Belated César Winners List

Eeek! During Oscar madness we totally forgot about the Gallic Oscars cross the Ocean. How rude of us! For completism's sake here is the list of winners in case you also missed the news.

BEST PICTURE

• Memoir of War, dir: Emmanuel Finkiel
• The Trouble With You, dir: Pierre Salvadori
• The Sisters Brothers, dir: Jacques Audiard
• Sink or Swim, dir: Gilles Lellouche 
• Guy, dir: Alex  Lutz
• ★ Custody, dir: Xavier Legrand
• In Safe Hands, dir: Jeanne Henry

Custody's four wins reminds us that it's still so weird that France didn't push it as their Oscar prospect last season. The other big winner was Shéhérazade about young lovers on the mean streets of Marseille which was not nominated for best picture but won each of its three nominations. Sink or Swim, the nomination leader and dadbod comedy, which opened too late to be France's Oscar submission last year, only took home one prize. Supporting Actor...

BEST DIRECTOR

• EMMANUEL FINKIEL, Memoir of War
• PIERRE SALVADORI, The Trouble With You
• ★ JACQUES AUDIARD, The Sisters Brothers
• GILLES LELLOUCHE, Sink or Swim
• ALEX LUTZ, Guy
• XAVIER LEGRAND, Custody
• JEANNE HERRY, In Safe Hands

This is Audiard's tenth César award. You should never bet against him when the Césars are held. He's won for writing, directing, and producing in the past (but only direction this year). In fact, in two separate years he's won all three of those prizes (Screenplay, Director, Picture) with The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005) and the Oscar-nominated prison drama Un Prophète (2009). He's one of a handful of French directors whose films always get released in the US.

BEST ACTOR

• EDOUARD BAER, Mademoiselle de Joncquieres
• ROMAIN DURIS, Our Struggles
• VINCENT LACOSTE, Amanda
• GILLES LELLOUCHE, In Safe Hands,
• ★ ALEX LUTZ, Guy
• PIO MARMAÏ, The Trouble With You
• DENIS MÉNOCHET, Custody

In Guy, Alex Lutz directs himself as an aging French pop star whose illegitimate son follows him on tour under false pretenses (posing as a documentarian)

BEST ACTRESS

• ÉLODIE BOUCHEZ, In Safe Hands
• CÉCILE DE FRANCE, Mademoiselle de Joncquieres
• ★ LÉA DRUCKER, Custody
• VIRGINIE EFIRA, An Impossible Love
• ADÈLE HAENEL, The Trouble With You
• SANDRINE KIBERLAIN, In Safe Hands
• MÉLANIE THIERRY,Memoir of War

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• JEAN-HUGUES ANGLADE, Sink or Swim
• DAMIEN BONNARD, The Trouble With You
• CLOVIS CORNILLAC, Little Tickles
• ★ PHILIPPE KATERINE, Sink or Swim
• DENIS PODALYDÈS, Sorry Angel

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• ISABELLE ADJANI, The World is Yours
• LEÏLA BEKHTI, Sink or Swim
• VIRGINIE EFIRA, Sink or Swim
• AUDREY TAUTOU, The Trouble With You
• ★ KARIN VIARD,  Little Tickles

This is Viard's third César award. We wish more of her films would travel to the US because we've loved her the rare times when we've seen her (Potîche, Delicatessen, All About Actresses). Andréa Bescond (writer/director/lead actress) and Pierre Deladonchamps (Stranger by the Lake, Sorry Angel) costar in this film about a girl who realizes she was abused as a child. 

BEST NEWCOMER (FEMALE)

The young stars of Shéhérazade won both "newcomer" prizes

• OPHÉLIE BAU, Mektoub My Love: Canto Uno
• GALATEA BELLUGI, The Apparition
• JEHNNY BETH, An Impossible Love
• LILY-ROSE DEPP, A Faithful Man
• ★ KENZA FORTAS, Shéhérazade

BEST NEWCOMER (MALE)

• ANTHONY BAJON, The Prayer
• THOMAS GIORIA, Custody
• WILLIAM LEBGHIL, The Freshman
• KARIM LEKLOU, The World is Yours
• ★ DYLAN ROBERT, Shéhérazade

