Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez wins big and sets record at France’s Prix Lumières 2025 ceremony

Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez gained huge on the thirtieth Lumières ceremony in Paris final evening, inserting it as a favorite for the upcoming César Awards (France’s equal to the Oscars) and cementing the audacious musical as a frontrunner for the Academy Awards in March.  

The Cannes and Golden Globe-winning movie gained 5 awards out of six nominations, together with Greatest Movie, Greatest Director and Greatest Actress for Karla Sofía Gascón.

Scroll down for the total listing of outcomes.  

The Académie des Lumières is the primary main awards ceremony of the 12 months in France and the gongs are awarded by members of the Académie des Lumières, worldwide press correspondents from 38 international locations.  

Additionally noteworthy is how Jacques Audiard has set a brand new report within the historical past of the Lumières awards, successful Greatest Movie for the third time and Greatest Director for the fourth time.  

The French director gained Greatest Movie in 2006 for the beautiful De battre mon coeur s’est arrêté (The Beat That My Coronary heart Skipped) and once more in 2019 for his Western The Sisters Brothers, starring John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix.  

He gained Greatest 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 gained Greatest Worldwide Coproduction. The movie topped our Greatest Films of 2024 listing.

Take a look at our interview with Mohammad Rasoulof.

Right here is the total listing of 2025’s winners:

Greatest Movie

WINNER: Emilia Pérez (Jacques Audiard) 

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

L’histoire De Souleymane (Boris Lojkine) 

Miséricorde (Alain Guiraudie)

Greatest 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) 

Greatest 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) 

Greatest 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) 

Greatest Animation Movie

WINNER: Movement (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) 

Greatest 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) 

Greatest 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 Picture) 

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) 

Greatest First Movie

WINNER: Vingt Dieux (Louise Courvoisie) 

Diamant Brut (Agathe Riedinger) 

Les Fantômes (Jonathan Millet) 

Le Royaume (Julien Colonna) 

Rabia (Mareike Engelhardt) 

Greatest Worldwide Coproduction

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

El Profesor (Maria Alché & Benjamín Naishtat) 

Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes) 

Inexperienced Border (Agnieszka Holland) 

Septembre Sans Attendre (Jonás Trueba) 

Greatest 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) 

Greatest 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)