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| Godard lookalike Guillaume Marbeck (left) and Richard Linklater on the set of Nouvelle Vague Photo: UniFrance |
At the top of the league table in the César nominations, announced today (28 January), is American Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, which chronicles the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless and the creative movement that gave birth to the New Wave. It has ten nominations including Best Film, Director, Original Screenplay, Cinematography, and Male Newcomer for Godard-lookalike Guillaume Marbeck, as well as Editing, Sound, Original Score and Costume Design.
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| Claes Band in The Great Arch - Best Actor nominee |
It will be competing with Dominik Moll’s riveting procedural drama Case 137 / Dossier 137; Stéphane Demoustier’s tale of an obsessive architect clashing with French bureaucracy, The Great Arch/L’Inconnu De La Grande Arche, and Carine Tardieu’s moving, humanistic drama about love and family, The Ties That Bind Us/L’Attachement all with eight nominations each. François Ozon’s The Stranger/L’Etranger which performed strongly in the recent Lumière awards bestowed by the foreign press working in France, scored only four nominations including Best Actor for Benjamin Voisin (also winner in the Lumières).
Hafsia Herzi’s queer coming-of-age story The Little Sister/La Petite Dernière accumulated seven nominations, while Thierry Kilfa’s The Richest Woman In The World, starring Isabelle Huppert, scooped six nominations. Arco, Ugo Bienvenu’s poetic animated feature produced by Natalie Portman, nabbed four nominations.
The Cannes Palme d’Or winner It Was Just An Accident by Jafar Panahi (a French production but shot in Iran in Persian) received two nominations in Best Film and Best Screenplay categories.
Contenders for Best Actress make it a hotly contested category with Isabelle Huppert’s performance in The Richest Woman In The World vying with Leila Bekhti’s role in Once Upon My Mother, Lumière winner Léa Drucker for Case 137; Valeria Bruni Tedeschi for The Ties That Bind Us and Mélanie Thierry for Mariana’s Room/La Chamber De Mariana.
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| Léa Drucker - Best Actress nominee Photo: UniFrance |
Best Actor nominations range from Claes Bang for his role as the Danish architect in The Great Arch; Laurent Lafitte playing opposite Huppert in The Richest Woman In The World; Bastien Bouillon for Leave One Day/Partir Un Jour; Pia Marmai for The Ties That Bind Us and Voisin for The Stranger.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another will compete with Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, Olivier Laxe’s Sirât; Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent and Guan Hu’s Black Dog in the Best International Feature section.
Presided over by Call My Agent star Camille Cottin and presented by actor Benjamin Lavernhe, the 51st César ceremony takes place on 26 February at the Olympia music hall in Paris. During the ceremony Jim Carrey will be given an honorary César.
The César nominations:
Best Film
- The Ties That Bind Us
- Case 137
- Nouvelle Vague
- The Little Sister
- It Was Just An Accident
Best Director
- Carine Tardieu, The Ties That Bind Us
- Dominik Moll, Case 137
- Stéphane Demoustier, The Great Arch
- Richard Linklater, Nouvelle Vague
- Hafsia Herzi, The Little Sister
Best Actress
- Leïla Bekhti, Once Upon My Mother
- Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, The Ties That Bind Us
- Léa Drucker, Case 137
- Isabelle Huppert, The Richest Woman In The World
- Mélanie Thierry, Mariana’s Room
Best Actor
- Claes Bang, The Great Arch
- Bastien Bouillon, Leave One Day
- Laurent Lafitte, The Richest Woman In The World
- Pio Marmaï, The Ties That Bind Us
- Benjamin Voisin, The Stranger
Best Supporting Actress
- Jeanne Balibar, Nino
- Dominique Blanc, Leave One Day
- Marina Foïs, The Richest Woman In The World
- Ji-Min Park, The Little Sister
- Vimala Pons, The Ties That Bind Us
Best Supporting Actor
- Swann Arlaud, The Great Arch
- Xavier Dolan, The Great Arch
- Michel Fau, The Great Arch
- Pierre Lottin, The Stranger
- Raphaël Personnaz, The Richest Women In The World
Best Female Newcomer
- Manon Clavel, Kika
- Suzanne Lindon, Colours Of Time
- Nadia Melliti, The Little Sister
- Camille Rutherford, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
- Anja Verderosa, Trial By Fire
Best Male Newcomer
- Idir Azougli, Météors
- Sayyid El Alami, La Pampa
- Félix Lefebvre, Trial By Fire
- Guillaume Marbeck, Nouvelle Vague
- Théodore Pellerin, Nino
Best Original Screenplay
- Dominik Moll, Gilles Marchand, Case 137
- Pauline Loquès, Nino
- Holly Gent, Vince Palma, Nouvelle Vague
- Franck Dubosc, Sarah Kaminsky, How To Make A Killing
- Jafar Panahi, It Was Just An Accident
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Carine Tardieu, Raphaëlle Moussafir, Agnès Feuvre, The Ties That Bind Us
- Stéphane Demoustier, The Great Arch
- Hafsia Herzi, The Little Sister
Best International Film
- The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonça Filho
- Black Dog, Guan Hu
- Sirât, Oliver Laxe
- One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson
- Sentimental Value, Joachim Trier
Best Original Score
- Arnaud Toulon, Arco
- Olivier Marguerit, Case 137
- Fatima Al Qadiri, The Stranger
- Alex Beaupain, The Richest Woman In The World
- Amine Bouhafa, The Little Sister
Best Sound
- Arco
- Le Chant Des Forêts
- Case 137
- Nouvelle Vague
- Leave One Day
Best Cinematography
- Elin Kirschfink, The Ties That Bind Us
- Patrick Ghiringhelli, Case 137
- Marine Atlan, L’Engloutie
- Manu Dacosse, The Stranger
- David Chambille, Nouvelle Vague
Best Editing
- Stan Collet, 13 Jours, 13 Nuits
- Christel Dewynter, The Ties That Bind Us
- Laurent Rouan, Case 137
- Catherine Schwartz, Nouvelle Vague
- Géraldine Mangenot, The Little Sister
Best Costume Design
- Céline Guignard, La Condition
- Corinne Bruand, Dracula
- Jürgen Doering, The Richest Woman In The World
- Pascaline Chavanne, Nouvelle Vague
- Pierre-Yves Gayraud, Colours Of Time
Best Production Design
- Jean-Philippe Moreaux, Dog 51
- Catherine Cosme, The Great Arch
- Riton Dupire-Clément, Once Upon My Mother
- Katia Wyszkop, Nouvelle Vague
- Marie Cheminel, Colours Of Time
Best Visual Effects
- Cédric Fayolle, Dog 51
- Rodolphe Chabrier, Benoît De Longlée, L’homme Qui Rétrécit
- Lise Fischer, The Great Arch
- Alain Carsoux, Nouvelle Vague
César Du Meilleur Film Documentaire
- À Bicyclette! - Mathias Mlekuz
- Le Chant Des Forêts - Vincent Munier
- Le Cinquième Plan De La Jetée - Dominique Cabrera
- Personne N’y Comprend Rien - Yannick Kergoat
- Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk - Sepideh Farsi
Best Animation
- Little Amélie Or The Character Of Rain, Mailys Vallade & Liane-Cho Han
- Arco, Ugo Bienvenu
- La Vie De Château, Mon Enfance À Versailles, Clémence Madeleine-Perdrillat & Nathaniel H’limi
Best First Film
- Arco, Ugo Bienvenu
- Trial By Fire, Aurélien Peyre
- Nino, Pauline Loquès
- La Pampa, Antoine Chevrollier
- Leave One Day, Amélie Bonnin
