Best Picture
Amour
Director
Michael Haneke, Amour
Actress
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Actor
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Amour
Original Screenplay
Michael Haneke, Amour
Adapted Screenplay
Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Rust & Bone
Supporting Actress
Valérie Benguigui, What’s In A Name
Supporting Actor
Guillaume de Tonquedec, What’s In A Name
Newcomer (Female)
Izia Higelin, Mauvaise Fille
Newcomer (Male)
Matthias Schoenaerts, Rust & Bone
Original Score
Alexandre Desplat, Rust & Bone
Sound
Antoine Deflandre, Germaine Boulay, Eric Tisserand, Cloclo
Cinematography
Romain Winding, Farewell, My Queen
Editing
Juliette Welfling, Rust & Bone
Costumes
Christian Gasc, Farewell, My Queen
Art Direction
Katia Wyszkop, Farewell, My Queen
First Film
Louise Wimmer, Cyril Mennegun
Foreign Film
Argo
Animated Film
Ernest Et Célestine, Benjamin Renner, Vincent Patar, Stéphane Aubier
Documentary
Les Invisibles, Sébastien Lifshitz
Short Film
Le Cri Du Homard, Nicolas Guiot
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nominees below:
Best Picture
Farewell, My Queen
Amour
Camille Redouble
In The House
Rust & Bone
Holy Motors
What’s In A Name
Best Director
Benoît Jacquot, Farewell, My Queen
Michael Haneke, Amour
Noémie Lvovsky, Camille Redouble
François Ozon, In The House
Jacques Audiard, Rust & Bone
Leos Carax, Holy Motors
Stéphane Brizé, Quelques Heures De Printemps
Best Actress
Catherine Frot, Les Sauveurs Du Palais
Marion Cotillard, Rust & Bone
Noémie Lvovsky, Camille Redouble
Corinne Masiero, Louise Wimmer
Emmanuelle Riva, Amour
Léa Seydoux, Farewell, My Queen
Hélène Vincent, Quelques Heures De Printemps
Best Actor
Jean-Pierre Bacri, Cherchez Hortense
Patrick Bruel, What’s In A Name
Denis Lavant, Holy Motors
Vincent Lindon, Quelques Heures De Printemps
Fabrice Luchini, In The House
Jérémie Rénier, Cloclo
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Amour
Best Supporting Actress
Valérie Benguigui, What’s In A Name
Judith Chemla, Camille Redouble
Isabelle Huppert, Amour
Yolande Moreau, Camille Redouble
Edith Scob, Holy Motors
Best Supporting Actor
Samir Guesmi, Camille Redouble
Michel Vuillermoz, Camille Redouble
Benoit Magimel, Cloclo
Claude Rich, Cherchez Hortense
Guillaume de Tonquedec, What’s In A Name
Newcomer (Female)
Alice de Lencquesaing, Au Galop
Lola Dewaere, Mince Alors!
