15th Lumières Awards

The 15th Lumières Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Lumières, was held on 15 January 2010. The ceremony was presided by Régis Wargnier. Welcome won the award for Best Film.

15th Lumières Awards
Date	15 January 2010
Site	Hôtel de Ville, Paris, France
Highlights
Best Film	Welcome
Best Director	Jacques Audiard
Best Actor	Tahar Rahim
Best Actress	Isabelle Adjani

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

Best Film	Best Director
Welcome A Prophet In the Electric Mist Coco Before Chanel In the Beginning	Jacques Audiard — A Prophet Bertrand Tavernier — In the Electric Mist Anne Fontaine — Coco Before Chanel Philippe Lioret — Welcome Xavier Giannoli — In the Beginning
Best Actor	Best Actress
Tahar Rahim — A Prophet François Cluzet — In the Beginning Yvan Attal — Rapt Vincent Lindon — Welcome Romain Duris — Persécution	Isabelle Adjani — La Journée de la jupe Sandrine Kiberlain — Mademoiselle Chambon Dominique Blanc — The Other One Valeria Bruni Tedeschi — Regrets Audrey Tautou — Coco Before Chanel
Most Promising Actor	Most Promising Actress
Vincent Lacoste & Anthony Sonigo — The French Kissers Samy Seghir — Neuilly sa mère! Fırat Ayverdi — Welcome Maxime Godart — Little Nicholas	Pauline Étienne — Silent Voice Christa Theret — LOL (Laughing Out Loud) Garance Le Guillermic — The Hedgehog Mati Diop — 35 Shots of Rum Julie Sokolowski — Hadewijch
Best Screenplay	Best French-Language Film
Father of My Children — Mia Hansen-Løve A Prophet — Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Raouf Dafri and Nicolas Peufaillit Le Concert — Alain-Michel Blanc, Héctor Cabello Reyes, Thierry Degrandi, Radu Mihaileanu, Matthew Robbins Welcome — Olivier Adam, Emmanuel Courcol, Philippe Lioret The Ordinary People — Mathias Gokalp and Nadine Lamari	I Killed My Mother Les Saignantes That Day Hand of the Headless Man Beyond the Ocean
Best Cinematography	World Audience Award (presented by TV5Monde)
Glynn Speeckaert — In the Beginning	Hand of the Headless Man — Guillaume Malandrin and Stéphane Malandrin

See also

• 35th César Awards

External links

• Official website
• 15th Lumières Awards at IMDb
• 15th Lumières Awards at AlloCiné