César 2010 Articles

Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard — her Oscar was for La Vie en Rose (2007) — served as the 2010 César ceremony’s honorary president. Cotillard was assisted by co-presenters Gad Elmaleh and Valérie Lemercier. Cotillard began the proceedings by saying: "This evening we share the same dream of the movies and we’re all lucky to be in a country that, for 115 years, has been [...]

Sigourney Weaver arrives at the 2010 César ceremony. Weaver was there to present the Honorary Cesar to Harrison Ford, her co-star in Mike Nichols‘ 1988 romantic comedy-drama Working Girl, with Melanie Griffith. Weaver received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for that movie. She can currently be seen on French screens in James Cameron’s sci-fi epic Avatar. Last weekend, Avatar became the #14 all-time hit [...]

Isabelle Adjani: Best Actress César Winner Hollywood star Harrison Ford received the 2010 Honorary César, presented to him by his Working Girl co-star Sigourney Weaver (above), one of the stars of James Cameron’s box-office phenomenon Avatar. Ford was greeted by a long standing ovation. After several minutes trying to stem the applause, Ford said that "France reinvented cinema through the New Wave. And the American [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WipqAqQZOxQ[/youtube] L’ENFER D’HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT: Other César Winners Veteran Isabelle Adjani, 54, received the Best Actress César from the hands of Gérard Depardieu, who announced, "Ah, [the winner] is a friend!" In Jean-Paul Lilienfeld’s Skirt Day, Adjani plays a teacher on the verge of a nervous breakdown, having to deal with obnoxious, misogynistic students in a rough, immigrant-filled Parisian neighborhood. The teacher ends up taking matters [...]