Julia Faure, Camille Redouble
India Hair, Camille Redouble
Izia Higelin, Mauvaise Fille
Necomer (Male)
Félix Moati, Télé Gaucho
Kacey Mottet Klein, Sister
Pierre Niney, Comme Des Frères
Matthias Schoenaerts, Rust & Bone
Ernst Umhauer, In The House
Best Original Screenplay
Bruno Podalydès, Denis Podalydès, Adieu Berthe – L’Enterrement De Mémé
Michael Haneke, Amour
Noémie Lvovsky, Maud Ameline, Pierre-Olivier Mattei, Florence Seyvos, Camille Redouble
Leos Carax, Holy Motors
Florence Vignon, Stéphane Brizé, Quelques Heures De Printemps
Best Adapted Screenplay
Lucas Belvaux, 38 Witnesses
Gilles Taurand, Benoît Jacquot, Farewell, My Queen
François Ozon, In The House
Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Rust & Bone
Matthieu Delaporte, Alexandre de la Patellière, What’s In A Name
Best Costumes
Christian Gasc, Farewell, My Queen
Pascale Chavanne, Augustine
Madeline Fontaine, Camille Redouble
Mimi Lempicka, Cloclo
Charlotte David, Populaire
Best Art Direction
Katia Wyszkop, Farewell, My Queen
Jean-Vincent Puzos, Amour
Philippe Chiffre, Cloclo
Florian Sanson, Holy Motors
Sylvie Olivé, Populaire
Best Animated Film
Edmond Etait Un Ane, Franck Dion
Ernest Et Célestine, Benjamin Renner, Vincent Patar, Stéphane Aubier
Kirikou Et Les Hommes Et Les Femmes, Michele Ocelot
Oh Willy, Emma De Swaef, Marc Roels
Zarafa, Rémi Besançon, Jean-Christophe Lie
Best First Film
Augustine, Alice Winocour
Comme Des Frères, Hugo Gélin
Louise Wimmer, Cyril Mennegun
Populaire, Régis Rosnard
Rengaine, Rachid Djaidani
Best Documentary
Bovines Ou La Vraie Vie Des Vaches, Emmanuel Gras
Duch, Le Maître Des Forges De L’Enfer, Rithy Panh
Les Invisibles, Sébastien Lifshitz
Journal De France, Claudine Nougaret, Raymond Depardon
Les Nouveaux Chiens De Garde, Gilles Balbastre, Yannick Kergoat
Best Original Score
Bruno Coulais, Farewell, My Queen
Gaëtan Roussel, Joseph Dahan, Camille Redouble
Philippe Rombi, In The House
Alexandre Desplat, Rust & Bone
Rob, Emmanuel D’Orlando, Populaire
Best Short Film
Ce N’est Pas Un Film De Cow-Boys, Benjamin Parent
Ce Qu’il Restera De Nous, Vincent Macaigne
Le Cri Du Homard, Nicolas Guiot
Les Meutes, Manuel Schapira
La Vie Parisienne, Viencent Dietschy
Best Cinematography
Romain Winding, Farewell, My Queen
Darius Khondji, Amour
Stéphane Fontaine, Rust & Bone
Caroline Champetier, Holy Motors
Guillaume Schiffman, Populaire
Best Editing
Luc Barnier, Farewell, My Queen
Monika Willi, Amour
Annette Dutertre, Michel Klochendler, Camille Redouble
Juliette Welfling, Rust & Bone
Nelly Quettier, Holy Motors
Best Sound
Brigitte Tallandier, Fançis Wargnier, Olivier Goinard, Farewell, My Queen
Guillaume Sciama, Nadine Muse, Jean-Pierre Laforce, Amour
Antoine Deflandre, Germaine Boulay, Eric Tisserand, Cloclo
Brigitte Tallandier, Pascal Villard, Jean-Paul Hurier, Rust & Bone
Erwan Kerzanet, Josefa Rodriguez, Emmanuel Croset, Holy Motors
Best Foreign Film
Argo
Bullhead
Laurence Anyways
Oslo, 31 August
The Angels’ Share
A Royal Affair
A Perdre La Raison
Spoilers:
I just knew people would hate the ‘mercy kill’ of that movie. If this were an English-language film American audiences would be in hysterics like they were for Million Dollar Baby. For Haneke skeptics it him losing any sense of restraint and returning to his sadist tendencies. Here in America it is such a taboo and even a crime to do what Trintignant does. Personally, as somebody who saw my grandfather fade away like Riva did, I kept on thinking this was not how he would have wanted it. Now I never thought about using a pillow on him, personally, but when I read the stories on Dr. Kevorkian and such I really do not think that this man or the people who want this procedure are doing anything illegal or wrong.
So my mom and a couple friends just came back from seeing Amour and they didn’t like it at all. Spoiler Alert: They were appaled that Trintignant killed Riva at the end of the film.
So when an old fart suffocates his agonizing wife to end her suffering, he’s a monster! But when a young sexy, albeit crippled, thing like Oscar Pistorius savagely murders his girlfriend on a whim, he’s a poor terrified darling who didn’t do it on purpose… Speak about double standards!
tjviewer said: “I thought French people are proud of their own culture”
Beyond wine, cheese and soccer or rugby… not so much, well the French are proud and also arrogant in many ways, but that doesn’t mean they know their own culture, not at all, just like anywhere else in the world, you lose the masses if you try to interest them in anything too intellectual or artsy. We do have a couple primetime shows about history on public TV that get decent ratings but they’re nowhere near the numbers for US TV series. Like I said earlier, yesterday night NCIS had twice more viewers than the Cesars.
