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Louis Delluc Prize

French film award

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French film award

The Louis Delluc Prize ( ) is a French film award presented annually since 1937. The award is bestowed to the Best Film and Best First Film of the year on the second week of each December. The jury is composed of 20 members, consisting of a group of film critics and figures who are culturally significant. Gilles Jacob is the president. The meeting is at le Fouquet's restaurant in Champs-Élysées.

The award was created in 1937 in view of the decision of the Académie française to award its Grand Prix du Cinema to films that were created by French filmmakers. Twenty-four film critics including Maurice Bessy and Marcel Idzkowski established the prize to honor Louis Delluc (1890–1924), the first French journalist to specialize in cinema and founder of the ciné-clubs. It is nicknamed the "Goncourt of cinema".

Louis Delluc Prize for Best Film

1930s

Year	English title	Original title
The Lower Depths	Les Bas-fonds	Jean Renoir
The Puritan	Le Puritain	Jeff Musso
Port of Shadows	Le Quai des brumes	Marcel Carné

1940s

Year	English title	Original title
Espoir: Sierra de Teruel	André Malraux
Beauty and the Beast	La Belle et la Bête	Jean Cocteau
Paris 1900	Nicole Védrès
The Spice of Life	Les Casse Pieds	Jean Dréville
Rendezvous in July	Rendez-vous de juillet	Jacques Becker

1950s

Year	English title	Original title
Diary of a Country Priest	Journal d'un curé de campagne	Robert Bresson
The Crimson Curtain	Le Rideau cramoisi	Alexandre Astruc
Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot	Les Vacances de M. Hulot	Jacques Tati
Les Diaboliques	Henri-Georges Clouzot
The Grand Maneuver	Les Grandes Manœuvres	René Clair
The Red Balloon	Le Ballon rouge	Albert Lamorisse
Elevator to the Gallows	Ascenseur pour l'échafaud	Louis Malle
Moi, un noir	Jean Rouch
One Does Not Bury Sunday	On n'enterre pas le dimanche	Michel Drach

1960s

Year	English title	Original title
The Long Absence	Une aussi longue absence	Henri Colpi
The Winner	Un cœur gros comme ça	François Reichenbach
L'Immortelle	Alain Robbe-Grillet
The Suitor	Le Soupirant	Pierre Étaix
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg	Les Parapluies de Cherbourg	Jacques Demy
Le Bonheur	Agnès Varda
A Matter of Resistance	La Vie de château	Jean-Paul Rappeneau
The War Is Over	La Guerre est finie	Alain Resnais
Benjamin	Michel Deville
Stolen Kisses	Baisers volés	François Truffaut
The Things of Life	Les Choses de la vie	Claude Sautet

1970s

Year	English title	Original title
Claire's Knee	Le Genou de Claire	Éric Rohmer
Rendezvous at Bray	Rendez-vous à Bray	André Delvaux
State of Siege	État de siège	Costa-Gavras
The Clockmaker	L'Horloger de Saint-Paul	Bertrand Tavernier
The Slap	La Gifle	Claude Pinoteau
Cousin Cousine	Jean-Charles Tacchella
Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff	Yves Boisset
Peppermint Soda	Diabolo menthe	Diane Kurys
L'Argent des autres	Christian de Chalonge
The King and the Mockingbird	Le Roi et l'Oiseau	Paul Grimault

1980s

Year	English title	Original title
Un étrange voyage	Alain Cavalier
Strange Affair	Une étrange affaire	Pierre Granier-Deferre
Danton	Andrzej Wajda
À Nos Amours	Maurice Pialat
Dangerous Moves	La Diagonale du fou	Richard Dembo
An Impudent Girl	L'Effrontée	Claude Miller
Mauvais Sang	Léos Carax
Keep Your Right Up	Soigne ta droite	Jean-Luc Godard
Au revoir les enfants	Louis Malle
The Reader	La Lectrice	Michel Deville
Love Without Pity	Un monde sans pitié	Éric Rochant

