Best Actor – Leading Role

César Award for Best Actor

This is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Actor .-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:-2010s:...

• Mathieu Amalric
  Mathieu Amalric
  Mathieu Amalric is a French actor and film director, perhaps best known internationally for his performance as the lead villain in Bond film Quantum Of Solace and for his role in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, for which he drew critical acclaim...
  
   – Kings and Queen
  Kings and Queen
  Rois et reine is a 2004 French film directed by Arnaud Desplechin. It won the Louis Delluc Prize, the Prix Méliès and the César Award for Best Actor...
  
  (Rois et reine)
  • Daniel Auteuil
    Daniel Auteuil
    Daniel Auteuil is a French film, television and theatre actor.-Early life and education:He was born in Algiers, French Algeria.-Career:...
    
     – Department 36
    36 Quai des Orfèvres (film)
    36 Quai des Orfèvres is a 2004 French film directed by Olivier Marchal and starring Daniel Auteuil and Gérard Depardieu. The film takes place in Paris, where two cops are competing for the vacant seat of Chief of Police while involved in a search for a gang of violent thieves...
    
    (36 Quai des Orfèvres)
  • Gérard Jugnot
    Gérard Jugnot
    Gérard Jugnot is a French actor, film director, screenwriter and producer.Jugnot was one of the founders of the comedy troupe Le Splendid in the 1970s, along with, among others, his high-school friends Christian Clavier, Thierry Lhermitte, and Michel Blanc...
    
     – The Chorus
    The Chorus (2004 film)
    The Chorus is a 2004 French drama film directed by Christophe Barratier. Co-written by Barratier and Philippe Lopes-Curval, it is an adaptation of the 1945 film A Cage of Nightingales , which in turn was adapted by Noël-Noël and René Wheeler from a story by Wheeler and Georges Chaperot.Widely...
    
    (Les choristes)
  • Benoît Poelvoorde
    Benoît Poelvoorde
    Benoît Poelvoorde is a Belgian actor and comedian who often associates cynicism, humour and drama in his movies.His mother was a grocer and his father a driver, who died when Poelvoorde was still young...
    
     – Podium
    Podium (film)
    Podium is a 2004 French comedy/fantasy film directed by Yann Moix starring Belgian actor Benoît Poelvoorde, Jean-Paul Rouve and Julie Depardieu.*Tagline: "Name: Bernard Frédéric. Job: Claude François."-Plot:...
    
    
  • Philippe Torreton
    Philippe Torreton
    Philippe Torreton is a French actor.-Biography:Born in Rouen, to a teacher mother, and fireman father, Torreton grew up in a suburb of the city...
    
     – The Light
    The Light (film)
    The Light is a 2004 French film directed by Philippe Lioret and starring Sandrine Bonnaire, Émilie Dequenne, Grégori Derangère, and Philippe Torreton....
    
    (L'équipier)

Best Actor – Supporting Role

César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role

List of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Supporting Actor .-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:-2010s:-References:...

• Clovis Cornillac
  Clovis Cornillac
  Clovis Cornillac is a French theater, television and cinema actor.- Biography :Clovis Cornillac was born to actors Myriam Boyer and Roger Cornillac. He started studying theatre at the age of 14....
  
   – The Story of My Life
  Mensonges et trahisons et plus si affinités...
  Mensonges et trahisons et plus si affinités... is a 2004 French romantic comedy film directed by Laurent Tirard.The film stars*Edouard Baer, Raphaël Jullian*Marie-Josée Croze, Muriel*Clovis Cornillac, Kevin*Alice Taglioni, Claire ...
  
  (Mensonges et trahisons et plus si affinités...)
  • François Berléand
    François Berléand
    François Berléand is a French actor.Berléand was born in Paris, France of . He plays Gilles Triquet, the officer manager and equivalent of David Brent in Le Bureau, the French version of The Office, produced by Canal+. He released a book about his childhood in 2006, Le fils de l'homme invisible...
    
     – The Chorus
    The Chorus (2004 film)
    The Chorus is a 2004 French drama film directed by Christophe Barratier. Co-written by Barratier and Philippe Lopes-Curval, it is an adaptation of the 1945 film A Cage of Nightingales , which in turn was adapted by Noël-Noël and René Wheeler from a story by Wheeler and Georges Chaperot.Widely...
    
    (Les choristes)
  • André Dussollier
    André Dussollier
    André Dussollier is a French actor.-Filmography:* 1970 : Ils, directed by Jean-Daniel Simon* 1972 : Les Chemins de pierre, directed by Joseph Drimal...
    
     – Department 36
    36 Quai des Orfèvres (film)
    36 Quai des Orfèvres is a 2004 French film directed by Olivier Marchal and starring Daniel Auteuil and Gérard Depardieu. The film takes place in Paris, where two cops are competing for the vacant seat of Chief of Police while involved in a search for a gang of violent thieves...
    
