Film Award & Prize News

Blue is the Warmest Color Adds Louis Delluc Prize to Trophy Collection

Published on December 17, 2013

Regardless that it is predetermined not to win Oscar’s Best Foreign gold, Abdellatif Kechiche’s latest (no matter what title it goes by) is the year’s certifiable best European offering and the Louis Delluc Prize is not a bad follow up to a Palme d’or win. Adèle: Chapter 1 & 2 a.k.a Blue is the Warmest Color follows Secret and the Grain (read my predix here) in grabbing the prestigious title for Best French film of the year with the upcoming César Awards being the perfect trifecta. The Delluc prize for best first film went to Hélier Cisterne’s Vandal, which has flown under the radar not playing at any major film fest.

Related Topics:Abdellatif Kechiche, Blue is the Warmest Color, Hélier Cisterne, Louis Delluc Prize, top-stories, Vandal

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).