“Their education-related shows – about the proper use of French language for instance.”
sorry but i have no idea what you’re talking about 🙁
Congrats to all the winners, especially Madame Riva.
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“but even in France, mainstream audiences tend to see French films as boring, cheap and depressing…”
I thought French people are proud of their own culture…. Their education-related shows — about the proper use of French language for instance – are said to be popular among the viewers in France(?).
If the quote is reliable and represents the majority of French population, men and women, young and old, then it sounds like France nowadays prefer American pop culture to her own? I don’t believe it to be the case, especially for the general public as a whole. Perhaps, it is true for younger viewers in their teen and early 20s?
(Not talking about culture shock here – unlike other J tourists (who visited Paris for the first time only to render themselves the shattered dreams), I know what to expect from la France en vérité in terms of pop culture in general, but to me an outsider (non-French), French viewers seem proud of their own culture, which if so should be admirable in my opinion. Just saying.)
(Well, I love French mainstream culture.)
At the end of her speech she dedicates the award to the late Maurice Garrel, one of my favorite actors of all time. Riva says the film is called “Love”, not “A Love” or “The Love”. “Amour”, as if a third person was there, watching over those two characters. As if “Amour” was the name of a person. By that point in the speech I was in tears already.
And she closes it by saying the trophy is heavier than her, having the presenter carry it away from the stage. It’s a nice metaphor for her journey through this awards season. I just wish we all award-watchers and film lovers could get to that point in life and just be lighter than anything that seems so important right now.
This is also, even more shockingly, Trintignant’s first César. And the first for Haneke and produced Margaret Menegoz (amazing producer of previous Haneke’s films and collaborator of Rohmer). A great travesty was rectified last night.
Great ceremony and well deserved winners! And for a bit of trivia, the last film that won the big 5 (director, pic, screenplay and two leads) was Truffaut’s Last Metro in 1981. Quite a nice club to be in. The film was also nominated for best foreign film at the Oscars (its only nomination, although somehow I was sure it also had some technical noms) but lost to Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears.
Here’s video of Emmanuelle Riva’s win (and speech, in French): http://www.canalplus.fr/c-cinema/c-ceremonie-des-cesar-sur-canal/pid5460-videos-tapis-rouge-ceremonie-et-coulisses-cesar.html?vid=822554
This is going to happen again come Sunday night. Look at how beautiful she is, just a couple of days away from her 86th birthday. The shocker: this is the first nomination (and win) for Riva at the Cesar’s.
Ratings are in: the Césars gathered 2.6 million viewers on French TV, that is around 10% market share. It’s #4 behind NCIS (American tv series), a celebrity diving game and a french tv movie. It’s also a steep 33% drop from last year’s all-time high (The Artist and The Intouchables).
My mom is going to see Amour this afternoon, I’m not sure it’s appropriate for someone who is already depressed, but then again I do like to watch depressing movies such as The Piano Teacher or The Story of Adele H. (the true story of Victor Hugo’s daughter btw), when I feel depressed, so it might do her good after all.
I got this from IMDB:
At the 2012 Academy Awards, several movies in competition were related to France and French culture in some way
The Artist
Hugo
Midnight in Paris
The Adventures of Tintin
Puss in Boots, from the French fairy-tale by Charles Perrault
Rise of the Planet of the Apes, based on the novel by Pierre Boulle
A Cat in Paris
(not mentioned by IMDB)
War Horse
Monsieur Lazhar, French-language Canadian film
Interestingly though, there was no French film nominated for the Best Foreign Film Academy Award in 2012
This year, as far as i know, there’s only Amour, a French film masquerading as Austrian, and Les Miserables.
oh well.. these things have no logic to them
here in Brazil, a shitty rom-com sequel is about to take its place at the throne as our all-time biggest box-office hit ever.