    (36 Quai des Orfèvres)
  • Maurice Garrel
    Maurice Garrel
    Maurice Garrel was a French film actor.Garrel was born in Saint-Servais, Isère. He appeared in over a hundred films and was nominated twice for a César Award for best supporting actor: in 1991 for La Discrète and in 2005 for Kings and Queen.Garrel was the father of producer Thierry Garrel and...
    
     – Kings and Queen
    Kings and Queen
    Rois et reine is a 2004 French film directed by Arnaud Desplechin. It won the Louis Delluc Prize, the Prix Méliès and the César Award for Best Actor...
    
    (Rois et reine)
  • Jean-Paul Rouve
    Jean-Paul Rouve
    Jean-Paul Rouve , who was part of Les Robins des Bois, is a French film and television actor. He is also a film director and screenwriter.-Career:Rouve has appeared in over thirty films and over ten television productions....
    
     – Podium
    Podium (film)
    Podium is a 2004 French comedy/fantasy film directed by Yann Moix starring Belgian actor Benoît Poelvoorde, Jean-Paul Rouve and Julie Depardieu.*Tagline: "Name: Bernard Frédéric. Job: Claude François."-Plot:...
    
    

Best Actress – Leading Role

César Award for Best Actress

List of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Actress .-Winners and nominees:...

• Yolande Moreau
  Yolande Moreau
  Yolande Moreau is a Belgian comedienne, actress and film director.-Biography:She has won two César Awards for Best Actress, in 2005 for When the Sea Rises and in 2009 for Séraphine....
  
   – When the Sea Rises (Quand la mer monte...)
  • Maggie Cheung
    Maggie Cheung
    Maggie Cheung Man yuk is a Chinese actress from Hong Kong. Raised in England and Hong Kong, she has over 70 films to her credit since starting her career in 1983...
    
     – Clean
  • Emmanuelle Devos
    Emmanuelle Devos
    Emmanuelle Devos is a French actress. Devos was born to daughter of actress Marie Henriau in Paris. She appeared in 50 films between 1986 and 2009. She won the César Award for Best Actress in 2002 for her performance in Sur mes lèvres, directed by Jacques Audiard...
    
     – Kings and Queen
    Kings and Queen
    Rois et reine is a 2004 French film directed by Arnaud Desplechin. It won the Louis Delluc Prize, the Prix Méliès and the César Award for Best Actor...
    
    (Rois et reine)
  • Karin Viard
    Karin Viard
    Karin Viard is a multi-award-winning French actress. She made her film debut in Tatie Danielle in 1990.Since then she has appeared in such films as Delicatessen, L'Emploi du temps , Adultère, mode d'emploi and La parenthèse enchantée.She was a member of the 2003 Cannes Film Festival...
    
     – The Role of Her Life
    The Role of Her Life
    Le Rôle de sa vie is a 2004 film directed by François Favrat. Karin Viard was nominated for "Best Actress" in the 2005 César Award.-Plot:...
    
    (Le rôle de sa vie)
  • Audrey Tautou
    Audrey Tautou
    Audrey Justine Tautou is a French model and film actress, best known for playing the title character in the award-winning 2001 film Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, Sophie Neveu in the 2006 thriller The Da Vinci Code, Irène in Priceless and Coco Chanel in Coco avant Chanel...
    
     – A Very Long Engagement
    A Very Long Engagement
    A Very Long Engagement is a 2004 French romantic war film, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Audrey Tautou. It is a fictional tale about a young woman's desperate search for her fiancé who might have been killed on the battle of the Somme, during World War I...
    
    (Un long dimanche de fiançailles)

Best Actress – Supporting Role

César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role

List of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Supporting Actress .-Winners:Adapted from the article , from Wikinfo, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License....

• Marion Cotillard
  Marion Cotillard
  Marion Cotillard is a French actress and singer. She garnered critical acclaim for her roles in films such as La Vie en Rose, My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument, Taxi, Furia and Jeux d'enfants...
  
   – A Very Long Engagement
  A Very Long Engagement
  A Very Long Engagement is a 2004 French romantic war film, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Audrey Tautou. It is a fictional tale about a young woman's desperate search for her fiancé who might have been killed on the battle of the Somme, during World War I...
  
  (Un long dimanche de fiançailles)
  • Ariane Ascaride
    Ariane Ascaride
    Ariane Ascaride is a French actress and screenwriter. She has appeared in such films as Marius et Jeannette , Ma vraie vie à Rouen and À la place du coeur...
    
     – A Common Thread
    A Common Thread
    A Common Thread is a 2004 French film directed by Éléonore Faucher. The film is known as Sequins in the United States.The film won "Critics Week Grand Prize" and "SACD Screenwriting Award" at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival...
    
    (Brodeuses)
  • Mylène Demongeot
    Mylène Demongeot
    Mylène Demongeot is a French actress, who has appeared in 72 films since 1953. She was born Marie-Hélène Demongeot in Nice, Southern France....
    
