[3][4][5] In related events, the Médaille d'Or was awarded for the first time at a ceremony held at Monnaie de Paris on 19 January 2015.

Luc Besson was honoured by the Academy for his outstanding artistic and entrepreneurial contribution to the French cinema for the past 3 decades.

[6][7] On 16 February 2015, in a ceremony at the Four Seasons Hotel George V, Sylvie Pialat, who produced Timbuktu via Les Films du Worso, was awarded the Prix Daniel Toscan du Plantier for producer of the year for the second consecutive year.

Other winners included Love at First Fight with three awards, and Yves Saint Laurent, Hippocrate, Clouds of Sils Maria, La Famille Bélier, Diplomacy, Saint Laurent, Beauty and the Beast, The Salt of the Earth, Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants, Les Petits Cailloux, La Femme de Rio and Mommy with one.

[9][10] Timbuktu Abderrahmane Sissako – Timbuktu Pierre Niney – Yves Saint Laurent as Yves Saint Laurent Adèle Haenel – Love at First Fight as Madeleine Reda Kateb – Hippocrate as Abdel Rezzak Kristen Stewart – Clouds of Sils Maria as Valentine Kévin Azaïs – Love at First Fight as Arnaud Labrède Louane Emera – La Famille Bélier as Paula Bélier Timbuktu – Abderrahmane Sissako, Kessen Tall Diplomacy – Cyril Gely, Volker Schlöndorff Love at First Fight Sofian El Fani – Timbuktu Nadia Ben Rachid – Timbuktu Philippe Welsh, Roman Dymny and Thierry Delor – Timbuktu Amine Bouhafa – Timbuktu Anaïs Romand – Saint Laurent Thierry Flamand – Beauty and the Beast The Salt of the Earth Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants Les Petits Cailloux La Femme de Rio Mommy Sean Penn Sylvie Pialat Luc Besson The following films received multiple nominations: