# Lumière Award for Best Screenplay

The Lumière Award for Best Screenplay (French: Lumière du meilleur scénario) is an annual award presented by the Académie des Lumières since 1996.

## Winners and nominees

Winners for Best Original or Adapted Screenplay are listed first with a blue background, followed by the other nominees.

### 1990s

| Year | English title | Original title | Screenwriter(s) |
| 1996 (1st) | French Twist | Gazon maudit | Josiane Balasko |
| 1997 (2nd) | Family Resemblances | Un air de famille | Cédric Klapisch, Jean-Pierre Bacri and Agnès Jaoui |
| 1998 (3rd) | Western | Western | Manuel Poirier and Jean-François Goyet |
| 1999 (4th) | The Dinner Game | Le Dîner de cons | Francis Veber |

### 2000s

| Year | English title | Original title | Screenwriter(s) |
| 2000 (5th) | Season's Beatings | La Bûche | Danièle Thompson and Christopher Thompson |
| 2001 (6th) | The Taste of Others | Le Goût des autres | Jean-Pierre Bacri and Agnès Jaoui |
| 2002 (7th) | Amélie | Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain | Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant |
| 2003 (8th) | L'Auberge Espagnole | L'Auberge Espagnole | Cédric Klapisch |
| 2004 (9th) | Since Otar Left | Depuis qu'Otar est parti… | Julie Bertuccelli and Bernard Renucci |
| 2005 (10th) | Games of Love and Chance | L'Esquive | Abdellatif Kechiche |
| 2006 (11th) | Caché | Caché | Michael Haneke |
| 2007 (12th) | Days of Glory | Indigènes | Rachid Bouchareb and Olivier Lorelle |
| 2007 (12th) | You Are So Beautiful | Je vous trouve très beau | Isabelle Mergault |
| 2007 (12th) | Comedy of Power | L'Ivresse du pouvoir | Odile Barski, Claude Chabrol |
| 2007 (12th) | Tell No One | Ne le dis à personne | Guillaume Canet, Philippe Lefebvre |
| 2007 (12th) | Blame It on Fidel | La Faute à Fidel | Julie Gavras |
| 2008 (13th) | Room of Death | La Chambre des morts | Alfred Lot |
| 2008 (13th) | Actrices | Actrices | Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Agnès De Sacy, Noémie Lvovsky |
| 2008 (13th) | The Witnesses | Les Témoins | Laurent Guyot, André Téchiné, Viviane Zingg |
| 2008 (13th) | The Vanishing Point | Ce que mes yeux ont vu | Laurent de Bartillat, Alain Ross |
| 2008 (13th) | Darling | Darling | Christine Carrière |
| 2009 (14th) | I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster | J'ai toujours rêvé d'être un gangster | Samuel Benchetrit |
| 2009 (14th) | The Class | Entre les murs | François Bégaudeau, Robin Campillo, Laurent Cantet |
| 2009 (14th) | Séraphine | Séraphine | Marc Abdelnour, Martin Provost |
| 2009 (14th) | Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis | Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis | Dany Boon, Alexandre Charlot, Franck Magnier |
| 2009 (14th) | Louise Hires a Contract Killer | Louise-Michel | Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern |

