Winners and nominees

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...
  
   – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (film)
  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a 2007 biographical drama film based on Jean-Dominique Bauby's memoir of the same name. The film depicts Bauby's life after suffering a massive stroke, on December 8, 1995, at the age of 42, which left him with a condition known as locked-in syndrome. The...
  
  (Le scaphandre et le papillon)
  • Michel Blanc
    Michel Blanc
    Michel Blanc is a French actor and director who is noted for his roles of losers and hypochondriacs...
    
     – The Witnesses
    The Witnesses
    The Witnesses is a 2007 French drama film directed by André Téchiné, starring Michel Blanc, Sami Bouajila, Emmanuelle Béart and Johan Libéreau. The film is set in Paris in 1984, the lives of a closely knit group of friends is disrupted with the sudden outbreak of AIDS epidemic. They are witnesses...
    
    (Les témoins)
  • Jean-Pierre Darroussin
    Jean-Pierre Darroussin
    Jean-Pierre Darroussin is a French film actor. He was born in Courbevoie, France on December 4, 1953. His films include the 2004 thriller Red Lights.-Filmography as actor:* 1979 : Coup de tête, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud...
    
     – Conversations with My Gardener
    Conversations with My Gardener
    Conversations with My Gardener is a 2007 French film directed by Jean Becker.- Plot :A painter returns from Paris to his childhood home in rural France. Looking for a gardener, he meets a former schoolmate. He discovers a simple, open character, with a lot of common sense.The two different men...
    
    (Dialogue avec mon jardinier)
  • Vincent Lindon
    Vincent Lindon
    Vincent Lindon is a French actor who has been active for more than 25 years.Lindon was a lover of Princess Caroline of Monaco from 1990 to 1995. He is currently separated from his wife, the French actress Sandrine Kiberlain.-Selected filmography:-External links:...
    
     – Those Who Remain (Ceux qui restent)
  • Jean-Pierre Marielle
    Jean-Pierre Marielle
    Jean-Pierre Marielle is a French actor. He has played in more than a hundred movies in which he brought life to a very large diversity of roles, from the banal citizen , to the serial killer , to the World War II hero , to the compromised spy , to the has-been actor Jean-Pierre Marielle (born...
    
     – Let's Dance
    Let's Dance (2007 film)
    Faut que ça danse! is a 2007 French-Swiss film directed by Noémie Lvovsky and written by Lvovsky and Florence Seyvos. The film received 3 César Award nominations.-Cast:*Jean-Pierre Marielle as Salomon Bellinsky...
    
    (Faut que ça danse!)

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:...

• Sami Bouajila
  Sami Bouajila
  Sami Bouajila is a French award-winning actor of Tunisian origin.Bouajila's grandfather was a Berber born in Tripoli, Libya and immigrated to Tunisia. Bouajila's father decided to immigrate to France in 1956. Sami was born and grew up in Échirolles, a suburb south of Grenoble...
  
   – The Witnesses
  The Witnesses
  The Witnesses is a 2007 French drama film directed by André Téchiné, starring Michel Blanc, Sami Bouajila, Emmanuelle Béart and Johan Libéreau. The film is set in Paris in 1984, the lives of a closely knit group of friends is disrupted with the sudden outbreak of AIDS epidemic. They are witnesses...
  
  (Les témoins)
  • Pascal Greggory
    Pascal Greggory
    -Filmography:* Les Soeurs Brontë by André Téchiné* Catherine de Heilbronn by Éric Rohmer* Pauline à la plage by Éric Rohmer* Le trio en si bémol by Éric Rohmer...
    
     – La Vie en Rose
    La Vie en rose (film)
    La Vie En Rose is a 2007 French biographical film about the life of French chanteuse Édith Piaf co-written, and directed by Olivier Dahan. Marion Cotillard stars as Piaf. The title La Vie en Rose comes from Piaf's signature song...
    
    (La môme)
  • Michael Lonsdale
    Michael Lonsdale
    Michael Lonsdale , sometimes billed as Michel Lonsdale, is a French actor who has appeared in over 180 films and television shows....
    
     – Heartbeat Detector
    Heartbeat Detector
    Heartbeat Detector is a 2007 French film directed by Nicolas Klotz and starring Mathieu Amalric.-Plot:The film centers on Kessler, a psychologist in the human resources department of the French branch of a long-established German firm. The firm has recently dismissed 50% of its workforce on...
    
    (La question humaine)
  • Fabrice Luchini
    Fabrice Luchini
    Fabrice Luchini is a French stage and film actor.-Biography:Fabrice Luchini was born in Île-de-France, Paris, into an Italian immigrant family, who were fruit and vegetable vendors. He grew up around the neighbourhood of Goutte d'Or in Paris's 18th arrondissement...
    
     – Molière
  • Laurent Stocker
    Laurent Stocker
    Laurent Stocker, born 27 May 1973 in Saint-Dizier , is a French theatre and cinema actor, a sociétaire of the Comédie-Française.- Biography :...
    
