# 28th Lumière Awards

The 28th Lumière Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Lumières, took place on 16 January 2023 to honour the best in French-speaking cinema of 2022. The nominations were announced on 15 December 2022. The Night of the 12th led the nominations with six.

## Winners and nominees

The nominations were announced on 15 December 2022. Winners will be listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).
| Best Film The Night of the 12th – Directed by Dominik Moll‡ Other People's Children – Directed by Rebecca Zlotowski Pacifiction – Directed by Albert Serra Paris Memories – Directed by Alice Winocour Saint Omer – Directed by Alice Diop | Best Director Albert Serra – Pacifiction‡ Rebecca Zlotowski – Other People's Children Dominik Moll – The Night of the 12th Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi – Forever Young Gaspar Noé – Vortex |
| Best Actor Benoît Magimel – Pacifiction as De Roller‡ Bastien Bouillon – The Night of the 12th as Yohan Vivès Louis Garrel – The Innocent as Abel Vincent Macaigne – Diary of a Fleeting Affair as Simon Denis Ménochet – The Beasts as Antoine | Best Actress Virginie Efira – Other People's Children as Rachel‡ Françoise Lebrun – Vortex as Elle Noémie Merlant – The Innocent as Clémence Juliette Binoche – Between Two Worlds as Marianne Winckler Laure Calamy – Full Time as Julie Roy |
| Best Male Revelation Dimitri Doré – Bruno Reidal as Bruno Reidal‡ Adam Bessa – Harka as Ali Stefan Crepon – Peter von Kant as Karl Paul Kircher – Winter Boy as Lucas Aliocha Reinert – Softie as Johnny | Best Female Revelation Nadia Tereszkiewicz – Forever Young as Stella‡ Guslagie Malanda – Saint Omer as Laurence Coly Hélène Lambert – Between Two Worlds as Christèle Thomassin Marion Barbeau – Rise as Élise Rebecca Marder – A Radiant Girl as Irène |
| Best First Film The Sixth Child – Léopold Legrand‡ Bruno Reidal – Vincent Le Port Harka – Lotfy Nathan The Worst Ones – Lise Akoka and Romane Gueret Everybody Loves Jeanne – Céline Devaux | Best Screenplay The Night of the 12th – Dominik Moll and Gilles Marchand‡ Other People's Children – Rebecca Zlotowski Saint Omer – Alice Diop, Marie NDiaye and Amrita David The Innocent – Louis Garrel and Tanguy Viel Winter Boy – Christophe Honoré |
| Best Cinematography Pacifiction – Artur Tort‡ The Night of the 12th – Patrick Ghiringhelli Saint Omer – Claire Mathon Vortex – Benoît Debie The Passengers of the Night – Sébastien Buchmann | Best Music Flickering Ghosts of Loves Gone By – Benjamin Biolay‡ The Night of the 12th – Olivier Marguerit The Innocent – Grégoire Hetzel Full Time – Irène Drésel Pacifiction – Marc Verdaguer |
| Best Documentary We – Alice Diop‡ The Super Eight Years – Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-Briot La Combattante – Camille Ponsin H6 – Ye Ye Returning to Reims (Fragments) – Jean-Gabriel Périot | Best Animated Film Little Nicholas: Happy As Can Be – Amandine Fredon and Benjamin Massoubre‡ Ernest and Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia – Julien Chheng and Jean-Christophe Roger The Black Pharoah, The Savage and The Princess – Michel Ocelot My Father's Secrets – Véra Belmont My Neighbours of My Neighbours Are My Neighbours – Anne-Laure Daffis, Léo Marchand |
| Best International Co-Production The Beasts (Spain, France) – Rodrigo Sorogoyen‡ Boy from Heaven (Sweden, France) – Tarik Saleh Flee (Denmark, France) – Jonas Poher Rasmussen R.M.N. (Romania, France) – Cristian Mungiu Zero Fucks Given (Belgium, France) – Emmanuel Marre, Julie Lecoustre ||

### Films with multiple nominations and awards

Films with multiple nominations :
| Nominations | Film |
| 6 | The Night of the 12th |
| 5 | Pacifiction |
| 4 | The Innocent |
| 4 | Other People's Children |
| 4 | Saint Omer |
| 3 | Vortex |
| 2 | The Beasts |
| 2 | Full Time |
| 2 | Winter Boy |
| 2 | Harka |
| 2 | Bruno Reidal |
| 2 | Between Two Worlds |
| 2 | Forever Young |