some people here say “at least it’s one of our films”
I say “I’d rather it were a GOOD film, regardless of where it came from”
“Intouchables” was HUGE here in Brazil.. made lots of money and I have yet to meet someone who didn’t like it. I liked it quite a bit as well… but no way it’s better than “Rust and Bone”, no matter how insecure Matthias Schoenaerts looks make me feel about myself heheheeheh
I was just really shocked to find out that french folks don’t like french films. I meet lots of foreigners here in Rio (especially this time of the year) and most of them are keenly (sometimes proudly) aware of their countries’ films. I was surprised to find that the french, what with their AMAZING tradition of cutting-edge cinema, weren’t so fond of their own films.
on a side note, “Le Petit Nicolas” was one of the biggest hits we’ve had here in Brazil recently and it went down in history as one of the few films that were able to remain in theatres for more than a full year. and it’s a perfectly normal, nice, simple film. not bad by any means, but not amazing, either. go figure, huh?
andre,
there are also some French movies that do well at the French box office, but usually they’re not the ones cinephiles talk about (except the intouchables). but even in France, mainstream audiences tend to see French films as boring, cheap and depressing… 🙁
but even in France, mainstream audiences tend to see French films as boring, cheap and depressing…
I have a friend from Romania who lives in the US now (he was on the Romanian swim team in 2008) and he never heard of Cristian Mungiu. Couple of years ago I let him a borrow a screener of Romania’s Oscar submission — If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle — took him weeks to get around to watching it and he didn’t think much of it.
(It’s pretty hard to get 98% of Americans to go see movies like Beasts of the Southern Wild and The Master too.)
Andre, I actually like SLP more than Argo. That may sound like faint praise, given I have never been on the Argo-wagon, but there is something to be said where there was something genuine and raw in a film which I saw in Bradley Cooper’s performance (honestly, he would be my #2 behind Phoenix in my Oscar ballot). I think most of us are suffering from Weinstein-induced bad aftertaste that spoiled the well of this film. I like Russell films though I cannot say this is his best work but it is still watchable. SLP at least felt like a Russell film in its messiness and problems. Same can not be said about Affleck who with Argo was trying to shed the Boston-ness pedigree he had with his earlier films and wanted to make a ’70s caper film minus any of the dour, dirge, edge, and cynicism of the era in favor of pandering.
Camille Redouble is the French The Color Purple apparently.
@dave
You just made my day sir!
Thanks and cheers all!
Ryan, if you want, here’s a embed of the video of Emmanuelle winning:
Veuillez installer Flash Player pour lire la vidéoCesar 2013 – Meilleure actrice – Emmanuelle Riva – AMOUR
Let me know if it doesn’t work (and just delete this comment if you’re gonna post the video).
Andre, i always read your comments and find them respectful and insightful and brave. I respect the differences that we have and value the shared sensibilities. And as i’ve quipped before, i like your pic. We are brothers.
I’ve been trying to be friendly to people here so far, and I’m about to post my top 10 of 2012. I disagree with most here (I think), but I think the opinion of a faithful (11 year-old fan?) follower should be valid.
here’s my top 10.
1 – Cloud Atlas
2 – Rust and Bone
3 – Amour, a film by Michael Haneke
4 – Holy Motors
5 – Looper
6 – The Master
7 – Skyfall
8 – Lincoln
9 – Zero Dark Thirty
10 – Silver linings playbook
I know SLP is the devil here, but to someone who has spent a month of last year in a mental institution, it resonates just fine. in fact, I have seldom felt so understood by a film as I did with “SLP”. my mum couldn’t even finish it, one of my brothers said it was “bullshit” and left midway with tears in his eyes.
if it’s not clear enough, I’M the bipolar one. I don’t look like Cooper and my female counterpart (were she to exist) would not look like Lawrence. but the dynamics and the disappointed looks – which matter more than anything else when you’re the inflictor in an otherwise “normal” family” – were so real. I refuse to see the 3rd act as a magic pill. and, even if it is, by the time the film ends, isn’t it a wonderful film? I have seldom felt so understood by a film – if ever – as I did by this one. I have suffered from bipolar 2 for 3 years now and this just… got it. it’s not the year’s best. but it is still a damn good piece of cinema.