     – Hunting and Gathering
    Hunting and Gathering (film)
    Hunting and Gathering is a 2007 French César Award-winning romantic film based on the writer Anna Gavalda's 2004 novel Ensemble, c'est tout. It was directed by Claude Berri, who also wrote the screenplay, and stars Audrey Tautou, Guillaume Canet, Laurent Stocker, Françoise Bertin and Alain...
    
    (Ensemble, c'est tout)

Best Actress – Leading Role

César Award for Best Actress

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

• 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...
  
   – La Vie en Rose
  La Vie en rose (film)
  La Vie En Rose is a 2007 French biographical film about the life of French chanteuse Édith Piaf co-written, and directed by Olivier Dahan. Marion Cotillard stars as Piaf. The title La Vie en Rose comes from Piaf's signature song...
  
  (La môme)
  • Isabelle Carré
    Isabelle Carré
    Isabelle Carré is a French actress, who has appeared in more than 40 films since 1989. She won a César Award for Best Actress for her role in Se souvenir des belles choses , and has been nominated a further six times, for Beau fixe , Le Hussard sur le toit , La Femme défendue , Les Sentiments ,...
    
     – Anna M.
  • Cécile de France
    Cécile de France
    Cécile de France is a Belgian actress. After achieving success in French cinema hits such as L'Art de la séduction and Irène , she gained international attention for her lead role in Haute Tension and Hereafter .- Career :Born in Namur, she left Belgium at the age of 17 to go to Paris where she...
    
     – A Secret
    A Secret
    Un secret is a 2007 French film directed and written by Claude Miller. The screenplay was based on the novel by Philippe Grimbert.-Synopsis:...
    
    (Un secret)
  • Marina Foïs
    Marina Foïs
    -Selected filmography:* Poliss * 22 Bullets * The Ball of the Actresses * RRRrrrr!!! * Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra * The Race -External links:...
    
     – Darling
  • Catherine Frot
    Catherine Frot
    -Early life:The daughter of an engineer and a mathematics teacher, Frot demonstrated comic traits and expressions at an early age. At the age of fourteen, she enrolled in the Versailles conservatory while still in school...
    
     – Odette Toulemonde

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....

• 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...
  
   – A Secret
  A Secret
  Un secret is a 2007 French film directed and written by Claude Miller. The screenplay was based on the novel by Philippe Grimbert.-Synopsis:...
  
  (Un secret)
  • Noémie Lvovsky
    Noémie Lvovsky
    Noémie Lvovsky is a French film director, writer, and actress.She studied cinema at La Fémis in Paris, notably a contemporary of Arnaud Desplechin, with whom she often collaborates...
    
     – Actrices
    Actrices
    Actrices is a French film directed by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, released in 2007. The film was presented in the official selection at the 60th Cannes Film Festival and won a Prix Spécial du Jury in the Un Certain Regard section.-Synopsis:...
    
    
  • Bulle Ogier
    Bulle Ogier
    Bulle Ogier is a French actress.Ogier's first appearance on screen was in Voilà l'Ordre, a short film directed by Jacques Baratier with a number of the then-emerging young singers of the 1960s in France, including Boris Vian, Claude Nougaro, etc.She worked with Jacques Rivette Bulle Ogier (born...
    
     – Let's Dance
    Let's Dance (2007 film)
    Faut que ça danse! is a 2007 French-Swiss film directed by Noémie Lvovsky and written by Lvovsky and Florence Seyvos. The film received 3 César Award nominations.-Cast:*Jean-Pierre Marielle as Salomon Bellinsky...
    
    (Faut que ça danse!)
  • Ludivine Sagnier
    Ludivine Sagnier
    Ludivine Sagnier is a French actress and model, who has appeared in 33 films since 1989. She was nominated for two César Awards for Best Supporting Actress in Swimming Pool and Un secret .-Early life:...
    
     – A Secret
    A Secret
    Un secret is a 2007 French film directed and written by Claude Miller. The screenplay was based on the novel by Philippe Grimbert.-Synopsis:...
    
    (Un secret)
  • Sylvie Testud
    Sylvie Testud
    Sylvie Testud is a French actress, writer and director. Her film career began in 1991. She was later highly acclaimed, and has twice won César Awards.-Biography:...
    
     – La Vie en Rose
    La Vie en rose (film)
    La Vie En Rose is a 2007 French biographical film about the life of French chanteuse Édith Piaf co-written, and directed by Olivier Dahan. Marion Cotillard stars as Piaf. The title La Vie en Rose comes from Piaf's signature song...
    
    (La môme)

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:...

• La Vie en Rose
  La Vie en rose (film)
  La Vie En Rose is a 2007 French biographical film about the life of French chanteuse Édith Piaf co-written, and directed by Olivier Dahan. Marion Cotillard stars as Piaf. The title La Vie en Rose comes from Piaf's signature song...
  
  (La môme) – Tetsuo Nagata
  Tetsuo Nagata
  is a Japanese cinematographer based in France. He was the Director of Photography for numerous films, including Narco, Paris, je t'aime and La Vie En Rose...
  
