Lumières Award for Best Cinematography

Country| France
Presented by| Académie des Lumières
First awarded| 2008
Currently held by| Jonathan Ricquebourg for The Taste of Things (2024)
Website| academiedeslumieres.com

The Lumières Award for Best Cinematography (French: Prix Lumières de la meilleure image), formerly known as the Prix de la meilleure photographie or the Prix technique CST de la meilleure photographie (until 2015), is an award presented annually by the Académie des Lumières since 2008.

## Winners and nominees[edit]

Winners are listed first with a blue background, followed by the other nominees.

### 2000s[edit]

Year | Winner | English title | Original title

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2008
(13th) | Éric Gautier | Into the Wild
2009
(14th) | Agnès Godard | Home

### 2010s[edit]

Year | Winner | English title | Original title

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2010
(15th) | Glynn Speeckaert | In the Beginning | À l'origine
2011
(16th) | Caroline Champetier | Of Gods and Men | Des hommes et des dieux
2012
(17th) | Pierre Aïm | Polisse
2013
(18th) | Antoine Heberlé | Inheritance | Héritage
A Few Hours of Spring | Quelques heures de printemps
2014
(19th) | Thomas Hardmeier  | The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet | L'Extravagant Voyage du jeune et prodigieux T. S. Spivet
Jérôme Alméras | The French Minister | Quai d'Orsay
Christophe Beaucarne | Mood Indigo | L'Écume des jours
Crystel Fournier | A Place on Earth | Une place sur la Terre
Stéphane Fontaine | Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian | Jimmy P. (Psychothérapie d'un Indien des plaines)
2015
(20th) | Rémy Chevrin | À la vie
Yves Cape | Wild Life | Vie sauvage
Josée Deshaies | Saint Laurent
Sofian El Fani | Timbuktu
Darius Khondji | Magic in the Moonlight
Arnaud Potier | Respire
2016
(21st)
David Chizallet | Mustang
The Anarchists | Les Anarchistes
I Am a Soldier | Je suis un soldat
Matias Boucard | L'Affaire SK1
Irina Lubtchansky | My Golden Days | Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse
Claire Mathon | The Last Hammer Blow | Le Dernier Coup de marteau
Mon roi
Two Friends | Les Deux Amis
Arnaud Potier | Cowboys | Les Cowboys
Sylvain Verdet | The Wakhan Front | Ni le ciel ni la terre
2017
(22nd)
Jonathan Ricquebourg | The Death of Louis XIV | La Mort de Louis XIV
Christophe Beaucarne | From the Land of the Moon | Mal de pierres
Benoît Debie | The Dancer | La Danseuse
Antoine Héberlé | A Woman's Life | Une vie
Léo Hinstin | Nocturama
Pascal Marti | Frantz
2018
(23rd)
Christophe Beaucarne | Barbara
Céline Bozon | Félicité
Caroline Champetier | The Guardians | Les Gardiennes
Alain Duplantier | The Sower | Le Semeur
Irina Lubtchansky | Ismael's Ghosts | Les Fantômes d'Ismaël
Vincent Mathias | See You Up There | Au revoir là-haut
2019
(24th)
Benoît Debie | The Sisters Brothers | Les Frères Sisters
Climax
Laurent Desmet | Lady J | Mademoiselle de Joncquières
Julien Hirsch | One Nation, One King | Un peuple et son roi
David Ungaro | To the Ends of the World | Les Confins du monde

### 2020s[edit]

Year | Winner | English title | Original title

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2020
(25th)
Claire Mathon | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Portrait de la jeune fille en feu
Manuel Dacosse | By the Grace of God | Grâce à Dieu
Paweł Edelman | An Officer and a Spy | J'accuse
Irina Lubtchansky | Oh Mercy! | Roubaix, une lumière
Julien Poupard | Les Misérables
2021
(26th)
Hichame Alaouié | Summer of 85 | Été 85
Renato Berta | The Salt of Tears | Le Sel des larmes
Laurent Desmet | Love Affair(s) | Les Choses qu'on dit, les Choses qu'on fait
Yann Maritaud | Slalom
Aurélien Marra | Two of Us | Deux
2022
(27th)
Caroline Champetier | Annette
Christophe Beaucarne | Lost Illusions | Illusions perdues
Romain Carcanade | The Swarm | La Nuée
Tom Harari | Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle | Onoda, 10 000 nuits dans la jungle
Laurent Tangy | Happening | L'Événement
2023
(28th)
Artur Tort | Pacifiction | Pacifiction – Tourment sur les îles
Sébastien Buchmann | The Passengers of the Night | Les Passagers de la nuit
Benoît Debie | Vortex
Patrick Ghiringhelli | The Night of the 12th | La Nuit du 12
Claire Mathon | Saint Omer
2024
(29th)
Jonathan Ricquebourg | The Taste of Things | La Passion de Dodin Bouffant
Simon Beaufils | Anatomy of a Fall | Anatomie d'une chute
David Cailley | The Animal Kingdom | Le Règne animal
Hélène Louvart | Disco Boy
Sylvain Verdet | Sons of Ramses | Goutte d'or

## See also[edit]

* César Award for Best Cinematography

## External links[edit]

* Lumières Award for Best Cinematography at AlloCiné

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