César 2018
The 43rd César Awards took place on March 2, 2018 in the Salle Pleyel in Paris . The film prizes awarded by the French Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma for the best productions of the cinema year 2017 were awarded in 22 categories. The French actress Vanessa Paradis took over the chairmanship of the gala, which changes every year . Actor Manu Payet led the evening as moderator (“maître cérémonie”) .
When the nominations were announced on January 31, 2018, the AIDS activist drama 120 BPM by Robin Campillo , which won awards at the Cannes Film Festival, and the tragicomedy Au revoir là-haut by Albert Dupontel , a film adaptation of the award-winning novel of the same name by Pierre Lemaitre (Ger. Title: See you up there ), the favorites field with 13 nominations each. The most successful was 120 BPM , which was able to convert six of its nominations into victories, including the award for the best film of the year . For the first time in the history of the Césars, an audience award was also awarded for the best film ("César du public"), made by the Franco-Belgian action comedy The Super Cops - Always Crazy! won by Dany Boon . During the event, the late actors Mireille Darc and Johnny Hallyday were remembered .
The award ceremony was dominated by the #MeToo debate about abuse of power and sexual violence in the entertainment industry, which is why many participants wore a white ribbon as a sign of solidarity. The Spanish actress Penélope Cruz , who had been awarded the honorary award of the French Film Academy, was already the winner before the award ceremony .
The event was broadcast live on French television channel Canal + . A little more than two million television viewers saw the award ceremony, which corresponds to an increased market share of 11.4 percent compared to the previous year (10.5 percent with 1.9 million viewers).
Award winners and nominees
Movie | N | A. |
---|---|---|
120 BPM | 13 | 6th |
Au revoir là-haut | 13 | 5 |
Life is a festival | 10 | 0 |
Barbara | 9 | 2 |
Petit Paysan | 8th | 3 |
Raw | 6th | 0 |
Redoutable | 5 | 0 |
Better to live | 4th | 0 |
Early promise | 4th | 0 |
Les Gardiennes | 4th | 0 |
The brilliant Mademoiselle Neïla | 3 | 1 |
Moments: faces of a journey | 2 | 0 |
Bonjour Paris | 2 | 0 |
The poetry of love | 2 | 0 |
Best movie
presented by Vanessa Paradis
120 BPM (120 battements par minute) - Director: Robin Campillo
- Au revoir là-haut - Director: Albert Dupontel
- Barbara - Director: Mathieu Amalric
- The brilliant Mademoiselle Neïla (Le brio) - Director: Yvan Attal
- Life is a Feast (Le sens de la fête) - Directed by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache
- Lieber Leben (Patients) - Director: Grand Corps Malade and Mehdi Idir
- Petit Paysan - Director: Hubert Charuel
Best director
presented by Dany Boon
Albert Dupontel - Au revoir là-haut
- Mathieu Amalric - Barbara
- Robin Campillo - 120 BPM (120 battements par minute)
- Hubert Charuel - Petit Paysan
- Julia Ducournau - Raw (Grave)
- Michel Hazanavicius - Redoutable (Le Redoutable)
- Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache - Life is a festival (Le sens de la fête)
Best main actress
presented by Lambert Wilson
- Juliette Binoche - My beautiful inner sun (Un beau soleil intérieur)
- Emmanuelle Devos - Numéro une
- Marina Foïs - L'atelier
- Charlotte Gainsbourg - Early Promise (La promesse de l'aube)