     – Department 36
    36 Quai des Orfèvres (film)
    36 Quai des Orfèvres is a 2004 French film directed by Olivier Marchal and starring Daniel Auteuil and Gérard Depardieu. The film takes place in Paris, where two cops are competing for the vacant seat of Chief of Police while involved in a search for a gang of violent thieves...
    
    (36 Quai des Orfèvres)
  • Julie Depardieu
    Julie Depardieu
    Julie Marion Depardieu is a French actress who has appeared in a number of successful movies.She is the daughter of Gérard Depardieu and Élisabeth Depardieu, and the sister of the late Guillaume Depardieu—all of whom are also film actors...
    
     – Podium
    Podium (film)
    Podium is a 2004 French comedy/fantasy film directed by Yann Moix starring Belgian actor Benoît Poelvoorde, Jean-Paul Rouve and Julie Depardieu.*Tagline: "Name: Bernard Frédéric. Job: Claude François."-Plot:...
    
    
  • Émilie Dequenne
    Émilie Dequenne
    Émilie Dequenne is a French-speaking Belgian actress.-Biography:She won the Best Actress award at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival for her debut film performance in the Palme d'Or-winning film Rosetta...
    
     – The Light
    The Light (film)
    The Light is a 2004 French film directed by Philippe Lioret and starring Sandrine Bonnaire, Émilie Dequenne, Grégori Derangère, and Philippe Torreton....
    
    (L'équipier)

Best Cinematography

César Award for Best Cinematography

The following are the winners of the annual César Award for Best Cinematography .-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:-2010s:...

• A Very Long Engagement
  A Very Long Engagement
  A Very Long Engagement is a 2004 French romantic war film, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Audrey Tautou. It is a fictional tale about a young woman's desperate search for her fiancé who might have been killed on the battle of the Somme, during World War I...
  
  (Un long dimanche de fiançailles) – Bruno Delbonnel
  Bruno Delbonnel
  Bruno Delbonnel is a French cinematographer.Delbonnel was born in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France and graduated in 1978 from the ESEC ....
  
  
  • Clean – Eric Gautier
  • Two Brothers
    Two Brothers
    Two Brothers is a 2004 adventure family film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. It is about two tigers who are separated as cubs and then reunited years later.-Plot:...
    
    (Deux frères) – Jean-Marie Dreujou

• A Very Long Engagement
  A Very Long Engagement
  A Very Long Engagement is a 2004 French romantic war film, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Audrey Tautou. It is a fictional tale about a young woman's desperate search for her fiancé who might have been killed on the battle of the Somme, during World War I...
  
  (Un long dimanche de fiançailles) – Madeline Fontaine
  • Arsène Lupin
    Arsène Lupin
    Arsène Lupin is a fictional character who appears in a book series of detective fiction / crime fiction novels written by French writer Maurice Leblanc, as well as a number of non-canonical sequels and numerous film, television such as Night Hood, stage play and comic book adaptations.- Overview :A...
    
    – Pierre-Jean Larroque
  • Podium
    Podium (film)
    Podium is a 2004 French comedy/fantasy film directed by Yann Moix starring Belgian actor Benoît Poelvoorde, Jean-Paul Rouve and Julie Depardieu.*Tagline: "Name: Bernard Frédéric. Job: Claude François."-Plot:...
    
    – Catherine Bouchard

Best Debut

César Award for Best Debut

The César Award for Best Debut was an award given out at the annual César Awards between 1982 and 1999...

• When the Sea Rises (Quand la mer monte...) – Gilles Porte
  Gilles Porte
  Gilles Porte, born 11 May 1965 in Lyon , is a director, screenwriter, cinematographer, and assistant cameraman.He is a member of société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques , of société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique and of l'association française des cinémas d'art et d'essai...
  
  , Yolande Moreau
  Yolande Moreau
  Yolande Moreau is a Belgian comedienne, actress and film director.-Biography:She has won two César Awards for Best Actress, in 2005 for When the Sea Rises and in 2009 for Séraphine....
  
  
  • A Common Thread
    A Common Thread
    A Common Thread is a 2004 French film directed by Éléonore Faucher. The film is known as Sequins in the United States.The film won "Critics Week Grand Prize" and "SACD Screenwriting Award" at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival...
    
    (Brodeuses) – Éléonore Faucher
  • The Chorus
    The Chorus (2004 film)
    The Chorus is a 2004 French drama film directed by Christophe Barratier. Co-written by Barratier and Philippe Lopes-Curval, it is an adaptation of the 1945 film A Cage of Nightingales , which in turn was adapted by Noël-Noël and René Wheeler from a story by Wheeler and Georges Chaperot.Widely...
    
    (Les choristes) – Christophe Barratier
    Christophe Barratier
    Christophe Barratier , son of actress Eva Simonet and nephew of film director Jacques Perrin, is a French film producer, film director and screenwriter. He has directed three hugely successful features films The Chorus...
    
