César Awards 2010
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The 35th Annual César Award
César Award
The César Award is the national film award of France, first given out in 1975. The nominations are selected by the members of the Académie des arts et techniques du cinéma....

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ceremony was held by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma to honor its selection of the best films of 2009 on February 27, 2010. 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...

 was chosen as the Hononary President of the ceremony. Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford is an American film actor and producer. He is famous for his performances as Han Solo in the original Star Wars trilogy and as the title character of the Indiana Jones film series. Ford is also known for his roles as Rick Deckard in Blade Runner, John Book in Witness and Jack Ryan in...

 was presented with an 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 :**...

 by Sigourney Weaver
Sigourney Weaver
Sigourney Weaver is an American actress. She is best known for her critically acclaimed role of Ellen Ripley in the four Alien films: Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection, for which she has received worldwide recognition .Other notable roles include Dana...

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Best Film

  • A Prophet
    A Prophet
    A Prophet is a 2009 French prison film directed by Jacques Audiard. Audiard claims that the film aims at "creating icons, images for people who don't have images in movies, like the Arabs in France," though he also had stated that the film "has nothing to do with his vision of society," and is a...

    Jacques Audiard
    Jacques Audiard
    Jacques Audiard is a French film director, the son of Michel Audiard, also a notable screenwriter and film director.He won twice both the César Award for Best Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Film not in the English Language, in 2005 for The Beat That My Heart Skipped and in 2010 for A Prophet...

    • A l’Origine
      In the Beginning (2009 film)
      In the Beginning is a 2009 French drama film directed by Xavier Giannoli. The film competed in the main competition at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.- Cast :* François Cluzet* Gérard Depardieu* Emmanuelle Devos* Brice Fournier - Louis* Roch Leibovici...

      Xavier Giannoli
      Xavier Giannoli
      Xavier Giannoli is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed nine films since 1993.-Filmography:* Le condamné * Terre sainte * J'aime beaucoup ce que vous faites...

    • Le Concert
      Le Concert
      Le Concert is a 2009 French comedy film by Radu Mihăileanu starring Aleksei Guskov, Mélanie Laurent and Miou-Miou. It has won the Best Original Score and Best Sound awards at César Awards 2010.- Plot :...

      Radu Mihăileanu
      Radu Mihaileanu
      Radu Mihăileanu is a Jewish Romanian-born French film director and screenwriter. He left Romania in 1980 and graduated the IDHEC cinematographic institute in Paris. In addition to his work in the cinema he published a book of poems in 1987 titled Une vague en mal de mer...

    • Les Herbes follesAlain Resnais
      Alain Resnais
      Alain Resnais is a French film director whose career has extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct a number of short films which included Nuit et Brouillard , an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps.He began...

    • La journée de la jupeJean-Paul Lilienfeld
      Jean-Paul Lilienfeld
      Jean-Paul Lilienfeld is a French actor, writer and director. His film, La journée de la jupe, was nominated for three César Awards in 2009, including Best Film and Best Original Screenplay for Lilienfeld.-Director filmography:...

    • Rapt
      Rapt (2009 film)
      Rapt is a 2009 French dramatic film directed by Lucas Belvaux and starring Yvan Attal. It was nominated for 4 César Awards in 2010, including Best Film...

      Lucas Belvaux
      Lucas Belvaux
      Lucas Belvaux is a Belgian actor and film director. His directing credits include the Trilogie, consisting of three films with interlocking stories and characters, each of which was filmed in a different genre. The three films are Cavale, a thriller; Un couple épatant, a comedy; and Après la vie,...

    • Welcome
      Welcome (2009 film)
      Welcome is a 2009 French film directed by Philippe Lioret. It stars Vincent Lindon and features Firat Ayverdi and Derya Ayverdi in their inaugural roles. The film was released on 11 March 2009 in France...

      Philippe Lioret
      Philippe Lioret
      Philippe Lioret is a French film director.- Filmography :*1993: Tombés du ciel*1997: Tenue correcte exigée*2001: Mademoiselle*2004: L'Équipier*2006: Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas*2009: Welcome...


Best Director

  • Jacques Audiard
    Jacques Audiard
    Jacques Audiard is a French film director, the son of Michel Audiard, also a notable screenwriter and film director.He won twice both the César Award for Best Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Film not in the English Language, in 2005 for The Beat That My Heart Skipped and in 2010 for A Prophet...

