Prix ​​Lumières / Best Director

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Prix ​​Lumières : Best Director

Winner of the French film award Prix Lumières in the category Best Director ( Meilleur réalisateur ). The French foreign press has been giving its awards to the best film productions and filmmakers every year since 1996, retrospectively for the previous cinema year.

The most successful in this category so far has been Jacques Audiard , who has received three awards. The award-winning director agreed with the eventual César winner in seven cases , most recently in 2019 with the awarding of the prize to Jacques Audiard's The Sisters Brothers .

year Award winners Movie title German title
1996 Mathieu Kassovitz La haine hate
1997 Cédric Klapisch Un air de famille Typical family!
1998 Luc Besson * The Fifth Element The fifth Element
1999 Erick Zonca La vie rêvée des Anges love life
2000 Luc Besson The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc Joan of Arc
2001 Agnes Jaoui Le goût des autres Desire for something different
2002 Patrice Chereau Intimacy Intimacy
2003 François Ozon 8 females 8 women
2004 Alain Resnais Pas sur la bouche Not on your mouth
2005 Jean-Pierre Jeunet A long dimanche de fiançailles Mathilde - a great love
2006 Philippe Garrel Les amants réguliers Troublemaker
2007 Pascale Ferran Lady Chatterley Lady Chatterley
2008 Abdellatif Kechiche * La graine et le mulet Couscous with fish
2009 François Dupeyron Aide-toi, le ciel t'aidera not known
2010 Jacques Audiard * Un prophète A prophet
2011 Roman Polanski * The Ghost Writer The ghostwriter
2012 Maywenn Polisse Poliezei
2013 Jacques Audiard De rouille et d'os The taste of rust and bones
2014 Abdellatif Kechiche La vie d'Adèle blue is a warm colour
2015 Abderrahmane Sissako * Timbuktu Timbuktu
2016 Arnaud Desplechin * Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse
2017 Paul Verhoeven Cubit Cubit
2018 Robin Campillo 120 battements per minute 120 BPM
2019 Jacques Audiard * Les Frères Sisters The Sisters Brothers

* = Directors who for their film later the César for Best Director of the Year won