26th Lumière Awards

The 26th Lumière 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.

26th Lumière Awards
Date	19 January 2021
Hosted by	Laurie Cholewa Laurent Weil
Highlights
Best Film	Love Affair(s)
Most awards	Josep, Summer of 85 and Two of Us (2)
Most nominations	Two of Us (6)
Television coverage
Network	Canal+
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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

See also

• 46th César Awards