    A Prophet
    A Prophet
    A Prophet is a 2009 French prison film directed by Jacques Audiard. Audiard claims that the film aims at "creating icons, images for people who don't have images in movies, like the Arabs in France," though he also had stated that the film "has nothing to do with his vision of society," and is a...

    • Lucas Belvaux
      Lucas Belvaux
      Lucas Belvaux is a Belgian actor and film director. His directing credits include the Trilogie, consisting of three films with interlocking stories and characters, each of which was filmed in a different genre. The three films are Cavale, a thriller; Un couple épatant, a comedy; and Après la vie,...

       – Rapt
      Rapt (2009 film)
      Rapt is a 2009 French dramatic film directed by Lucas Belvaux and starring Yvan Attal. It was nominated for 4 César Awards in 2010, including Best Film...

    • Xavier Giannoli
      Xavier Giannoli
      Xavier Giannoli is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed nine films since 1993.-Filmography:* Le condamné * Terre sainte * J'aime beaucoup ce que vous faites...

       – A l’Origine
      In the Beginning (2009 film)
      In the Beginning is a 2009 French drama film directed by Xavier Giannoli. The film competed in the main competition at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.- Cast :* François Cluzet* Gérard Depardieu* Emmanuelle Devos* Brice Fournier - Louis* Roch Leibovici...

    • Philippe Lioret
      Philippe Lioret
      Philippe Lioret is a French film director.- Filmography :*1993: Tombés du ciel*1997: Tenue correcte exigée*2001: Mademoiselle*2004: L'Équipier*2006: Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas*2009: Welcome...

       – Welcome
      Welcome (2009 film)
      Welcome is a 2009 French film directed by Philippe Lioret. It stars Vincent Lindon and features Firat Ayverdi and Derya Ayverdi in their inaugural roles. The film was released on 11 March 2009 in France...

    • Radu Mihăileanu
      Radu Mihaileanu
      Radu Mihăileanu is a Jewish Romanian-born French film director and screenwriter. He left Romania in 1980 and graduated the IDHEC cinematographic institute in Paris. In addition to his work in the cinema he published a book of poems in 1987 titled Une vague en mal de mer...

       – Le Concert
      Le Concert
      Le Concert is a 2009 French comedy film by Radu Mihăileanu starring Aleksei Guskov, Mélanie Laurent and Miou-Miou. It has won the Best Original Score and Best Sound awards at César Awards 2010.- Plot :...


Best Actor – Leading Role

  • Tahar Rahim
    Tahar Rahim
    Tahar Rahim is a French actor of Algerian origin. Born in Belfort, France, his family is originally from the region of Oran, Algeria....

    A Prophet
    A Prophet
    A Prophet is a 2009 French prison film directed by Jacques Audiard. Audiard claims that the film aims at "creating icons, images for people who don't have images in movies, like the Arabs in France," though he also had stated that the film "has nothing to do with his vision of society," and is a...

    • Yvan Attal
      Yvan Attal
      Yvan Attal is an Israeli-born French actor and director.-Background:Born in Tel-Aviv to French-Algerian Jewish parents, he grew up in the outskirts of Paris. His acting debut was in Éric Rochant's Un monde sans pitié , which earned him a César Award for Most Promising Actor...

       – Rapt
      Rapt (2009 film)
      Rapt is a 2009 French dramatic film directed by Lucas Belvaux and starring Yvan Attal. It was nominated for 4 César Awards in 2010, including Best Film...

    • François Cluzet
      François Cluzet
      François Cluzet is a French film and theatre actor, best known in the English-speaking world for starring in the 2006 French film "Tell No One", based on the novel of the same name by the American author Harlan Coben...

       – A l’Origine
      In the Beginning (2009 film)
      In the Beginning is a 2009 French drama film directed by Xavier Giannoli. The film competed in the main competition at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.- Cast :* François Cluzet* Gérard Depardieu* Emmanuelle Devos* Brice Fournier - Louis* Roch Leibovici...

    • François Cluzet
      François Cluzet
      François Cluzet is a French film and theatre actor, best known in the English-speaking world for starring in the 2006 French film "Tell No One", based on the novel of the same name by the American author Harlan Coben...

       – Le Dernier pour la Route
    • 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:...

       – Welcome
      Welcome (2009 film)
      Welcome is a 2009 French film directed by Philippe Lioret. It stars Vincent Lindon and features Firat Ayverdi and Derya Ayverdi in their inaugural roles. The film was released on 11 March 2009 in France...