    
  • Podium
    Podium (film)
    Podium is a 2004 French comedy/fantasy film directed by Yann Moix starring Belgian actor Benoît Poelvoorde, Jean-Paul Rouve and Julie Depardieu.*Tagline: "Name: Bernard Frédéric. Job: Claude François."-Plot:...
    
    – Yann Moix
  • Work Hard, Play Hard
    Work hard, play hard
    -Motto:Some individuals and organizations use "Work hard, play hard" as a motto, either officially or unofficially. For example, "Work hard play hard" is the official motto of the Camborne School of Mines....
    
    (Violence des échanges en milieu tempéré) – Jean-Marc Moutout

Best Director

César Award for Best Director

This is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Director .-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:-2010s:...

• Abdel Kechiche
  Abdel Kechiche
  Abdellatif Kechiche is an actor, movie director and screenwriter. He made his directorial debut in 2000 with La Faute à Voltaire , aka Poetical Refugee, which he also wrote. He also directed L'Esquive, which won a César Award for Best Film and Best Director...
  
   – Games of Love and Chance
  Games of Love and Chance
  Games of Love and Chance is a 2003 French drama film directed by Abdel Kechiche and starring Sara Forestier. It won the César Award for Best Film, Best Director, Best Writing and Most Promising Actress....
  
  (L'esquive)
  • Olivier Marchal
    Olivier Marchal
    Olivier Marchal is a French actor, director, screenwriter, and a former policeman. In 2005, he was nominated for three César Awards , for his film 36 Quai des Orfèvres....
    
     – Department 36
    36 Quai des Orfèvres (film)
    36 Quai des Orfèvres is a 2004 French film directed by Olivier Marchal and starring Daniel Auteuil and Gérard Depardieu. The film takes place in Paris, where two cops are competing for the vacant seat of Chief of Police while involved in a search for a gang of violent thieves...
    
    (36 Quai des Orfèvres)
  • Christophe Barratier
    Christophe Barratier
    Christophe Barratier , son of actress Eva Simonet and nephew of film director Jacques Perrin, is a French film producer, film director and screenwriter. He has directed three hugely successful features films The Chorus...
    
     – The Chorus
    The Chorus (2004 film)
    The Chorus is a 2004 French drama film directed by Christophe Barratier. Co-written by Barratier and Philippe Lopes-Curval, it is an adaptation of the 1945 film A Cage of Nightingales , which in turn was adapted by Noël-Noël and René Wheeler from a story by Wheeler and Georges Chaperot.Widely...
    
    (Les choristes)
  • Arnaud Desplechin
    Arnaud Desplechin
    Arnaud Desplechin is a French film director.-Biography:Arnaud Desplechin is the son of Robert and Mado Desplechin, and grew up in the Nord department...
    
     – Kings and Queen
    Kings and Queen
    Rois et reine is a 2004 French film directed by Arnaud Desplechin. It won the Louis Delluc Prize, the Prix Méliès and the César Award for Best Actor...
    
    (Rois et reine)
  • Jean-Pierre Jeunet
    Jean-Pierre Jeunet
    -Life and career:Jean-Pierre Jeunet was born in Roanne, Loire, France. He bought his first camera at the age of 17 and made short films while studying animation at Cinémation Studios. He befriended Marc Caro, a designer and comic book artist who became his longtime collaborator and...
    
     – A Very Long Engagement
    A Very Long Engagement
    A Very Long Engagement is a 2004 French romantic war film, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Audrey Tautou. It is a fictional tale about a young woman's desperate search for her fiancé who might have been killed on the battle of the Somme, during World War I...
    
    (Un long dimanche de fiançailles)

Best Editing

César Award for Best Editing

The César Award for Best Editing is one of the annual César Awards given by the French Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinema. Eligible films are usually in the French language.-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:...

• Two Brothers
  Two Brothers
  Two Brothers is a 2004 adventure family film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. It is about two tigers who are separated as cubs and then reunited years later.-Plot:...
  
  (Deux frères) – Noëlle Boisson
  • Department 36
    36 Quai des Orfèvres (film)
    36 Quai des Orfèvres is a 2004 French film directed by Olivier Marchal and starring Daniel Auteuil and Gérard Depardieu. The film takes place in Paris, where two cops are competing for the vacant seat of Chief of Police while involved in a search for a gang of violent thieves...
    
    (36 Quai des Orfèvres) – Hachdé
  • A Very Long Engagement
    A Very Long Engagement
    A Very Long Engagement is a 2004 French romantic war film, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Audrey Tautou. It is a fictional tale about a young woman's desperate search for her fiancé who might have been killed on the battle of the Somme, during World War I...
    
    (Un long dimanche de fiançailles) – Hervé Schneid

• Games of Love and Chance
  Games of Love and Chance
  Games of Love and Chance is a 2003 French drama film directed by Abdel Kechiche and starring Sara Forestier. It won the César Award for Best Film, Best Director, Best Writing and Most Promising Actress....
  
