Prix ​​Lumières / Best Film

Prix ​​Lumières : Best Film

Winner of the French film award Prix Lumières in the category Best Film ( Meilleur film ). 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.

In 12 out of 24 cases, the award-winning film matched the eventual César winner , most recently in 2018 with the awarding of the prize to Robin Campillos 120 BPM .

year	Award winners	German title	Director
1996	La haine *	hate	Mathieu Kassovitz
1997	Ridicule *	Ridicule - On the ridiculousness of appearances	Patrice Leconte
1998	Marius and Jeannette	Marius and Jeannette - A love in Marseille	Robert Guédiguian
1999	La vie rêvée des ans *	love life	Erick Zonca
2000	The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc	Joan of Arc	Luc Besson
2001	Le goût des autres *	Desire for something different	Agnes Jaoui
2002	Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain *	The fabulous world of Amélie	Jean-Pierre Jeunet
2003	Amen	The deputy	Costa Gavras
2004	Les triplettes de Belleville	The great race of Belleville	Sylvain Chomet
2005	Les choristes	The children of Monsieur Mathieu	Christophe Barratier
2006	De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté *	The wild beat of my heart	Jacques Audiard
2007	Ne le dis à personne	No mortal word	Guillaume Canet
2008	La scaphandre et le papillon	Butterfly and diving bell	Julian Schnabel
2009	Entre les murs	The class	Laurent Cantet
2010	Welcome	Welcome	Philippe Lioret
2011	Des hommes et des dieux *	Of people and gods	Xavier Beauvois
2012	The Artist *	The Artist	Michel Hazanavicius
2013	Amour *	love	Michael Haneke
2014	La vie d'Adèle	blue is a warm colour	Abdellatif Kechiche
2015	Timbuktu *	Timbuktu	Abderrahmane Sissako
2016	mustang	mustang	Deniz Gamze Ergüven
2017	Cubit *	Cubit	Paul Verhoeven
2018	120 battements par minute *	120 BPM	Robin Campillo
2019	Les Frères Sisters	The Sisters Brothers	Jacques Audiard

* = Movies that later the César for the best film of the year gained