A graduate of Paris-Dauphine University and IDHEC (now La Fémis), Gérard Krawczyk got his start with three César-nominated short films, including The Subtle Concept, Grand Prix at Chamrousse. He followed this up with Je hais les acteurs and L’Été en pente douce, before embarking on 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.
7th Prize for Best Sound Creation
Composition of the Jury
Gérard Krawczyk
Emmanuelle Gaume
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, history’s first female filmmaker, with Alexandra Lamy in the Alice Guy role.
In September 2024, she co-founded and opened La Maison des Récits (www.lamaisondesrécits.com), an audiovisual writing residency. Also in 2024, she founded EICMI (École Internationale de Composition de Musique à l’Image), due to open in September 2025. (https://www.eicmi.fr/) Her company 68productions is currently in co-production with France Télévisions and Wild Bunch for a 6-episode TV series based on her book on Alice Guy, la première femme cinéaste (Editions PLON).
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.
Martin Luminet
Christian HUGONNET
An engineering graduate of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), Christian Hugonnet founded the association “La Semaine du Son” in 1998, to educate the general public and raise awareness of the importance of the quality of our sound environment. A Court of Cassation-approved expert, he has also run a consulting firm in acoustics for auditoriums and recording studios since 1993, and teaches sound recording at various international film schools.
A leading figure in French broadcasting, Janine Langlois Glandier has headed some of the industry’s biggest institutions: Société Française de Production (SFP), France 3, Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA) and Pathé. A keen innovator, she has enthusiastically followed the convergence of television and new technologies. Since 2004, she has been President of the Mobile Media Forum, which brings together some thirty companies (publishers, operators, manufacturers, content creators, authors’ societies, etc.) concerned by the evolution and development of audiovisual media broadcasting.
Janine LANGLOIS GLANDIER
Partners of the 7th edition
UNIVERSAL MUSIC FRANCE, OFFICIAL SPONSOR OF THE BEST SOUND CREATION AWARD
THE CITY OF CANNES, OFFICIAL SPONSOR OF THE BEST SOUND CREATION AWARD
“The City of Cannes is honored and proud to sponsor the 7th edition of the Best Sound Creation Award of the official selection “Un Certain Regard” of the Cannes Film Festival 2024. After acquiring the MIDEM brand in 2022 and relaunching MIDƐM+, an international event dedicated to music professionals, in 2023, Cannes Town Hall's sponsorship of this essential award, which gives due value to the sound component of film and in particular its music, is totally in line with its “Cannes On air” territorial strategy. Today, Cannes is considered the crossroads of creation, imagination, distribution, dissemination, promotion and enhancement of artistic expression, of which cinema is the beating heart and music its universal vibration.”
David Lisnardmaire de Cannes
FRANCE TELEVISIONS
2025 Awards
Jury statement
“The Plague” from director Charlie Polinger
AWARD FOR BEST SOUND CREATION 2025
“Un Certain Regard”
Under the official patronage of the City of Cannes
American director Charlie Polinger has won a unanimous award for the sound quality of his film “The Plague”.
Gérard KRAWCZYK, president of the jury, declared: ” It’s a bold, inventive film, a film that can’t be reduced to its soundtrack, but which, thanks to it, makes us feel intensely what the characters are going through. Sound, a major creative player, is the image that speaks on-screen and the image that speaks off-screen. It needs no translation. It is universal and touches the heart directly. “.
An emotional moment for Charlie Polinger, surrounded by the jury, Gérard Krawczyk, Emmanuelle Gaume, Martin Luminet, Janine Langlois-Glandier and Christian Hugonnet.
Film Synopsis: At a boys’ water polo camp, a twelve-year-old boy is marginalized by his peers according to a cruel tradition in which one of them is said to be carrying a disease they call “The Plague”. As the line between game and reality becomes increasingly blurred, he begins to fear that the joke is hiding something real.