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Riva should still win by a landslide, though!!
Argo again !! Surely this has nothing to do with the Affleck snub. Maybe people really like this film. Just a thought
@joe
if that happened, I’d be a very very happy man!
What if Amour would sweep the Oscar on Sunday Night.
@Christophe
I met a french girl here in Rio last week and she told me she had never heard of “Holy Motors” and “Rust and Bone”. even worse, she told me exactly what you said earlier here: “when we see that a film is in french, we just stay as far away as we can”. this is verbatim.
I don’t know if you, Christophe, are french, but please know that french cinema STILL has a huge audience abroad! “Holy Motors” (my 3rd favourite of 2012) was a very big hit here in Brazil.
guess the “grass is greener…” thing is true after all!!!
I can’t argue Trintignant over Lavant (even as Holy Motors was my #1 film of 2012 and I think Lavant’s performance is something that needs to be studied just because it is something I have never seen before). Those two were at the top of acting for me. Still think it is a shame Trintignant had no momentum for Best Actor, I’d gladly substitute it for Haneke’s screenplay. I think it would have helped Riva a lot if he was, actually. Having Haneke’s name in 4/5 categories really makes it easy for his skeptics and haters to ignore the film. Have two leads nominated and people will have to watch. That and I just think Trintgnant carries the film.
And that best foreign film list for the Cesar Awards is so good and eclectic and it went to ARGO????? Our only US representative at that? For some reason I thought the French would be taken by The Master and Paul Thomas Anderson (who loves him some Max Ophuls).
I’m kind of sad that there was no love for Holy Motors which was a great film also. Whoever said Lavant was deserving is correct, but I can’t argue with Trintignant, who finally got some love for himself here. He was also heartbreaking in Amour. I’m happy to see Amour get some love at the Cesars. Now onto the Oscars.
It’s an Aussie thing to cut down tall poppies, Reno – even if it is the adorable and pint sized Jacki Weaver. I grew up with a big crush on her, and have been so proud of her international run of success after 40 years in the business, so to see and hear her so poorly deliver on screen, is tough to let go of.
I even feel a bit guilty saying i enjoyed those performances, but i can forgive actors, but crappy writing and directing leaves a worse taste. As someone who battles mental illness, the movie is insulting and condescending, although i know many of the commenters on here did not find it so. I speak just from my experiences and feelings.
@daveinprogress, I too don’t like SLP at all, sitcomish particularly the climax, but just like the prickly director from a past thread I isolated the standout acting from the muck that was the entire film.
Here’s the thing with accents Dave, only those familiar with the accent can detect mistakes. Some of your favorite international films probably have messed up accents too but you didn’t catch it. Just let it go.
@Reno – yep, i’m sticking with Riva. I was just so disappointed with SLP – not with Jennifer but with the writing and directing of the film. I find it impossible to endorse a film with such shallow and pretentious dealings of mental health. I enjoyed the performances especially DeNiro and Cooper, but i thought Jacki Weaver was awful – accent was all over the shop, and she looked horrendous. I felt that Jennifer was miscast – and was given really poor material to work with – lots of shouting and pointing and over reacting. I thought the script demeaned her, reducing her gender and her sexuality as well as her mental condition. But i would have still predicted her to win the Oscar (because my personal taste almost never matches with AMPAS – until along came Riva.
I was sceptical, how could this 85 year old that i had never heard of (i am both honest and not an international cinephile), take the biggest prize from an American sweetheart – young, sexy, talented… But the two performances are just so not on the same page. Riva’s is transformative both physically and emotionally. Her descent is so heartbreaking, and her carrying out all of Haneke’s demanding direction places her into another zone for me, acting wise. Whether enough AMPAS voters feel the same way, we’ll see.
