The Lumières Award ( French : Lumières de la presse internationale ) is a French film award presented by the Académie des Lumières to honor the best in the French-speaking cinema of the previous year. The awards ceremony is organized by the Académie des Lumières which consists of over 200 representatives of the international press based in Paris . Today it is regarded as one of the most prestigious French film industry awards, equivalent to the Golden Globe Award presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association .
4-698: The Lumières Award was initiated in 1995 by French producer Daniel Toscan du Plantier and American journalist and ex- Newsweek 's Paris correspondent Edward Behr . Their idea was to replicate the Golden Globes given by the foreign press in Hollywood. The Lumières Award is usually presented a month before the César Award , the French national film award. The president of the Academy is Lisa Nesselson,
8-739: The Institut d'Etudes Politiques he became advertising manager for the France Soir daily newspaper in 1966 and between 1975 and 1985 was director-general of the Gaumont Film Company , and president of Unifrance , an organisation for promoting French films, from 1988 until his death. Toscan du Plantier was married four times and had three sons and two daughters. His first marriage was to French actress Marie-Christine Barrault , with whom he had one son and one daughter. He then lived with actress Isabelle Huppert . His second marriage
12-461: The vice-presidents are Pamela Bienzobas and José Maria Riba , the treasurer is Min Liu, the general secretary is Jacques Kermabon and the general delegate is Anne Guimet. This film award–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Daniel Toscan du Plantier Daniel Toscan du Plantier (7 April 1941 – 11 February 2003) was a French film producer . Educated at
16-579: Was with Italian film director and producer Francesca Comencini , with whom he had one son. His third wife was Sophie Toscan du Plantier , who was murdered in 1996 (the crime is considered unsolved in Ireland, where it happened, and solved in France, where Ian Bailey was convicted in May 2019). His fourth marriage was with Melita Nikolic in 1998, with whom he had one son and one daughter. Toscan du Plantier died of
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