# 26th Lumière Awards

The 26th Lumière Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Lumières, took place on 19 January 2021 to honour the best in French-speaking cinema of 2020. The show was hosted by French journalists Laurie Cholewa and Laurent Weil. Canal+ broadcast the ceremony.
Love Affair(s) won the Best Film. The ceremony paid tribute to Spanish journalist and a Lumières long-standing member, José María Riba.

## Winners and nominees

The nominations were announced on 14 December 2020. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger (‡).
| Best Film Love Affair(s) – Emmanuel Mouret‡ Bye Bye Morons – Albert Dupontel The Girl with a Bracelet – Stéphane Demoustier Summer of 85 – François Ozon Two of Us – Filippo Meneghetti | Best Director Maïwenn – DNA‡ Albert Dupontel – Bye Bye Morons Filippo Meneghetti – Two of Us Emmanuel Mouret – Love Affair(s) François Ozon – Summer of 85 |
| Best Actor Sami Bouajila – A Son as Fares Ben Youssef‡ Jonathan Cohen – Enormous as Frédéric Girard Albert Dupontel – Bye Bye Morons as Jean-Baptiste Cuchas Nicolas Maury – My Best Part as Jérémie Meyer Jérémie Renier – Slalom as Fred | Best Actress Martine Chevallier and Barbara Sukowa – Two of Us as Madeleine Girard and Nina Dorn‡ Laure Calamy – My Donkey, My Lover & I as Antoinette Emmanuelle Devos – Perfumes as Anne Walberg Virginie Efira – Bye Bye Morons as Suze Trappet Camélia Jordana – Love Affair(s) as Daphné |
| Best Male Revelation Félix Lefebvre and Benjamin Voisin – Summer of 85 as Alexis Robin and David Gorman‡ Guang Huo – Night Ride as Jin Djibril Vancoppenolle – Small Country: An African Childhood as Gabriel Alexandre Wetter – Miss as Alex Jean-Pascal Zadi – Simply Black as himself | Best Female Revelation Noée Abita – Slalom as Lyz‡ Najla Ben Abdallah – A Son as Meriem Ben Youssef Nisrin Erradi – Adam as Samia Mélissa Guers – The Girl with a Bracelet as Lise Fathia Youssouf – Cuties as Amy |
| Best First Film Two of Us – Filippo Meneghetti‡ Arab Blues – Manele Labidi Labbé Cuties – Maïmouna Doucouré Simply Black – Jean-Pascal Zadi and John Wax Slalom – Charlène Favier | Best Screenplay The Girl with a Bracelet – Stéphane Demoustier‡ Josep – Jean-Louis Milesi Love Affair(s) – Emmanuel Mouret My Donkey, My Lover & I – Caroline Vignal Two of Us – Filippo Meneghetti and Malysone Bovarasmy |
| Best Cinematography Summer of 85 – Hichame Alaouié‡ Love Affair(s) – Laurent Desmet The Salt of Tears – Renato Berta Slalom – Yann Maritaud Two of Us – Aurélien Marra | Best Music Josep – Sílvia Pérez Cruz‡ Appearances – Bertrand Burgalat Calamity, a Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary – Florencia Di Concilio Marona's Fantastic Tale – Pablo Pico Night Ride – Rone |
| Best Documentary The Monopoly of Violence – David Dufresne‡ Adolescents – Sébastien Lifshitz If It Were Love – Patric Chiha Kongo – Corto Vaclav and Hadrien La Vapeur The Tie – Etienne Chaillou and Mathias Théry | Best Animated Film Josep – Aurel‡ Calamity, a Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary – Rémi Chayé Little Vampire – Joann Sfar Marona's Fantastic Tale – Anca Damian |
| Best International Co-Production The Man Who Sold His Skin ( / / / / / ) – Kaouther Ben Hania‡ Abou Leila ( / / ) – Amin Sidi-Boumédiène Adam ( / / ) – Maryam Touzani A Son ( / / / ) – Mehdi M. Barsaoui La Llorona ( / ) – Jayro Bustamante Yalda ( / / / / / ) – Massoud Bakhshi You Will Die at Twenty ( / / / / / ) – Amjad Abu Alala ||

### Films with multiple nominations and awards

Films that received multiple nominations :
| Nominations | Film |
| 6 | Two of Us |
| 5 | Love Affair(s) |
| 4 | Bye Bye Morons |
| 4 | Slalom |
| 4 | Summer of 85 |
| 3 | The Girl with a Bracelet |
| 3 | Josep |
| 3 | A Son |
| 2 | Adam |
| 2 | Calamity Jane |
| 2 | Cuties |
| 2 | Marona's Fantastic Tale |
| 2 | My Donkey, My Lover & I |
| 2 | Night Ride |
| 2 | Simply Black |
Films that received multiple awards :
| Awards | Film |
| 2 | Josep |
| 2 | Summer of 85 |
| 2 | Two of Us |