The 49e Césars ceremony will be held on Friday February 23 at the Olympia, in Paris, and will be broadcast unencrypted on Canal+ from 8:45 p.m. The fantastic film The Animal Kingdomselected in twelve categories, including best film and best direction, placed at the top of the nominations.
Anatomy of a fall, the Palme d’Or for Justine Triet, who continues to win awards abroad where the film has already attracted more than 1.6 million spectators, also, unsurprisingly, accumulates nominations (eleven in total). Among others, Justine Triet is nominated for the César for best director, a category from which female directors were absent last year and in which only one filmmaker, Tonie Marshall, was crowned in the history of the ceremony. In addition to the categories presented below, two honorary Césars will be awarded on Friday: the first to the actress Agnès Jaoui, the second to the British director Christopher Nolan, whose feature film Oppenheimer is nominated for the César for best foreign film.
Find the list of nominees by category
Best film
- Anatomy of a fall, directed by Justine Triet
- Dog of the breakagedirected by Jean-Baptiste Durand
- I will always see your facesdirected by Jeanne Herry
- The Goldman Trialdirected by Cédric Kahn
- The Animal Kingdomdirected by Thomas Cailley
Best achievement
- Justine Triet, for Anatomy of a fall
- Catherine Breillat, for Last summer
- Jeanne Herry, for I will always see your faces
- Cédric Kahn, for The Goldman Trial
- Thomas Cailley, for The Animal Kingdom
Best actress
- Marion Cotillard, in Little Girl Blue
- Léa Drucker, in Last summer
- Virginie Efira, in Love and Forests
- Hafsia Herzi, in The Rapture
- Sandra Hüller, in Anatomy of a fall
Best actor
- Romain Duris, in The Animal Kingdom
- Benjamin Lavernhe, in Abbot stone. A life of fighting
- Melvil Poupaud, in Love and the forests
- Raphaël Quenard, in Yannick
- Arieh Worthalter, in The Goldman Trial
Best Supporting Actress
- Leïla Bekhti, in I will always see your faces
- Galatea Bellugi, in Dog of the breakage
- Elodie Bouchez, in I will always see your faces
- Adèle Exarchopoulos, in I will always see your faces
- Miou-Miou, in I will always see your faces
Best Supporting Actor
- Swann Arlaud, in Anatomy of a fall
- Anthony Bajon, in Dog of the breakage
- Arthur Harari, in The Goldman Trial
- Pio Marmaï, in Yannick
- Antoine Reinartz, in Anatomy of a fall
Best female revelation
- Celeste Brunnquell, in Her Father’s Daughter
- Kim Higelin, in The consent
- Suzanne Jouannet, in The Royal Way
- Rebecca Marder, in Great expectations
- Ella Rumpf, in Marguerite’s Theorem
Best male revelation
- Julien Frison, in Marguerite’s Theorem
- Paul Kircher, in The Animal Kingdom
- Samuel Kircher, in Last summer
- Milo Machado-Graner, in Anatomy of a fall
- Raphaël Quenard, in Dog of the breakage
Best foreign film
- Pick updirected by Marco Bellocchio
- Dead leavesdirected by Aki Kaurismaki
- Oppenheimerdirected by Christopher Nolan
- Perfect Daysdirected by Wim Wenders
- Simple like Sylvaindirected by Monia Chokri
Best first film
- Bernadettedirected by Léa Domenach
- Dog of the breakagedirected by Jean-Baptiste Durand
- The Rapturedirected by Iris Kaltenbäck
- Vermindirected by Sébastien Vanicek
- Vincent must diedirected by Stéphan Castang
Best Animated Film
- Prohibited to dogs and Italiansdirected by Alain Ughetto
- Linda wants chicken!directed by Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach
- Mars Expressdirected by Jérémie Périn
Best documentary film
- Atlantic Bardirected by Fanny Molins
- Olfa’s Daughtersdirected by Kaouther Ben Hania
- Little Girl Bluedirected by Mona Achache
- Our bodydirected by Claire Simon
- On the Adamantdirected by Nicolas Philibert
Best Original Screenplay
- Justine Triet and Arthur Harari, for Anatomy of a fall
- Jean-Baptiste Durand, for Dog of the breakage
- Jeanne Herry, for I will always see your faces
- Nathalie Hertzberg and Cédric Kahn, for The Goldman Trial
- Thomas Cailley and Pauline Munier, for The Animal Kingdom
Best adaptation
- Valérie Donzelli and Audrey Diwan, for Love and Forests
- Vanessa Filho, for The consent
- Catherine Breillat, for Last summer
Best Original Music
- Gabriel Yared, for Love and Forests
- Delphine Malaussena, for Dog of the breakage
- Vitalic, for Disco Boy
- Andrea Laszlo De Simone, for The Animal Kingdom
Best sound
- Julien Sicart, Fanny Martin, Jeanne Delplancq and Olivier Goinard, for Anatomy of a fall
- Rémi Daru, Guadalupe Cassius, Loïc Prian and Marc Doisne, for I will always see your faces
- Erwan Kerzanet, Sylvain Malbrant and Olivier Guillaume, for The Goldman Trial
- Fabrice Osinski, Raphaël Sohier, Matthieu Fichet and Niels Barletta for The Animal Kingdom
- David Rit, Gwennolé Le Borgne, Olivier Touche, Cyril Holtz and Niels Barletta for The three Musketeers
Best photo
- Simon Beaufils, for Anatomy of a fall
- Jonathan Ricquebourg, for The Passion of Dodin Bouffant
- Patrick Ghiringhelli, for The Goldman Trial
- David Cailley, for The Animal Kingdom
- Nicolas Bolduc, for The three Musketeers
Best editing
- Laurent Sénéchal, for Anatomy of a fall
- Francis Vesin, for I will always see your faces
- Valérie Loiseleux, for Little Girl Blue
- Yann Dedet, for The Goldman Trial
- Lilian Corbeille, for The Animal Kingdom
Best costumes
- Jürgen Doering, for Jeanne du Barry
- Pascaline Chavanne, for My crime
- Tran Nu Yên Khê, for The Passion of Dodin Bouffant
- Ariane Daurat, for The Animal Kingdom
- Thierry Delettre, for The three Musketeers
Best decors
- Emmanuelle Duplay, for Anatomy of a fall
- Angelo Zamparutti, for Jeanne du Barry
- Toma Baquéni, for The Passion of Dodin Bouffant
- Julia Lemaire, for The Animal Kingdom
- Stéphane Taillasson, for The three Musketeers
Best visual effects
- Thomas Duval, for Acid
- Lise Fischer and Cédric Fayolle, for The mountain
- Cyrille Bonjean, Bruno Sommier and Jean-Louis Autret, for The Animal Kingdom
- Olivier Cauwet, for The three Musketeers
- Léo Ewald, for Vermin
Best Animated Short Film
- Funny birdsdirected by Charlie Belin
- Summer 96directed by Mathilde Bédouet
- Miss Tang’s Forestdirected by Denis Do
Best Documentary Short Film
- The actordirected by Hugo David and Raphaël Quenard
- The Effect of my wrinklesdirected by Claude Delafosse
- Fluid Mechanicsdirected by Gala Hernandez Lopez
Best short fiction film
- The Waitdirected by Alice Douard
- Bolerodirected by Nans Laborde-Jourdaa
- Fastdirected by Paul Rigoux
- The Silentdirected by Basile Vuillemin