Belated César Winners List
Tuesday, March 5, 2019 at 10:15AM
NATHANIEL R in Custody, César Awards, France, Francophile, Jacques Audiard, Karin Viard, Little Tickles, Shéhérazade, The Sisters Brothers, foreign films

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

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

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

 

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

 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS


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

BEST NEWCOMER (MALE)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY


BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

BEST COSTUMES


 

 

BEST SET DESIGN

 

 

 

 

BEST EDITING

BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC

 

 

BEST SOUND

 

 

 

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Dilili in Paris

ANIMATED SHORT

 

 

SHORT FILM

 

 

BEST FOREIGN FILM

 

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

 

BEST DEBUT FEATURE

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

BEST DOCUMENTARY

HONORARY CESAR 

Robert Redford

CESAR DU PUBLIC

Les Tuche 3

 

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