Best Actress – Leading Role

  • Isabelle Adjani
    Isabelle Adjani
    Isabelle Yasmine Adjani is a French film actress and singer. Adjani has appeared in 30 films since 1970. She holds the record for most César Awards for Best Actress with five, for Possession , One Deadly Summer , Camille Claudel , Queen Margot and Skirt Day...

    Skirt Day
    • Dominique Blanc
      Dominique Blanc
      Dominique Blanc is a French actress.She trained at the French Drama school, Cours Florent. In 1980 at the suggestion of Pierre Romans , in whose class she was, Patrice Chéreau went to see her and engaged her for a performance of Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt...

       – L'Autre
    • Sandrine Kiberlain
      Sandrine Kiberlain
      Sandrine Kiberlain is a French actress and singer. She has often worked with the director Laetitia Masson, and has also worked with Benoît Jacquot.Kiberlain received the Prix Romy Schneider in 1995...

       – Mademoiselle Chambon
    • Kristin Scott Thomas
      Kristin Scott Thomas
      Kristin A. Scott Thomas, OBE is an English actress who has also acquired French nationality. She gained international recognition in the 1990s for her roles in Bitter Moon, Four Weddings and a Funeral and The English Patient....

       – Partir
      Leaving (film)
      - Plot summary :Suzanne is a well to do married woman and mother in the south of France. Her idle bourgeois lifestyle gets her down and she decides to go back to work as a physiotherapist. Her husband agrees to fix up a consulting room for her in their backyard. When Suzanne and the man hired to...

    • 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...

       – Coco avant Chanel

Best Actor – Supporting Role

  • Niels Arestrup
    Niels Arestrup
    Niels Arestrup is a French actor.Born in Paris into a family of modest means, his father was Danish and his mother was French...

    A Prophet
    A Prophet
    A Prophet is a 2009 French prison film directed by Jacques Audiard. Audiard claims that the film aims at "creating icons, images for people who don't have images in movies, like the Arabs in France," though he also had stated that the film "has nothing to do with his vision of society," and is a...

    • Jean-Hugues Anglade
      Jean-Hugues Anglade
      Jean-Hugues Anglade is a French actor, film director and screenwriter, best known for his roles as Eric in Killing Zoe, Zorg in Betty Blue and Marco, the boyfriend of Nikita, in Nikita....

       – Persecution
    • Joeystarr – The Ball of the Actresses
      The Ball of the Actresses
      The Ball of the Actresses is a French film directed by Maïwenn. The title is a reference to a movie by Roman Polanski, The Fearless Vampire Killers .-Cast:* Joey Starr* Estelle Lefébure* Bertrand Blier* Jeanne Balibar...

    • 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...

       – Coco Before Chanel
    • Michel Vuillermoz – The End of the Road

Best Actress – Supporting Role

  • 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...

    A l’Origine
    In the Beginning (2009 film)
    In the Beginning is a 2009 French drama film directed by Xavier Giannoli. The film competed in the main competition at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.- Cast :* François Cluzet* Gérard Depardieu* Emmanuelle Devos* Brice Fournier - Louis* Roch Leibovici...

    • Aure Atika
      Aure Atika
      Aure Atika is a French actress, writer and director. Born in Portugal to a Moroccan mother and a French father, Aure Atika grew up in Paris. She was born to Ode Atika Bitton and Michel Fournier who are also film actors and directors...

       – Mademoiselle Cambon
    • Anne Consigny
      Anne Consigny
      Anne Consigny is a French film actress who is active since 1981. She received a César Awards nomination for Best Actress for her role in the film Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé...

       – Rapt
      Rapt (2009 film)
      Rapt is a 2009 French dramatic film directed by Lucas Belvaux and starring Yvan Attal. It was nominated for 4 César Awards in 2010, including Best Film...

    • 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...

       – Welcome
      Welcome (2009 film)
      Welcome is a 2009 French film directed by Philippe Lioret. It stars Vincent Lindon and features Firat Ayverdi and Derya Ayverdi in their inaugural roles. The film was released on 11 March 2009 in France...

    • Noemie Lvosvsky – Les Beaux Gosses
      The French Kissers
      The French Kissers is a 2009 French teen film. Its original French title is Les beaux gosses, which means "the handsome boys". It was written and directed by Riad Sattouf, marking his film debut...


Most Promising Actor

  • Tahar Rahim
    Tahar Rahim
    Tahar Rahim is a French actor of Algerian origin. Born in Belfort, France, his family is originally from the region of Oran, Algeria....

