The Prix Lumière 2012 Awards: nominations: House of tolerance, artist

House of tolerance, the artistand the other nominations for the 2012 award Lumière Awards have been announced. The award annual 17TH Lumière awards are "The price of international criticism of lighting, sometimes also called enlightenment trophies" and were "created by leading producer Daniel Toscan du Plantier and United States journalist Edward Behr in honor of French France cinema and from abroad." "200 journalists (correspondents for international media in Paris) from around 50 countries vote each year for its own awards to members of the French film industry". Ceremony of this year "will take place on Friday, January 13, 2012."

The full list of nominations of the Prix Lumière Awards 2012 is below.

Best film
L'Apollonide, memories of the maison close (House of tolerance), Bertrand Bonello
The artist, Michel Hazanavicius
The exercise of l ' Etat (the Minister), Pierre Schoeller
Le Havre, of Aki Kaurismäki
Intouchables, Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache

Best foreign language film in French
Curling, Denis Cote, Canada
Does Et maintenant, on où va? (What are doing now?), Nadine Labaki, France, Lebanon, Italy
Incendies, Denis Villeneuve (Canada)
Le gamin au vélo (The Kid with A Bike), Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Belgium, France, Italy
Les géants (the Giants), Bouli Lanners, Belgium, Luxembourg, France

Best Director
Bertrand Bonello to L'Apollonide, memories of the maison close (House of tolerance)
Michel Hazanavicius for the artist
Aki Kaurismäki in Le Havre
Maïwenn for Polisse
Pierre Schoeller to L'exercice of l ' Etat (the Minister)

Best actress
Berenice Bejo artist
Catherine Deneuve and Chiara Mastroianni in Les bien-aimés (The Beloved)
Valérie Donzelli in La guerre est déclarée (Declaration of war)
Marina Fois et Karin Viard at Polisse
Clotilde Hesme, Angèle et Tony (Angèle and Tony)

Best Actor
Jean Dujardin artist
Olivier Gourmet in L'exercice of l ' Etat (the Minister)
JoeyStarr in Polisse
Omar Sy in Intouchables
André Wilms in Le Havre

Best female artist
Alice Barnolle in L'Apollonide about memories of la maison (House of tolerance)
Adèle Haenel in L'Apollonide about memories of la maison (House of tolerance)
Zoé Hera in Tomboy
Céline Sallette in L'Apollonide about memories of la maison (House of tolerance)
Anamaria Valtoromei in my little Princess

Best male artist
Grégory Gadebois in Angèle et Tony (Angèle and Tony)
Guillaume Gouix de Jimmy Rivière
Raphaël Ferret in Présumé coupable (apart from reasonable doubt)
Denis Menochet in theirs (adopted)
Mahmoud Shalaby in Les hommes free (Free Men)

Special mention
Uggy, the actor's dog in the artist