Best Actor – Leading Role

César Award for Best Actor

This is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Actor .-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:-2010s:...

• Philippe Torreton
  Philippe Torreton
  Philippe Torreton is a French actor.-Biography:Born in Rouen, to a teacher mother, and fireman father, Torreton grew up in a suburb of the city...
  
   – Captain Conon
  Capitaine Conan
  Capitaine Conan is a 1996 French film that is directed by Bertrand Tavernier. The film is based on the 1934 Prix Goncourt-winning novel Captain Conan by Roger Vercel.-Plot:...
  
  (Capitaine Conan)
  • Daniel Auteuil
    Daniel Auteuil
    Daniel Auteuil is a French film, television and theatre actor.-Early life and education:He was born in Algiers, French Algeria.-Career:...
    
     – The Eighth Day (Le huitième jour)
  • Charles Berling
    Charles Berling
    Charles Berling is a French actor, director, scenario writer and producer born on April 30, 1958 in Saint-Mandé in Val de Marne .-Biography:Son of a marine physician, he is also the nephew of the literary critic Raymond Picard...
    
     – Ridicule
    Ridicule
    Ridicule is a 1996 French film set in the 18th century at the decadent court of Versailles, where social status can rise and fall based on one's ability to mete out witty insults and avoid ridicule oneself...
    
    
  • Fabrice Luchini
    Fabrice Luchini
    Fabrice Luchini is a French stage and film actor.-Biography:Fabrice Luchini was born in Île-de-France, Paris, into an Italian immigrant family, who were fruit and vegetable vendors. He grew up around the neighbourhood of Goutte d'Or in Paris's 18th arrondissement...
    
     – Beaumarchais the Scoundrel (Beaumarchais, l'insolent)
  • Patrick Timsit
    Patrick Timsit
    Patrick Timsit is a French comedian, writer and film director. He has been nominated for 4 César Awards, three times as an actor and once as a writer...
    
     – Soft Pedal
    Soft pedal
    The soft pedal is one of the standard pedals on a piano, generally placed leftmost among the pedals. On a grand piano this pedal shifts the whole action including the keyboard slightly to the right, so that hammers which normally strike all three of the strings for a note strike only two of them....
    
    (Pédale douce)

Best Actor – Supporting Role

César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role

List of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Supporting Actor .-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:-2010s:-References:...

• Jean-Pierre Darroussin
  Jean-Pierre Darroussin
  Jean-Pierre Darroussin is a French film actor. He was born in Courbevoie, France on December 4, 1953. His films include the 2004 thriller Red Lights.-Filmography as actor:* 1979 : Coup de tête, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud...
  
   – Family Resemblances (Un air de famille)
  • Albert Dupontel
    Albert Dupontel
    Albert Dupontel is a French actor and film director. He started his career as a stand-up comedian...
    
     – A Self Made Hero
    A Self Made Hero
    A Self Made Hero is a 1996 French film directed by Jacques Audiard. It is based on the novel by Jean-François Deniau.-Synopsis:Albert Dehousse has grown up on heroic novels, unfortunately his life isn't quite so exciting. Albert lives in a village in Northern France with his mother, who lives in...
    
    (Un héros très discret)
  • Jacques Gamblin
    Jacques Gamblin
    Jacques Gamblin is a French actor.He was born in Granville, Manche. He studied at the Centre dramatique de Caen before he tried to film in Paris.-Filmography:*Périgord Noir...
    
     – Soft Pedal
    Soft pedal
    The soft pedal is one of the standard pedals on a piano, generally placed leftmost among the pedals. On a grand piano this pedal shifts the whole action including the keyboard slightly to the right, so that hammers which normally strike all three of the strings for a note strike only two of them....
    
    (Pédale douce)
  • Bernard Giraudeau
    Bernard Giraudeau
    Bernard Giraudeau was a French actor, film director, scriptwriter, producer and writer.-Life:Giraudeau was born in La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime. In 1963 he enlisted in the French navy as a trainee engineer, qualifying as the first in his class a year later...
    
     – Ridicule
    Ridicule
    Ridicule is a 1996 French film set in the 18th century at the decadent court of Versailles, where social status can rise and fall based on one's ability to mete out witty insults and avoid ridicule oneself...
    