### 2010s

| Year | English title | Original title | Screenwriter(s) |
| 2010 (15th) | Father of My Children | Le Père de mes enfants | Mia Hansen-Løve |
| 2010 (15th) | A Prophet | Un prophète | Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Raouf Dafri, Nicolas Peufaillit |
| 2010 (15th) | The Concert | Le Concert | Alain-Michel Blanc, Héctor Cabello Reyes, Thierry Degrandi, Radu Mihaileanu, Matthew Robbins |
| 2010 (15th) | Welcome | Welcome | Olivier Adam, Emmanuel Courcol, Philippe Lioret |
| 2010 (15th) | The Ordinary People | Rien de personnel | Mathias Gokalp, Nadine Lamari |
| 2011 (16th) | The Ghost Writer | The Ghost Writer | Robert Harris and Roman Polanski |
| 2011 (16th) | Outside the Law | Hors-la-loi | Rachid Bouchareb, Olivier Lorelle |
| 2011 (16th) | Tout ce qui brille | Tout ce qui brille | Hervé Mimran, Géraldine Nakache |
| 2011 (16th) | The Tree | L'Arbre | Julie Bertuccelli |
| 2011 (16th) | The Names of Love | Le Nom des gens | Baya Kasmi, Michel Leclerc |
| 2012 (17th) | The Snows of Kilimanjaro | Les Neiges du Kilimandjaro | Jean-Louis Milesi and Robert Guédiguian |
| 2012 (17th) | The Minister | L'Exercice de l'Etat | Pierre Schoeller |
| 2012 (17th) | Polisse | Polisse | Emmanuelle Bercot, Maïwenn |
| 2012 (17th) | House of Tolerance | L'Apollonide : Souvenirs de la maison close | Bertrand Bonello |
| 2012 (17th) | The Artist | The Artist | Michel Hazanavicius |
| 2013 (18th) | Rust and Bone | De rouille et d'os | Jacques Audiard and Thomas Bidegain |
| 2013 (18th) | A Bottle in the Gaza Sea | Une bouteille à la mer | Thierry Binisti, Valérie Zenatti |
| 2013 (18th) | Farewell, My Queen | Les Adieux à la reine | Benoît Jacquot, Gilles Taurand |
| 2013 (18th) | Camille Rewinds | Camille Redouble | Florence Seyvos, Maud Ameline, Pierre-Olivier Mattei |
| 2013 (18th) | Holy Motors | Holy Motors | Leos Carax |
| 2014 (19th) | Venus in Fur | La Vénus à la fourrure | David Ives and Roman Polanski |
| 2014 (19th) | Arrêtez-moi | Arrêtez-moi | Jean-Paul Lilienfeld |
| 2014 (19th) | Camille Claudel 1915 | Camille Claudel 1915 | Bruno Dumont |
| 2014 (19th) | The French Minister | Quai d'Orsay | Bertrand Tavernier |
| 2014 (19th) | The Past | Le Passé | Asghar Farhadi |
| 2014 (19th) | The Marchers | La Marche | Nabil Ben Yadir |
| 2014 (19th) | 9 Month Stretch | 9 mois ferme | Albert Dupontel |
| 2015 (20th) | Serial (Bad) Weddings | Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au Bon Dieu ? | Philippe de Chauveron and Guy Laurent |
| 2015 (20th) | Hippocrate | Hippocrate | Thomas Lilti, Julien Lilti, Baya Kasmi and Pierre Chosson |
| 2015 (20th) | The Connection | La French | Audrey Diwan and Cédric Jimenez |
| 2015 (20th) | Elle l'adore | Elle l'adore | Jeanne Herry and Gaëlle Macé |
| 2015 (20th) | Saint Laurent | Saint Laurent | Thomas Bidegain and Bertrand Bonello |
| 2015 (20th) | The Bélier Family | La Famille Bélier | Stanislas Carré de Malberg and Victoria Bedos |
| 2016 (21st) |
| 2016 (21st) | Fatima | Fatima | Philippe Faucon |
| 2016 (21st) | Summertime | La Belle Saison | Catherine Corsini and Laurette Polmanss |
| 2016 (21st) | My Golden Days | Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse | Arnaud Desplechin and Julie Peyr |
| 2016 (21st) | Mustang | Mustang | Deniz Gamze Ergüven and Alice Winocour |
| 2016 (21st) | Marguerite | Marguerite | Xavier Giannoli |
| 2016 (21st) | 21 Nights with Pattie | 21 nuits avec Pattie | Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu |
| 2017 (22nd) |
| 2017 (22nd) | My Life as a Courgette | Ma vie de Courgette | Céline Sciamma |
| 2017 (22nd) | Elle | Elle | David Birke |
| 2017 (22nd) | Les Ogres | Les Ogres | Léa Fehner, Catherine Paillé and Brigitte Sy |
| 2017 (22nd) | Heaven Will Wait | Le Ciel attendra | Emilie Frèche and Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar |
| 2017 (22nd) | Staying Vertical | Rester vertical | Alain Guiraudie |
| 2017 (22nd) | Frantz | Frantz | François Ozon |
| 2018 (23rd) |
| 2018 (23rd) | BPM (Beats per Minute) | 120 battements par minute | Robin Campillo and Philippe Mangeot |
| 2018 (23rd) | Orphan | Orpheline | Christelle Berthevas and Arnaud des Pallières |
| 2018 (23rd) | See You Up There | Au revoir là-haut | Albert Dupontel and Pierre Lemaitre |
| 2018 (23rd) | Until the Birds Return | En attendant les hirondelles | Karim Moussaoui and Maud Ameline |
| 2018 (23rd) | C'est la vie! | Le Sens de la fête | Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache |
| 2019 (24th) |
| 2019 (24th) | The Trouble with You | En liberté ! | Pierre Salvadori, Benoît Graffin and Benjamin Charbit |
| 2019 (24th) | Little Tickles | Les Chatouilles | Andréa Bescond and Eric Métayer |
| 2019 (24th) | In Safe Hands | Pupille | Jeanne Herry |
| 2019 (24th) | The Freshmen | Première année | Thomas Lilti |
| 2019 (24th) | Mademoiselle de Joncquières | Mademoiselle de Joncquières | Emmanuel Mouret |

