Emilia Pérez sets record at France’s Prix Lumières 2025 ceremony

Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez won big at the 30th Lumières ceremony in Paris last night, placing it as a favourite for the upcoming César Awards (France’s equivalent to the Oscars) and cementing the audacious musical as a frontrunner for the Academy Awards in March.  

The Cannes and Golden Globe-winning film won five awards out of six nominations, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actress for Karla Sofía Gascón.

Scroll down for the full list of results.  

The Académie des Lumières is the first major awards ceremony of the year in France and the gongs are awarded by members of the Académie des Lumières, international press correspondents from 38 countries.  

Also noteworthy is how Jacques Audiard has set a new record in the history of the Lumières awards, winning Best Film for the third time and Best Director for the fourth time.  

The French director won Best Film in 2006 for the stunning De battre mon coeur s’est arrêté (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) and again in 2019 for his Western The Sisters Brothers, starring John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix.  

He won Best Director for Un prophète (A Prohpet) in 2010; De rouille et d’os (Rust And Bone) in 2013; The Sisters Brothers in 2019; and now Emilia Pérez.  

Elsewhere, Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Scared Fig won Best International Coproduction. The film topped our Best Movies of 2024 list.

Check out our interview with Mohammad Rasoulof.

Here is the full list of 2025’s winners:

Best Film

WINNER: Emilia Pérez (Jacques Audiard) 

Le Roman (Jim De Arnaud Larrieu & Jean-Marie Larrieu) 

L’histoire De Souleymane (Boris Lojkine) 

Miséricorde (Alain Guiraudie)

Best Director

WINNER: Jacques Audiard (Emilia Pérez) 

Matthieu Delaporte & Alexandre De La Patellière (Le Comte De Monte-Cristo) 

Alain Guiraudie (Miséricorde) 

Boris Lojkine (L’histoire De Souleymane) 

François Ozon (Quand Vient L’automne) 

Best Screenplay

WINNER: Jacques Audiard (Emilia Pérez) 

Alain Guiraudie (Miséricorde) 

Boris Lojkine & Delphine Agut (L’histoire De Souleymane) 

Jonathan Millet & Florence Rochat (Les Fantômes) 

François Ozon (Quand Vient L’automne) 

Best Documentary

WINNER: Dahomey (Mati Diop) 

Bye Bye Tibériade (Lina Soualem) 

Madame Hofmann (Sébastien Lifshitz) 

Orlando, Ma Biographie Politique (Paul B. Preciado) 

Voyage À Gaza (Piero Usberti) 

Best Animation Film

WINNER: Flow (Gints Zilbalodis) 

Angelo Dans La Forêt Mystérieuse (Vincent Paronnaud & Alexis Ducord) 

La Plus Précieuse Des Marchandises (Michel Hazanavicius) 

Maya, Donne-Moi Un Titre (Michel Gondry) 

Sauvages (Claude Barras) 

Best Actress

WINNER: Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez) 

Hafsia Herzi (Borgo) 

Agnès Jaoui (Ma Vie Ma Gueule) 

Anamaria Vartolomei (Maria) 

Hélène Vincent (Quand Vient L’automne) 

Best Actor

WINNER: Abou Sangare (L’histoire De Souleymane) 

Adam Bessa (Les Fantômes) 

Paul Kircher (Leurs Enfants Après Eux) 

Karim Leklou (Le Roman De Jim) 

Pierre Niney (Le Comte De Monte-Cristo) 

Révélation Féminine

WINNER: Ghjuvanna Benedetti (Le Royaume) 

Maïwène Barthélemy (Vingt Dieux) 

Malou Khebizi (Diamant Brut) 

Clara-Maria Laredo (À Son Image) 

Megan Northam (Rabia) 

Révélation Masculine

WINNER: Clément Faveau (Vingt Dieux) 

Sayyid El Alami (Leurs Enfants Après Eux) 

Malik Frikah (L’amour Ouf) 

Félix Kysyl (Miséricorde) 

Pierre Lottin (Quand Vient L’automne) 

Best First Film

WINNER: Vingt Dieux (Louise Courvoisie) 

Diamant Brut (Agathe Riedinger) 

Les Fantômes (Jonathan Millet) 

Le Royaume (Julien Colonna) 

Rabia (Mareike Engelhardt) 

Best International Coproduction

WINNER: The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Mohammad Rasoulof) 

El Profesor (Maria Alché & Benjamín Naishtat) 

Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes) 

Green Border (Agnieszka Holland) 

Septembre Sans Attendre (Jonás Trueba) 

Best Cinematography

WINNER: Nicolas Bolduc (Le Comte De Monte-Cristo) 

Josée Deshaies (La Bête) 

Tristan Galand (L’histoire De Souleymane) 

Paul Guilhaume (Emilia Pérez) 

Claire Mathon (Miséricorde) 

Best Music

WINNER: Camille & Clément Ducol (Emilia Pérez) 

Bertrand Bonello & Anna Bonello (La Bête) 

Amaury Chabauty (Leurs Enfants Après Eux) 

Alexandre Desplat (La Plus Précieuse Des Marchandises) 

Yuksek (Les Fantômes)