21st Lumière Awards

21st Lumière Awards
21st Lumière Awards
	Official poster
Date	8 February 2016
Site	Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France
Hosted by	Aïda Touihri and Patrick Fabre
Highlights
Best Film	Mustang
Best Director	Arnaud Desplechin
Best Actor	Vincent Lindon
Best Actress	Catherine Frot
Most awards	Mustang (4)
Most nominations	My Golden Days (7)
Television coverage
Network	Ciné+; TV5Monde
	← 20th; Lumière Awards; 22nd →;

The 21st Lumière Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Lumières, was held on 8 February 2016, at the Espace Pierre Cardin in Paris to honour the best in French films of 2015. Nominees were announced on 4 January 2016. My Golden Days garnered the most nominations, with a total of seven.^[1]^[2]

Mustang won four awards, out of its six nominations, including Best Film and Best First Film.^[3]^[4]

Winners and nominees

Best Film Mustang Summertime Dheepan Courted Marguerite My Golden Days	Best Director Arnaud Desplechin — My Golden Days Jacques Audiard — Dheepan Catherine Corsini — Summertime Philippe Garrel — In the Shadow of Women Xavier Giannoli — Marguerite Maïwenn — Mon roi
Best Actor Vincent Lindon — The Measure of a Man & Diary of a Chambermaid Gérard Depardieu — Valley of Love André Dussollier — 21 Nights with Pattie Fabrice Luchini — Courted Vincent Macaigne — Two Friends Jérémie Renier — The Wakhan Front	Best Actress Catherine Frot — Marguerite Emmanuelle Bercot — Mon roi Clotilde Courau — In the Shadow of Women Izïa Higelin — Summertime Isabelle Huppert — Valley of Love Elsa Zylberstein — Un plus une
Best Male Revelation Rod Paradot — Standing Tall Stany Coppet — La Vie pure Quentin Dolmaire — My Golden Days Alban Lenoir — French Blood Félix Moati — All About Them Harmandeep Palminder — Young Tiger	Best Female Revelation Güneş Nezihe Şensoy, Doğa Zeynep Doğuşlu, Elit Işcan, Tuğba Sunguroğlu & Ilayda Akdoğan — Mustang Golshifteh Farahani — Two Friends Sara Giraudeau — Les Bêtises Baya Medhaffar — As I Open My Eyes Lou Roy-Lecollinet — My Golden Days Sophie Verbeeck — All About Them
Best First Film Mustang Young Tiger Two Friends The Wakhan Front La Vie pure Vincent	Best Screenplay Fatima — Philippe Faucon Summertime — Catherine Corsini and Laurette Polmanss My Golden Days — Arnaud Desplechin and Julie Peyr Mustang — Deniz Gamze Ergüven and Alice Winocour Marguerite — Xavier Giannoli 21 Nights with Pattie — Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu
Best Cinematography David Chizallet — Mustang, The Anarchists & I Am a Soldier Matias Boucard — L'Affaire SK1 Irina Lubtchansky — My Golden Days Claire Mathon — The Last Hammer Blow, Mon roi & Two Friends Arnaud Potier — Cowboys Sylvain Verdet — The Wakhan Front	Best Music Grégoire Hetzel — Summertime & My Golden Days Bruno Coulais — Diary of a Chambermaid Warren Ellis — Mustang Gesaffelstein — Disorder Béatrice Thiriet — L'Astragale Jean-Claude Vannier — Microbe & Gasoline
Best Documentary (Tie) **The Pearl Button & The Missing Picture** Human South to North Tomorrow We Come as Friends	Best French-Language Film Much Loved As I Open My Eyes Next Year The Rooftops The Brand New Testament La Vanité
Honorary Lumières Isabelle Huppert

Films with multiple nominations and awards

The following films received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Film
7	My Golden Days
6	Mustang
5	Summertime
4	Marguerite
4	Two Friends
3	Mon roi
3	The Wakhan Front
2
	Dheepan
	Courted
	In the Shadow of Women
	21 Nights with Pattie
	Valley of Love
	Diary of a Chambermaid
	La Vie pure
	As I Open My Eyes
	All About Them
	Young Tiger