  
  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (film)
    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a 2007 biographical drama film based on Jean-Dominique Bauby's memoir of the same name. The film depicts Bauby's life after suffering a massive stroke, on December 8, 1995, at the age of 42, which left him with a condition known as locked-in syndrome. The...
    
    (Le scaphandre et le papillon) – Janusz Kamiński
    Janusz Kaminski
    Janusz Zygmunt Kamiński is a Polish cinematographer and film director. He has photographed all of Steven Spielberg's films since 1993's Schindler's List.-Life and career:...
    
    
  • Intimate Enemies
    L'Ennemi Intime
    L'Ennemi intime is a 2007 French war film, directed by Florent Emilio Siri, starring Benoît Magimel, Albert Dupontel and Mohamed Fellag. It was filmed in France and Morocco.-Plot:The film is set in 1959 during the Algerian War...
    
    (L'Ennemi Intime) – Giovanni Fiore Coltellacci
  • The Second Wind (Le deuxième souffle) – Yves Angelo
    Yves Angelo
    Yves Angelo is a French cinematographer and film director. Angelo has won the César Award for Best Cinematography three times: in 1990 for Nocturne indien, in 1992 for Tous les matins du monde, and in 1994 for Germinal....
    
    
  • A Secret
    A Secret
    Un secret is a 2007 French film directed and written by Claude Miller. The screenplay was based on the novel by Philippe Grimbert.-Synopsis:...
    
    (Un secret) – Gérard de Battista
    Gérard de Battista
    Gérard de Battista is a cinematographer, had a long relationship with the Spanish actress Victoria Abril and they have two sons together, one in 1990 and another one in 1992 .-References:...
    
    

Best Costume Design

César Award for Best Costume Design

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

• La Vie en Rose
  La Vie en rose (film)
  La Vie En Rose is a 2007 French biographical film about the life of French chanteuse Édith Piaf co-written, and directed by Olivier Dahan. Marion Cotillard stars as Piaf. The title La Vie en Rose comes from Piaf's signature song...
  
  (La môme) – Marit Allen
  Marit Allen
  Marit Allen was an English fashion journalist and costume designer who specialized in costumes for films. She designed the costumes for several successful Hollywood films, including Mrs. Doubtfire, The Witches, Eyes Wide Shut, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Brokeback Mountain and La Vie en Rose...
  
  
  • Jacquou le Croquant
    Jacquou le Croquant
    Jacquou le Croquant is a 2007 French historical film, based on the novel by Eugène Le Roy. Set in the Dordogne during the Bourbon Restoration, it tells the story of a young peasant who leads a revolt against an evil nobleman. It was nominated for two César Awards in 2008.-Plot:1815. Jacquou, a...
    
    – Jean-Daniel Vuillermoz
  • Molière – Pierre-Jean Larroque
  • The Second Wind (Le deuxième souffle) – Corinne Jorry
    Corinne Jorry
    Corinne Jorry is a French costume designer. She was nominated four times for the César Award for Costume Design, which she won for her work in the film All the World's Mornings . She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Costume Design for her work in Madame Bovary .- External links :...
    
    
  • A Secret
    A Secret
    Un secret is a 2007 French film directed and written by Claude Miller. The screenplay was based on the novel by Philippe Grimbert.-Synopsis:...
    
    (Un secret) – Jacqueline Bouchard

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...
  
   – The Secret of the Grain
  The Secret of the Grain
  The Secret of the Grain is a 2007 Franco-Tunisian drama film directed by Abdel Kechiche. The film stars Habib Boufares as an ageing immigrant from the Maghreb whose ambition to establish a successful restaurant as an inheritance for his large and disparate family meets sceptical opposition from...
  
  (La graine et le mulet)
  • Olivier Dahan
    Olivier Dahan
    Olivier Dahan is a French film director and screenwriter. His third directed film, La Vie En Rose, was the first French cinema film ever to win two Academy Awards, including its first acting Oscar in the French language.-Biography:...
    
     – La Vie en Rose
    La Vie en rose (film)
    La Vie En Rose is a 2007 French biographical film about the life of French chanteuse Édith Piaf co-written, and directed by Olivier Dahan. Marion Cotillard stars as Piaf. The title La Vie en Rose comes from Piaf's signature song...
    
    (La môme)
  • Claude Miller
    Claude Miller
    Claude Miller is a French film director, producer and screenwriter.-Career:Claude Miller was born to a Jewish family. A student at Paris' IDHEC film school from 1962 through 1963, Miller had his first practical cinematic experience while he was in uniform, serving with the Service Cinéma de l'Armée...
    
     – A Secret
    A Secret
    Un secret is a 2007 French film directed and written by Claude Miller. The screenplay was based on the novel by Philippe Grimbert.-Synopsis:...
    
    (Un secret)
  • Julian Schnabel
    Julian Schnabel
    Julian Schnabel is an American artist and filmmaker. In the 1980s, Schnabel received international media attention for his "plate paintings"—large-scale paintings set on broken ceramic plates....
    
     – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (film)
    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a 2007 biographical drama film based on Jean-Dominique Bauby's memoir of the same name. The film depicts Bauby's life after suffering a massive stroke, on December 8, 1995, at the age of 42, which left him with a condition known as locked-in syndrome. The...
    
    (Le scaphandre et le papillon)
  • André Téchiné
    André Téchiné
    André Téchiné , is a French screenwriter and film director. He has had a long and distinguished career that places him among the best post-New Wave French film directors....
    
     – The Witnesses
    The Witnesses
    The Witnesses is a 2007 French drama film directed by André Téchiné, starring Michel Blanc, Sami Bouajila, Emmanuelle Béart and Johan Libéreau. The film is set in Paris in 1984, the lives of a closely knit group of friends is disrupted with the sudden outbreak of AIDS epidemic. They are witnesses...
    
    (Les témoins)

Best Film

César Award for Best Film

The winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Film .-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:-2010s:...

• The Secret of the Grain
  The Secret of the Grain
  The Secret of the Grain is a 2007 Franco-Tunisian drama film directed by Abdel Kechiche. The film stars Habib Boufares as an ageing immigrant from the Maghreb whose ambition to establish a successful restaurant as an inheritance for his large and disparate family meets sceptical opposition from...
  
  (La graine et le mulet) – 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...
  
  
  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (film)
    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a 2007 biographical drama film based on Jean-Dominique Bauby's memoir of the same name. The film depicts Bauby's life after suffering a massive stroke, on December 8, 1995, at the age of 42, which left him with a condition known as locked-in syndrome. The...
    
    (Le scaphandre et le papillon) – Julian Schnabel
    Julian Schnabel
    Julian Schnabel is an American artist and filmmaker. In the 1980s, Schnabel received international media attention for his "plate paintings"—large-scale paintings set on broken ceramic plates....
    
    
  • Persepolis
    Persepolis (film)
    Persepolis is a 2007 French animated film based on Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel of the same name. The film was written and directed by Satrapi with Vincent Paronnaud. The story follows a young girl as she comes of age against the backdrop of the Iranian Revolution. The story...
    
    – Vincent Paronnaud
    Vincent Paronnaud
    Pascal Stadler , a.k.a. Winshluss, is a French comics artist and filmmaker. He is best known for cowriting and codirecting with Marjane Satrapi the highly acclaimed animated film Persepolis , for which they received numerous awards including the Jury Prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival as well...
    
     and Marjane Satrapi
    Marjane Satrapi
    Marjane Satrapi is an Iranian-born French contemporary graphic novelist, illustrator, animated film director, and children's book author...
    
    
  • A Secret
    A Secret
    Un secret is a 2007 French film directed and written by Claude Miller. The screenplay was based on the novel by Philippe Grimbert.-Synopsis:...
    
    (Un secret) – Claude Miller
    Claude Miller
    Claude Miller is a French film director, producer and screenwriter.-Career:Claude Miller was born to a Jewish family. A student at Paris' IDHEC film school from 1962 through 1963, Miller had his first practical cinematic experience while he was in uniform, serving with the Service Cinéma de l'Armée...
    
    
  • La Vie en Rose
    La Vie en rose (film)
    La Vie En Rose is a 2007 French biographical film about the life of French chanteuse Édith Piaf co-written, and directed by Olivier Dahan. Marion Cotillard stars as Piaf. The title La Vie en Rose comes from Piaf's signature song...
    
    (La môme) – Olivier Dahan
    Olivier Dahan
    Olivier Dahan is a French film director and screenwriter. His third directed film, La Vie En Rose, was the first French cinema film ever to win two Academy Awards, including its first acting Oscar in the French language.-Biography:...
    
    

Best First Work

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...

• Persepolis
  Persepolis (film)
  Persepolis is a 2007 French animated film based on Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel of the same name. The film was written and directed by Satrapi with Vincent Paronnaud. The story follows a young girl as she comes of age against the backdrop of the Iranian Revolution. The story...
  
   – Vincent Paronnaud
  Vincent Paronnaud
  Pascal Stadler , a.k.a. Winshluss, is a French comics artist and filmmaker. He is best known for cowriting and codirecting with Marjane Satrapi the highly acclaimed animated film Persepolis , for which they received numerous awards including the Jury Prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival as well...
  
   and Marjane Satrapi
  Marjane Satrapi
  Marjane Satrapi is an Iranian-born French contemporary graphic novelist, illustrator, animated film director, and children's book author...
  
  
  • All Is Forgiven (Tout est pardonné) – Mia Hansen-Løve
    Mia Hansen-Løve
    Mia Hansen-Løve is a French film director and screenwriter. She has directed three films since 2004. Her film The Father of My Children, won the Special Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival....
    