“But Ben Affleck’s character in the film was only … in Tehran a day and a half,” Carter said. “And the main hero, in my opinion, was Ken Taylor, who was the Canadian ambassador who orchestrated the entire process.” –Carter
TOO LATE, but it’s Carter (whatever the fuck you think of him) not some petty congressman in Affleck’s pockets.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/click/2013/02/jimmy-carter-argo-great-but-inaccurate-157592.html?hp=l19
“And I hope it gets the Academy Award for best film because I think it deserves it. The other thing that I would say was that 90 percent of the contributions to the ideas and the consummation of the plan was Canadian. And the movie gives almost full credit to the American CIA. And with that exception, the movie is very good.”
Yup, that tiny error.
@daveinprogress: Amour screened here only last week and I watched it pronto too. After the film I immediately shifted my prediction and predilection to Riva, but now, I dunno, I really thought Lawrence lit up the screen every time she appeared whereas Riva suffered the same predicament as Naomi Watts in that they were bedridden during their films’ 2nd half. Yes of course they were still acting lying in bed and they were great, but Jennifer was alive and kicking and dancing and smouldering, in short, This Girl was on Fire!
I’m moving to France.
sorry i went for a powerwalk , there were so many big yachts on the waterfront , beautiful some people are indeed living the life…
christophe, you sir have even less of an excuse than me LOL, (et oui tu as deviné d’ou je suis)
i had a feeling amour would sweep here, can you imagine it swooping its category at the oscars
felicitations to ARGO for best foreign film 🙂
Amour only opened in Australia two days ago, so i made sure i saw it pronto!
I only wish that Trintignant had received even a fraction of the attention of his beautiful co-star. They were both so amazing in the film. I have changed my previous prediction in Actress category from Lawrence to Riva. I only predicted the former as it seemed she had the most steam after Globe/SAG, but after BAFTA and seeing it for myself, i could not in all honesty, with such a love of acting and storytelling, predict Lawrence to win. If i have any faith left in AMPAS (not much left anyway), they will reward the tour de force. Riva gave it everything she had and then some, and yet it is still a quiet, determined performance that is one for the ages (no pun intended). Both performances are. If the Academy liked it enough for 5 nods, it will recognise the performance way way out in front.
ARGO!?
Argo = gum on the bottom of your shoe
Great pic of Riva. Amour deserves every award it received.
No Love (Amour) for Holy Motors:
https://mobile.twitter.com/cinemacanalplus/status/305096006473756672
Exclusive Pic from Star Wars Episode 7 by Haneke:
https://mobile.twitter.com/PremiereFR/status/305072738610081794/photo/1
Hopefully we’ll have the video soon, but I’m going to bed it’s past midnight here! bye
They have Emmanuelle Riva’s speech here:
http://www.canalplus.fr/c-cinema/c-ceremonie-des-cesar-sur-canal/pid5021-videos-cesar-2013.html?vid=822554
Costner was not sleeping but listening to the translation eyes closed.
here is costner receiving his award:
https://mobile.twitter.com/canalplus/status/305078915083423744/photo/1
i’m looking for a pic of him sleeping during riva’s speech
thanks so much Christophe and everyone else who’s pointed us to great Cesar sources today.
Riva looks amazing!
here is another pic of riva during her speech:
https://mobile.twitter.com/PremiereFR/status/305086669495865345
i’m looking for another one when she asks omar sy to carry her cesar
So, Amour wins “The Big Five”. Nice.
ooh the French are so rude and so not funny, i should know smth abt it….
Ok, Amour. But the best french movie of the year is Holy Motors.
best pic – amour
here he is live on the phone for his very first cesar award at 82 yrs old.
his son is trying to call him live but the line is busy.
best actor – jean louis trintignant – amour
Trintignant is good but Lavant deserved this!
🙂 the award is too heavy for riva, hope she does that too on sunday night!
It seems Kevin Costner is sleeping while Riva is speaking…
literally, they just made two closeups on costner and he’s sleeping soundly.
snoozefest
awww darn! wish i could see her winning 🙁 that live stream Julie doesnt work 🙁
hopefully someone will post a clip later on youtube
And the César goes to….. Emmanuelle Riva – Amour
Riva wins, and will win the Oscar too. Well deserved.
Ah, I love Corinne Masiero!
I’m watching it. I hope Marion Cotillard will win this.
