César 1980
The fifth award ceremony for the Césars took place on February 2, 1980 in the Salle Pleyel concert hall in Paris . The actor Jean Marais was president of the awards ceremony . The award ceremony, moderated by Peter Ustinov and the singer Dorothée , was broadcast by the public television broadcaster Antenne 2, today France 2 .
Roman Polański's film drama Tess was nominated in six categories and won the César in three, including Best Film and Best Director. Romy Schneider was nominated for the fourth time for Best Actress for the César for Die Liebe einer Frau . After winning the prize in 1976 and 1979, she had to admit defeat to another actress, in this case Miou-Miou , in 1980 and 1977 . The best leading actor was Claude Brasseur in The Police War . He left Patrick Dewaere , Yves Montand and Jean Rochefort behind.
Winners and nominations
Best film (Meilleur film)
Tess - Director: Roman Polański
- A Woman's Love (Clair de femme) - Director: Costa-Gavras
- Don Giovanni - Director: Joseph Losey
- I like Ikarus (I comme Icare) - Director: Henri Verneuil
Best Director (Meilleur réalisateur)
- Costa-Gavras - A Woman's Love (Clair de femme)
- Jacques Doillon - A Little Babe (La drôlesse)
- Joseph Losey - Don Giovanni
Best leading actor (Meilleur acteur)
Claude Brasseur - The Police War (La guerre des polices)
- Patrick Dewaere - Série noire
- Yves Montand - I like Ikarus (I comme Icare)
- Jean Rochefort - Now or Never! (Courage fuyons)
Best leading actress (Meilleure actrice)
Miou-Miou - The Dropout (La dérobade)
- Nastassja Kinski - Tess
- Dominique Laffin - The Woman Who Weeps (La femme qui pleure)
- Romy Schneider - The Love of a Woman (Clair de femme)
Best Supporting Actor (Meilleur acteur dans un seconde rôle)
Jean Bouise - That settles the matter for me (Coup de tête)
- Michel Aumont - Now or never! (Courage fuyons)
- Bernard Blier - Série noire
- Bernard Giraudeau - Weapon of the Devil (Le toubib)
Best Supporting Actress (Meilleure actrice dans un second rôle)
Nicole Garcia - Edouard, the Heartbreaker (Le cavaleur)
- Myriam Boyer - Série noire
- Dominique Lavanant - Now or never! (Courage fuyons)
- Maria Schneider - The Dropout (La dérobade)
Best Screenplay (Meilleur scénario original ou adaptation)
Bertrand Blier - You meet the murderer at the buffet (Buffet froid)
- Alain Corneau and Georges Perec - Série noire
- Jacques Doillon - A Little Babe (La drôlesse)
- Henri Verneuil and Didier Decoin - I like Icarus (I comme Icare)
Best film music (Meilleure musique écrite pour un film)
Georges Delerue - Love on the run (L'amour en fuite)
- Vladimir Cosma - The Dropout (La dérobade)
- Ennio Morricone - I like Icarus (I comme Icare)
- Philippe Sarde - Tess
Best production design (Meilleur décors)
Alexandre Trauner - Don Giovanni
- Pierre Guffroy - Tess
- Théo Meurisse - You meet the murderer at the buffet (Buffet froid)
- Jacques Saulnier - I like Icarus (I comme Icare)
Best camera (Meilleure photo)
- Néstor Almendros - Perceval le Gallois
- Bruno Nuytten - The Brontë Sisters (Les sœurs Brontë)
- Jean Penzer - You meet the murderer at the buffet (Buffet froid)
Best tone (Meilleur son)
Pierre Gamet - A Woman's Love (Clair de femme)
- Alain Lachassagne - Martin and Lea (Martin et Léa)
- Pierre Lenoir - Return to the Beloved (Retour à la bien-aimée)
- Jean-Pierre Ruh - Perceval le Gallois
Best cut (Meilleur montage)
- Thierry Derocles - Série noire
- Henri Lanoë - Edouard, the Heartbreaker (Le cavaleur)
- Claudine Merlin - You meet the murderer at the buffet (Buffet froid)
- Claudine Merlin - The Brontë Sisters (Les sœurs Brontë)
Best Short Film (Meilleur Court-métrage de fiction)
Colloque de chiens - Director: Raúl Ruiz
- Sibylle - Director: Robert Cappa
- Nuit féline - Director: Gérard Marx
Best Animated Short Film (Meilleur Court-métrage d'animation)
Demain la petite fille sera en retard à l'école - Director: Michel Boschet
- Barbe bleue - Director: Olivier Gillon
- Les troubles fêtes - Director: Bernard Palacios
Best documentary short film (Meilleur Court-métrage documentaire)
Petit Pierre - Director: Emmanuel Clot
- Panoplie - Directed by Philippe Gaucherand
- Le sculpteur parfait - Director: Rafi Toumayan
- Georges Demeny - Director: Joël Farges
Best foreign film (Meilleur film étranger)
Manhattan , USA - Director: Woody Allen
- Apocalypse Now , USA - Director: Francis Ford Coppola
- The Tin Drum , Federal Republic of Germany / France / Poland / Yugoslavia - Director: Volker Schlöndorff
- Hair , USA / Federal Republic of Germany - Director: Miloš Forman
Honorary Award (César d'honneur)
- Pierre Braunberger , French film producer, director and actor
- Louis de Funès , French actor and comedian
- Kirk Douglas , American actor, director and film producer
Web links
- César awards on the official academie-cinema.org website
- César in the Internet Movie Database in 1980