- Karin Viard - The Envy (Jalouse)
- Doria Tillier - The Poetry of Love (Monsieur & Madame Adelman)
Best Actor
presented by Isabelle Huppert
- Daniel Auteuil - The Brilliant Mademoiselle Neïla (Le brio)
- Jean-Pierre Bacri - Life is a Festival (Le sens de la fête)
- Guillaume Canet - Rock'n Roll
- Albert Dupontel - Au revoir là-haut
- Louis Garrel - Redoutable (Le Redoutable)
- Reda Kateb - Django - A life for music (Django)
The best supporting actress
presented by Laura Smet
- Laure Calamy - Ava
- Anaïs Demoustier - La villa
- Adèle Haenel - 120 BPM (120 battements par minute)
- Mélanie Thierry - Au revoir là-haut
Best supporting actor
presented by Laurence Arné and François-Xavier Demaison
Antoine Reinartz - 120 BPM (120 battements par minute)
- Niels Arestrup - Au revoir là-haut
- Laurent Lafitte - Au revoir là-haut
- Gilles Lellouche - Life is a feast (Le sens de la fête)
- Vincent Macaigne - Life is a Feast (Le sens de la fête)
Best Young Actress
presented by Blanche Gardin
Camélia Jordana - The brilliant Mademoiselle Neïla (Le brio)
- Iris Bry - Les Gardiennes
- Lætitia Dosch - Bonjour Paris (Jeune femme)
- Eye Haïdara - Life is a festival (Le sens de la fête)
- Garance Marillier - Raw (Grave)
Best young actor
presented by Juliette Binoche
Nahuel Pérez Biscayart - 120 BPM (120 battements par minute)
- Benjamin Lavernhe - Life is a Festival (Le sens de la fête)
- Finnegan Oldfield - Marvin (Marvin ou La belle éducation)
- Pablo Pauly - Better to Live (Patients)
- Arnaud Valois - 120 BPM (120 battements par minute)
Best original script
presented by Noomi Rapace and Lucien Jean-Baptiste
Robin Campillo - 120 BPM (120 battements par minute)
- Mathieu Amalric and Philippe Di Folco - Barbara
- Julia Ducournau - Raw (Grave)
- Claude Le Pape and Hubert Charuel - Petit Paysan
- Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache - Life is a festival (Le sens de la fête)
Best adapted script
presented by Stéphane De Groodt and Olga Kurylenko
Albert Dupontel and Pierre Lemaitre - Au revoir là-haut
- Xavier Beauvois , Frédérique Moreau and Marie-Julie Maille - Les Gardiennes
- Grand Corps Malade and Fadette Drouard - Better to Live (Patients)
- Éric Barbier and Marie Eynard - Early Promise (La promesse de l'aube)
- Michel Hazanavicius - Redoutable (Le Redoutable)
Best production design
presented by Pascal Elbé and Vincent Elbaz
Pierre Quefféléan - Au revoir là-haut
- Emmanuelle Duplay - 120 BPM (120 battements par minute)
- Laurent Baude - Barbara
- Pierre Renson - Early Promise (La promesse de l'aube)
- Christian Marti - Redoutable (Le Redoutable)
Best costumes
presented by Aure Atika
Mimi Lempicka - Au revoir là-haut
- Catherine Bouchard - Early Promise (La promesse de l'aube)
- Pascaline Chavanne - Barbara
- Isabelle Pannetier - 120 BPM (120 battements par minute)
- Anaïs Romand - Les Gardiennes
Best camera
presented by Alice Belaïdi and Arié Elmaleh
Vincent Mathias - Au revoir là-haut
- Christophe Beaucarne - Barbara
- Caroline Champetier - Les Gardiennes
- Jeanne Lapoirie - 120 BPM (120 battements par minute)
- Guillaume Schiffman - Redoutable (Le Redoutable)
Best cut
presented by Pascal Elbé and Vincent Elbaz
Robin Campillo - 120 BPM (120 battements par minute)
- François Gédigier - Barbara
- Julie Lena , Lilian Corbeille and Grégoire Pontécaille - Petit Paysan
- Christophe Pinel - Au revoir là-haut
