Cesar Award nominations

Best Film

• 9 Month Stretch
• Me, Myself and Mum
• Stranger at the Lake
• Jimmy P.
• The Past
• Venus in Fur
• Blue is the Warmest Color

Best Director

• Albert Dupontel for 9 Month Stretch
• Guillaume Gallienne for Me, Myself and Mum
• Alain Guiraudie for Stranger at the Lake
• Arnaud Desplechin for Jimmy P.
• Asghar Farhadi for The Past
• Roman Polanski for Venus in Fur
• Abdellatif Kechiche for Blue is the Warmest Color

Best Foreign Film

• Alabama Monroe, director Felix Van Groeningen
• Blancanieves, director Pablo Berger
• Blue Jasmine, director Woody Allen
• Dead Man Talking, director Patrick Ridremont
• Django Unchained, director Quentin Tarantino
• La Grande Bellezza, director Paolo Sorrentino
• Gravity, director Alfonso Cuaron

Best Actress

• Fanny Ardant for Les Beaux Jours
• Berenice Bejo for The Past
• Catherine Deneuve for Elle S’En Va
• Sara Forestier for Suzanne
• Sandrine Kiberlain for 9 Month Stretch
• Emmanuelle Seigner for Venus in Fur
• Lea Seydoux for Blue is the Warmest Color

Best Actor

• Mathieu Amalric for Venus in Fur
• Michel Bouquet for Renoir
• Albert Dupontel for 9 Month Stretch
• Gergory Gadebois for Mon Ame Par Toi Guerie
• Guillaume Gallienne for Me, Myself and Mum
• Fabrice Luchini for Alceste a Bicyclette
• Mads Mikkelsen for Michael Kohlhaas

Best Supporting Actress

• Marisa Borini for A Castle in Italy
• Francoise Fabian for Me, Myself and Mum
• Julie Gayet for Quai d’Orsay
• Adele Haenel for Suzanne
• Geraldine Pailhas for Young & Beautiful

Best Supporting Actor

• Neils Arestrup for Quai d’Orsay
• Patrick Chesnais for Les Beaux Jours
• Patrick d’Assumcao for Stranger at the Lake
• Olivier Gourmet for Grand Central
• Francois Damiens for Suzanne

Most Promising Actress (Newcomer)

• Lou de Laage for Jappeloup
• Pauline Etienne for La Religieuse
• Adele Exarchopoulos for Blue is the Warmest Color
• Goshifteh Farahni for Syngue Sabour – Pierre de Patience
• Marine Vacth for Young & Beautiful

Most Promising Actor (Newcomer)

• Paul Bartel for Les Petits Princes
• Pierre Deladonchamps for Stranger at the Lake
• Paul Hamy for Suzanne
• Vincent Macaigne for La Fille du 14 Juillet
• Nemo Schiffman for Elle S’En Va

Best Original Screenplay

• Albert Dupontel for 9 Month Stretch
• Philippe Le Guay for Alceste a Bicyclette
• Alain Guiraudie for Stranger at the Lake
• Asghar Farhadi for The Past
• Katelle Quillevere and Mariette Desert for Suzanne

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Guillaume Gallienne for Me, Myself and Mum
• Arnaud Desplechin for Jimmy P.
• Antonin Baudry, Christophe Blain and Bertrand Tavernier for Quai d’Orsay
• David Ives and Roman Polanski for Venus in Fur
• Abdellatif Kechiche and Ghalya Lacroix for Blue is the Warmest Color

Best Original Music

• Jorge Arriagada for Alceste a Bicyclette
• Loik Dury and Christophe “Disco” Minck for Chinese Puzzle
• Etienne Charry for L’Ecume des Jours
• Martin Wheeler for Michael Kohlhaas
• Alexandre Desplat for Venus in Fur

Best Sound

• Marc-Antoine Beldent, Loic Prian and Olivier Do Huu for Me, Myself and Mum
• Philippe Grivel and Nathalie Vidal for Stranger at the Lake
• Jean-Pierre Duret, Jean Mallet and Melissa Petitjean for Michael Kohlhaas
• Lucien Balibar, Nadine Muse, Cyril Holtz for Venus in Fur
• Jerome Chenevoy, Fabien Pochet and Jean-Paul Hurier for Blue is the Warmest Color

Best Cinematography

• Thomas Hardmeier for The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
• Claire Mathon for Stranger at the Lake
• Jeanne Lapoirie for Michael Kohlhaas
• Mark Ping Bing Lee for Renoir
• Sofian el Fani for Blue is the Warmest Color

Best Editing

• Christophe Pinel for9 Month Stretch
• Valerie Deseine for Me, Myself and Mum
• Jean-Christophe Hym for Stranger at the Lake
• Juliette Welfling for The Past
• Camille Toubkis, Albertine Lastera and Jean-Marie Langelle for Blue is the Warmest Color

Best Costume

• Florence Fontaine for L’Ecume des Jours
• Madeline Fontaine for The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
• Olivier Beriot for Me, Myself and Mum
• Anina Diener for Michael Kohlhaas
• Pascaline Chavanne for Renoir

Best Production Design (Décor)

• Stephane Rozenbaum for L’Ecume des Jours
• Aline Bonetto for The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
• Sylive Olive for Me, Myself and Mum
• Yan Arlaud for Michael Kohlhaas
• Benoit Barouh for Renoir

Best Documentary

• Comment J’ai Deteste les Maths, director Olivier Peyon
• Le Dernier des Injustes, director Claude Lanzmann
• Il Etait une Foret, director Luc Jacquet
• La Maison de la Raido, director Nicolas Philibert
• Sur le Chemin de l’Ecole, director Pascal Plisson

Best First Film

• La Bataille de Solferino, director Justine Triet
• La Cage Doree, director Ruben Alves
• En Solitaire, director Christophe Offenstein
• La Fille du 14 Julliet, director Antonin Peretjatko
• Me, Myself and Mum, director Guillaume Gallienne

Best Short Film

• Avant Que de Tout Perdre, director Xavier Legrand
• Bambi, director Sebastien Lifshitz
• La Fugue, director Jean-Bernard Marlin
• Les Lezards, director Vincent Mariette
• Marseille la Nuit, director Marie Monge

Best Animated Feature Film

• Ayay de Yopougon, directors Marguerite AbouteandClement Oubrerie
• Loulou l’Incroyable Secret, director Eric Omond
• My Mommy is in America and She Met Buffalo Bill, directors Marc Boreal and Thibaut Chatel

Best Animated Short Film

• Lettres de Femmes, director Augusto Zanovello
• Mademoiselle Kiki et les Montparnos, director Amelie Harrault