    
  • Jean Rochefort
    Jean Rochefort
    Jean Rochefort is a French actor, with a career that has spanned over five decades.Rochefort was born in Paris, France. He was educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen He was 19 years old when he entered the Centre d'Art Dramatique de la rue Blanche. Later he joined the Conservatoire National...
    
     – Ridicule
    Ridicule
    Ridicule is a 1996 French film set in the 18th century at the decadent court of Versailles, where social status can rise and fall based on one's ability to mete out witty insults and avoid ridicule oneself...
    
    

Best Actress – Leading Role

César Award for Best Actress

List of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Actress .-Winners and nominees:...

• Fanny Ardant
  Fanny Ardant
  Fanny Marguerite Judith Ardant is a French actress. She has appeared in more than fifty motion pictures since 1976. Ardant won the César Award for Best Actress in 1997 for her performance in Pédale douce.-Early life:...
  
   – Soft Pedal
  Soft pedal
  The soft pedal is one of the standard pedals on a piano, generally placed leftmost among the pedals. On a grand piano this pedal shifts the whole action including the keyboard slightly to the right, so that hammers which normally strike all three of the strings for a note strike only two of them....
  
  (Pédale douce)
  • Catherine Deneuve
    Catherine Deneuve
    Catherine Deneuve is a French actress. She gained recognition for her portrayal of aloof and mysterious beauties in films such as Repulsion and Belle de jour . Deneuve was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1993 for her performance in Indochine; she also won César Awards for that...
    
     – Thieves
    Thieves (film)
    Thieves is a 1996 French drama film directed by André Téchiné, starring Daniel Auteuil, Catherine Deneuve and Laurence Côte. The plot follows a cynical police officer, who comes from a family of thieves, and a lonely philosophy professor, both romantically involved with a self-destructive petty...
    
    (Les voleurs)
  • Charlotte Gainsbourg
    Charlotte Gainsbourg
    Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg is an Anglo-French actress and singer. After releasing an album with her father at the age of fifteen, more than twenty years passed before she released two albums as an adult to commercial and critical success...
    
     – Love, etc.
  • Anouk Grinberg – My Man (Mon homme)
  • Marie Trintignant
    Marie Trintignant
    -Early life:She was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, the daughter of actor Jean-Louis Trintignant and his second wife Nadine Marquand. She first appeared on screen aged 4 in her mother's film, My Love, My Love. When Marie's baby sister Pauline died when Marie was 8, she became withdrawn and virtually...
    
     – The Cry of Silk (Le cri de la soie)

Best Actress – Supporting Role

César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role

List of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Supporting Actress .-Winners:Adapted from the article , from Wikinfo, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License....

• Catherine Frot
  Catherine Frot
  -Early life:The daughter of an engineer and a mathematics teacher, Frot demonstrated comic traits and expressions at an early age. At the age of fourteen, she enrolled in the Versailles conservatory while still in school...
  
   – Family Resemblances (Un air de famille)
  • Agnès Jaoui
    Agnès Jaoui
    Agnès Jaoui is a French screenwriter, film director, actress and singer of Tunisian Jewish descent. She frequently works in collaboration with her husband Jean-Pierre Bacri.-Actress:* Le Faucon...
    
     – Family Resemblances (Un air de famille)
  • Sandrine Kiberlain
    Sandrine Kiberlain
    Sandrine Kiberlain is a French actress and singer. She has often worked with the director Laetitia Masson, and has also worked with Benoît Jacquot.Kiberlain received the Prix Romy Schneider in 1995...
    
     – A Self Made Hero
    A Self Made Hero
    A Self Made Hero is a 1996 French film directed by Jacques Audiard. It is based on the novel by Jean-François Deniau.-Synopsis:Albert Dehousse has grown up on heroic novels, unfortunately his life isn't quite so exciting. Albert lives in a village in Northern France with his mother, who lives in...
    
    (Un héros très discret)
  • Michèle Laroque
    Michèle Laroque
    Michèle Laroque is a French actress, comedian and humorist, who has appeared in almost 60 film and television productions since 1988.She was born in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France...
    
     – Soft Pedal
    Soft pedal
    The soft pedal is one of the standard pedals on a piano, generally placed leftmost among the pedals. On a grand piano this pedal shifts the whole action including the keyboard slightly to the right, so that hammers which normally strike all three of the strings for a note strike only two of them....
    
