![]() ![]() France instead put Renoir forward this year. Adele, however, was not submitted for Academy Awards consideration. The previous two winners of best film at the Lumières, The Artist and Amour, went on to triumph at the Oscars. ![]() ![]() Other titles in the running for best film included 9-Month Stretch, Grand Central, Mood Indigo, Quai d’Orsay and Renoir. ![]() The special jury prize went to Rebecca Zlotowski’s gritty romance Grand Central, set against the backdrop of a nuclear power station. Kechiche’s passionate lesbian love story, which has ignited the public and critics at home and abroad, clinched best film and best director. Abdellatif Kechiche’s Adele: Chapters 1 & 2 (aka Blue is the Warmest Colour) was the top winner at the Lumière Awards, France’s version of the Golden Globes judged by the international press community in Paris, on Monday evening (20). ![]()
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