Isabelle Adjani Articles

Tahar Rahim in A Prophet (Roger Arpajou / Sony Pictures Classics) The Cesar winners will be announced on Feb. 27. MEILLEUR FILM / BEST FILM A L’ORIGINE / IN THE BEGINNING, Edouard Weil and Pierre-Ange Le Pogam; directed by Xavier Giannoli LE CONCERT / THE CONCERT, Alain Attal; directed by Radu Mihaileanu LES HERBES FOLLES / WILD GRASS, Jean-Louis Livi; directed by Alain Resnais LA [...]

Adel Bencherif, Tahar Rahim in A Prophet (top); Vincent Lindon, Farit Ayverdi in Welcome (middle); Yvan Atall in Rapt (bottom) With 13 nods, Jacques Audiard’s prison drama A Prophet — one of the semi-finalists for this year’s best foreign language film Oscar, leads the 2010 Cesar Award nominations. In addition to best film and best director mentions, A Prophet is also up for best actor [...]

Actors Louis Garrel, Isabelle Adjani, Elsa Zylberstein, and Isabelle Huppert; filmmakers Danièle Thompson, Steven Soderbergh, Neil Jordan, Sam Mendes, Taylor Hackford, and Mike Nichols; formerly persecuted writer Salman Rushdie; author Milan Kundera; and stylist Diane von Furstenberg are among those who have signed another petition demanding freedom for 76-year-old filmmaker Roman Polanski, currently being held at a Swiss prison while awaiting word from local authorities [...]

Michael Cieply in the New York Times: "The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, once the chummiest club in show business, is becoming more artsy and indie-minded just as much of the Hollywood establishment hoped to make it more commercial." … "Actors, who traditionally dominated the rolls, have lost ground, as their branch became especially fussy about admissions. At the same time executive members [...]