    (Pédale douce)
  • Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
    Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
    Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, also spelled Bruni-Tedeschi, is an Italian-French actress.-Personal life:...
    
     – My Man (Mon homme)

Best Cinematography

César Award for Best Cinematography

The following are the winners of the annual César Award for Best Cinematography .-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:-2010s:...

• Microcosmos (Microcosmos: Le peuple de l'herbe) – Thierry Machado, Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou and Hugues Ryffel
  • Ridicule
    Ridicule
    Ridicule is a 1996 French film set in the 18th century at the decadent court of Versailles, where social status can rise and fall based on one's ability to mete out witty insults and avoid ridicule oneself...
    
    – Thierry Arbogast
    Thierry Arbogast
    Thierry Arbogast is a prolific and multi-award–winning French cinematographer. He was born in France in 1957 and his career spans nearly thirty years.-Awards:* 1991 nominated for the César Award for Best Cinematography for Nikita....
    
    
  • Unpredictable Nature of the River (Les caprices d'un fleuve) – Jean-Marie Dreujou

Best Costume Design

César Award for Best Costume Design

This is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Costume Design .-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:-2010s:...

• Ridicule
  Ridicule
  Ridicule is a 1996 French film set in the 18th century at the decadent court of Versailles, where social status can rise and fall based on one's ability to mete out witty insults and avoid ridicule oneself...
  
  – Christian Gasc
  • Beaumarchais the Scoundrel (Beaumarchais, l'insolent) – Sylvie de Segonzac
  • Captain Conan
    Capitaine Conan
    Capitaine Conan is a 1996 French film that is directed by Bertrand Tavernier. The film is based on the 1934 Prix Goncourt-winning novel Captain Conan by Roger Vercel.-Plot:...
    
    (Capitaine Conan) – Agnès Evein and Jacqueline Moreau

Best Debut

César Award for Best Debut

The César Award for Best Debut was an award given out at the annual César Awards between 1982 and 1999...

• Will It Snow For Christmas?
  Will It Snow For Christmas?
  Will It Snow For Christmas?, is a South Korean teledrama produced and broadcasted by SBS that aired on December 2, 2009 and ended on January 28, 2010.-Synopsis:...
  
  (Y aura-t-il de la neige à Noël?) – Sandrine Veysset
  Sandrine Veysset
  -Background and early career:She was born in Avignon. Veysset studied French literature until she dropped out of school to pursue filmmaking. A friend introduced her to Léos Carax and she was hired as his driver while he was shooting Les Amants du Pont-Neuf in 1989...
  
  
  • The Apartment
    L'Appartement
    L'Appartement is a 1996 French film directed by Gilles Mimouni and starring Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci and Romane Bohringer.-Plot:Max is a former bohemian and an amateur writer who gets a job in New York and leaves his girlfriend Lisa, who he was madly in love with, in mysterious circumstances...
    
    (L'appartement) – Gilles Mimouni
    Gilles Mimouni
    Gilles Mimouni is a French film director. To date, his only directorial credit is the feature film L'Appartement - a tense romantic thriller starring Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, and Romane Bohringer, although he acted as executive producer for its U.S remake Wicker Park .- External links :...
    
    
  • Bernie – Albert Dupontel
    Albert Dupontel
    Albert Dupontel is a French actor and film director. He started his career as a stand-up comedian...
    
    
  • Microcosmos (Microcosmos: Le peuple de l'herbe) – Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou
  • More
    Encore (1996 film)
    Encore is a 1996 comedy-drama film by French director Pascal Bonitzer. The film follows the mid-life crisis of a university professor, played by Jackie Berroyer. The film also stars Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Laurence Côte, Natacha Régnier, and Hélène Fillières.-Awards:Bonitzer was awarded the 1996...
    
    (Encore) – Pascal Bonitzer

Best Director

César Award for Best Director

This is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Director .-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:-2010s:...

• Patrice Leconte
  Patrice Leconte
  Patrice Leconte is a French film director, actor, comic strip writer, and screenwriter.-Biography:...
  
   – Ridicule
  Ridicule
  Ridicule is a 1996 French film set in the 18th century at the decadent court of Versailles, where social status can rise and fall based on one's ability to mete out witty insults and avoid ridicule oneself...
  