1990s

Year	English title	Original title
The Little Gangster	Le Petit Criminel	Jacques Doillon
The Hairdresser's Husband	Le Mari de la coiffeuse	Patrice Leconte
Tous les matins du monde	Alain Corneau
Le Petit Prince a dit	Christine Pascal
Smoking / No Smoking	Alain Resnais
Wild Reeds	Les Roseaux sauvages	André Téchiné
Nelly and Mr. Arnaud	Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud	Claude Sautet
Will It Snow for Christmas?	Y aura-t-il de la neige à Noël ?	Sandrine Veysset
Same Old Song	On connaît la chanson	Alain Resnais
Marius and Jeannette	Marius et Jeannette	Robert Guédiguian
L'Ennui	Cédric Kahn
Farewell, Home Sweet Home	Adieu, plancher des vaches!	Otar Iosseliani

2000s

Year	English title	Original title
Merci pour le Chocolat	Claude Chabrol
Intimacy	Intimité	Patrice Chéreau
To Be and to Have	Être et avoir	Nicolas Philibert
On the Run / An Amazing Couple / After the Life	Cavale / Un couple épatant / Après la vie	Lucas Belvaux
Feelings	Les Sentiments	Noémie Lvovsky
Kings and Queen	Rois et Reine	Arnaud Desplechin
Regular Lovers	Les Amants réguliers	Philippe Garrel
Lady Chatterley	Pascale Ferran
The Secret of the Grain	كسكسي بالبوري / La Graine et le Mulet	Abdellatif Kechiche
Modern Life	La Vie moderne	Raymond Depardon
A Prophet	Un prophète	Jacques Audiard

2010s

Year	English title	Original title
Mysteries of Lisbon	Mistérios de Lisboa / Mystères de Lisbonne	Raúl Ruiz
Le Havre	Aki Kaurismäki
Farewell, My Queen	Les Adieux à la reine	Benoît Jacquot
Blue Is the Warmest Colour	La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2	Abdellatif Kechiche
Clouds of Sils Maria	Sils Maria	Olivier Assayas
Fatima	Philippe Faucon
A Woman's Life	Une vie	Stéphane Brizé
Barbara	Mathieu Amalric
Sorry Angel	Plaire, aimer et courir vite	Christophe Honoré
Joan of Arc	Jeanne	Bruno Dumont

2020s

Year	English title	Original title	Director(s)	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Adolescents	Adolescentes	Sébastien Lifshitz
Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle	Onoda, 10 000 nuits dans la jungle / ONODA 一万夜を越えて	Arthur Harari
Pacifiction	Pacifiction – Tourment sur les îles	Albert Serra
Saint Omer	Alice Diop
The Animal Kingdom	Le Règne animal	date=6 December 2023	title=Le Règne animal remporte le prix Louis-Delluc 2023	url=https://www.liberation.fr/culture/le-regne-animal-remporte-le-prix-louis-delluc-2023-20231206_WYUA2E7FNFCINAPFFK2GSKKAIU/	newspaper=Libération	language=fr	access-date=13 December 2023}}
Misericordia	Miséricorde	url=https://www.cnc.fr/cinema/actualites/misericorde-prix-louisdelluc-2024_2306501	title=Miséricorde, Prix Louis-Delluc 2024	website=Centre nationale du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)	date=4 December 2024	access-date=15 December 2024	archive-url=https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnc.fr%2Fcinema%2Factualites%2Fmisericorde-prix-louisdelluc-2024_2306501#federation=archive.wikiwix.com&tab=url	archive-date=12 December 2024}}
The Little Sister	La Petite Dernière	last=Leffler	first=Rebecca	title=Hafsia Herzi’s ‘The Little Sister’ wins Louis Delluc prize for best French film of the year	url=https://www.screendaily.com/news/hafsia-herzis-the-little-sister-wins-louis-delluc-prize-for-best-french-film-of-the-year/5211917.article	access-date=2025-12-10	website=Screen	language=en}}