    
  • Just About Love? (Et toi t'es sur qui?) – Lola Doillon
  • Those Who Remain (Ceux qui restent) – Anne le Ny
  • Water Lilies (Naissance des pieuvres) – Céline Sciamma
    Céline Sciamma
    Céline Sciamma is a French screenwriter and film director.-Filmography:Director* 2007 : Water Lilies* 2009 : Pauline * 2011 : TomboyScreenwriter...
    
    

• The Lives of Others
  The Lives of Others
  The Lives of Others is a 2006 German drama film, marking the feature film debut of filmmaker Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. The film involves the monitoring of the cultural scene of East Berlin by agents of the Stasi, the GDR's secret police...
  
  (Das Leben der Anderen) • Germany
  Germany
  Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
  
  
  • 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
    4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
    4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is a 2007 Romanian film written and directed by Cristian Mungiu. It won the Palme d'Or and the FIPRESCI Award at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival....
    
    (4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile) – Cristian Mungiu • Romania
    Romania
    Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
    
    
  • Eastern Promises – David Cronenberg
    David Cronenberg
    David Paul Cronenberg, OC, FRSC is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the...
    
     • Canada
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
    
    
  • The Edge of Heaven
    The Edge of Heaven (film)
    The Edge of Heaven is a 2007 Turkish-German-Italian drama film written and directed by Fatih Akın. The film won the Prix du scénario at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival...
    
    (Auf der anderen Seite) – Fatih Akin
    Fatih Akin
    Fatih Akın is a German film director, screenwriter and producer of Turkish descent.- Personal life :Akın was born in 1973 in Hamburg to parents of Turkish ethnicity...
    
     • Germany
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
    
    
  • We Own the Night
    We Own the Night
    We Own the Night is a 2007 American crime drama film written and directed by James Gray and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes and Robert Duvall. It is the third film directed by Gray, and the second film to feature Phoenix and Wahlberg together, the first being The Yards...
    
    – James Gray
    James Gray (film director)
    James Gray is an American film director and screenwriter.-Life and career:Gray was born in New York City of Russian Jewish descent. His father was once an electronics contractor...
    
     • USA

• Love Songs
  Love Songs (film)
  Love Songs is a 2007 French musical film directed by Christophe Honoré, starring Louis Garrel, Ludivine Sagnier and Chiara Mastroianni. It was one of the 20 films selected for the main competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  (Les chansons d'amour) – Alex Beaupain
  • Persepolis
    Persepolis (film)
    Persepolis is a 2007 French animated film based on Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel of the same name. The film was written and directed by Satrapi with Vincent Paronnaud. The story follows a young girl as she comes of age against the backdrop of the Iranian Revolution. The story...
    
    – Olivier Bernet
  • Intimate Enemies
    L'Ennemi Intime
    L'Ennemi intime is a 2007 French war film, directed by Florent Emilio Siri, starring Benoît Magimel, Albert Dupontel and Mohamed Fellag. It was filmed in France and Morocco.-Plot:The film is set in 1959 during the Algerian War...
    
    (L'Ennemi Intime) – Alexandre Desplat
    Alexandre Desplat
    Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat is a French film composer. He has received four Academy Award nominations, five BAFTA nominations, five Golden Globe nominations, winning a Golden Globe for his work on The Painted Veil in 2006, and two Grammy nominations. In 2011, Desplat won his first British...
    
    
  • A Secret
    A Secret
    Un secret is a 2007 French film directed and written by Claude Miller. The screenplay was based on the novel by Philippe Grimbert.-Synopsis:...
    
    (Un secret) – Zbigniew Preisner
    Zbigniew Preisner
    Zbigniew Preisner is a Polish film score composer, best known for his work with film director Krzysztof Kieślowski.-Life:Zbigniew Preisner studied history and philosophy in Kraków. Never having received formal music lessons, he taught himself music by listening and transcribing parts from records....
    
    
  • Let's Dance
    Let's Dance (2007 film)
    Faut que ça danse! is a 2007 French-Swiss film directed by Noémie Lvovsky and written by Lvovsky and Florence Seyvos. The film received 3 César Award nominations.-Cast:*Jean-Pierre Marielle as Salomon Bellinsky...
    
    (Faut que ça danse!) – Archie Shepp
    Archie Shepp
    Archie Shepp is a prominent African-American jazz saxophonist. Shepp is best known for his passionately Afrocentric music of the late 1960s, which focused on highlighting the injustices faced by the African-Americans, as well as for his work with the New York Contemporary Five, Horace Parlan, and...
    
    

• La Vie en Rose
  La Vie en rose (film)
  La Vie En Rose is a 2007 French biographical film about the life of French chanteuse Édith Piaf co-written, and directed by Olivier Dahan. Marion Cotillard stars as Piaf. The title La Vie en Rose comes from Piaf's signature song...
  
  (La môme) – Olivier Raoux
  • Jacquou le croquant
    Jacquou le Croquant
    Jacquou le Croquant is a 2007 French historical film, based on the novel by Eugène Le Roy. Set in the Dordogne during the Bourbon Restoration, it tells the story of a young peasant who leads a revolt against an evil nobleman. It was nominated for two César Awards in 2008.-Plot:1815. Jacquou, a...
    