  
• Bertrand Tavernier
  Bertrand Tavernier
  Bertrand Tavernier is a French director, screenwriter, actor, and producer.-Life and career:Tavernier was born in Lyon, the son of Geneviève and René Tavernier, a publicist and writer, several years president of the French PEN club. Tavernier wanted to become a filmmaker since the age of thirteen...
  
   – Captain Conan
  Capitaine Conan
  Capitaine Conan is a 1996 French film that is directed by Bertrand Tavernier. The film is based on the 1934 Prix Goncourt-winning novel Captain Conan by Roger Vercel.-Plot:...
  
  (Capitaine Conan)
  • Jacques Audiard
    Jacques Audiard
    Jacques Audiard is a French film director, the son of Michel Audiard, also a notable screenwriter and film director.He won twice both the César Award for Best Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Film not in the English Language, in 2005 for The Beat That My Heart Skipped and in 2010 for A Prophet...
    
     – A Self Made Hero
    A Self Made Hero
    A Self Made Hero is a 1996 French film directed by Jacques Audiard. It is based on the novel by Jean-François Deniau.-Synopsis:Albert Dehousse has grown up on heroic novels, unfortunately his life isn't quite so exciting. Albert lives in a village in Northern France with his mother, who lives in...
    
    (Un héros très discret)
  • Cédric Klapisch
    Cédric Klapisch
    Cédric Klapisch , is a French film director.Klapisch was born at Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine. He is from a Jewish family; his maternal grandparents were deported to Auschwitz. He studied cinema at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle as well as at the University of Paris VIII...
    
     – Family Resemblances (Un air de famille)
  • André Téchiné
    André Téchiné
    André Téchiné , is a French screenwriter and film director. He has had a long and distinguished career that places him among the best post-New Wave French film directors....
    
     – Thieves
    Thieves (film)
    Thieves is a 1996 French drama film directed by André Téchiné, starring Daniel Auteuil, Catherine Deneuve and Laurence Côte. The plot follows a cynical police officer, who comes from a family of thieves, and a lonely philosophy professor, both romantically involved with a self-destructive petty...
    
    (Les voleurs)

Best Editing

César Award for Best Editing

The César Award for Best Editing is one of the annual César Awards given by the French Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinema. Eligible films are usually in the French language.-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:...

• Microcosmos (Microcosmos: Le peuple de l'herbe) – Florence Ricard and Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte
  • Ridicule
    Ridicule
    Ridicule is a 1996 French film set in the 18th century at the decadent court of Versailles, where social status can rise and fall based on one's ability to mete out witty insults and avoid ridicule oneself...
    
    – Joëlle Hache
  • A Self Made Hero
    A Self Made Hero
    A Self Made Hero is a 1996 French film directed by Jacques Audiard. It is based on the novel by Jean-François Deniau.-Synopsis:Albert Dehousse has grown up on heroic novels, unfortunately his life isn't quite so exciting. Albert lives in a village in Northern France with his mother, who lives in...
    
    (Un héros très discret) – Juliette Welfling
    Juliette Welfling
    Juliette Welfling is a French film editor. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing for her work in the 2007 movie The Diving Bell and the Butterfly...
    
    

Best Film

César Award for Best Film

The winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Film .-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:-2010s:...

• Ridicule
  Ridicule
  Ridicule is a 1996 French film set in the 18th century at the decadent court of Versailles, where social status can rise and fall based on one's ability to mete out witty insults and avoid ridicule oneself...
  
   – Patrice Leconte
  Patrice Leconte
  Patrice Leconte is a French film director, actor, comic strip writer, and screenwriter.-Biography:...
  
  
  • Captain Conan
    Capitaine Conan
    Capitaine Conan is a 1996 French film that is directed by Bertrand Tavernier. The film is based on the 1934 Prix Goncourt-winning novel Captain Conan by Roger Vercel.-Plot:...
    
    (Capitaine Conan) – Bertrand Tavernier
    Bertrand Tavernier
    Bertrand Tavernier is a French director, screenwriter, actor, and producer.-Life and career:Tavernier was born in Lyon, the son of Geneviève and René Tavernier, a publicist and writer, several years president of the French PEN club. Tavernier wanted to become a filmmaker since the age of thirteen...
    
    
  • Family Resemblances (Un air de famille) – Cédric Klapisch
    Cédric Klapisch
    Cédric Klapisch , is a French film director.Klapisch was born at Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine. He is from a Jewish family; his maternal grandparents were deported to Auschwitz. He studied cinema at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle as well as at the University of Paris VIII...
    