    A Prophet
    A Prophet
    A Prophet is a 2009 French prison film directed by Jacques Audiard. Audiard claims that the film aims at "creating icons, images for people who don't have images in movies, like the Arabs in France," though he also had stated that the film "has nothing to do with his vision of society," and is a...

    • Firat Ayverdi – Welcome
      Welcome (2009 film)
      Welcome is a 2009 French film directed by Philippe Lioret. It stars Vincent Lindon and features Firat Ayverdi and Derya Ayverdi in their inaugural roles. The film was released on 11 March 2009 in France...

    • Adel Bencherif
      Adel Bencherif
      Adel Bencherif is a French actor of Tunisian origin.He is most famous for his role in the 2009 film A Prophet.-Filmography:*2004: Safia et Sarah*2005: Ze film*2006: Paris, je t'aime*2006: Cages*2006: Djihad!...

       – A Prophet
      A Prophet
      A Prophet is a 2009 French prison film directed by Jacques Audiard. Audiard claims that the film aims at "creating icons, images for people who don't have images in movies, like the Arabs in France," though he also had stated that the film "has nothing to do with his vision of society," and is a...

    • Vincent Lacoste – The French Kissers
      The French Kissers
      The French Kissers is a 2009 French teen film. Its original French title is Les beaux gosses, which means "the handsome boys". It was written and directed by Riad Sattouf, marking his film debut...

    • Vincent Rottiers – Je suis hereux que ma mere soit vivante

Most Promising Actress

  • Mélanie Thierry
    Mélanie Thierry
    Mélanie Thierry, is a French actress best known to international audiences for her role as Aurora in the 2008 film Babylon A.D.-Biography:...

    Le dernier pour la route
    • Pauline Etienne – Qu’un seul tiene et les autres suivront
    • Florence Loiret-Caille – Je l’amais
    • Soko
      Soko (singer)
      SoKo is a French singer and actress.-Early life:Sokolinski was born in Bordeaux, France. She has used the nickname Soko as long as she can remember...

       – A l’Origine
      In the Beginning (2009 film)
      In the Beginning is a 2009 French drama film directed by Xavier Giannoli. The film competed in the main competition at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.- Cast :* François Cluzet* Gérard Depardieu* Emmanuelle Devos* Brice Fournier - Louis* Roch Leibovici...

    • Christa Theret
      Christa Theret
      Christa Theret is a French actress.- Biography :In 2003, Christa was spotted at the age of 11 in the playground of the Antoine Coysevox secondary school in the 18th arrondissement of Paris by a head of casting and started in cinema in the film Le Couperet by Costa-Gavras, where she played the...

       – LOL (Laughing Out Loud)®

Best First Work

  • Les Beaux Gosses
    The French Kissers
    The French Kissers is a 2009 French teen film. Its original French title is Les beaux gosses, which means "the handsome boys". It was written and directed by Riad Sattouf, marking his film debut...

    Riad Sattouf
    Riad Sattouf
    Riad Sattouf is a French writer and cartoonist comics and film director of Syrian origin...

    • Le Dernier pour la RoutePhilippe Godeau
      Philippe Godeau
      Philippe Godeau is a French film producer, director and screenwriter.Godeau has produced many films including Largo Winch, Baise-moi, Les Sœurs fâchées, Lightweight and The Man of My Life. He has also produced the Jaco Van Dormael films Mr. Nobody and The Eighth Day...

    • Espions – Nicolas Saada
    • La Premiere Etiole – Lucien Jean-Baptiste
    • Qu’un Seul Tienne et les Autres – Suivront Lea Fehner

Best Writing – Adaptation

  • Stephane Brize, Florence VignonMademoiselle Chambon
    • Anne Fontaine
      Anne Fontaine (filmmaker)
      Anne Fontaine is a filmmaker and screenwriter who used to be an actor. She lives and works in France.Born Fontaine Sibertin-Blanc, sister of actor Jean-Chrétien Sibertin-Blanc, she went as a young child to live in Lisbon, where her father, Antoine Sibertin-Blanc, is a music professor and cathedral...

      , Camille Fontaine – Coco avant Chanel
    • Philippe Godeau
      Philippe Godeau
      Philippe Godeau is a French film producer, director and screenwriter.Godeau has produced many films including Largo Winch, Baise-moi, Les Sœurs fâchées, Lightweight and The Man of My Life. He has also produced the Jaco Van Dormael films Mr. Nobody and The Eighth Day...

      , Agnes De Sacy – Le dernier pour la route
    • 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...

