Lumière Award for Best First Film

The Lumière Award for Best First Film (French: Lumière du meilleur premier film) is an award presented annually by the Académie des Lumières since 2014. It was previously known as the Heike Hurst Award for Best First Film,^[1] in honour of the film critic.^[2]

Lumière Award for Best First Film
Country	France
Presented by	Académie des Lumières
First awarded	2014
Currently held by	The Rapture (2024)
Website	academiedeslumieres.com

Winners and nominees

In the following lists, the titles and names with a blue background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the nominees.

2010s

Year	English title	Original title	Director (s)
2014 (19th)	Me, Myself and Mum	Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table !	Guillaume Gallienne
	Little Lion	Comme un lion	Samuel Collardey
	Turning Tide	En solitaire	Christophe Offenstein
	Headfirst	La Tête la première	Amélie van Elmbt
	Nous irons vivre ailleurs		Nicolas Karolszyk
	Beyond the Blood	Au-delà du sang	Guillaume Tauveron
2015 (20th)	Love at First Fight	Les Combattants	Thomas Cailley
	Party Girl		Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis
	Elle l'adore		Jeanne Herry
	We Did It on a Song	Chante ton bac d'abord	David André
	May Allah Bless France!	Qu'Allah bénisse la France	Abd al Malik
	Fool Circle	Tristesse Club	Vincent Mariette
2016 (21st)
	Mustang		Deniz Gamze Ergüven
	Young Tiger	Bébé Tigre	Cyprien Vial
	Two Friends	Les Deux Amis	Louis Garrel
	The Wakhan Front	Ni le ciel ni la terre	Clément Cogitore
	La Vie pure		Jeremy Banster
	Vincent	Vincent n'a pas d'écailles	Thomas Salvador
2017 (22nd)
	Divines		Houda Benyamina
	Apnea	Apnée	Jean-Christophe Meurisse
	Dark Inclusion	Diamant noir	Arthur Harari
	Still Life	Gorge cœur ventre	Maud Alpi
	The Dancer	La Danseuse	Stéphanie di Giusto
	Mercenary	Mercenaire	Sacha Wolff
2018 (23rd)
	Until the Birds Return	En attendant les hirondelles	Karim Moussaoui
	Les Bienheureux		Sofia Djama
	Raw	Grave	Julia Ducournau
	Montparnasse Bienvenue	Jeune femme	Léonor Serraille
	Patients		Grand Corps Malade and Mehdi Idir
	Bloody Milk	Petit paysan	Hubert Charuel
2019 (24th)
	Custody	Jusqu'à la garde	Xavier Legrand
	Little Tickles	Les Chatouilles	Andréa Bescond and Eric Métayer
	The Wild Boys	Les Garçons sauvages	Bertrand Mandico
	Sauvage		Camille Vidal-Naquet
	Shéhérazade		Jean-Bernard Marlin

2020s

Year	English title	Original title	Director (s)
2020 (25th)
	The Mustang	Nevada	Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
	Atlantics	Atlantique	Mati Diop
	Conviction	Une intime conviction	Antoine Raimbault
	Les Misérables		Ladj Ly
	The Bare Necessity	Perdrix	Erwan Le Duc
2021 (26th)
	Two of Us	Deux	Filippo Meneghetti
	Arab Blues	Un divan à Tunis	Manele Labidi
	Cuties	Mignonnes	Maïmouna Doucouré
	Slalom		Charlène Favier
	Simply Black	Tout simplement noir	Jean-Pascal Zadi and John Wax
2022 (27th)
	Gagarine		Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh
	Ibrahim		Samir Guesmi
	Magnetic Beats	Les Magnétiques	Vincent Maël Cardona
	The Swarm	La Nuée	Just Philippot
	Skies of Lebanon	Sous le ciel d'Alice	Chloé Mazlo
2023 (28th)
	The Sixth Child	Le Sixième Enfant	Léopold Legrand
	Bruno Reidal, Confessions of a Murderer	Bruno Reidal	Vincent Le Port
	Harka		Lotfy Nathan
	The Worst Ones	Les Pires	Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret
	Everybody Loves Jeanne	Tout le monde aime Jeanne	Céline Devaux
2024 (29th)
	The Rapture	Le Ravissement	Iris Kaltenbäck
	Bernadette		Léa Domenach
	Junkyard Dog	Chien de la casse	Jean-Baptiste Durand
	Disco Boy		Giacomo Abbruzzese
	Vincent Must Die	Vincent doit mourir	Stéphan Castang

See also

• César Award for Best First Feature Film
• Louis Delluc Prize for Best First Film
• Prix du Syndicat Français de la Critique de Cinéma — Best First Film

References

1. Hopewell, John (9 February 2016). "Oscar-Shortlisted 'Mustang' Tops France's Lumiere Awards". Variety. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
2. Péron, Didier (6 December 2012). "Heike Hurst, la femme aux cheveux rouges" [Heike Hurst, the woman with red hair]. Libération (in French). Retrieved 7 May 2023.

External links

• Lumière Award for Best First Film at AlloCiné