13th Lumière Awards

13th Lumière Awards
13th Lumière Awards
Date	13 January 2008
Site	Hôtel de Ville, Paris, France
Highlights
Best Film	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Director	Abdellatif Kechiche
Best Actor	Mathieu Amalric
Best Actress	Marion Cotillard
	← 12th; Lumière Awards; 14th →;

The 13th Lumière Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Lumières, was held on 13 January 2008. The ceremony was chaired by Claude Lelouch. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly won the award for Best Film and Jean-Pierre Marielle was presented with the honorary Lumière Award.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

Best Film	Best Director
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly La Vie en Rose The Secret of the Grain Persepolis Room of Death	Abdellatif Kechiche — The Secret of the Grain André Téchiné — The Witnesses Olivier Dahan — La Vie en Rose Julian Schnabel — The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Alfred Lot — Room of Death
Best Actor	Best Actress
Mathieu Amalric — The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Jean-Pierre Marielle — Let's Dance Guillaume Depardieu — The Duchess of Langeais Benoît Magimel — A Girl Cut in Two & 24 Bars Jean-Pierre Darroussin — Le Cœur des hommes 2 Gérard Darmon — Le Cœur des hommes 2 Marc Lavoine — Le Cœur des hommes 2 Bernard Campan — Le Cœur des hommes 2	Marion Cotillard — La Vie en Rose Mélanie Laurent — Room of Death Sylvie Testud — The Vanishing Point Ludivine Sagnier — A Girl Cut in Two Marina Foïs — Darling
Most Promising Actor	Most Promising Actress
Jocelyn Quivrin — 99 francs Kolia Litscher — Charly Laurent Stocker — Hunting and Gathering Yannick Renier — Private Property Fu'ad Ait Aattou — The Last Mistress	Hafsia Herzi — The Secret of the Grain Romola Garai — Angel Clotilde Hesme — Love Songs Audrey Dana — Roman de Gare Lucie Desclozeaux — Et toi, t'es sur qui? Christa Theret — Et toi, t'es sur qui?
Best Screenplay	Best French-Language Film
Room of Death — Alfred Lot Actrices — Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Agnès De Sacy and Noémie Lvovsky The Witnesses — Laurent Guyot, André Téchiné and Viviane Zingg The Vanishing Point — Laurent de Bartillat and Alain Ross Darling — Christine Carrière	Délice Paloma Cowboy Gone for a Dance In the Arms of My Enemy Days of Darkness Africa Paradis
Best Cinematography	World Audience Award (presented by TV5Monde)
Éric Gauthier — Into the Wild	La Vie en Rose — Olivier Dahan
Honorary Lumière Award
Jean-Pierre Marielle