  (L'esquive)
  • The Chorus
    The Chorus (2004 film)
    The Chorus is a 2004 French drama film directed by Christophe Barratier. Co-written by Barratier and Philippe Lopes-Curval, it is an adaptation of the 1945 film A Cage of Nightingales , which in turn was adapted by Noël-Noël and René Wheeler from a story by Wheeler and Georges Chaperot.Widely...
    
    (Les choristes)
  • Department 36
    36 Quai des Orfèvres (film)
    36 Quai des Orfèvres is a 2004 French film directed by Olivier Marchal and starring Daniel Auteuil and Gérard Depardieu. The film takes place in Paris, where two cops are competing for the vacant seat of Chief of Police while involved in a search for a gang of violent thieves...
    
    (36 Quai des Orfèvres)
  • Kings and Queen
    Kings and Queen
    Rois et reine is a 2004 French film directed by Arnaud Desplechin. It won the Louis Delluc Prize, the Prix Méliès and the César Award for Best Actor...
    
    (Rois et reine)
  • A Very Long Engagement
    A Very Long Engagement
    A Very Long Engagement is a 2004 French romantic war film, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Audrey Tautou. It is a fictional tale about a young woman's desperate search for her fiancé who might have been killed on the battle of the Somme, during World War I...
    
    (Un long dimanche de fiançailles)

Best Film – European Union

• Ae Fond Kiss...
  Ae Fond Kiss...
  Ae Fond Kiss... is a 2004 romantic drama film directed by Ken Loach, and starring Atta Yaqub and Eva Birthistle. The title is taken from a Scottish song by Robert Burns, the complete line being "Ae fond kiss, and then we sever..."-Plot:Casim Khan is a Glaswegian DJ of Pakistani origin...
  
   – Ken Loach
  Ken Loach
  Kenneth "Ken" Loach is a Palme D'Or winning English film and television director.He is known for his naturalistic, social realist directing style and for his socialist beliefs, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as homelessness , labour rights and child abuse at the...
  
   • UK
• Life Is a Miracle
  Life Is a Miracle
  Life is a Miracle is a Serbian drama film directed by Emir Kusturica in 2004. It was entered into the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  (Zivot je cudo) – Emir Kusturica
  Emir Kusturica
  Emir Nemanja Kusturica , is a Serbian filmmaker, actor and musician, recognized for several internationally acclaimed feature films...
  
   • Yugoslavia
  • Bad Education
    Bad Education
    Bad Education is a 2004 Spanish drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar and starring Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Daniel Giménez Cacho and Lluís Homar. The plot is about two reunited childhood friends in the vein of a murder mystery...
    
    (La mala educación) – Pedro Almodóvar
    Pedro Almodóvar
    Pedro Almodóvar Caballero is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.Almodóvar is arguably the most successful and internationally known Spanish filmmaker of his generation. His films, marked by complex narratives, employ the codes of melodrama and use elements of pop culture, popular...
    
     • Spain
    Spain
    Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
    
    
  • Mondovino
    Mondovino
    Mondovino is a 2004 documentary film on the impact of globalization on the world's different wine regions written and directed by American film maker Jonathan Nossiter...
    
    – Jonathan Nossiter
    Jonathan Nossiter
    Jonathan Nossiter is an American filmmaker. Son of Washington Post and New York Times foreign correspondent Bernard Nossiter, he was born in the United States in 1961. He was raised in France, England, Italy, Greece and India...
    
     • Argentina
    Argentina
    Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
    
    
  • Saraband
    Saraband
    Saraband is a 2003 Swedish drama film directed by Ingmar Bergman, and his last theatrically released work. The film is a sequel to Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage , bringing back to the screen the characters of Johan and Marianne...
    
    – Ingmar Bergman
    Ingmar Bergman
    Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish director, writer and producer for film, stage and television. Described by Woody Allen as "probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera", he is recognized as one of the most accomplished and...
    
     • Sweden
    Sweden
    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
    
    

• Lost in Translation
  Lost in Translation (film)
  Lost in Translation is a 2003 American film written and directed by Sofia Coppola; her second feature film after The Virgin Suicides and it stars Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson...
  
   – Sofia Coppola
  Sofia Coppola
  Sofia Carmina Coppola is an American screenwriter, film director, actress, and producer.In 2003 she received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Lost in Translation, and became the third woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing...
  
   • Japan
  Japan
  Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
  
  /USA
  • 21 Grams
    21 Grams
    21 Grams is a 2003 American drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga. It stars Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Danny Huston, and Benicio del Toro....
    
    – Alejandro González Iñárritu
    Alejandro González Iñárritu
    Alejandro González Iñárritu is a Mexican film director.González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and by the DGA of America for Best Director. He is also the first and only Mexican born director to have won the Prix de la mise en scene...
    
     • USA
  • The Motorcycle Diaries
    The Motorcycle Diaries (film)
    At the end of the film, after his sojourn at the leper colony, Guevara confirms his nascent egalitarian, anti-authority impulses, while making a birthday toast, which is also his first political speech. In it he evokes a pan-Latin American identity that transcends both the arbitrary boundaries of...
    
