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23rd Lumière Awards
The 23rd Lumière Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Lumières, took place on 5 February 2018 to honour the best in French films of 2017. The nominations were announced on 11 December 2017. Winners and nominees See also * 43rd César Awards * 8th Magritte Awards The 8th Magritte Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie André Delvaux, honored the best films of 2017 in Belgium and took place on 3 February 2018 at the Square in the historic site of Mont des Arts, Brussels, beginning at 8:45 p.m. CE ... References External links * * Lumière Awardsat '' AlloCiné'' {{DEFAULTSORT:23rd Lumiere Awards Lumières Awards Lumiere Awards Lumiere Awards Lumiere Awards Lumiere Awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lumière Awards
The Lumière Awards (), officially the Lumières de la presse internationale, are French film awards presented by the to honor the best in the French-speaking cinema of the previous year. The awards ceremony is organized by the Académie des Lumières which consists of over 200 representatives of the international press based in Paris. Today they are regarded as one of the most prestigious French film industry awards, and are considered France's equivalent to the Golden Globe Awards. History The Lumière Awards were initiated in 1995 by French producer Daniel Toscan du Plantier and American journalist and ex-Newsweek's Paris correspondent Edward Behr. Their idea was to replicate the Golden Globes, which were presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The Lumière Awards is usually presented a month before the César Awards, the French national film award. ''Le Figaro'' described the Lumières as "one of the barometers of the French awards season and are a good in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Félicité (2017 Film)
''Félicité'' is a 2017 Senegalese drama film set in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and directed by Alain Gomis. It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. At Berlin, the film won the Jury Grand Prix award. At the 2017 Africa Movie Academy Awards, it won six awards which is the highest for a film in the history of the award ceremony, including categories for best film, best actress, best supporting actor, best editing, best soundtrack and best film in an African language. It was selected as the Senegalese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, making the December shortlist. It was the first time Senegal had sent a film for consideration for the Best Foreign Language film. Plot The film tells the story of how a bar entertainer struggles to get funds after her child is hospitalized. Cast * Véro Tshanda Beya Mputu as Félicité * Gaetan Claudia as Samo * Papi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lumière Award For Best Actor
The Lumière Award for Best Actor () is an annual award presented by the Académie des Lumières since 1996. Winners and nominees Winners are listed first with a blue background, followed by the other nominees. 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Trivia Multiple awards ; 2 awards * Mathieu Amalric * Benoît Magimel * Michel Serrault Multiple nominees ; 6 nominations * Romain Duris ; 4 nominations * Vincent Lindon ; 3 nominations * Daniel Auteuil * Guillaume Canet * Gérard Depardieu * André Dussollier * Benoît Magimel * Jérémie Renier ; 2 nominations * Mathieu Amalric * Swann Arlaud * Michel Bouquet * François Cluzet * Guillaume Depardieu * Jean Dujardin * Albert Dupontel * Louis Garrel * Vincent Lacoste * Karim Leklou * Fabrice Luchini * Vincent Macaigne * Denis Ménochet * Pierre Niney * Tahar Rahim * Michel Serrault * Omar Sy * Gaspard Ulliel * Lambert Wilson See also *César Award for Best Actor External links Lumière Award for Best Actorat '' AlloCiné'' {{DEFAULT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Redoubtable (film)
''Redoubtable'' (french: Le Redoutable; released as ''Godard Mon Amour'' in the United States) is a 2017 French biographical comedy-drama film written and directed by Michel Hazanavicius about the affair of filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard with Anne Wiazemsky in the late 1960s, during the making of his film '' La Chinoise'' (1967). It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Louis Garrel as Jean-Luc Godard * Stacy Martin as Anne Wiazemsky * Bérénice Bejo as Michèle Rosier * Micha Lescot as Jean-Pierre Bamberger * Grégory Gadebois as Michel Cournot * Guido Caprino as Bernardo Bertolucci * Quentin Dolmaire as Paul Reception On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 54% based on 89 reviews, and an average rating of 5.8/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "''Godard Mon Amour'' imagines a chapter from Jean-Luc Godard's life with no shortage of whimsy, but la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Hazanavicius
Michel Hazanavicius ( lt, Hazanavičius; born 29 March 1967) is a French film director, screenwriter, editor, and producer. He is best known for his 2011 film, '' The Artist'', which won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 84th Academy Awards. It also won him the Academy Award for Best Director. He also directed spy film parodies '' OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies'' (2006) and '' OSS 117: Lost in Rio'' (2009). Life and career Hazanavicius was born in Paris. His family is Jewish, and originally from Lithuania. His grandparents were from both Poland and Lithuania and settled in France in the 1920s. Before directing films, Hazanavicius worked in television, beginning with the Canal+ channel, where he started as a director in 1988.Michel Hazanavicius. ''Allocine''. He began directing commercials for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lover For A Day
''Lover for a Day'' (french: L'Amant d'un jour) is a 2017 French drama film directed by Philippe Garrel and starring Éric Caravaca, Esther Garrel, and Louise Chevillotte. It was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. At Cannes, it won the SACD Award. It is the third and final installment in Garrel's trilogy of love, the first being ''Jealousy'' (2013) and the second being ''In the Shadow of Women'' (2015). Plot A philosophy professor named Gilles ( Éric Caravaca) has a relationship with Ariane (Louise Chevillotte), who is one of his students. Gilles' daughter, Jeanne (Esther Garrel), moves in to live with them after being kicked out of her boyfriend's apartment. Cast * Éric Caravaca as Gilles *Esther Garrel as Jeanne *Louise Chevillotte as Ariane Release The film had its world premiere in the Directors' Fortnight section at the Cannes Film Festival on 19 May 2017. Shortly after, MUBI acquired U.S., U.K., and Ireland distribution righ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Garrel
