KPop Demon Hunters and Sinners were double winners at the 16th annual Lumiere Awards, presented Monday at the Beverly Hills Hotel by the Advanced Imaging Society to recognize outstanding creative and technical achievements in visual technologies.
Colloquially known as the “Oscars for geeks,” the winners were selected by members of the Hollywood creative and tech communities, with Sinners winning Best Live Action Feature Film, presented by Best Supporting Actor nominee Delroy Lindo to producer Sev Ohanian. Meanwhile, several members of the Sinners sound team accepted the award for Best Audio for a Theatrical Film.
“These Lumiere winners produced their brilliant stories by pushing the boundaries of what’s possible creatively and technically,” Jim Chabin, president of AIS, said in a statement. “In these honorees we see our industry’s future — and that future is truly more exciting than ever.”
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Additional awardees included Zootopia 2, Avatar: Fire and Ash and F1, and on the television side, Andor, Severance and Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. Meanwhile, special honors were bequeathed to: Ethan Hawke (the Distinguished Artist Award for his Blue Moon performance), Jon M. Chu (the inaugural Judy Garland Legacy Award for his directorial work on Wicked: For Good) and Joseph Kosinski and Jerry Bruckheimer (the Harold Lloyd Award for their joint collaboration on F1).
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Here are the winners at the 2026 Lumiere Awards (not to be confused with France’s annual film awards):
Best Feature Film – Live Action
Sinners
Best Feature Film – Animation
Zootopia 2
Best Documentary
The King of Color
Best Motion Picture – Musical
Wicked: For Good
Best Audio – Theatrical
Sinners
Best Audio – Episodic
Severance
Best Original Song
“Golden,” from KPop Demon Hunters
Best Use of High Dynamic Range – Feature Film
F1
Best Use of High Dynamic Range – Episodic
Stranger Things Season 5
Best Musical Scene or Sequence
KPop Demon Hunters – “Golden”
Best Theatrical Scene or Sequence
Avatar: Fire and Ash – “Flux Devil”
Best Episodic – Animation
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man
Best Episodic – Live Action
Andor Season 2
Best International 3D Documentary
NHK for The Mark of Beauty Tokyo Imperial Palace
Best Use of VR
Dolphins of the Reef, Immotion
Production Technology Awards
AMD
DisneyResearch|Studios
Flawless
6P Color
CoreWeave
Governor’s Award for Cinema Excellence
VUE
Sir Charles Wheatstone Award
Google
Judy Garland Legacy Award
Jon M. Chu, Wicked: For Good
Harold Lloyd Award
Joseph Kosinski & Jerry Bruckheimer, F1
Erik Pedersen contributed to this report.