    
  • Microcosmos (Microcosmos: Le peuple de l'herbe) – Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou
  • Soft Pedal
    Soft pedal
    The soft pedal is one of the standard pedals on a piano, generally placed leftmost among the pedals. On a grand piano this pedal shifts the whole action including the keyboard slightly to the right, so that hammers which normally strike all three of the strings for a note strike only two of them....
    
    (Pédale douce) – Gabriel Aghion
    Gabriel Aghion
    -Biography:He was born in Alexandria, in Egypt on 30 December 1955.-Filmography:* La Scarlatine * Bras de Fer * Rue du Bac * Pédale douce -Biography:He was born in Alexandria, in Egypt on 30 December 1955.-Filmography:* La Scarlatine (1983)* Bras de Fer (1985)* Rue du Bac (1990)* Pédale douce...
    
    
  • Thieves
    Thieves (film)
    Thieves is a 1996 French drama film directed by André Téchiné, starring Daniel Auteuil, Catherine Deneuve and Laurence Côte. The plot follows a cynical police officer, who comes from a family of thieves, and a lonely philosophy professor, both romantically involved with a self-destructive petty...
    
    (Les voleurs) – André Téchiné
    André Téchiné
    André Téchiné , is a French screenwriter and film director. He has had a long and distinguished career that places him among the best post-New Wave French film directors....
    
    

• Breaking the Waves
  Breaking the Waves
  Breaking the Waves is a 1996 film directed by Lars von Trier and starring Emily Watson. Set in the Scottish Highlands in the early 1970s, it tells the story of an unusual young woman, Bess McNeill, and of the love she has for Jan, her husband. The film is an international co-production led by Lars...
  
   – Lars von Trier
  Lars von Trier
  Lars von Trier is a Danish film director and screenwriter. He is closely associated with the Dogme 95 collective, although his own films have taken a variety of different approaches, and have frequently received strongly divided critical opinion....
  
   • UK
  • Fargo
    Fargo (film)
    Fargo is a 1996 American dark comedy-crime film produced, directed and written by brothers Joel and Ethan Coen. It stars Frances McDormand as a pregnant police chief who investigates a series of homicides, William H...
    
    – Ethan
    Coen Brothers
    Joel David Coen and Ethan Jesse Coen known together professionally as the Coen brothers, are American filmmakers...
    
     and Joel Coen • USA
  • The Promise
    La Promesse
    La promesse is a 1996 film by the Belgian brothers Luc Dardenne and Jean-Pierre Dardenne.-Principal cast:*Jérémie Renier as Igor*Olivier Gourmet as Roger*Assita Ouedraogo as Assita-Awards and nominations:...
    
    (La promesse) – Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne • Belgium
    Belgium
    Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
    
    
  • Secrets & Lies – Mike Leigh
    Mike Leigh
    Michael "Mike" Leigh, OBE is a British writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and studied further at the Camberwell School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design. He began as a theatre director and playwright in the mid 1960s...
    
     • UK

Best Music

César Award for Best Music Written for a Film

This is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Music Written for a Film . Before 2000, the award was called "César Award for Best Music".-1970s:...

• Microcosmos (Microcosmos: Le peuple de l'herbe) – Bruno Coulais
  Bruno Coulais
  Bruno Coulais is a French composer, most widely known for his music on film soundtracks. He recently composed the score for the animated film, The Secret of Kells, released 12 March 2010.- Life and career :...
  
  
  • Ridicule
    Ridicule
    Ridicule is a 1996 French film set in the 18th century at the decadent court of Versailles, where social status can rise and fall based on one's ability to mete out witty insults and avoid ridicule oneself...
    
    – Antoine Duhamel
    Antoine Duhamel
    Antoine Duhamel , is a French composer, orchestra conductor and music teacher.Born in Valmondois in the Val-d'Oise département of France, Antoine Duhamel came from a cinematic family and studied music at the Sorbonne. He wrote the score for his first film in 1960, going on to work with many of...
    
    
  • A Self Made Hero
    A Self Made Hero
    A Self Made Hero is a 1996 French film directed by Jacques Audiard. It is based on the novel by Jean-François Deniau.-Synopsis:Albert Dehousse has grown up on heroic novels, unfortunately his life isn't quite so exciting. Albert lives in a village in Northern France with his mother, who lives in...
    
