Created in 2017 as part of the prestigious “Un Certain Regard” selection, each year the Best Sound Creation Award recognizes a director for the sonic excellence of his or her film, “because it sublimates the viewer’s artistic, semantic and narrative perception.”
Director Gérard KRAWCZYK will chair the jury for this 7ᵉ edition of the Best Sound Creation Award, succeeding Bob Swaim, Régis Wargnier, Robin Renucci, Philippe Le Guay, Christophe Barratier and Ibrahim Maalouf. He will be joined by author and audiovisual producer Emmanuelle GAUME, singer-songwriter Martin LUMINET, Janine LANGLOIS-GLANDIER and Christian HUGONNET, founders of the award.
The jury will reward sound creation in its broadest dimension, both musical and artistic, but also related to sound design (soundscape, special effects, voice quality, spatialization, sound level, image/sound relationship).
Initiated by Janine LANGLOIS-GLANDIER, Costa GAVRAS and Christian HUGONNET, in agreement with Thierry FRÉMAUX, the prize was launched in 2017, during the 70th Cannes Film Festival.
The jury
– Gérard Krawczyk, director and screenwriter
A graduate of Paris-Dauphine University and IDHEC (now La Fémis), Gérard Krawczyk began his career with three César-nominated short films, including The Subtle Concept, Grand Prix at Chamrousse. He followed this up with Je hais les acteur set L’Été en pente douce, and then began a landmark collaboration with Luc Besson, directing such popular hits as Taxi 2, Taxi 3, Taxi 4, Wasabi and Fanfan la Tulipe, which opened the 2003 Cannes Film Festival out of competition. He has also made more intimate films (La Vie est à nous!, L’Auberge rouge) and documentaries, including Marseille! for France Télévisions. Between 2000 and 2010, his films sold nearly 25 million tickets in France, and while directing, he also published a novel, Foudroyé(s), and exhibited his photographic work. In 2024, he developed two new projects: the mini-series Z comme Zelinsky and the film Nous sommes tous des pandas.
– Emmanuelle Gaume has been a writer, director, presenter and audiovisual producer since 1993.
Her eclectic career path bears witness to an ever-awakening curiosity. Her love of classical music, cinema and literature, not to mention her training at the Beaux-Arts, combined with her rigor as a former dancer and horsewoman, have led her down a wide variety of audiovisual paths, from France Musique to ARTE, via Exclusif on TF1, or Nulle part ailleurs on Canal+.Co-founder and director of the Intrada music label with composer Eric Tanguy for over 10 years, in February 2016 she directed her first documentary film on Alice Guy, the first female filmmaker in history, with Alexandra Lamy in the role of Alice Guy. In September 2024, she co-founded and opened La Maison des Récits (www.lamaisondesrécits.com), an audiovisual writing residency.
Also in 2024, she founded the EICMI (École Internationale de Composition de Musique à l’Image), due to open in September 2025. (https://www.eicmi.fr/). Her company 68 productions is currently in co-production with France Télévisions and Wild Bunch for a 6-episode TV series based on her book on Alice Guy, the first female filmmaker
(Editions PLON).
– Martin Luminet, singer-songwriter
Born in 1989 in Rodez, Martin Luminet trained in music, acting and directing at the Lyon Conservatoire, ENM Villeurbanne, Acting Studio and Studio des Variétés. He launched his musical project in 2017, somewhere between chanson and cinema, after leading writing workshops in France and Canada. His debut EP Monstre (2021) was followed in 2023 by the album Deuils, racking up over 3.5 million streams and accompanied by a 60-date tour, including a sold-out Café de la Danse. Signed to Barclay / Universal in early 2024, he won the FAIR award that same year. The reissue of his album Après Deuils was released in June 2024, and a date at the Olympia is scheduled for April 7, 2026.
– Janine Langlois-Glandier, President of the Mobile Media Forum
A key figure in French broadcasting, Janine Langlois-Glandier has directed major institutions such as SFP, France 3, La Sept (ARTE) and INA, where she oversaw the digitization of the national archives. She also worked for the Pathé group, chaired Pathé Télévision and sat on the Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel from 1997 to 2002. Committed to innovation and accessibility, she has chaired the Forum Médias Mobiles since 2004, and is notably involved in consultations on 5G and content accessibility. A director of TF1 until 2019, and an active member of Semaine du Son and the Cannes Film Festival Jury for Best Sound Creation, she has participated in the production of such iconic films as La vie est un long fleuve tranquille, Le dernier métro and Tess.
– Christian Hugonnet, President and Founder of La Semaine du Son, Initiator of the Best Sound Creation Award at the Cannes Film Festival
An engineering graduate of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Christian Hugonnet began his career at Radio France, before joining INA as a trainer in musical sound recording and stereophony. After a year at Ircam, he helped set up the Centre Audiovisuel du CNSMDP and the Formation Supérieure aux Métiers du Son. Professor at the Ecole Louis-Lumière (1985-2000), President of the CST in 2000, he leads numerous international seminars. Author of several reference works on stereophony, in 1998 he created the Forum International du Son Multicanal, then in 2004 the event La Semaine du Son, which in 2019 became La Semaine du Sonde l’UNESCO. In 2017, he initiated the Prix de la Meilleure Création Sonore in the Un Certain Regard selection at the Cannes Film Festival. A court-appointed expert, since 1993 he has run a firm dedicated to the acoustics of halls and recording studios.