Louis Delluc Prize for Best First Film

1990s

Year	English title	Original title	Director(s)	1999
Voyages	Emmanuel Finkiel

2000s

Year	English title	Original title
Human Resources	Ressources humaines	Laurent Cantet
Toutes les nuits	Eugène Green
Wesh wesh, qu'est-ce qui se passe?	Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche
It's Easier for a Camel...	Il est plus facile pour un chameau...	Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi
When the Sea Rises	Quand la mer monte...	Yolande Moreau and Gilles Porte
Cold Showers	Douches froides	Antony Cordier
Premonition	Le Pressentiment	Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Water Lilies	Naissance des pieuvres	Céline Sciamma
All Is Forgiven	Tout est pardonné	Mia Hansen-Løve
The Apprentice	L'Apprenti	Samuel Collardey
Silent Voice	Qu'un seul tienne et les autres suivront	Léa Fehner

2010s

Year	English title	Original title
Dear Prudence	Belle Épine	Rebecca Zlotowski
Donoma	Djinn Carrénard
Louise Wimmer	Cyril Mennegun
Vandal	Hélier Cisterne
Love at First Fight	Les Combattants	Thomas Cailley
The Great Game	Le Grand Jeu	Nicolas Pariser
Still Life	Gorge cœur ventre	Maud Alpi
Raw	Grave	Julia Ducournau
Custody	Jusqu'à la garde	Xavier Legrand
The Wild Boys	Les Garçons sauvages	Bertrand Mandico
Burning Ghost	Vif-Argent	Stéphane Batut

2020s

Year	English title	Original title
Josep	Aurel
Towards the Battle	Vers le bataille	Aurélien Vernhes-Lermusiaux
Falcon Lake	Charlotte Le Bon
The Rapture	Le Ravissement	Iris Kaltenbäck
Ghost Trail	Les Fantômes	Jonathan Millet
That Summer in Paris	Le rendez-vous de l'été	Valentine Cadic

Jury

1937 edition

Maurice Bessy
Pierre Bost
Georges Charensol
Nino Franck
Marcel Idzkowski
Roger Régent

References

(1993). "French Film Theory and Criticism: A History/Anthology, 1907-1939. Volume 2: 1929-1939". Princeton Univ. Press.
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Rousset, Julien. (4 December 2024). "Cinéma : les lauréats du prix Louis-Delluc 2024 sont...".
[https://books.google.com/books?id=57aIGJqhWDcC&dq=%22Louis+Delluc+Prize%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA359 THE A to Z of French Cinema - Google Books (pg.359)]
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[https://www.ioncinema.com/news/film-award-prize-news/blue-is-the-warmest-color-adds-louis-delluc-prize-to-trophy-collection Blue is the Warmest Color Adds Louis Dullac to Trophy Collection- IONCINEMA.com]
[https://www.bostonherald.com/2015/12/16/philippe-faucons-fatima-wins-louis-delluc-prize-for-best-french-film/ Philippe Faucon's 'Fatima' wins Louis Dullac prize for best French film - Boston Herald]
[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mathieu-amalrics-barbara-wins-frances-louis-delluc-prize-1066012 Mathieu Amalric's 'Barbara' Wins France's Louis Delluc Prize. Hollywood Reporter]
[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sorry-angel-wins-frances-louis-delluc-prize-1168563 'Sorry Angel' Wins France's Louis Delluc Prize. Hollywood Reporter]
[https://www.francetvinfo.fr/culture/cinema/festival-de-cannes/le-prix-louis-delluc-2019-decerne-a-bruno-dumont-pour-son-film-jeanne_3737303.html Le prix Louis-Delluc 2019 décerné à Bruno Dumont pour son film "Jeanne"] / Franceinfo: Culture. [Retrieved 11 December 2019].
[https://cineuropa.org/fr/newsdetail/396842/ "Le Prix Louis-Delluc pour ''Adolescentes''"] / Cineuropa. [Retrieved 3 February 2021]
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Fabien Lemercier, [https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/435536/ "''Saint Omer'' and ''Pacifiction'' receive the Louis-Delluc prize ex-aequo"]. Cineuropa, 1 December 2022. [Retrieved 24 December 2022].
(6 December 2023). "''Le Règne animal'' remporte le prix Louis-Delluc 2023". [[Libération]].
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[https://variety.com/2018/film/global/christophe-honores-sorry-angel-wins-frances-louis-delluc-prize-1203088090/ Christopher Honore's 'Sorry Angel' Wins France's Louis Delluc Prize. Variety]

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