Prix Lumières / Best French-Language Film
Prix Lumières : Best French-Language Film
Winner of the French film price Prix Lumières in the category “Best French-language film” (Meilleur film francophone) . The French foreign press has been giving its awards every year since 2003 to the best French-language film productions and filmmakers, retrospectively for the previous cinema year. Between 1996 and 2002 the award for the best foreign film was given. The brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have received four awards so far the most frequently (as of 2015).
| year | Award winners | German title | Director |
| 2003 | Le fils | The son | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne |
| 2004 | Les invasions barbaren | The Barbarian Invasion | Denys Arcand |
| 2005 | Demain on déménage | We're moving tomorrow | Chantal Akerman |
| 2006 | L'enfant | The child | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne |
| 2007 | Bamako | The Last Judgment of Bamako | Abderrahmane Sissako |
| 2008 | Delice Paloma | I think of you, Paloma | Nadir Moknèche |
| 2009 | Le silence de Lorna | Lorna's silence | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne |
| 2010 | J'ai tué ma mère | I killed my mother | Xavier Dolan |
| 2011 | Un homme qui crie | A man who screams | Mahamat-Saleh Haroun |
| 2012 | Incendies | The woman who sings - incendies | Denis Villeneuve |
| 2013 | La pirogue | The pirogue | Moussa Toure |
| 2014 | Les chevaux de Dieu | Les Chevaux de Dieu | Nabil Ayouch |
| 2015 | Deux jours, une nuit | Two days, one night | Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne |
| 2016 | Much Loved | Much Loved | Nabil Ayouch |
| 2017 | Inhebbek Hedi | Hedi's wedding | Mohamed Ben Attia |
| 2018 | Insyriated | Inside life | Philippe Van Leeuw |
| 2019 | Girl | Girl | Lukas Dhont |