Born in Brittany in 1980. After studying philosophy, he joined the Fémis directing department and won the 2nd Prix de la Cinéfondation at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival with Coucou-les-Nuages, his graduation film. His first feature, Les Magnétiques, won the Prix SACD at the Directors’ Fortnight in 2021, and the César for Best First Film in 2022. In 2023, he directed the series De Grâce with Olivier Gourmet and Margot Bancilhon for Arte, which won the Prix d’Interprétation in International Competition at the Séries Mania festival. Le Roi Soleil, his second feature film, starring Pio Marmaï, Lucie Zhang and Sofiane Zermani, will be presented in the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival in 2025, in the midnight screening. He is currently writing his third feature-length film and preparing to shoot a series this summer.
8th Prize for Best Sound Creation
Composition of the Jury

Vincent Maël Cardona

Barbara Pravi
Barbara Pravi has established herself as one of the most singular, embodied voices on the contemporary French music scene. A committed artist, she fashions a universe that is both intimate and powerful, with essential themes such as self-love, freedom and resilience running through it.
Her single Voilà made a remarkable debut with the general public, with over 650,000,000 streams, and set off a wave of success that quickly spread beyond France’s borders. With her first album, On n’enferme pas les oiseaux, certified gold, she confirms her demanding, deeply-involved songwriting. This project won her the Victoire de la Musique award for Best Female Newcomer, as well as the Grand Prix Sacem for Song of the Year.
Barbara Pravi’s many influences, from Serbia to Iran, Poland and France, nourish her work with a cultural and personal richness that lends her repertoire a rare intensity. This artistic approach also extends to her writing, with Lève-toi, an illustrated Franco-Arab manifesto published by Éditions Julliard, a sensitive and committed work that testifies to the breadth of her artistic expression.
An accomplished stage artist, she has already given over 250 concerts in some twenty countries, imposing a magnetic and deeply inhabited presence. At the same time, she is actively involved in social issues, putting her reputation at the service of causes that are essential to her.
At the crossroads of music and storytelling, Barbara Pravi develops a sensitive, contemporary work that resonates with new forms of artistic creation and the challenges of sound.
Laurent Couson’s career has spanned symphonic music, live performance and film. Trained at the Conservatoire de Tours, then at the Conservatoire Supérieur and the École Normale de Paris, he quickly began a career supported by Radio France, which commissioned his first works.
His compositions have been performed in prestigious venues in France and abroad, from Salle Pleyel to Carnegie Hall in New York. He also conducts many of the world’s leading orchestras, including the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the London Symphony Orchestra and several groups in Europe and Asia.
Very active internationally, he has held positions as musical director in Morocco and Thailand, developing large-scale artistic projects and symphonic productions. At the same time, he creates critically acclaimed musical shows and composes ambitious works blending culture and spirituality.
As a film music composer, he has written the soundtracks for some thirty feature films and collaborated with many major artists. His eclectic career, combining musical creation, direction and transmission, bears witness to an artistic sensibility profoundly focused on emotion and sound storytelling.

Laurent Couson

Jean-Luc Péart
Jean-Luc Péart began his career in the film industry by taking part in the shooting of short films, first as a boom operator, then as a sound engineer, working on increasingly ambitious projects. He first worked as a boom operator before becoming a sound engineer, collaborating on increasingly ambitious projects.
His career path has led him to work on both documentaries and feature films, developing a solid expertise in picture sound. His technical and artistic approach bears witness to the particular attention he pays to the quality and precision of sound recording on shoots.
A cinema enthusiast, he is also a member of the CNC’s classification commission, participating in the evaluation and regulation of works broadcast in France.
As a member of the Commission Supérieure Technique de l’image et du son (CST), he is fully involved in a process of reflection and innovation around the sound and image professions.
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

Christian HUGONNET
A graduate engineer from 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.
Partners of the 8th edition
UNIVERSAL MUSIC FRANCE, OFFICIAL SPONSOR OF THE
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 in the official "Un Certain Regard" selection 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, the Cannes City Council's sponsorship of this essential prize, 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. Cannes is considered today as 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
THE FEMIS
2026 prize list
” Elephants in the fog“by Nepalese director Abinash Bikram Shah
AWARD FOR BEST SOUND CREATION 2026
“Un Certain Regard”
Under the official patronage of the City of Cannes
Nepalese director Abinash Bikram Shah won a unanimous award for the sound quality of his film “Elephants in the fog”.
Story:
In a Nepalese village nestled in the heart of a forest populated by wild elephants lives a Kinnar community as revered as it is feared for its powers of blessing and curse. Pirati, one of the community’s mothers, dreams of escaping with the man she loves.