Omar Sy introducing Best Actress…
LIVE STREAMING > http://www.canalplus.fr/c-cinema/c-ceremonie-des-cesar-sur-canal/pid5499-livetweet-en-direct.html
Haneke is not present tonight, I guess he’s already in LA and that’s understandable.
Shocker!!! Haneke – Amour
when they’re not sucking American dicks, winners praise belgium and spew some liberal nonsense… can’t wait for this mess to be over 🙂
right now there’s charlotte gainsbourg on stage talking abt claude miller another boring french director… and the best director award goes to…
Jean Dujardin has no reason to be at the Cesars. He lost best actor last year to Omar Sy for the Intouchables.
Best joke of the evening: “Do you know why Jean Dujardin isn’t here tonight? Because he’s in Los Angeles losers!” So true!
Here is hoping both Jean Louis and Emmanuelle win! So sad that Isabelle Huppert lost 🙁 She was also great in Amour
paddy, there’s always a hollywood actor either as ceremony president or lifetime achievement award sometimes both, they need it to add some star power, so obviously they don’t really look at their resume. plus, costner is shooting a movie in France with McGee so I guess he was the only American available since most of them are gearing up for the oscars.
riobaldo, riva said on the ree carpet she’s hopping on a plane to LA right after the ceremony, so she’ll be at the oscars, hopefully wearing a daring see-through dress!
So this happened already? I found a bunch of clips. But then the official site says it’s not for like 4 hours. http://www.canalplus.fr/c-cinema/c-ceremonie-des-cesar-sur-canal/pid5499-livetweet-en-direct.html
Am I stuck in a time warp again?
Thats Riva up there!!!..i wonder if she will be at the Oscars,she didnt attend BAFTA….
Michel Hazanavicius introduces Kevin Costner for the Lifetime Achievement Award
What has he achieved?
Michel Hazanavicius introduces Kevin Costner for the Lifetime Achievement Award: “the good thing with lifetime achievement is you already know you’ve won, the bad thing is to get it you must certainly be close to death”… so classy!
here’s a live french blog if you want, several winners have been announced already
http://www.france24.com/en/20130222-liveblog-french-films-stars-gather-cesar-awards-movies-paris
Jean Dujardin’s sister in law is making a riff on My Heart Will Go On to introduce the Best Production Design and Best Editing, I guess they can’t entertain a crowd without joking about American studio movies, since nobody watches French films, not even in France…
And said Cesars go to Farewell, my queen and rust & bone (4th award tonight).
lol, right now there’s a skit: star wars directed by hanneke! hopefully it’ll be on youtube soon…
Come on, ARGO won! How did this happen?!?!?!?!?!
oh and I’ve also seen Farewell, My Queen, so I guess I’ve seen a bunch of them after all.
lol eclipse22, I’m living in metropolitan France and I haven’t seen any of them either, except Amour, Ernest Et Célestine, Argo and A Royal Affair…
On which island do you live? ST Martin?
Argo is the best of the foreign film nominees.
i have not seen any of these films alas, i’m a bad patriot at times but to be fair i have no way of seeing them either, i’m like in the one place that’s technically french but culturally english-speaking like many other caribbean islands
the one theatre on the island only shows american movies, there is a cultural center that sometimes shows french films on one lonely screen but nobody goes there, even french citizens who don’t speak english good enough prefer to go to english speaking cinema
but most of these films i’ll see them eventually on canal+ channel, which is like the HBO equivalent over here and also a big producer of many of these films and finance them
i think amour might run away with the big prizes , most of these people are regular fixtures on my tv so even if i don’t know the film i’m happy for them
Notable results so far:
Matthias Schoenharts for Best Newcomer (Male)
Rust & Bone for Best Adapted Screenplay
Ernest Et Céléstine for Best Animated Feature (delightful movie picked up by GKIDS – likely to be nominated for an Oscar next year)
A tic for tac-Argo nominated for best foreign film there, and Amour nominated for best foreign film. I’ll trade you the Cesar for the Oscar.
I’ll trade you the Cesar for the Oscar.
Throw in Louis Garrel and you’ve got a deal.