César 2006 Winners
Romain Duris, Linh Dan Pham in The Beat That My Heart Skipped
Jacques Audiard’s curious but uninvolving psychological drama De battre, mon coeur s’est arrêté / The Beat That My Heart Skipped — a remake of James Toback’s Fingers (1978) — won eight César awards, including best film, best director, best adapted screenplay (Audiard with Tonino Benacquista), and best supporting actor (Niels Arestrup) at the 2006 César Awards ceremony.
Michel Bouquet, Jalil Lespert in Le Promeneur du champ de Mars (top); Nathalie Baye in Le Petit Lieutenant (bottom)
Two veterans took home the top acting prizes: Eighty-year-old Michel Bouquet – whose career spans more than fifty years — was chosen best actor for his star turn as former French president François Mitterrand in Le Promeneur du champ de Mars, while best actress Nathalie Baye won for her recovering alcoholic police officer in Le Petit lieutenant. (Baye had already won three Césars, the first of which was back in 1981.)
Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman in Million Dollar Baby
Among the other César winners were Clint Eastwood’s boxing melodrama Million Dollar Baby, which was voted the best foreign film; Va, vis et deviens / Go, See and Become, winner of the award for best original screenplay (Alain-Michel Blanc and Radu Mihaileanu); and best first film Darwin’s Nightmare, by Austrian Hubert Sauper (instead of Luc Jacquet’s worldwide hit March of the Penguins).
Also, best supporting actress Cécile De France for her butch but sweet lesbian in The Russian Dolls (three years ago, de France won a best female newcomer César for that same role in the "prequel" The Spanish Apartment); best male newcomer Louis Garrel for Regular Lovers; and best female newcomer Linh Dan Pham for her demanding piano teacher in The Beat That My Heart Skipped.
Pham’s win is quite curious, as thirteen years ago she was nominated in that very same category for Indochine.
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Tags: César Awards, Film Awards, Jacques Audiard, Le Petit Lieutenant, Le Promeneur du champ de Mars, Linh-Dan Pham, Michel Bouquet, Million Dollar Baby, Nathalie Baye, The Beat That My Heart Skipped
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