    (Diarios de motocicleta) – Walter Salles
    Walter Salles
    Walter Moreira Salles, Jr. is a Brazilian filmmaker and film producer of international prominence.-Life and career:Salles was born in Rio de Janeiro. He is the son of Elizinha Goncalves and Walter Moreira Salles, a Brazilian banker and ambassador, and the brother of João Moreira Salles, also a...
    
     • Argentina
    Argentina
    Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
    
    
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a 2004 American romantic science fiction film about an estranged couple who have each other erased from their memories, scripted by Charlie Kaufman and directed by the French director, Michel Gondry. The film uses elements of science fiction, psychological...
    
    – Michel Gondry
    Michel Gondry
    Michel Gondry is an Academy Award winning filmmaker, whose works include being a commercial director, music video director, and a screenwriter. He is noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scène. - Life and career :...
    
     • USA
  • Fahrenheit 9/11
    Fahrenheit 9/11
    Fahrenheit 9/11 is a 2004 documentary film by American filmmaker and political commentator Michael Moore. The film takes a critical look at the presidency of George W. Bush, the War on Terror, and its coverage in the news media...
    
    – Michael Moore
    Michael Moore
    Michael Francis Moore is an American filmmaker, author, social critic and activist. He is the director and producer of Fahrenheit 9/11, which is the highest-grossing documentary of all time. His films Bowling for Columbine and Sicko also place in the top ten highest-grossing documentaries...
    
     • USA

Best Music

César Award for Best Music Written for a Film

This is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Music Written for a Film . Before 2000, the award was called "César Award for Best Music".-1970s:...

• Bruno Coulais
  Bruno Coulais
  Bruno Coulais is a French composer, most widely known for his music on film soundtracks. He recently composed the score for the animated film, The Secret of Kells, released 12 March 2010.- Life and career :...
  
   – The Chorus
  The Chorus (2004 film)
  The Chorus is a 2004 French drama film directed by Christophe Barratier. Co-written by Barratier and Philippe Lopes-Curval, it is an adaptation of the 1945 film A Cage of Nightingales , which in turn was adapted by Noël-Noël and René Wheeler from a story by Wheeler and Georges Chaperot.Widely...
  
  (Les choristes)
  • Tony Gatlif
    Tony Gatlif
    Tony Gatlif is a French film director of Romani ethnicity who also works as a screenwriter, composer, actor, and producer.- Biography :...
    
    , Delphine Mantoulet – Exils
    Exils
    Exiles is a 2004 French film by Tony Gatlif. The film follows two young bohemians, Zano and Naima. After having sex the two spontaneously decide that they will travel to Algeria, where Naima's parents come from, and where Zano's pied-noir parents were once exiled...
    
    
  • Angelo Badalamenti
    Angelo Badalamenti
    Angelo Badalamenti is an American composer, known for his movie soundtrack work for director David Lynch, notably Blue Velvet, the Twin Peaks saga and Mulholland Drive...
    
     – A Very Long Engagement
    A Very Long Engagement
    A Very Long Engagement is a 2004 French romantic war film, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Audrey Tautou. It is a fictional tale about a young woman's desperate search for her fiancé who might have been killed on the battle of the Somme, during World War I...
    
    (Un long dimanche de fiançailles)
  • Nicola Piovani
    Nicola Piovani
    Nicola Piovani is a light-classical musician, theater and film score composer, and winner of the 1998 Best Original Dramatic Score Oscar for the score of the Roberto Benigni film La Vita è bella, better known to English-speaking audiences as Life Is Beautiful.After high school, Piovani enrolled at...
    
     – The Light
    The Light (film)
    The Light is a 2004 French film directed by Philippe Lioret and starring Sandrine Bonnaire, Émilie Dequenne, Grégori Derangère, and Philippe Torreton....
    
    (L'équipier)

Best Production Design

César Award for Best Production Design

This is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Production Design .-Winners and nominees:*1976: Pierre Guffroy: Que la fête commence*1977: Alexandre Trauner: Monsieur Klein...

• A Very Long Engagement
  A Very Long Engagement
  A Very Long Engagement is a 2004 French romantic war film, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Audrey Tautou. It is a fictional tale about a young woman's desperate search for her fiancé who might have been killed on the battle of the Somme, during World War I...
  
  (Un long dimanche de fiançailles) – Aline Bonetto
  Aline Bonetto
  Aline Bonetto is a French production designer and set decorator, best known for her work with Jean-Pierre Jeunet on films such as Amélie, A Very Long Engagement, and Micmacs à tire-larigot, among others...
  
  
  • The Chorus
    The Chorus (2004 film)
    The Chorus is a 2004 French drama film directed by Christophe Barratier. Co-written by Barratier and Philippe Lopes-Curval, it is an adaptation of the 1945 film A Cage of Nightingales , which in turn was adapted by Noël-Noël and René Wheeler from a story by Wheeler and Georges Chaperot.Widely...
    