    (Un héros très discret) – Alexandre Desplat
    Alexandre Desplat
    Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat is a French film composer. He has received four Academy Award nominations, five BAFTA nominations, five Golden Globe nominations, winning a Golden Globe for his work on The Painted Veil in 2006, and two Grammy nominations. In 2011, Desplat won his first British...
    
    
  • Unpredictable Nature of the River (Les caprices d'un fleuve) – René-Marc Bini

Best Producer

César Award for Best Producer

The César Award for the Best Producer was awarded only twice, in 1996 and in 1997.-Winners and nominees:...

• Jacques Perrin
  Jacques Perrin
  Jacques Perrin is a French actor and filmmaker. He is occasionally credited as Jacques Simonet. Simonet was his father's name and Perrin his mother's.-Life and career:...
  
   – Microcosmos (Microcosmos: Le peuple de l'herbe)

Best Production Design

César Award for Best Production Design

This is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Production Design .-Winners and nominees:*1976: Pierre Guffroy: Que la fête commence*1977: Alexandre Trauner: Monsieur Klein...

• Ridicule
  Ridicule
  Ridicule is a 1996 French film set in the 18th century at the decadent court of Versailles, where social status can rise and fall based on one's ability to mete out witty insults and avoid ridicule oneself...
  
  – Ivan Maussion
  • Beaumarchais the Scoundrel (Beaumarchais, l'insolent) – Jean-Marc Kerdelhue
  • Captain Conan
    Capitaine Conan
    Capitaine Conan is a 1996 French film that is directed by Bertrand Tavernier. The film is based on the 1934 Prix Goncourt-winning novel Captain Conan by Roger Vercel.-Plot:...
    
    (Capitaine Conan) – Guy-Claude François

Best Writing

César Award for Best Writing

This is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Writing .-1975–1979:*1975: Bertrand Tavernier, Jean Aurenche: Que la fête commence...

• Family Resemblances (Un air de famille) – Jean-Pierre Bacri
  Jean-Pierre Bacri
  Jean-Pierre Bacri is a French actor and screenwriter who frequently works in collaboration with Agnès Jaoui.-Life:One of his earliest film appearances was Subway...
  
  , Cédric Klapisch
  Cédric Klapisch
  Cédric Klapisch , is a French film director.Klapisch was born at Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine. He is from a Jewish family; his maternal grandparents were deported to Auschwitz. He studied cinema at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle as well as at the University of Paris VIII...
  
   and Agnès Jaoui
  Agnès Jaoui
  Agnès Jaoui is a French screenwriter, film director, actress and singer of Tunisian Jewish descent. She frequently works in collaboration with her husband Jean-Pierre Bacri.-Actress:* Le Faucon...
  
  
  • Captain Conan
    Capitaine Conan
    Capitaine Conan is a 1996 French film that is directed by Bertrand Tavernier. The film is based on the 1934 Prix Goncourt-winning novel Captain Conan by Roger Vercel.-Plot:...
    
    (Capitaine Conan) – Jean Cosmos and Bertrand Tavernier
    Bertrand Tavernier
    Bertrand Tavernier is a French director, screenwriter, actor, and producer.-Life and career:Tavernier was born in Lyon, the son of Geneviève and René Tavernier, a publicist and writer, several years president of the French PEN club. Tavernier wanted to become a filmmaker since the age of thirteen...
    
    
  • Ridicule
    Ridicule
    Ridicule is a 1996 French film set in the 18th century at the decadent court of Versailles, where social status can rise and fall based on one's ability to mete out witty insults and avoid ridicule oneself...
    
    – Rémi Waterhouse
  • A Self Made Hero
    A Self Made Hero
    A Self Made Hero is a 1996 French film directed by Jacques Audiard. It is based on the novel by Jean-François Deniau.-Synopsis:Albert Dehousse has grown up on heroic novels, unfortunately his life isn't quite so exciting. Albert lives in a village in Northern France with his mother, who lives in...
    