Philippe Garrel (; born 6 April 1948) is a French director, cinematographer, screenwriter, film editor, and producer, associated with the French New Wave movement. His films have won him awards at Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival. Early life Philippe Garrel was born in Boulogne-Billancourt in 1948, the son of actor Maurice Garrel and his wife. His brother, Thierry Garrel, is a producer. The younger Garrel became interested in film and started his career early, influenced by the new work of Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. At the age of 16, Garrel wrote and directed his first film, ''Les Enfants désaccordés,'' in 1964. Awards In 1982, Garrel won the Prix Jean Vigo for the film ''L'Enfant secret''. He won Perspectives du Cinéma Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1984 for his 1983 film ''Liberté, la nuit''. Over a ten-year period, Garrel enjoyed a good run of critical recognition at the Venice Film Festival. In 1991, he won a Silver Lion for his film ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Workshop (film)
''The Workshop'' (french: L'Atelier) is a 2017 French drama film directed by Laurent Cantet. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. Plot Olivia, a well-known Parisian novelist, runs a writing workshop with a group of young people in La Ciotat, in the South of France. She is particularly intrigued by Antoine, a taciturn and not very sociable, young man. Antoine makes writing proposals that others consider shocking, and becomes the "black sheep" of the group. Olivia and Antoine, who seeks escape from his daily life by immersing himself in an extreme right-wing ideology (following Luc Borel, a fascist leader inspired from real-life Alain Soral), develop a relationship that is marked by attraction and repulsion. Cast * Marina Foïs as Olivia Dejazet * Matthieu Lucci as Antoine Reception On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 86% based on 35 reviews, with a weighted average rating of 7.4/10. On Metacri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurent Cantet
Laurent Cantet (; born 11 April 1961) is a French director, cinematographer and screenwriter. His film ''Entre les murs'' ('' The Class'') won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008. Biography Laurent Cantet was born in 1961 in the town of Melle, Deux-Sèvres in western France; his parents were schoolteachers. He went to university in Marseille to study photography, and then entered the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques (IDHEC) in Paris where he graduated in 1986 His colleagues at IDHEC included Dominik Moll, Gilles Marchand and Robin Campillo. After initially working in television, he became assistant director to Marcel Ophuls for ''Veillées d'armes'' (1994), a documentary about the siege of Sarajevo. He went on to make some short films, often in collaboration with colleagues from film school. In 1998 Cantet was one of several young directors invited to make films for the European TV company Arte to mark the forthcoming year 2000, and he completed the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lumière Award For Best Director
The Lumière Award for Best Director () is an award presented annually by the Académie des Lumières since 1996. It was presented as the Lumière du meilleur réalisateur from 1996 to 2019. Winners and nominees Winners are listed first with a blue background, followed by the other nominees. 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Trivia Multiple awards ; 4 awards * Jacques Audiard ; 2 awards * Luc Besson * Abdellatif Kechiche * Maïwenn * Roman Polanski Multiple nominees ; 6 nominations * Jacques Audiard ; 3 nominations * Bertrand Bonello * Arnaud Desplechin * Philippe Garrel * Xavier Giannoli * Maïwenn * François Ozon ; 2 nominations * Mathieu Amalric * Luc Besson * Laurent Cantet * Leos Carax * Albert Dupontel * Alain Guiraudie * Michel Hazanavicius * Cédric Kahn * Abdellatif Kechiche * Gaspar Noé * Roman Polanski * Alain Resnais * Céline Sciamma * Albert Serra * Bertrand Tavernier * Rebecca Zlotowski See also *César Award for Best Director References External links Lumi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éric Toledano And Olivier Nakache
Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache are French filmmakers, best known for directing the films '' Those Happy Days'' and ''The Intouchables'' (2011). Early life Éric Toledano was born on 3 July 1971 in Paris. Olivier Nakache was born on 15 April 1973 in Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine. Toledano and Nakache are both Jewish. Toledano's parents were immigrants from Morocco, while Nakache's parents were from Algeria. Career Toledano and Nakache collaborated several times before directing ''The Intouchables'' (2011), which became one of the greatest box office successes in French film history and for which they were nominated for several awards, including three Cesar Awards. They have collaborated several times with actor Omar Sy, most recently with the 2014 film ''Samba''. Their 2019 film ''The Specials'' stars Vincent Cassel and Reda Kateb. The film shows Parisians from many different groups in society making connections with each other through their work with autistic children and young ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
C'est La Vie! (2017 Film)
''C'est la Vie!'' (french: Le Sens de la fête) is a 2017 French comedy film written and directed by Éric Toledano & Olivier Nakache. It was screened in the Gala Presentations section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. Plot Wedding planner/caterer Max is staging a wedding at a 17th-century chateau, in the course of which he must deal with a volatile, often foul-mouthed assistant, missing staff, incompetent waiters, a demanding, egocentric groom, iffy electrical system, a rebellious substitute DJ, and a whole lot more. Interwoven with his professional woes are his personal ones. He is on a trial separation from his wife and his French grammarian brother-in-law, who is also one of his waiters, is a former admirer of the bride. Max's other assistant is his mistress, who threatens to end their relationship and starts hitting on one of the waiters to prove it. And it's Max's birthday. At the end of a string of safely negotiated disasters a runaway fireworks display ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
