film,[1] in honour of the film critic.[2]
Winners and nominees
In the following lists, the titles and names with a blue background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the nominees.
2010s
| Year | English title | Original title | Director (s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 (19th) | Me, Myself and Mum | Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table ! | Guillaume Gallienne |
| Little Lion | Comme un lion | Samuel Collardey | |
| Turning Tide | En solitaire | Christophe Offenstein | |
| Headfirst | La Tête la première | Amélie van Elmbt | |
| Nous irons vivre ailleurs | Nicolas Karolszyk | ||
| Beyond the Blood | Au-delà du sang | Guillaume Tauveron | |
| 2015 (20th) | Love at First Fight | Les Combattants | Thomas Cailley |
| Party Girl | Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis | ||
| Elle l'adore | Jeanne Herry | ||
| We Did It on a Song | Chante ton bac d'abord | David André | |
| May Allah Bless France! | Qu'Allah bénisse la France | Abd al Malik | |
| Fool Circle | Tristesse Club | Vincent Mariette | |
| 2016 (21st) | |||
| Mustang | Deniz Gamze Ergüven | ||
| Young Tiger | Bébé Tigre | Cyprien Vial | |
| Two Friends | Les Deux Amis | Louis Garrel | |
| The Wakhan Front | Ni le ciel ni la terre | Clément Cogitore | |
| La Vie pure | Jeremy Banster | ||
| Vincent | Vincent n'a pas d'écailles | Thomas Salvador | |
| 2017 (22nd) | |||
| Divines | Houda Benyamina | ||
| Apnea | Apnée | Jean-Christophe Meurisse | |
| Dark Inclusion | Diamant noir | Arthur Harari | |
| Still Life | Gorge cœur ventre | Maud Alpi | |
| The Dancer | La Danseuse | Stéphanie di Giusto | |
| Mercenary | Mercenaire | Sacha Wolff | |
| 2018 (23rd) | |||
| Until the Birds Return | En attendant les hirondelles | Karim Moussaoui | |
| Les Bienheureux | Sofia Djama | ||
| Raw | Grave | Julia Ducournau | |
| Montparnasse Bienvenue | Jeune femme | Léonor Serraille | |
| Patients | Grand Corps Malade and Mehdi Idir | ||
| Bloody Milk | Petit paysan | Hubert Charuel | |
| 2019 (24th) | |||
| Custody | Jusqu'à la garde | Xavier Legrand | |
| Little Tickles | Les Chatouilles | Andréa Bescond and Eric Métayer | |
| The Wild Boys | Les Garçons sauvages | Bertrand Mandico | |
| Sauvage | Camille Vidal-Naquet | ||
| Shéhérazade | Jean-Bernard Marlin | ||
2020s
| Year | English title | Original title | Director (s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 (25th) | |||
| The Mustang | Nevada | Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre | |
| Atlantics | Atlantique | Mati Diop | |
| Conviction | Une intime conviction | Antoine Raimbault | |
| Les Misérables | Ladj Ly | ||
| The Bare Necessity | Perdrix | Erwan Le Duc | |
| 2021 (26th) | |||
| Two of Us | Deux | Filippo Meneghetti | |
| Arab Blues | Un divan à Tunis | Manele Labidi | |
| Cuties | Mignonnes | Maïmouna Doucouré | |
| Slalom | Charlène Favier | ||
| Simply Black | Tout simplement noir | Jean-Pascal Zadi and John Wax | |
| 2022 (27th) | |||
| Gagarine | Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh | ||
| Ibrahim | Samir Guesmi | ||
| Magnetic Beats | Les Magnétiques | Vincent Maël Cardona | |
| The Swarm | La Nuée | Just Philippot | |
| Skies of Lebanon | Sous le ciel d'Alice | Chloé Mazlo | |
| 2023 (28th) | |||
| The Sixth Child | Le Sixième Enfant | Léopold Legrand | |
| Bruno Reidal, Confessions of a Murderer | Bruno Reidal | Vincent Le Port | |
| Harka | Lotfy Nathan | ||
| The Worst Ones | Les Pires | Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret | |
| Everybody Loves Jeanne | Tout le monde aime Jeanne | Céline Devaux | |
| 2024 (29th) | |||
| The Rapture | Le Ravissement | Iris Kaltenbäck | |
| Bernadette | Léa Domenach | ||
| Junkyard Dog | Chien de la casse | Jean-Baptiste Durand | |
| Disco Boy | Giacomo Abbruzzese | ||
| Vincent Must Die | Vincent doit mourir | Stéphan Castang | |
| 2025 (30th) | |||
| Holy Cow | Vingt Dieux | Louise Courvoisier | |
| Ghost Trail | Les Fantômes | Jonathan Millet | |
| The Kingdom | Le Royaume | Julien Colonna | |
| Rabia | Mareike Engelhardt | ||
| Wild Diamond | Diamant brut | Agathe Riedinger | |
See also
- César Award for Best First Film
- Louis Delluc Prize for Best First Film
- Prix du Syndicat Français de la Critique de Cinéma — Best First Film
References
- ^ Hopewell, John (9 February 2016). "Oscar-Shortlisted 'Mustang' Tops France's Lumiere Awards". Variety. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
- ^ Péron, Didier (6 December 2012). "Heike Hurst, la femme aux cheveux rouges" [Heike Hurst, the woman with red hair]. Libération (in French). Retrieved 7 May 2023.