    (Un héros très discret) – Jacques Audiard
    Jacques Audiard
    Jacques Audiard is a French film director, the son of Michel Audiard, also a notable screenwriter and film director.He won twice both the César Award for Best Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Film not in the English Language, in 2005 for The Beat That My Heart Skipped and in 2010 for A Prophet...
    
     and Alain Le Henry
  • Soft Pedal
    Soft pedal
    The soft pedal is one of the standard pedals on a piano, generally placed leftmost among the pedals. On a grand piano this pedal shifts the whole action including the keyboard slightly to the right, so that hammers which normally strike all three of the strings for a note strike only two of them....
    
    (Pédale douce) – Gabriel Aghion
    Gabriel Aghion
    -Biography:He was born in Alexandria, in Egypt on 30 December 1955.-Filmography:* La Scarlatine * Bras de Fer * Rue du Bac * Pédale douce -Biography:He was born in Alexandria, in Egypt on 30 December 1955.-Filmography:* La Scarlatine (1983)* Bras de Fer (1985)* Rue du Bac (1990)* Pédale douce...
    
     and Patrick Timsit
    Patrick Timsit
    Patrick Timsit is a French comedian, writer and film director. He has been nominated for 4 César Awards, three times as an actor and once as a writer...
    
    

Most Promising Actor

César Award for Most Promising Actor

This is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Most Promising Actor .-1980s:-1990s:*1991: Gérald Thomassin: Le petit criminel*1992: Manuel Blanc: J'embrasse pas...

• Mathieu Amalric
  Mathieu Amalric
  Mathieu Amalric is a French actor and film director, perhaps best known internationally for his performance as the lead villain in Bond film Quantum Of Solace and for his role in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, for which he drew critical acclaim...
  
   – My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (Comment je me suis disputé... (ma vie sexuelle))
  • Samuel Le Bihan
    Samuel Le Bihan
    Samuel Le Bihan is a French actor, notable for his role in Brotherhood of the Wolf.-Cinema:* 1993: Promenades d'été, directed by René Féret* 1993: La place d'un autre, directed by René Féret...
    
     – Captain Conan
    Capitaine Conan
    Capitaine Conan is a 1996 French film that is directed by Bertrand Tavernier. The film is based on the 1934 Prix Goncourt-winning novel Captain Conan by Roger Vercel.-Plot:...
    
    (Capitaine Conan)
  • Benoît Magimel
    Benoît Magimel
    Benoît Magimel is a French actor. A prolific actor who was 14 when he appeared in his first film, Magimel has starred in a variety of roles in French cinema....
    
     – Thieves
    Thieves (film)
    Thieves is a 1996 French drama film directed by André Téchiné, starring Daniel Auteuil, Catherine Deneuve and Laurence Côte. The plot follows a cynical police officer, who comes from a family of thieves, and a lonely philosophy professor, both romantically involved with a self-destructive petty...
    
    (Les voleurs)
  • Bruno Putzulu
    Bruno Putzulu
    Bruno Putzulu is a French actor, born on May 24, 1967 in Toutainville in Eure.- Biography :Originally Sardinian by his father, Bruno was born and raised in Toutainville. He likes football, however it chose an acting career...
    
     – Les aveux de l'innocent
  • Philippe Torreton
    Philippe Torreton
    Philippe Torreton is a French actor.-Biography:Born in Rouen, to a teacher mother, and fireman father, Torreton grew up in a suburb of the city...
    
     – Captain Conan
    Capitaine Conan
    Capitaine Conan is a 1996 French film that is directed by Bertrand Tavernier. The film is based on the 1934 Prix Goncourt-winning novel Captain Conan by Roger Vercel.-Plot:...
    
    (Capitaine Conan)

Most Promising Actress

César Award for Most Promising Actress

The following is the list of winners of the César Award for Most Promising Actress . Since its inception in 1983, the award is given as part of the French film industry's annual César Awards....

• Laurence Côte – Thieves
  Thieves (film)
  Thieves is a 1996 French drama film directed by André Téchiné, starring Daniel Auteuil, Catherine Deneuve and Laurence Côte. The plot follows a cynical police officer, who comes from a family of thieves, and a lonely philosophy professor, both romantically involved with a self-destructive petty...
  
  (Les voleurs)
  • Monica Bellucci
    Monica Bellucci
    Monica Anna Maria Bellucci is an Italian actress and fashion model.-Early life:Bellucci was born in Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy as the only child of Luigi Bellucci, who was born in the British protectorate of Zanzibar, East Pakistan...
    
