26th Lumières Awards explained

Number:	26
Award:	Lumières Awards
Date:	19 January 2021
Host:	Laurie Cholewa Laurent Weil
Best Film:	Love Affair(s)
Most Wins:	Josep, Summer of 85 and Two of Us (2)
Most Nominations:	Two of Us (6)
Network:	Canal+
Last:	25th
Next:	27th

The 26th Lumières Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Lumières, took place on 19 January 2021 to honour the best in French-speaking cinema of 2020.^[1] 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.^[2]

Winners and nominees

The nominations were announced on 14 December 2020.^[3] Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger .

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	Maïwenn – DNA Albert Dupontel – Bye Bye Morons Filippo Meneghetti – Two of Us Emmanuel Mouret – Love Affair(s) François Ozon – Summer of 85
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	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
Félix Lefebvre and Benjamin Voisin – Summer of 85 as Alexis Robin and David Gorman Guang Huo – Night Ride as Jin Djibril Vancoppenolle – as Gabriel Alexandre Wetter – Miss as Alex Jean-Pascal Zadi – Simply Black as himself	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
Two of Us – Filippo Meneghetti Arab Blues – Manele Labidi Labbé Cuties – Maïmouna Doucouré Simply Black – Jean-Pascal Zadi and John Wax Slalom – Charlène Favier	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
Summer of 85 – Hichame Alaouié Love Affair(s) – Laurent Desmet The Salt of Tears – Renato Berta Slalom – Yann Maritaud Two of Us – Aurélien Marra	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
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	Josep – Aurel Calamity, a Childhood of Martha Jane Cannary – Rémi Chayé Little Vampire – Joann Sfar Marona's Fantastic Tale – Anca Damian
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
	Slalom
	Summer of 85
3	The Girl with a Bracelet
	Josep
	A Son
2	Adam
	Calamity Jane
	Cuties
	Marona's Fantastic Tale
	My Donkey, My Lover & I
	Night Ride
	Simply Black

Films that received multiple awards

Awards	Film
2	Josep
	Summer of 85
	Two of Us

See also

• 46th César Awards

Notes and References

1. Web site: 'Love Affairs,' 'Two of Us' Take Top Prizes at France's Lumieres Awards. Variety. Elsa. Keslassy. 19 January 2021. 22 August 2021.
2. Web site: Lumières: French 2021 Oscar entry among annual foreign press award-winners. Radio France Internationale. 20 January 2021. 22 August 2021.
3. Web site: fr. 26th Lumières Awards Nominations. The Académie des Lumières. 22 August 2021. 16 July 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220716231140/http://academiedeslumieres.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Lumi%C3%A8resnominationsSOUSEMBARGO14_12-12H10.pdf. dead.