# Lumière Award for Best First Film

The Lumière Award for Best First Film (French: Lumière du meilleur premier film) is an award presented annually by the Académie des Lumières since 2014. It was previously known as the Heike Hurst Award for Best First Film, in honour of the film critic.

## Winners and nominees

In the following lists, the titles and names with a blue background are the winners and recipients respectively; those not in bold are the nominees.

### 2010s

| Year | English title | Original title | Director (s) |
| 2014 (19th) | Me, Myself and Mum | Les Garçons et Guillaume, à table ! | Guillaume Gallienne |
| 2014 (19th) | Little Lion | Comme un lion | Samuel Collardey |
| 2014 (19th) | Turning Tide | En solitaire | Christophe Offenstein |
| 2014 (19th) | Headfirst | La Tête la première | Amélie van Elmbt |
| 2014 (19th) | Nous irons vivre ailleurs | Nous irons vivre ailleurs | Nicolas Karolszyk |
| 2014 (19th) | Beyond the Blood | Au-delà du sang | Guillaume Tauveron |
| 2015 (20th) | Love at First Fight | Les Combattants | Thomas Cailley |
| 2015 (20th) | Party Girl | Party Girl | Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis |
| 2015 (20th) | Elle l'adore | Elle l'adore | Jeanne Herry |
| 2015 (20th) | We Did It on a Song | Chante ton bac d'abord | David André |
| 2015 (20th) | May Allah Bless France! | Qu'Allah bénisse la France | Abd al Malik |
| 2015 (20th) | Fool Circle | Tristesse Club | Vincent Mariette |
| 2016 (21st) |
| 2016 (21st) | Mustang | Mustang | Deniz Gamze Ergüven |
| 2016 (21st) | Young Tiger | Bébé Tigre | Cyprien Vial |
| 2016 (21st) | Two Friends | Les Deux Amis | Louis Garrel |
| 2016 (21st) | The Wakhan Front | Ni le ciel ni la terre | Clément Cogitore |
| 2016 (21st) | La Vie pure | La Vie pure | Jeremy Banster |
| 2016 (21st) | Vincent | Vincent n'a pas d'écailles | Thomas Salvador |
| 2017 (22nd) |
| 2017 (22nd) | Divines | Divines | Houda Benyamina |
| 2017 (22nd) | Apnea | Apnée | Jean-Christophe Meurisse |
| 2017 (22nd) | Dark Inclusion | Diamant noir | Arthur Harari |
| 2017 (22nd) | Still Life | Gorge cœur ventre | Maud Alpi |
| 2017 (22nd) | The Dancer | La Danseuse | Stéphanie di Giusto |
| 2017 (22nd) | Mercenary | Mercenaire | Sacha Wolff |
| 2018 (23rd) |
| 2018 (23rd) | Until the Birds Return | En attendant les hirondelles | Karim Moussaoui |
| 2018 (23rd) | Les Bienheureux | Les Bienheureux | Sofia Djama |
| 2018 (23rd) | Raw | Grave | Julia Ducournau |
| 2018 (23rd) | Montparnasse Bienvenue | Jeune femme | Léonor Serraille |
| 2018 (23rd) | Patients | Patients | Grand Corps Malade and Mehdi Idir |
| 2018 (23rd) | Bloody Milk | Petit paysan | Hubert Charuel |
| 2019 (24th) |
| 2019 (24th) | Custody | Jusqu'à la garde | Xavier Legrand |
| 2019 (24th) | Little Tickles | Les Chatouilles | Andréa Bescond and Eric Métayer |
| 2019 (24th) | The Wild Boys | Les Garçons sauvages | Bertrand Mandico |
| 2019 (24th) | Sauvage | Sauvage | Camille Vidal-Naquet |
| 2019 (24th) | Shéhérazade | Shéhérazade | Jean-Bernard Marlin |

### 2020s

| Year | English title | Original title | Director (s) |
| 2020 (25th) |
| 2020 (25th) | The Mustang | Nevada | Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre |
| 2020 (25th) | Atlantics | Atlantique | Mati Diop |
| 2020 (25th) | Conviction | Une intime conviction | Antoine Raimbault |
| 2020 (25th) | Les Misérables | Les Misérables | Ladj Ly |
| 2020 (25th) | The Bare Necessity | Perdrix | Erwan Le Duc |
| 2021 (26th) |
| 2021 (26th) | Two of Us | Deux | Filippo Meneghetti |
| 2021 (26th) | Arab Blues | Un divan à Tunis | Manele Labidi |
| 2021 (26th) | Cuties | Mignonnes | Maïmouna Doucouré |
| 2021 (26th) | Slalom | Slalom | Charlène Favier |
| 2021 (26th) | Simply Black | Tout simplement noir | Jean-Pascal Zadi and John Wax |
| 2022 (27th) |
| 2022 (27th) | Gagarine | Gagarine | Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh |
| 2022 (27th) | Ibrahim | Ibrahim | Samir Guesmi |
| 2022 (27th) | Magnetic Beats | Les Magnétiques | Vincent Maël Cardona |
| 2022 (27th) | The Swarm | La Nuée | Just Philippot |
| 2022 (27th) | Skies of Lebanon | Sous le ciel d'Alice | Chloé Mazlo |
| 2023 (28th) |
| 2023 (28th) | The Sixth Child | Le Sixième Enfant | Léopold Legrand |
| 2023 (28th) | Bruno Reidal, Confessions of a Murderer | Bruno Reidal | Vincent Le Port |
| 2023 (28th) | Harka | Harka | Lotfy Nathan |
| 2023 (28th) | The Worst Ones | Les Pires | Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret |
| 2023 (28th) | Everybody Loves Jeanne | Tout le monde aime Jeanne | Céline Devaux |
| 2024 (29th) |
| 2024 (29th) | The Rapture | Le Ravissement | Iris Kaltenbäck |
| 2024 (29th) | Bernadette | Bernadette | Léa Domenach |
| 2024 (29th) | Junkyard Dog | Chien de la casse | Jean-Baptiste Durand |
| 2024 (29th) | Disco Boy | Disco Boy | Giacomo Abbruzzese |
| 2024 (29th) | Vincent Must Die | Vincent doit mourir | Stéphan Castang |
| 2025 (30th) |
| 2025 (30th) | Holy Cow | Vingt Dieux | Louise Courvoisier |
| 2025 (30th) | Ghost Trail | Les Fantômes | Jonathan Millet |
| 2025 (30th) | The Kingdom | Le Royaume | Julien Colonna |
| 2025 (30th) | Rabia | Rabia | Mareike Engelhardt |
| 2025 (30th) | Wild Diamond | Diamant brut | Agathe Riedinger |