     – The Apartment
    L'Appartement
    L'Appartement is a 1996 French film directed by Gilles Mimouni and starring Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci and Romane Bohringer.-Plot:Max is a former bohemian and an amateur writer who gets a job in New York and leaves his girlfriend Lisa, who he was madly in love with, in mysterious circumstances...
    
    (L'appartement)
  • Garance Clavel – When the Cat's Away (Chacun cherche son chat)
  • Jeanne Balibar
    Jeanne Balibar
    Jeanne Balibar is a French actress and singer.She was born in Paris. She began her acting career on the stage, in "Don Juan" at the Festival d'Avignon. Her first film role was in Arnaud Desplechin's 1992 film The Sentinel. She continues to perform in both spheres.Recently she starred in Ne Change...
    
     – My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (Comment je me suis disputé... (ma vie sexuelle))
  • Emmanuelle Devos
    Emmanuelle Devos
    Emmanuelle Devos is a French actress. Devos was born to daughter of actress Marie Henriau in Paris. She appeared in 50 films between 1986 and 2009. She won the César Award for Best Actress in 2002 for her performance in Sur mes lèvres, directed by Jacques Audiard...
    
     – My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (Comment je me suis disputé... (ma vie sexuelle))

Best Sound

César Award for Best Sound

This is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Sound .-Winners and nominees:*1976 : Nara Kollery *1977 : Jean-Pierre Ruh *1978 : Jacques Maumont...

• Microcosmos (Microcosmos: Le peuple de l'herbe) – Philippe Barbeau and Bernard Leroux
  • Captain Conan
    Capitaine Conan
    Capitaine Conan is a 1996 French film that is directed by Bertrand Tavernier. The film is based on the 1934 Prix Goncourt-winning novel Captain Conan by Roger Vercel.-Plot:...
    
    (Capitaine Conan) – Michel Desrois and Gérard Lamps
  • Microcosmos (Microcosmos: Le peuple de l'herbe) – Laurent Quaglio
  • Ridicule
    Ridicule
    Ridicule is a 1996 French film set in the 18th century at the decadent court of Versailles, where social status can rise and fall based on one's ability to mete out witty insults and avoid ridicule oneself...
    
    – Jean Goudier and Paul Lainé
    Paul Laine
    Paul Laine is a Canadian musician who has worked with several rock bands. He was the singer of Danger Danger for ten years, then fronted his own band, Shugaazer.-Biography:...
    
    

Best Fiction Short

• Madame Jacques sur la Croisette – Emmanuel Finkiel
  • Dialogue au sommet – Xavier Giannoli
    Xavier Giannoli
    Xavier Giannoli is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed nine films since 1993.-Filmography:* Le condamné * Terre sainte * J'aime beaucoup ce que vous faites...
    
    
  • Un taxi pour Aouzou – Issa Serge Coelo
    Issa Serge Coelo
    Issa Serge Coelo is a Chadian film director. Born in Biltine, Chad, he studied history in Paris and film at the Ecole Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle . He then worked as a cameraman at Métropole Télévision, France 3, TV5MONDE and CFI before creating the 1994 short film Un taxi pour Aouzou...
    
    
  • A Summer Dress (Une robe d'été) – François Ozon
    François Ozon
    François Ozon is a French film director and screenwriter and whose films are usually characterized by sharp satirical wit and a freewheeling view on human sexuality....
    
    
  • A Visit (Une visite) – Philippe Harel
    Philippe Harel
    Philippe Harel is a French film director, actor and screenwriter born in 1956.-Selected filmography:* La femme défendue * Extension du domaine de la lutte -External links:...
    
    

Honorary César

Honorary César

The César Award is France's national film award. Recipients are selected by the members of the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinema. The following are the recipients of the honorary César award since 1976.- See also :**...

• Charles Aznavour
  Charles Aznavour
  Charles Aznavour, OC is an Armenian-French singer, songwriter, actor, public activist and diplomat. Besides being one of France's most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the best-known singers in the world...
  
  , Armenian-French singer, songwriter, actor and public activist.
• Andie MacDowell
  Andie MacDowell
  Rosalie Anderson "Andie" MacDowell is an American model and actress. She has received the Golden Camera and an Honorary César.-Early life:...
  
  , American model and actress.

External links

• César Awards 1997 at the IMDb