26th Lumières Awards

The 26th Lumières Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Lumières, took place on 19 January 2021 to honour the best in French-speaking cinema of 2020.^[1] The show was hosted by French journalists Laurie Cholewa and Laurent Weil. Canal+ broadcast the ceremony.

Love Affair(s) won the Best Film. The ceremony paid tribute to Spanish journalist and a Lumières long-standing member, José María Riba.^[2]

Winners and nominees

The nominations were announced on 14 December 2020.^[3] Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).

Best Film Love Affair(s) – Emmanuel Mouret‡ Bye Bye Morons – Albert Dupontel The Girl with a Bracelet – Stéphane Demoustier Summer of 85 – François Ozon Two of Us – Filippo Meneghetti	Best Director Maïwenn – DNA‡ Albert Dupontel – Bye Bye Morons Filippo Meneghetti – Two of Us Emmanuel Mouret – Love Affair(s) François Ozon – Summer of 85
Best Actor *Sami Bouajila – A Son* as Fares Ben Youssef*‡ Jonathan Cohen – Enormous* as Frédéric Girard Albert Dupontel – Bye Bye Morons as Jean-Baptiste Cuchas Nicolas Maury – My Best Part as Jérémie Meyer Jérémie Renier – Slalom as Fred	Best Actress *Martine Chevallier and Barbara Sukowa – Two of Us* as Madeleine Girard and Nina Dorn*‡ Laure Calamy – My Donkey, My Lover & I* as Antoinette Emmanuelle Devos – Perfumes as Anne Walberg Virginie Efira – Bye Bye Morons as Suze Trappet Camélia Jordana – Love Affair(s) as Daphné
Best Male Revelation *Félix Lefebvre and Benjamin Voisin – Summer of 85* as Alexis Robin and David Gorman*‡ Guang Huo – Night Ride* as Jin Djibril Vancoppenolle – Small Country: An African Childhood as Gabriel Alexandre Wetter – Miss as Alex Jean-Pascal Zadi – Simply Black as himself	Best Female Revelation *Noée Abita – Slalom* as Lyz*‡ Najla Ben Abdallah – A Son* as Meriem Ben Youssef Nisrin Erradi – Adam as Samia Mélissa Guers – The Girl with a Bracelet as Lise Fathia Youssouf – Cuties as Amy
Best First Film Two of Us – Filippo Meneghetti‡ Arab Blues – Manele Labidi Labbé Cuties – Maïmouna Doucouré Simply Black – Jean-Pascal Zadi and John Wax Slalom – Charlène Favier	Best Screenplay The Girl with a Bracelet – Stéphane Demoustier‡ Josep – Jean-Louis Milesi Love Affair(s) – Emmanuel Mouret My Donkey, My Lover & I – Caroline Vignal Two of Us – Filippo Meneghetti and Malysone Bovarasmy
Best Cinematography Summer of 85 – Hichame Alaouié‡ Love Affair(s) – Laurent Desmet The Salt of Tears – Renato Berta Slalom – Yann Maritaud Two of Us – Aurélien Marra	Best Music Josep – Sílvia Pérez Cruz‡ Appearances – Bertrand Burgalat Calamity, a Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary – Florencia Di Concilio Marona's Fantastic Tale – Pablo Pico Night Ride – Rone
Best Documentary The Monopoly of Violence – David Dufresne‡ Adolescents – Sébastien Lifshitz If It Were Love – Patric Chiha Kongo – Corto Vaclav and Hadrien La Vapeur The Tie – Etienne Chaillou and Mathias Théry	Best Animated Film Josep – Aurel‡ Calamity, a Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary – Rémi Chayé Little Vampire – Joann Sfar Marona's Fantastic Tale – Anca Damian
Best International Co-Production The Man Who Sold His Skin ( / / / / / ) – Kaouther Ben Hania‡ Abou Leila ( / / ) – Amin Sidi-Boumédiène Adam ( / / ) – Maryam Touzani A Son ( / / / ) – Mehdi M. Barsaoui La Llorona ( / ) – Jayro Bustamante Yalda ( / / / / / ) – Massoud Bakhshi You Will Die at Twenty ( / / / / / ) – Amjad Abu Alala

Films with multiple nominations and awards

Films that received multiple nominations
Nominations	Film
6	Two of Us
5	Love Affair(s)
4	Bye Bye Morons
	Slalom
	Summer of 85
3	The Girl with a Bracelet
	Josep
	A Son
2	Adam
	Calamity Jane
	Cuties
	Marona's Fantastic Tale
	My Donkey, My Lover & I
	Night Ride
	Simply Black

Films that received multiple awards
Awards	Film
2	Josep
	Summer of 85
	Two of Us

References

^ Keslassy, Elsa (19 January 2021). "'Love Affairs,' 'Two of Us' Take Top Prizes at France's Lumieres Awards". Variety. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
^ "Lumières: French 2021 Oscar entry among annual foreign press award-winners". Radio France Internationale. 20 January 2021. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
^ "26th Lumières Awards Nominations" (PDF). The Académie des Lumières (in French). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2022. Retrieved 22 August 2021.