    – Christian Marti
  • Molière – Françoise Dupertuis
  • The Second Wind (Le deuxième souffle) – Thierry Flamand
  • A Secret
    A Secret
    Un secret is a 2007 French film directed and written by Claude Miller. The screenplay was based on the novel by Philippe Grimbert.-Synopsis:...
    
    (Un secret) – Jean-Pierre Kohut Svelko

• Le Mozart des Pickpockets
  Le Mozart des Pickpockets
  Le Mozart des pickpockets is a 2006 French short film. Written and directed by Philippe Pollet-Villard, it won the 2007 Academy Award for Live Action Short Film. It was the only French submission in the category...
  
  
  • La promenade
  • Premier voyage
  • Deweneti
  • Rachel
    Rachel
    Rachel , as described in the Hebrew Bible, is a prophet and the favorite wife of Jacob, one of the three Biblical Patriarchs, and mother of Joseph and Benjamin. She was the daughter of Laban and the younger sister of Leah, Jacob's first wife...
    
    

Best Writing – Adaptation

• Persepolis
  Persepolis (film)
  Persepolis is a 2007 French animated film based on Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel of the same name. The film was written and directed by Satrapi with Vincent Paronnaud. The story follows a young girl as she comes of age against the backdrop of the Iranian Revolution. The story...
  
  – Vincent Paronnaud
  Vincent Paronnaud
  Pascal Stadler , a.k.a. Winshluss, is a French comics artist and filmmaker. He is best known for cowriting and codirecting with Marjane Satrapi the highly acclaimed animated film Persepolis , for which they received numerous awards including the Jury Prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival as well...
  
   and Marjane Satrapi
  Marjane Satrapi
  Marjane Satrapi is an Iranian-born French contemporary graphic novelist, illustrator, animated film director, and children's book author...
  
  
  • Darling – Christine Carrière
  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (film)
    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a 2007 biographical drama film based on Jean-Dominique Bauby's memoir of the same name. The film depicts Bauby's life after suffering a massive stroke, on December 8, 1995, at the age of 42, which left him with a condition known as locked-in syndrome. The...
    
    (Le scaphandre et le papillon) – Ronald Harwood
    Ronald Harwood
    Sir Ronald Harwood CBE is an author, playwright and screenwriter. He is most noted for his plays for the British stage as well as the screenplays for The Dresser and The Pianist, for which he won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay...
    
    
  • Hunting and Gathering
    Hunting and Gathering (film)
    Hunting and Gathering is a 2007 French César Award-winning romantic film based on the writer Anna Gavalda's 2004 novel Ensemble, c'est tout. It was directed by Claude Berri, who also wrote the screenplay, and stars Audrey Tautou, Guillaume Canet, Laurent Stocker, Françoise Bertin and Alain...
    
    (Ensemble, c'est tout) – Claude Berri
    Claude Berri
    Claude Berri , born Claude Berel Langmann, was one of the great all-rounders of French cinema: an actor, writer, producer, director and distributor. "Out of my failure as an actor was born my desire to direct. Then my relative failure as a director forced me to become a producer. In order to get my...
    
    
  • A Secret
    A Secret
    Un secret is a 2007 French film directed and written by Claude Miller. The screenplay was based on the novel by Philippe Grimbert.-Synopsis:...
    
    (Un secret) – Nathalie Carter and Claude Miller
    Claude Miller
    Claude Miller is a French film director, producer and screenwriter.-Career:Claude Miller was born to a Jewish family. A student at Paris' IDHEC film school from 1962 through 1963, Miller had his first practical cinematic experience while he was in uniform, serving with the Service Cinéma de l'Armée...
    
    

Best Writing – Original

• The Secret of the Grain
  The Secret of the Grain
  The Secret of the Grain is a 2007 Franco-Tunisian drama film directed by Abdel Kechiche. The film stars Habib Boufares as an ageing immigrant from the Maghreb whose ambition to establish a successful restaurant as an inheritance for his large and disparate family meets sceptical opposition from...
  
  (La graine et le mulet) – 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...
  
  
  • 2 Days in Paris
    2 Days in Paris
    2 Days in Paris is a 2007 French-German romantic drama film written, produced, and directed by Julie Delpy, who also edited the film and composed the soundtrack.-Plot:...
    
    – Julie Delpy
    Julie Delpy
    Julie Delpy is a French-American actress, director, screenwriter, and singer-songwriter. She studied filmmaking at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and has directed, written, and acted in more than 30 films, including Europa Europa , The Voyager , Three Colors: White , Before Sunrise...
    
    
  • Molière – Laurent Tirard
    Laurent Tirard
    Laurent Tirard is a French film director and screenwriter.-Background:Laurent Tirard grew up admiring American films, such as those by Steven Spielberg. He studied film making at New York University, worked as a script reader for Warner Bros...
    
     and Grégoire Vigneron
  • Those Who Remain (Ceux qui restent) – Anne le Ny
  • La Vie en Rose
    La Vie en rose (film)
    La Vie En Rose is a 2007 French biographical film about the life of French chanteuse Édith Piaf co-written, and directed by Olivier Dahan. Marion Cotillard stars as Piaf. The title La Vie en Rose comes from Piaf's signature song...
    