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

• ALEXIS KAVYRCHINE, Memoir of War
• ★ BENOÎT DEBIE, The Sisters Brothers
• LAURENT TANGY, Sink or Swim
• NATHALIE DURAND, Custody
• LAURENT DESMET, Mademoiselle de Joncquieres

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• ★ Little Tickles
• Memoir of War
• The Sisters Brothers
• Mademoiselle de Joncquieres
• An Impossible Love

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• The Trouble With You
• Sink or Swim
• Guy
• ★ Custody
• In Safe Hands

BEST COSTUMES

• The Emperors of Paris
• ★ Mademoiselle de Joncquieres
• Memoir of War
•  One Nation, One King
• The Sisters Brothres

BEST SET DESIGN

• The Emperors of Paris
• Mademoiselle de Joncquieres
• Memoir of War
• One Nation, One King
• ★ The Sisters Brothers

BEST EDITING

• Little Tickles
• The Trouble With You
• The Sisters Brothers
• Sink or Swim
• ★ Custody

BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC

• Amanda - Anton Sako
• ★ Guy - Vincent Blanchard & Romain Greffe
• The Trouble With You - Camill Bazbaz
• The Sisters Brothers - Alexandre Desplat
• In Safe Hands - Pascal Sangia
• An Impossible Love - Grégoire Getzel

BEST SOUND

• Custody
• Guy
• Memoir of War
• Sink or Swim
• ★  The Sisters Brothers

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Dilili in Paris

• Astérix - The Secret of the Magic Potion
• ★ Dilili in Paris
• Pachamama

ANIMATED SHORT

• Au coeur des ombres
• La mort, pere et fils
• Raymond ou l'evasion verticale
• ★ Vilaine fille

SHORT FILM

• Braguino
• Les Indes Galantes
• Kapitalistis
• Laissez-Moi Danser
• ★ Les Petites Mains

BEST FOREIGN FILM

• Capernaum (Lebanon)
• Cold War (Poland)
• Girl (Belgium)
• Hannah (Italy/France/Belgium)
• Our Struggles (Belgium)
• ★ Shoplifters (Japan)
• Three Billboards (US)

Nice to see Shoplifters nab another big prize since Roma blocked it for most stateside prizes

BEST DEBUT FEATURE

• L’Amour Flou, dirs: ROMANE BOHRINGER, PHILIPPE REBBOT
• Little Tickles, dirs: ANDRÉA BESCOND, ERIC MÉTAYER
• Custody, dir: XAVIER LEGRAND
• Sauvage, dir: CAMILLE VIDAL-NAQUET
• ★ Shéhérazade, dir: JEAN-BERNARD MARLIN

Somehow Custody lost this. Perhaps voters felt best picture was enough?

BEST DOCUMENTARY

• America
• De Chaque Instant
• Le Grand Bal
• ★ So Help Me God
• The State Against Mandela and the Others

HONORARY CESAR 

Robert Redford

CESAR DU PUBLIC

Les Tuche 3

Comments

[Peggy Sue]

I like Karin Viard too. I just saw her in a movie called Jalouse and she's so great in it. Carries the whole movie. I also liked the tone. It's about a personal crisis but it's quite light and engaging.

[Mary]

Don’t they do a foreign film category anymore? :( That was always great fun to see their picks.

[ben1283]

Interesting that Custody can compete in Original Screenplay, since it's an adaptation of the director's short film.

Was Sauvage not eligible, I wonder?

[Peggy Sue]

Mary -- They do! Shoplifters won. The other nominees were: Capharnaüm, Cold War, Girl, Hannah, Nos batailles, and Three Billboards

ben1283 -- It was nominated for Best First Film

Climax was snubbed, but you should all see it

[Mary]

Thanks Peggy Sue! They were left off here and another list I searched, so wasn't sure. How fun to see the mishmash of nominees they can have.

[NATHANIEL R]

Mary & Peggy Sue -- apologies. I didn't realize I didn't have the whole list. I usually double check with official sites instead of trusting american news sources (that love to say "complete list" whether or not it's anything like that!). Updated with all the forgotten categories now.

[Mary]

All good Nathaniel, just the last few years I've looked for the foreign film category, I find it fascinating with what's popular/acclaimed/released and victorious for this country's biggest award body. I mean the fantastic Bagdad Cafe won, Four Weddings beat Schindler's List, In The Mood For Love beats American Beauty, and more and more! Would be great to have a deeper dive into during the quiet off season if you wanted to.