      , Gregoire Vigneron – Le petit Nicolas
      Le petit Nicolas
      Le Petit Nicolas is a series of French children's books. It was created by René Goscinny and illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempé and it was published for the first time on March 29, 1959...

    • Alex Reval, Laurent Herbiet – Les Herbes folles

Best Writing – Original

  • Jacques Audiard
    Jacques Audiard
    Jacques Audiard is a French film director, the son of Michel Audiard, also a notable screenwriter and film director.He won twice both the César Award for Best Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Film not in the English Language, in 2005 for The Beat That My Heart Skipped and in 2010 for A Prophet...

    , Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Raouf Dafri, Nicolas PeufaillitA Prophet
    A Prophet
    A Prophet is a 2009 French prison film directed by Jacques Audiard. Audiard claims that the film aims at "creating icons, images for people who don't have images in movies, like the Arabs in France," though he also had stated that the film "has nothing to do with his vision of society," and is a...

    • Xavier Giannoli
      Xavier Giannoli
      Xavier Giannoli is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed nine films since 1993.-Filmography:* Le condamné * Terre sainte * J'aime beaucoup ce que vous faites...

       – A l’Origine
      In the Beginning (2009 film)
      In the Beginning is a 2009 French drama film directed by Xavier Giannoli. The film competed in the main competition at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.- Cast :* François Cluzet* Gérard Depardieu* Emmanuelle Devos* Brice Fournier - Louis* Roch Leibovici...

    • Jean-Paul Lilienfeld
      Jean-Paul Lilienfeld
      Jean-Paul Lilienfeld is a French actor, writer and director. His film, La journée de la jupe, was nominated for three César Awards in 2009, including Best Film and Best Original Screenplay for Lilienfeld.-Director filmography:...

       – La journée de la jupe
    • Philippe Lioret
      Philippe Lioret
      Philippe Lioret is a French film director.- Filmography :*1993: Tombés du ciel*1997: Tenue correcte exigée*2001: Mademoiselle*2004: L'Équipier*2006: Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas*2009: Welcome...

      , Emmanuel Courcol, Oliver Adam – Welcome
      Welcome (2009 film)
      Welcome is a 2009 French film directed by Philippe Lioret. It stars Vincent Lindon and features Firat Ayverdi and Derya Ayverdi in their inaugural roles. The film was released on 11 March 2009 in France...

    • Radu Mihăileanu
      Radu Mihaileanu
      Radu Mihăileanu is a Jewish Romanian-born French film director and screenwriter. He left Romania in 1980 and graduated the IDHEC cinematographic institute in Paris. In addition to his work in the cinema he published a book of poems in 1987 titled Une vague en mal de mer...

      , Alain-Michel Blanc – Le Concert
      Le Concert
      Le Concert is a 2009 French comedy film by Radu Mihăileanu starring Aleksei Guskov, Mélanie Laurent and Miou-Miou. It has won the Best Original Score and Best Sound awards at César Awards 2010.- Plot :...


Best Cinematography

  • Stephane FontaineA Prophet
    A Prophet
    A Prophet is a 2009 French prison film directed by Jacques Audiard. Audiard claims that the film aims at "creating icons, images for people who don't have images in movies, like the Arabs in France," though he also had stated that the film "has nothing to do with his vision of society," and is a...

    • Christophe Beaucarne
      Christophe Beaucarne
      Christophe Beaucarne, SBC is a Belgian cinematographer. He is the son of the poet Julos Beaucarne.He is a member of AFC . He is most notable for his work in the 2009 film Mr. Nobody for which he won a Magritte Award and the Best Cinematography Award at the Stockholm Film Festival...

       – Coco avant Chanel
    • Laurent Dailland – Welcome
      Welcome (2009 film)
      Welcome is a 2009 French film directed by Philippe Lioret. It stars Vincent Lindon and features Firat Ayverdi and Derya Ayverdi in their inaugural roles. The film was released on 11 March 2009 in France...

    • Éric Gautier – Les Herbes folles
    • Glynn Speeckaert – A l’Origine
      In the Beginning (2009 film)
      In the Beginning is a 2009 French drama film directed by Xavier Giannoli. The film competed in the main competition at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.- Cast :* François Cluzet* Gérard Depardieu* Emmanuelle Devos* Brice Fournier - Louis* Roch Leibovici...


Best Editing

  • 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...

