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The French film academy, the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, has unveiled this year’s nominees for the Cesar Awards, France‘s top film honor.
Lea Seydoux and Adam Driver are two big names nominated for the best acting honors, Seydoux up for her performance in Bruno Dumont’s France, Driver for his turn in Leos Carax’s musical Annette. Xavier Giannoli’s Lost Illusions (Illusions Perdues) leads the Cesar pack with 15 nominations. It is followed by 11 for Annette, and 10 for Valerie Lemercier’s Aline.
They all compete for the top prize with Audrey Diwan’s Venice Golden Lion winner Happening, Cédric Jimenez’s The Stronghold (Bac Nord), a cop thriller that premiered in Cannes and was one of the most successful French films at the box office last year, as well as Arthur Harari’s Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle and Catherine Corsini’s The Divide.
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The controversial Cannes Palme d’Or winner Titane didn’t get a nomination in the best film category, but Julia Ducournau is a contender for the best director award, along with Carax, Jimenez, Diwan, Giannoli, Harari and Lemercier.
Albert Dupontel’s comedy Bye Bye Morons was the big winner at last year’s Cesars, taking the best film and best director trophies and the honor for best supporting actor Nicolas Marié.
The 47th Cesar Awards will be held at the Olympia theater in Paris on Feb. 25, with screenwriter Danièle Thompson (Cousin cousine, La buche) hosting the ceremony.
Below are the 2022 Cesar Awards nominations in some key categories:
Best Film
Lost Illusions
Annette
Aline
Happening
Bac Nord
The Divide
Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
Best Director
Valérie Lemercier, Aline
Leos Carax, Annette
Cédric Jiminez, Bac Nord
Audrey Diwan, Happening
Xavier Giannoli, Lost Illusions
Arthur Harari, Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
Julia Ducournau, Titane
Best Actress
Leila Bekhti, The Restless
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, La fracture
Laure Calamy, Une femme du monde
Virginie Efira, Benedeta
Vicky Krieps, Serre moi fort
Valerie Lemercier, Aline
Lea Seydoux, France
Best Actor
Damien Bonnard, The Restless
Adam Driver, Annette
Gilles Lellouche, Bac Nord
Vincent Macaigne, Medecin de nuit
Benoit Magimel, Living
Pio Marmai, La fracture
Pierre Niney, Boite noire
Best Supporting Actress
Jeanne Balibar, Lost Illusions
Celine de France, Lost Illusions
Aissatou Diallo Sagna, La fracture
Adele Exarchopoulos, Mandibules
Danielle Fichaud, Aline
Best Supporting Actor
Francois Civil, Bac Nord
Xavier Dolan, Lost Illusions
Vincent Lacoste, Lost Illusions
Karin Leklou, Bac Nord
Sylvain Marcel, Aline
Best First Film
Gagarine, Fanny Liatard, Jeremy Trouilh
Magnetic Beats, Vincent Mael Cardona
La Nuee, Just Philippot
La panthere des neiges, Marie Amiguet, Vincent Munier
Slalom, Charlene Favier
Best Foreign Film
Compartment n. 6, Juho Kuho Kuosmanen
Drive My Car, Ryusuke Hamaguchi
First Cow, Kelly Reichardt
The Worst Person in the World, Joachim Trier
Parallel Mothers, Pedro Almodovar
The Father, Florian Zeller
Best Female Newcomer
Noée Abita, Slalom
Salomé Dewaels, Lost Illusions
Agathe Rousselle, Titane
Anamaria Vartolomei, Happening
Lucie Zhang, Les Olympiades
Best Male Newcomer
Sandor Funtek, Supremes
Sami Outalbali, Une Histoire D’Amour Et De Désir
Thimotée Robart, Les Magnétiques
Makita Samba, Les Olympiades
Benjamin Voisin, Lost Illusions
Best Original Screenplay
Valerie Lemercier, Brigitte Buc, Aline
Leos Carax, Ron Mael, Russel Mael, Annette
Yann Gozlan, Simon Moutaïrou, Nicolas Bouvet-Levrard, Boite Noire
Catherine Corsini, Laurette Polmanss, Agnes Feuvre, La fracture
Arthur Harari, Vincent Poymiro, Onoda, 10,000 Nights in the Jungle
Best Adapted Screenplay
Yael Langmann, Yvan Attal, Les choses humaines
Audrey Diwan, Marcia Romano, Happening
Xavier Giannoli, Jacques Fieschi, Lost Illusions
Celine Sciamma, Lea Mysius, Jacques Audiard, Paris, 13th District
Mathieu Amalric, Serre moi fort
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