The Lumiere Awards ceremony will be held in Paris on January 18, 2013.
Held as part of the 15th Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris, an event hosted by uniFrance Films from January 15 through 21, 2013, the Lumiere Awards ceremony will honor outstanding achievement in French and French-language filmmaking in 2012.
The Lumieres Academy has just unveiled its nominations list:
Best Film
- Love by Michael Haneke
- Rust & Bone by Jacques Audiard
- Camille Rewinds by Noémie Lvovsky
- Holy Motors by Leos Carax
- Farewell My Queen by Benoît Jacquot
Best Director
- Jacques Audiard for Rust & Bone
- Leos Carax for Holy Motors
- Michael Haneke for Love
- Noémie Lvovsky for Camille Rewinds
- Cyril Mennegun for Louise Wimmer
Best Screenplay
- Jacques Audiard and Thomas Bidegain for Rust & Bone
- Leos Carax for Holy Motors
- Benoît Jacquot and Gilles Taurand for Farewell My Queen
- Noémie Lvovsky, Maud Ameline, Pierre-Olivier Mattei, and Florence Seyvios for Camille Rewinds
- Valérie Zenatti and Thierry Binisti for A Bottle in the Gaza Sea
Best Actress
- Marion Cotillard for Rust & Bone by Jacques Audiard
- Catherine Frot for Les saveurs du palais by Christian Vincent
- Noémie Lvovsky for Camille Rewinds by Noémie Lvovsky
- Corinne Masiero for Louise Wimmer by Cyril Mennegun
- Emmanuelle Riva for Love by Michael Haneke
Best Actor
- Guillaume Canet for A Better Life by Cédric Kahn
- Denis Lavant for Holy Motors by Leos Carax
- Jérémie Renier for My Way by Florent Emilio Siri
- Mathias Schoenaerts for Rust & Bone by Jacques Audiard
- Jean-Louis Trintignant for Love by Michael Haneke
Most Promising Actress
- Agathe Bonitzer for A Bottle in the Gaza Sea by Thierry Binisti
- Judith Chemla, Julia Faure, and India Hair for Camille Rewinds by Noémie Lvovsky
- Izia Higelin for Mauvaise fille by Patrick Mille
- Sofiia Manousha for Le noir (te) vous va si bien by Jacques Bral
- Soko for Augustine by Alice Winocour
Most Promising Actor
- Clément Métayer for Something in the Air by Olivier Assayas
- Stéphane Soo Mongo for Hold Back by Rachid Djaïdani
- Pierre Niney for Comme des frères by Hugo Gélin
- Mahmoud Shalaby for A Bottle in the Gaza Sea by Thierry Binisti
- Ernst Umhauer for Dans la maison by François Ozon
Best French-Language Film (outside France)
- A Perdre la raison by Joachim Lafosse
- Laurence Anyways by Xavier Dolan
- La pirogue by Moussa Touré
- L’enfant d’en haut by Ursula Meier
- Monsieur Lazhar by Philippe Falardeau
