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

Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez won big at the 30th Lumières ceremony in Paris last night, placing it as a favourite for the upcoming César Awards (France’s equivalent to the Oscars) and cementing the audacious musical as a frontrunner for the Academy Awards in March.  

The Cannes and Golden Globe-winning film won five awards out of six nominations, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actress for Karla Sofía Gascón.

Scroll down for the full list of results.  

The Académie des Lumières is the first major awards ceremony of the year in France and the gongs are awarded by members of the Académie des Lumières, international press correspondents from 38 countries.  

Also noteworthy is how Jacques Audiard has set a new record in the history of the Lumières awards, winning Best Film for the third time and Best Director for the fourth time.  

The French director won Best Film in 2006 for the stunning De battre mon coeur s’est arrêté (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) and again in 2019 for his Western The Sisters Brothers, starring John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix.  

He won Best 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 won Best International Coproduction. The film topped our Best Movies of 2024 list.

Check out our interview with Mohammad Rasoulof .

Here is the full list of 2025’s winners:

WINNER: Emilia Pérez (Jacques Audiard) 

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

L’histoire De Souleymane (Boris Lojkine) 

Miséricorde (Alain Guiraudie)

WINNER: Jacques Audiard (Emilia Pérez) 

Matthieu Delaporte & Alexandre De La Patellière (Le Comte De Monte-Cristo) 

Alain