    (La môme) – Olivier Dahan
    Olivier Dahan
    Olivier Dahan is a French film director and screenwriter. His third directed film, La Vie En Rose, was the first French cinema film ever to win two Academy Awards, including its first acting Oscar in the French language.-Biography:...
    
    

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...

• Laurent Stocker
  Laurent Stocker
  Laurent Stocker, born 27 May 1973 in Saint-Dizier , is a French theatre and cinema actor, a sociétaire of the Comédie-Française.- Biography :...
  
   – Hunting and Gathering
  Hunting and Gathering (film)
  Hunting and Gathering is a 2007 French César Award-winning romantic film based on the writer Anna Gavalda's 2004 novel Ensemble, c'est tout. It was directed by Claude Berri, who also wrote the screenplay, and stars Audrey Tautou, Guillaume Canet, Laurent Stocker, Françoise Bertin and Alain...
  
  (Ensemble, c'est tout)
  • Johan Libéreau
    Johan Libéreau
    Johan Libéreau is French actor. He was an apprentice pastry chef and server, before being spotted by an agent.- Filmography :* 2003: "Tais-toi!" as Adolescent 2* 2004: "Julie Lescaut" episode "Sans pardon" as Michel...
    
     – The Witnesses
    The Witnesses
    The Witnesses is a 2007 French drama film directed by André Téchiné, starring Michel Blanc, Sami Bouajila, Emmanuelle Béart and Johan Libéreau. The film is set in Paris in 1984, the lives of a closely knit group of friends is disrupted with the sudden outbreak of AIDS epidemic. They are witnesses...
    
    (Les témoins)
  • Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet
    Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet
    Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet is a French actor.-Theatrical:Between 1998 and 2002, he was a member of the choir at the Opéra National de Paris.-Movie:...
    
     – Love Songs
    Love Songs (film)
    Love Songs is a 2007 French musical film directed by Christophe Honoré, starring Louis Garrel, Ludivine Sagnier and Chiara Mastroianni. It was one of the 20 films selected for the main competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...
    
    (Les chansons d'amour)
  • Nicolas Cazalé
    Nicolas Cazalé
    Nicolas Cazalé is a French model and actor who is most noted for his role in the 2004 French film, Le Grand Voyage for which he won a Jury Award for Best Actor at the 2005 Newport International Film Festival...
    
     – The Grocer's Son
    The Grocer's Son
    The Grocer's Son is a dramatic film set in Provence, France, directed by experienced French documentarian Éric Guirado...
    
    (Le fils de l'épicier)
  • Jocelyn Quivrin
    Jocelyn Quivrin
    Jocelyn Quivrin was a French actor. He had a supporting role in the critically acclaimed film Syriana.-Childhood and education:Jocelyn Quivrin was born in Dijon on 14 February 1979...
    
     – 99 francs
    99 Francs
    99 Francs is a 2007 film by the French director Jan Kounen based on a novel with the same title written by Frédéric Beigbeder.-Plot:The film is a satire on the modern advertisement business...
    
    

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....

• Hafsia Herzi
  Hafsia Herzi
  Hafsia Herzi is a French actress of Algerian and Tunisian descent. She is best known for her debut role in the award-winning Franco-Tunisian feature The Secret of the Grain for which she won the award for most promising actress at the César Awards 2008, and the Marcello Mastroianni award, for best...
  
   – The Secret of the Grain
  The Secret of the Grain
  The Secret of the Grain is a 2007 Franco-Tunisian drama film directed by Abdel Kechiche. The film stars Habib Boufares as an ageing immigrant from the Maghreb whose ambition to establish a successful restaurant as an inheritance for his large and disparate family meets sceptical opposition from...
  
  (La graine et le mulet)
  • Louise Blachère – Water Lilies (Naissance des pieuvres)
  • Audrey Dana
    Audrey Dana
    Audrey Dana is a French actress. She studied drama in Orléans and Paris. After two years in New York, she came back to France where she acted in various plays, especially in Nos amis, les humains by Bernard Werber. She was also cast in the movie adaptation Nos amis les Terriens, and Roman de Gare...
    
     – Roman de gare
    Roman de Gare
    Crossed Tracks is a 2007 French film directed by Claude Lelouch. The film follows a novelist, her ghost writer, and a wayward young woman as a chance encounter at a rest stop interrupts the delicate balance of their lives. French actor Dominique Pinon received wide praise for his rare turn as the...
    
    
  • Adèle Haenel
    Adèle Haenel
    Adèle Haenel is a French actress. She was nominated for a César Award in the Most Promising Actress category for her performance in the 2007 film, Water Lilies.-Filmography:-External links:...
    
     – Water Lilies (Naissance des pieuvres)
  • Clotilde Hesme
    Clotilde Hesme
    Clotilde Hesme is a French actress. She is the sister of Annelise Hesme, and Élodie Hesme, who are also actresses....
    