- Dorian Rigal-Ansous - Life is a Festival (Le sens de la fête)
Best tone
presented by Alice Belaïdi and Arié Elmaleh
Olivier Mauvezin , Nicolas Moreau and Stéphane Thiébaut - Barbara
- Pascal Armant , Sélim Azzazi and Jean-Paul Hurier - Life is a festival (Le sens de la fête)
- Mathieu Descamps , Séverin Favriau and Stéphane Thiébaut - Raw (Grave)
- Jean Minondo , Gurwal Coïc-Gallas , Cyril Holtz and Damien Lazzerini - Au revoir là-haut
- Julien Sicart , Valérie de Loof and Jean-Pierre Laforce - 120 BPM (120 battements par minute)
Best film score
presented by Eddy Mitchell
Arnaud Rebotini - 120 BPM (120 battements par minute)
- Matthieu Chedid - Moments: Faces of a Journey (Visages, Villages)
- Myd - Petit Paysan
- Christophe Julien - Au revoir là-haut
- Jim Williams - Raw (Grave)
Best debut film
presented by Golshifteh Farahani
Petit Paysan - Director: Hubert Charuel
- Bonjour Paris (Jeune femme) - Director: Léonor Serraille
- Lieber Leben (Patients) - Director: Grand Corps Malade and Mehdi Idir
- The Poetry of Love (Monsieur & Madame Adelman) - Director: Nicolas Bedos
- Raw (Grave) - Director: Julia Ducournau
Best animated film
presented by Manu Payet
Le grand méchant renard et autres contes… - Directed by Benjamin Renner and Patrick Imbert
- Sahara - Director: Pierre Coré
- Zombillénium - directed by Arthur de Pins and Alexis Ducord
Best documentary
presented by Elsa Zylberstein
I Am Not Your Negro - Director: Raoul Peck
- 12 Days (12 Jours) - Director: Raymond Depardon
- Moments: Faces of a Journey (Visages, Villages) - Directed by Agnès Varda and JR
- Carré 35 - Directed by Éric Caravaca
- À voix haute - La force de la parole - Director: Stéphane de Freitas
Best animated short film
presented by Manu Payet
Pépé le morse - Director: Lucrèce Andreae
- Le futur sera chauve - Director: Paul Cabon
- I Want Pluto to Be a Planet Again - Directors: Marie Amachoukeli and Vladimir Mavounia-Kouka
- Le jardin de minuit - Director: Benoît
Best short film
presented by Géraldine Nakache
Les Bigorneaux - Director: Alice Vial
- Le bleu blanc rouge de mes cheveux - Director: Josza Anjembe
- Debout Kinshasa! - Director: Sébastien Maître
- Marlon - Director: Jessica Palud
- Les misérables - Director: Ladj Ly
Best foreign film
presented by Sophie Marceau and Pierre Richard
Loveless (Нелюбовь), Russia - Director: Andrei Svjaginzew
- Dunkirk , United Kingdom / USA / France / Netherlands - Director: Christopher Nolan
- A Royal Exchange (L'échange des princesses) , France / Belgium - Director: Marc Dugain
- La La Land , USA - Director: Damien Chazelle
- The Nile Hilton Affair (The Nile Hilton Incident) , Sweden / Denmark / Germany / France - Director: Tarik Saleh
- Noces , Belgen / Pakistan / Luxembourg / France - Director: Stephan Streker
- The Square , Sweden / Germany / France / Denmark - Director: Ruben Östlund
Honorary award
presented by Marion Cotillard and Pedro Almodóvar
Penélope Cruz - Spanish actress
Audience award
presented by Line Renaud
The Super Cops - Always Crazy! (Raid dingue) - Production: Jérôme Seydoux , Director: Dany Boon
Web links
- Nominations and award winners 2018 at academie-cinema.org (French)
Individual evidence
- ^ French AIDS drama: Best film - "120 BPM" wins César . In: Spiegel Online, March 3, 2018 (accessed March 3, 2018).
- ↑ Audiences: la cérémonie des César sur Canal + en légère hausse . In: tvmag.lefigaro.fr, March 3, 2018 (accessed March 27, 2018).