    (Les choristes)– François Chauvaud
  • Immortel (ad vitam) – Jean-Pierre Fouillet

Best Short Film

César Award for Best Short Film

The César Award for Best Short Film is a category of the César Awards, France's national film award.The winners since its inauguration in 1992 have been:...

• Cousines – Lyes Salem
  • Hymne à la gazelle – Stéphanie Duvivier
  • La méthode Bourchnikov – Grégoire Sivan
  • Les parallèles – Nicolas Saada

Best Sound

César Award for Best Sound

This is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Sound .-Winners and nominees:*1976 : Nara Kollery *1977 : Jean-Pierre Ruh *1978 : Jacques Maumont...

• The Chorus
  The Chorus (2004 film)
  The Chorus is a 2004 French drama film directed by Christophe Barratier. Co-written by Barratier and Philippe Lopes-Curval, it is an adaptation of the 1945 film A Cage of Nightingales , which in turn was adapted by Noël-Noël and René Wheeler from a story by Wheeler and Georges Chaperot.Widely...
  
  (Les choristes) – Daniel Sobrino, Nicolas Cantin, Nicolas Naegelen
  • Department 36
    36 Quai des Orfèvres (film)
    36 Quai des Orfèvres is a 2004 French film directed by Olivier Marchal and starring Daniel Auteuil and Gérard Depardieu. The film takes place in Paris, where two cops are competing for the vacant seat of Chief of Police while involved in a search for a gang of violent thieves...
    
    (36 Quai des Orfèvres) – François Maurel, Pierre Mertens, Sylvain Lasseur and Joël Rangon
  • A Very Long Engagement
    A Very Long Engagement
    A Very Long Engagement is a 2004 French romantic war film, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Audrey Tautou. It is a fictional tale about a young woman's desperate search for her fiancé who might have been killed on the battle of the Somme, during World War I...
    
    (Un long dimanche de fiançailles) – Vincent Arnardi
    Vincent Arnardi
    Vincent Arnardi is a French sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Amélie. He has worked on over 200 films since 1978.-External links:...
    
    , Gérard Hardy and Jean Umansky
    Jean Umansky
    Jean Umansky is a French sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Amélie. He has worked on over 50 films since 1980.-External links:...
    
    

Best Writing

César Award for Best Writing

This is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Writing .-1975–1979:*1975: Bertrand Tavernier, Jean Aurenche: Que la fête commence...

• Games of Love and Chance
  Games of Love and Chance
  Games of Love and Chance is a 2003 French drama film directed by Abdel Kechiche and starring Sara Forestier. It won the César Award for Best Film, Best Director, Best Writing and Most Promising Actress....
  
  (L'esquive) – Abdel Kechiche
  Abdel Kechiche
  Abdellatif Kechiche is an actor, movie director and screenwriter. He made his directorial debut in 2000 with La Faute à Voltaire , aka Poetical Refugee, which he also wrote. He also directed L'Esquive, which won a César Award for Best Film and Best Director...
  
   and Ghalia Lacroix
  • Department 36
    36 Quai des Orfèvres (film)
    36 Quai des Orfèvres is a 2004 French film directed by Olivier Marchal and starring Daniel Auteuil and Gérard Depardieu. The film takes place in Paris, where two cops are competing for the vacant seat of Chief of Police while involved in a search for a gang of violent thieves...
    
    (36 Quai des Orfèvres) – Franck Mancuso, Olivier Marchal
    Olivier Marchal
    Olivier Marchal is a French actor, director, screenwriter, and a former policeman. In 2005, he was nominated for three César Awards , for his film 36 Quai des Orfèvres....
    
     and Julien Rappeneau
  • Look at Me
    Look at Me (film)
    Look at Me is a 2004 drama film directed by Agnès Jaoui. The movie won "Best Screenplay" award at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. The movie features a clip from the 1948 film Blood on the Moon.-Plot:...
    
    (Comme une image) – Jean-Pierre Bacri
    Jean-Pierre Bacri
    Jean-Pierre Bacri is a French actor and screenwriter who frequently works in collaboration with Agnès Jaoui.-Life:One of his earliest film appearances was Subway...
    
     and Agnès Jaoui
    Agnès Jaoui
    Agnès Jaoui is a French screenwriter, film director, actress and singer of Tunisian Jewish descent. She frequently works in collaboration with her husband Jean-Pierre Bacri.-Actress:* Le Faucon...
    
    
  • Kings and Queen
    Kings and Queen
    Rois et reine is a 2004 French film directed by Arnaud Desplechin. It won the Louis Delluc Prize, the Prix Méliès and the César Award for Best Actor...
    
    (Rois et reine) – Roger Bohbot and Arnaud Desplechin
    Arnaud Desplechin
    Arnaud Desplechin is a French film director.-Biography:Arnaud Desplechin is the son of Robert and Mado Desplechin, and grew up in the Nord department...
    
