Ahead of the 2024 Cesars, fall favorite Anatomy for 2024 Lumer Award nominations

Which French films will dominate awards season? As every year, Lights Academy opens the ball of predictions by revealing the list of nominees.

In anticipation of the knowledge of the Caesars (published at the end of January 2024), the Academy of Lumières, composed of foreign press journalists (correspondents of the international press from 36 countries), gives a first overview of the most famous. French films and year appreciated.

With six nominations, Justin Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall is ahead of Cedric Kahn’s Goldman’s Court and Thomas Keil’s Animal Kingdom (five nominations each).

Those three feature films will be up for Best Picture at Lumière with Catherine Brea’s Last Summer (four nominations) and Clément Cogitore’s Golden Goth (three nominations). Four nominations also for Disco Boy for Giacomo Abruzzi and three for Le Rapissement by Iris Kaltenbeck.

On Monday, January 22, 2024, the Académie des Lumières will award 13 prizes (film, direction, screenplay, actor, actress, female debut, male debut, first film, animation, documentary, international co-production, picture and music). The winners will receive the Lumière, a trophy designed by the Monnaie de Paris, signed by Joaquín Jimenez.

Check out the full list of nominees below:

Nominations – 29th Ceremony of Lights

best movie

Anatomy of a Fall by Justin Triet

Last Summer by Catherine Breillat

DROP OF GOLD by Clement Cogitore

The Trial of Gold by Cedric Kahn

Thomas Kyle’s Animal Kingdom

best director

Catherine Breillat for last summer

Thomas Cayley for Animal Kingdom

Clément Cogitore for GOUTTE D’OR

Cedric Kahn for GOLDMAN TRIAL

Justin Triet for Anatomy of a Fall

Best case scenario

Thomas Keil, Pauline Meunier for Animal Kingdom

Quentin Dupier for YANNICK

Cedric Kahn, Natalie Herzberg for GOLDMAN TRIAL

Iris Kaltenbeck for RAVISSEMENT

Justin Triet, Arthur Harar for Anatomy of the Fall

Best Documentary

Girls of Olfa by Kauter Ben Hania

LITTLE GIRL BLUE by Mona Achache

OUR BODY by Claire Simon

River by Dominic Marche

ON ADAMANT by Nicolas Philibert

The best animated film

Forbidden to Dogs and Italians by Alain Ughetto

Linda wants chicken! By Chiara Malta and Sebastien Laudenbach

MARS EXPRESS by Jeremy Perrin

Blind Willows, Sleeping Woman Pierre Foldes

Mermaid by Sepide Farsi

Best actress

Catherine Deneuve for BERNADETTE

Leah Drucker for last summer

Virgin aired for nothing to lose

Hapsia Hertz for rape

Sandra Huler for Anatomy of a Fall

Best actor

Vincent Lacoste for a time of love

Kareem Lecleux for Vincent MUST DIE

Melvil Poupaud for Love and Forests

Franz Rogowski for DISCO BOY

Arie Warthalter for GOLDMAN TRIAL

A feminine revelation

Suzanne Juanette for The Royal Road

Louise Morroy-Panzani for ÀMA GLORIA

Park Ji-min to return to Seoul

Claire Pommett for the Silver Venus

Ella Rumpf for Daisy’s theorem

masculine revelation

Arthur Harar for GOLDMAN TRIAL

Samuel Kircher for last summer

Milo Machado Graner for Anatomy of a Fall

Raphael Cuenard for CHIEN DE LA CASSE

Abdullah Sissoko for the young imam

Best first movie

BERNADETTE by Leah Domenach

Jean Baptiste Duran’s dog from the stock house

DISCO BOY by Giacomo Abruzzi

Abduction by Iris Kaltenbeck

Vincent Must Die by Stéphane Castang

The best international co-production

THE BLUE OF THE CAFTAN by Mariam Tuzan

DRY HERBS by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

The Lost Country by Vladimir Perisic

PACKS by Kamal Lazrak

Old Oak by Ken Loach

best picture

Simon Beaufils for Anatomy of a Fall

David Keil for Animal Kingdom

Helen Louvart for DISCO BOY

Jonathan Rykeburg for kidnapping Dodin Bouffen

Sylvain Verde for GOUTTE D’OR

The best music

Amine Bouhafa for THE GIRLS OF OLFA

Clement Ducoli wants a chicken for Linda!

Andrea Laszlo de Simone for Animal Kingdom

Chloé Thevenin for LA MONTAGNE

Vitalik for DISCO BOY

The ceremony will take place on Monday, January 22, 2024 at 8:00 PM in the Forum Picture Hall.