The Advanced Imaging Society handed top prizes to Sinners, Zootopia 2 and Wicked: For Good at its 16th annual Lumiere Awards luncheon on Feb. 9 at the Beverly Hills Hotel, a ceremony that spotlights technical craft and screen innovation across film and episodic work.
In the film categories, Sinners won Best Feature Film (Live Action) and also took Best Audio (Theatrical). Zootopia 2 won Best Feature Film (Animation), while Wicked: For Good earned Best Motion Picture (Musical). The documentary prize went to The King of Color. In music-driven categories, KPop Demon Hunters collected Best Original Song and Best Musical Scene or Sequence for “Golden.”
TV honors leaned into prestige and postproduction-heavy workflows. Andor Season 2 won Best Episodic (Live Action), and Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man won Best Episodic (Animation). Severance earned Best Audio (Episodic), and **Stranger Things Season 5 won Best Use of High Dynamic Range (Episodic).
Special honors went to Ethan Hawke, Jon M. Chu, and the **Joseph Kosinski–Jerry Bruckheimer team. The organization also stressed that these Lumiere Awards are separate from France’s similarly named ceremony, and it framed the event as a marker of how engineering and artistry now move together in mainstream production. That theme has tracked through the season for “Golden,” which recently picked up major music-industry recognition and sparked debate about how audiences define K-pop when global pop teams drive the sound.