     – Love Songs
    Love Songs (film)
    Love Songs is a 2007 French musical film directed by Christophe Honoré, starring Louis Garrel, Ludivine Sagnier and Chiara Mastroianni. It was one of the 20 films selected for the main competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...
    
    (Les chansons d'amour)

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...

• Laurent Zeilig, Pascal Villard, Jean-Paul Hurier and Marc Doisne for La Vie en Rose
  La Vie en rose (film)
  La Vie En Rose is a 2007 French biographical film about the life of French chanteuse Édith Piaf co-written, and directed by Olivier Dahan. Marion Cotillard stars as Piaf. The title La Vie en Rose comes from Piaf's signature song...
  
  (La môme)
• Guillaume Le Braz, Valérie Deloof, Agnès Ravez and Thierry Delor for Love Songs
  Love Songs (film)
  Love Songs is a 2007 French musical film directed by Christophe Honoré, starring Louis Garrel, Ludivine Sagnier and Chiara Mastroianni. It was one of the 20 films selected for the main competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  (Les chansons d'amour)
• Jean-Paul Mugel, Francis Wargniez and Dominique Gaborieau for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (film)
  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a 2007 biographical drama film based on Jean-Dominique Bauby's memoir of the same name. The film depicts Bauby's life after suffering a massive stroke, on December 8, 1995, at the age of 42, which left him with a condition known as locked-in syndrome. The...
  
  (Le scaphandre et le papillon)
• Thierry Lebon, Eric Chevallier and Samy Bardet for Persepolis
  Persepolis (film)
  Persepolis is a 2007 French animated film based on Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel of the same name. The film was written and directed by Satrapi with Vincent Paronnaud. The story follows a young girl as she comes of age against the backdrop of the Iranian Revolution. The story...
  
  
• Antoine Deflandre, Germain Boulay and Eric Tisserand for Intimate Enemies
  L'Ennemi Intime
  L'Ennemi intime is a 2007 French war film, directed by Florent Emilio Siri, starring Benoît Magimel, Albert Dupontel and Mohamed Fellag. It was filmed in France and Morocco.-Plot:The film is set in 1959 during the Algerian War...
  
  (L'Ennemi Intime)

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:...

• Juliette Welfling
  Juliette Welfling
  Juliette Welfling is a French film editor. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing for her work in the 2007 movie The Diving Bell and the Butterfly...
  
   for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (film)
  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a 2007 biographical drama film based on Jean-Dominique Bauby's memoir of the same name. The film depicts Bauby's life after suffering a massive stroke, on December 8, 1995, at the age of 42, which left him with a condition known as locked-in syndrome. The...
  
  (Le scaphandre et le papillon)
• Yves Beloniak and Richard Marizy for La Vie en Rose
  La Vie en rose (film)
  La Vie En Rose is a 2007 French biographical film about the life of French chanteuse Édith Piaf co-written, and directed by Olivier Dahan. Marion Cotillard stars as Piaf. The title La Vie en Rose comes from Piaf's signature song...
  
  (La môme)
• Stéphane Roche for Persepolis
  Persepolis (film)
  Persepolis is a 2007 French animated film based on Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical graphic novel of the same name. The film was written and directed by Satrapi with Vincent Paronnaud. The story follows a young girl as she comes of age against the backdrop of the Iranian Revolution. The story...
  
  
• Véronique Lange for A Secret
  A Secret
  Un secret is a 2007 French film directed and written by Claude Miller. The screenplay was based on the novel by Philippe Grimbert.-Synopsis:...
  
  (Un secret)
• Camille Toubkis and Ghalya Lacroix for The Secret of the Grain
  The Secret of the Grain
  The Secret of the Grain is a 2007 Franco-Tunisian drama film directed by Abdel Kechiche. The film stars Habib Boufares as an ageing immigrant from the Maghreb whose ambition to establish a successful restaurant as an inheritance for his large and disparate family meets sceptical opposition from...
  
  (La graine et le mulet)

Best Documentary

• Terror's Advocate
  Terror's Advocate
  Terror's Advocate is a 2007 French documentary film about Jacques Vergès.-Critical reception:The film received generally favorable reviews from critics. As of January 5, 2008, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 85% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 40 reviews...
  
  
• Les Lip, l'imagination au pouvoir
• Le premier cri
• Les animaux amoureux
• Retour en Normandie

Honorary César

Honorary César

The César Award is France's national film award. Recipients are selected by the members of the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinema. The following are the recipients of the honorary César award since 1976.- See also :**...

• Roberto Benigni
  Roberto Benigni
  Roberto Remigio Benigni, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director of film, theatre and television.- Early years :...
  
  , Italian actor, screenwriter and director.
• Jeanne Moreau
  Jeanne Moreau
  Jeanne Moreau is a French actress, singer, screenwriter and director.She made her theatrical debut in 1947, and established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Comédie-Française...
  
  , French actress, screenwriter and director.