The Revelations Committee and the Board of Directors of the Académie des César have distilled the 32 names, 16 actresses and 16 actors, of their Grand Cru of the Revelations of the Year, Friday, November 19.
This list “for information” intended to “draw the attention of Academy members to these young performers“, specifies the press release. Half of these novice talents will reach the second stage at the end of a next commission, the “best hope” category. Only one of the candidates will obtain the honorary title, and the statuette that goes with it, during the 47th edition of the César, presented by Antoine de Caunes next February. Among the potential candidates are names who marked the year of French cinema such as Agathe Rousselle, the heroine of Julia Ducournau’s unsettling feature film, Titanium, which won the Palme d’Or at the last Cannes Film Festival. There is also Daphné Patakia, who marked the spirits as a lesbian nun passionate about a Virginie Efira more sulphurous than ever, in Benedetta by Paul Verhoeven. Earlier in the year, the young woman had found success with her role as lunar secretary in the series. UFO (s) of Canal +.
Suliane Brahim, brilliant resident of the Comédie-Française and head of the Netflix series Blank Zone, is named “revelation” thanks to its role in the fantastic film The Cloud. Unknown until then, the astonishing Chloé Zhang, main character of Olympics by Jacques Audiard, also obtained a well-deserved place, like Diane Rouxel (Sink or swim, Heads up) for his last job in The Land of Men.
The new faces of the seventh art
Two talents already noticed in recent years, Noée Abita (seen in the independent work Ava) for Slalom and Ophélie Bau (visible in the two controversial films Mektoub my love by Abdellatif Kechiche) for Rascal, are also named. Long-awaited performance, the actress of The event, Anamaria Vartolomei (seen in The Good Wife) is highlighted alongside Aissatou Diallo Sagna (The divide), by Christine Gautier (Teddy), Salomé Dewaels (Lost illusions), Zbeida Belhajamor (A story of love and desire), Ana Blagojevic (Boarding), by Lilith Grasmug (Blood oranges), Suzanne Jouannet (Human things) and Pauline Parigot (Brothers in arms).