    
  • A Very Long Engagement
    A Very Long Engagement
    A Very Long Engagement is a 2004 French romantic war film, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Audrey Tautou. It is a fictional tale about a young woman's desperate search for her fiancé who might have been killed on the battle of the Somme, during World War I...
    
    (Un long dimanche de fiançailles) – Jean-Pierre Jeunet
    Jean-Pierre Jeunet
    -Life and career:Jean-Pierre Jeunet was born in Roanne, Loire, France. He bought his first camera at the age of 17 and made short films while studying animation at Cinémation Studios. He befriended Marc Caro, a designer and comic book artist who became his longtime collaborator and...
    
     and Guillaume Laurant

Most Promising Actor

César Award for Most Promising Actor

This is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Most Promising Actor .-1980s:-1990s:*1991: Gérald Thomassin: Le petit criminel*1992: Manuel Blanc: J'embrasse pas...

• Gaspard Ulliel
  Gaspard Ulliel
  Gaspard Ulliel is a French film actor and model. He began appearing in made-for-television films during the late 1990s and early 2000s, and then began to be known as a film actor in France, as well as starring in the title role in the thriller Hannibal Rising.-Life and career:Ulliel was born in...
  
   – A Very Long Engagement
  A Very Long Engagement
  A Very Long Engagement is a 2004 French romantic war film, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Audrey Tautou. It is a fictional tale about a young woman's desperate search for her fiancé who might have been killed on the battle of the Somme, during World War I...
  
  (Un long dimanche de fiançailles)
  • Osman Elkharraz – Games of Love and Chance
    Games of Love and Chance
    Games of Love and Chance is a 2003 French drama film directed by Abdel Kechiche and starring Sara Forestier. It won the César Award for Best Film, Best Director, Best Writing and Most Promising Actress....
    
    (L'esquive)
  • Damien Jouillerot – Les fautes d'orthographe
  • Malik Zidi
    Malik Zidi
    Malik Zidi is a French film, television and theater actor. Zidi is a four-time nominated and one time César Award recipient for Most Promising Actor.-Career:...
    
     – Changing Times (Les temps qui changent)
  • Jérémie Renier
    Jérémie Renier
    Jérémie Renier is a Belgian actor. He lives in Paris, France. His film debut was in the critically praised La Promesse , directed by Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne. He became better known to worldwide audiences in Brotherhood of the Wolf and L'Enfant...
    
     – Work Hard, Play Hard
    Work hard, play hard
    -Motto:Some individuals and organizations use "Work hard, play hard" as a motto, either officially or unofficially. For example, "Work hard play hard" is the official motto of the Camborne School of Mines....
    
    (Violence des échanges en milieu tempéré)

Most Promising Actress

César Award for Most Promising Actress

The following is the list of winners of the César Award for Most Promising Actress . Since its inception in 1983, the award is given as part of the French film industry's annual César Awards....

• Sara Forestier
  Sara Forestier
  Sara Forestier is a French actress who lives in Paris. She began her film career in 2001 and received a César Award for Most Promising Actress in Games of Love and Chance...
  
   – Games of Love and Chance
  Games of Love and Chance
  Games of Love and Chance is a 2003 French drama film directed by Abdel Kechiche and starring Sara Forestier. It won the César Award for Best Film, Best Director, Best Writing and Most Promising Actress....
  
  (L'esquive)
  • Marilou Berry
    Marilou Berry
    -Biography:Marilou Berry is the daughter of Josiane Balasko and sculptor Philippe Berry, and the niece of actor Richard Berry. Uninterested in school studies, she left high school and enrolled at the Conservatoire de Paris.-Career:...
    
     – Look at Me
    Look at Me (film)
    Look at Me is a 2004 drama film directed by Agnès Jaoui. The movie won "Best Screenplay" award at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. The movie features a clip from the 1948 film Blood on the Moon.-Plot:...
    
    (Comme une image)
  • Lola Naymark – A Common Thread
    A Common Thread
    A Common Thread is a 2004 French film directed by Éléonore Faucher. The film is known as Sequins in the United States.The film won "Critics Week Grand Prize" and "SACD Screenwriting Award" at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival...
    
    (Brodeuses)
  • Sabrina Ouazani
    Sabrina Ouazani
    Sabrina Ouazani is a French actress. She is best known for her performance as Frida in Games of Love and Chance.-Selected filmography:- External links :...
    
     – Games of Love and Chance
    Games of Love and Chance
    Games of Love and Chance is a 2003 French drama film directed by Abdel Kechiche and starring Sara Forestier. It won the César Award for Best Film, Best Director, Best Writing and Most Promising Actress....
    
    (L'esquive)
  • Magali Woch – Kings and Queen
    Kings and Queen
    Rois et reine is a 2004 French film directed by Arnaud Desplechin. It won the Louis Delluc Prize, the Prix Méliès and the César Award for Best Actor...
    
    (Rois et reine)

External links

• César Awards 2005 at the IMDb