'The Sisters Brothers' Leads France's Lumiere Awards Nominations

Oscar submissions 'Capernaum' and 'Girl' were nominated in the best foreign film category for the prizes handed out Feb. 4.

Jacques Audiard's The Sisters Brothers, the director's English-language western starring Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly, leads the nominations for France's Lumiere Awards, with four nods including best film and best director.

Mikhael Hers' look at life after a terror attack, Amanda; Alex Lutz's story of an aging pop singer, Guy; Jeanne Herry's adoption drama In Safe Hands; and Emmanuel Mouret's period drama Mademoiselle de Jonquieres rounded out the best film category.

Audiard and Herry were nominated in the best director category, alongside Gaspar Noe for his dance fever dream Climax and Pierre Salvadori, for his cop dramedy The Trouble With You.

Oscar-nominated short film director Xavier Legrand received a best director nod here for his first feature, the divorce drama Custody, which won him the Louis Delluc prize and the Silver Lion in Venice. The film is also nominated in the best first film category.

Nadine Labaki's Cannes Jury Prize winner Capernaum and Lukas Dhont's Cannes Camera d'Or winner Girl are nominated in the best foreign film category.

In the best cinematography category, Benoit Debie received two nominations, for Audiard's The Sisters Brothers and Noe's Climax.

The awards, created in 1995 by Daniel Toscan du Plantier, are often compared to the Golden Globes and decided by the foreign press academy of 80 members from 20 countries.

The ceremony will be held Feb. 4 in Paris.

The full list of nominations is below.

Best Film

Amanda, by Mikhael Hers

Guy, by Alex Lutz

In Safe Hands, by Jeanne Herry

Mademoiselle de Joncquieres, by Emmanuel Mouret

The Sisters Brothers, by Jacques Audiard

Best Director

Gaspar Noe, Climax

Jacques Audiard, The Sisters Brothers

Jeanne Herry, In Safe Hands

Pierre Salvadori, The Trouble With You

Xavier Legrand, Custody

Best Actress

Cecile de France, Mademoiselle de Joncquieres

Elodie Bouchez, In Safe Hands

Lea Drucker, Custody

Melanie Thierry, Memoir of War

Virginie Efira, An Impossible Love

Best Actor

Alex Lutz, Guy

Denis Menochet, Custody

Romain Duris, Our Struggles

Vincent Lacoste, Amanda

Vincent Lindon, At War

Best Screenplay

Andrea Bescond et Eric Metayer, Little Tickles

Emmanuel Mouret, Mademoiselle de Joncquieres

Pierre Salvadori, Benoît Graffin et Benjamin Charbit, The Trouble With You

Jeanne Herry, In Safe Hands

Thomas Lilti, The Freshmen

Best Cinematography

Benoit Debie, Climax

Benoit Debie, The Sisters Brothers

Laurent Desmet, Mademoiselle de Joncquieres

Julien Hirsch, One Nation, One King

David Ungaro, To the Ends of the World

Best New Actor

Anthony Bajon, The Prayer

William Lebghil, The Freshmen

Andranic Manet, A Paris Education

Felix Maritaud, Sauvage

Dylan Robert, Sheherazade

Best New Actress

Ophelie Bau, Mektoub My Love

Galatea Bellugi, The Apparition

Andrea Bescond, Little Tickles

Jeanne Cohendy, Head Above Water

Kenza Fortas, Sheherazade

Best First Film

Little Tickles by Andrea Bescond and Eric Metayer

The Wild Boys, by Bertrand Mandico

Custody, by Xavier Legrand

Sauvage, by Camille Vidal-Naquet

Sheherazade, by Jean-Bernard Marlin

Best Foreign Film

Capernaum, by Nadine Labaki

Chris the Swiss, by Anja Kofmel

Girl, by Lukas Dhont

The Insult, by Ziad Doueiri

Our Battles, by Guillaume Senez

Best Animated Film

Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion, by Louis Clichy et Alexandre Astier

Dilili in Paris, by Michel Ocelot

Mutafukaz, by Shojiro Nishimi et Run

Pachamama, by Juan Antin

Best Documentary

Cassandro, the Exotico!, by Marie Losier

Each and Every Moment, by Nicolas Philibert

No Man Is an Island, by Dominique Marchais

Young Solitude, by Claire Simon

Samouni Road, by Stefano Savona

Best Music

Camille Bazbaz, The Trouble With You

Vincent Blanchard and Romain Greffe, Guy

Alexandre Desplat, The Sisters Brothers

Pierre Desprats, The Wild Boys

Gregoire Hetzel, An Impossible Love