### 2020s

| Year | English title | Original title | Screenwriter(s) |
| 2020 (25th) | Les Misérables | Les Misérables | Ladj Ly, Giordano Gederlini, Alexis Manenti |
| 2020 (25th) | Alice and the Mayor | Alice et le maire | Nicolas Pariser |
| 2020 (25th) | La Belle Époque | La Belle Époque | Nicolas Bedos |
| 2020 (25th) | By the Grace of God | Grâce à Dieu | François Ozon |
| 2020 (25th) | An Officer and a Spy | J'Accuse | Robert Harris, Roman Polanski |
| 2021 (26th) | The Girl with a Bracelet | La Fille au bracelet | Stéphane Demoustier |
| 2021 (26th) | Josep | Josep | Jean-Louis Milesi |
| 2021 (26th) | Love Affair(s) | Les Choses qu'on dit, les choses qu'on fait | Emmanuel Mouret |
| 2021 (26th) | My Donkey, My Lover & I | Antoinette dans les Cévennes | Caroline Vignal |
| 2021 (26th) | Two of Us | Deux | Filippo Meneghetti, Malysone Bovarasmy |
| 2022 (27th) | Lost Illusions | Illusions perdues | Xavier Giannoli |
| 2022 (27th) | The Divide | La Fracture | Catherine Corsini |
| 2022 (27th) | Madeleine Collins | Madeleine Collins | Antoine Barraud |
| 2022 (27th) | Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle | Onoda, 10 000 nuits dans la jungle | Arthur Harari, Vincent Poymiro |
| 2022 (27th) | A Tale of Love and Desire | Une histoire d'amour et de désir | Leyla Bouzid |
| 2023 (28th) | The Night of the 12th | La Nuit du 12 | Dominik Moll, Gilles Marchand |
| 2023 (28th) | The Innocent | L'Innocent | Louis Garrel, Tanguy Viel |
| 2023 (28th) | Other People's Children | Les enfants des autres | Rebecca Zlotowski |
| 2023 (28th) | Saint Omer | Saint Omer | Alice Diop, Marie NDiaye, Amrita David |
| 2023 (28th) | Winter Boy | Le Lycéen | Christophe Honoré |
| 2024 (29th) |
| 2024 (29th) | Anatomy of a Fall | Anatomie d'une chute | Justine Triet, Arthur Harari |
| 2024 (29th) | The Animal Kingdom | Le Règne animal | Thomas Cailley |
| 2024 (29th) | The Goldman Case | Le Procès Goldman | Cédric Kahn, Nathalie Hertzberg |
| 2024 (29th) | The Rapture | Le Ravissement | Iris Kaltenbäck |
| 2024 (29th) | Yannick | Yannick | Quentin Dupieux |
| 2025 (30th) |
| 2025 (30th) | Emilia Pérez | Emilia Pérez | Jacques Audiard |
| 2025 (30th) | Ghost Trail | Les Fantômes | Jonathan Millet and Florence Rochat |
| 2025 (30th) | Misericordia | Miséricorde | Alain Guiraudie |
| 2025 (30th) | Souleymane's Story | L'Histoire de Souleymane | Boris Lojkine and Delphine Agut |
| 2025 (30th) | When Fall Is Coming | Quand vient l'automne | François Ozon |