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César Awards 2007: Michèle Morgan Homage

César 2007 Winners: Part I
In spite of its nine nods, Days of Glory was another sentimental favorite that failed to receive much love from French Academy members. The war drama won only one César — for best original screenplay (Rachid Bouchareb and Olivier Lorelle). Days of Glory, about North African soldiers who fought for France during World War II, is up for a best foreign-language film Oscar. In addition, the war drama won an ensemble best actor award at last year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Karl Zéro and Michel Royer’s Dans la peau de Jacques Chirac / Inside the Skin of Jacques Chirac, a mockumentary about the opportunistic French president and his four-decade political life, became the first documentary feature to win [...]

César Awards 2007 Winners

Marina Hands in Lady Chatterley by Pascale Ferran

Perhaps there’s hope for this evening’s Oscar ceremony.
On Saturday, I watched (most of) the French Academy of Film Arts and Sciences‘ 32nd César du cinéma ceremony held last night (late morning/early afternoon Los Angeles time) at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.
The event, hosted by actress Valérie Lemercier and dedicated to recently deceased French film icon Philippe Noiret, was apparently directed by former U.S. vice president Al Gore, who made sure that winners and presenters attended a class or two at the Greer Garson School of Speech Making. (For those who don’t know: At the 1943 Academy Awards ceremony, best actress winner Garson supposedly gave the most long-winded acceptance speech in Oscar history.)
In [...]

César 2007

2007 César Awards
French Academy of Arts and Sciences’ 2007 César du Cinéma nominations: January 26, 2007
2007 César du Cinéma winners: Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, on February 24, 2007. Valérie Lemercier was the hostess.
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Marina Hands, Jean-Louis Coulloc’h in Lady Chatterley
 

Best French Film / Meilleur film français
Indigènes / Days of Glory Rachid Bouchareb
Je vais bien, ne t’en fais pas / Don’t Worry, I’m Fine Philippe Lioret
* Lady Chatterley Pascale Ferran
Ne le dis à personne / Tell No One Guillaume Canet
Quand j’étais chanteur / The Singer Xavier Giannoli
Best Foreign Film / Meilleur film étranger
Babel Alejandro González Iñárritu
* Little Miss Sunshine Jonathan Dayton, Valérie Faris
Brokeback Mountain Ang Lee
The Queen Stephen Frears
Volver Pedro Almodóvar
Best First Film [...]

César 2007 Nominations

Lambert Wilson, Laura Morante in Private Fears in Public Places (top); Marina Hands in Lady Chatterley (middle); Samy Naceri in Days of Glory (bottom)

The best thing about the 2007 César nominations is the fact that Alain Resnais‘ beautiful, haunting, magical Coeurs / Private Fears in Public Places received a total of 8 nominations, including a best director nod for Resnais himself, and a best screenplay nod for Jean-Michel Ribes‘ adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn’s play.
The worst thing about the 2007 César nominations is the fact that Alain Resnais‘ beautiful, haunting, magical Coeurs / Private Fears in Public Places failed to receive a nomination in the best film category. Adding insult to injury, none of the film’s [...]

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 [...]

César 2006

2006 César Awards
2006 César du Cinéma winners: Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on February 25, 2006
2006 César Nominations
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Romain Duris in The Beat That My Heart Skipped
 

Meilleur film français / Best French Film
* De battre, mon coeur s’est arrêté / The Beat That My Heart Skipped (Jacques Audiard)
Joyeux Noël / Merry Christmas (Christian Carion)
Le Petit lieutenant (Xavier Beauvois)
L’Enfant / The Child (Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne)
Va, vis et deviens / Go, See and Become (Radu Mihaileanu)
Meilleur film étranger / Best Foreign Film
A History of Violence (David Cronenberg)
Mar adentro / The Sea Inside (Alejandro Amenabar)
Match Point (Woody Allen)
* Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood)
Walk on Water (Eytan Fox)
Meilleur [...]

César 2006: Nominees

Romain Duris in The Beat That My Heart Skipped (top); Guillaume Canet, Daniel Brühl, Alex Ferns in Merry Christmas (middle); Roni Hadar in Go, See and Become (bottom)

This year’s winners of the French equivalent to the Oscars, the Prix César, will be announced on Feb. 25 at a ceremony held at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Best actress nominee Valérie Lemercier (for Palais royal!) will act as Mistress of Ceremony.
The best French film nominees are Jacques Audiard’s Bafta-winning psychological drama De battre, mon coeur s’est arrêté / The Beat That My Heart Skipped, which garnered nine other nominations, including best actor (Romain Duris); Christian Carion’s Academy Award-nominated war drama Joyeux Noël / Merry Christmas, with a total [...]

César 2005

2005 César Awards
2005 César du Cinéma winners: Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on February 26, 2005
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Abdel Kechiche’s L’Esquive was the surprise winner at the 30th César du Cinéma ceremony. Set at a Parisian housing project filled with immigrants and their children, Kechiche’s low-budget film follows a withdrawn teenager (Osman Elkharraz) with artistic aspirations.
 

Best Film
36 Quai des Orfèvres Olivier Marchal
Les Choristes / The Chorus Christophe Barratier
* L’Esquive Abdel Kechiche
Rois et reine Arnaud Desplechin
Un long dimanche de fiançailles / A Very Long Engagement Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Best European Union Film
* Ae Fond Kiss… / Just a Kiss Ken Loach, UK / Belgium / Germany / Italy / Spain
La Mala educación / Bad [...]

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