    A Prophet
    A Prophet
    A Prophet is a 2009 French prison film directed by Jacques Audiard. Audiard claims that the film aims at "creating icons, images for people who don't have images in movies, like the Arabs in France," though he also had stated that the film "has nothing to do with his vision of society," and is a...

    • Celia Lafitedupont – A l’Origine
      In the Beginning (2009 film)
      In the Beginning is a 2009 French drama film directed by Xavier Giannoli. The film competed in the main competition at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.- Cast :* François Cluzet* Gérard Depardieu* Emmanuelle Devos* Brice Fournier - Louis* Roch Leibovici...

    • Hervé de Luze
      Hervé de Luze
      Hervé de Luze is a French film editor with about fifty feature film credits.de Luze had a long collaboration with the director Claude Berri, for whom he edited eight films between 1981 and 1999. de Luze has been director Roman Polanski's principal editor since Pirates , including the much honored...

       – Les Herbes folles
    • Andrea Sedlackova – Welcome
      Welcome (2009 film)
      Welcome is a 2009 French film directed by Philippe Lioret. It stars Vincent Lindon and features Firat Ayverdi and Derya Ayverdi in their inaugural roles. The film was released on 11 March 2009 in France...

    • Ludo Troch – Le Concert
      Le Concert
      Le Concert is a 2009 French comedy film by Radu Mihăileanu starring Aleksei Guskov, Mélanie Laurent and Miou-Miou. It has won the Best Original Score and Best Sound awards at César Awards 2010.- Plot :...


Best Sound

  • Pierre Excoffier, Bruno Tarriere, Selim AzzaziLe Concert
    Le Concert
    Le Concert is a 2009 French comedy film by Radu Mihăileanu starring Aleksei Guskov, Mélanie Laurent and Miou-Miou. It has won the Best Original Score and Best Sound awards at César Awards 2010.- Plot :...

    • Pierre Mertens
      Pierre Mertens
      Pierre Mertens is a Belgian French-speaking writer and lawyer who specializes in international law, director of the Centre de sociologie de la littérature at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and literary critic with the newspaper Le Soir.Influenced by Franz Kafka, Mertens started to publish...

      , Laurent Quaglio, Eric Tisserand – Welcome
      Welcome (2009 film)
      Welcome is a 2009 French film directed by Philippe Lioret. It stars Vincent Lindon and features Firat Ayverdi and Derya Ayverdi in their inaugural roles. The film was released on 11 March 2009 in France...

    • Francois Musy, Gabriel Hafner – A l’Origine
      In the Beginning (2009 film)
      In the Beginning is a 2009 French drama film directed by Xavier Giannoli. The film competed in the main competition at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.- Cast :* François Cluzet* Gérard Depardieu* Emmanuelle Devos* Brice Fournier - Louis* Roch Leibovici...

    • Brigitte Taillandier, Francis Wargnier, Jean-Paul Hurier – A Prophet
      A Prophet
      A Prophet is a 2009 French prison film directed by Jacques Audiard. Audiard claims that the film aims at "creating icons, images for people who don't have images in movies, like the Arabs in France," though he also had stated that the film "has nothing to do with his vision of society," and is a...

    • 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:...

      , Gerard Hardy, 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:...

       – Micmacs à tire-larigot

Best Music Written for a Film

  • Armand Amar
    Armand Amar
    Armand Amar is an Israel-born French composer who grew up in Morocco. He won the 2010 César Award for Best Music Written for a Film for Le Concert .-Biography:...

    Le Concert
    Le Concert
    Le Concert is a 2009 French comedy film by Radu Mihăileanu starring Aleksei Guskov, Mélanie Laurent and Miou-Miou. It has won the Best Original Score and Best Sound awards at César Awards 2010.- Plot :...

    • Alex Beaupain – Non ma fille, tu n’iras pas danser
    • 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 Prophet
      A Prophet
      A Prophet is a 2009 French prison film directed by Jacques Audiard. Audiard claims that the film aims at "creating icons, images for people who don't have images in movies, like the Arabs in France," though he also had stated that the film "has nothing to do with his vision of society," and is a...

    • Cliff Martinez
      Cliff Martinez
      Cliff Martinez is an American film score composer and former drummer.-Biography:Cliff Martinez was born in the Bronx, New York. Raised in Columbus, Ohio, his first job composing was for the popular television show Pee Wee's Playhouse...

       – A l’Origine
      In the Beginning (2009 film)
      In the Beginning is a 2009 French drama film directed by Xavier Giannoli. The film competed in the main competition at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.- Cast :* François Cluzet* Gérard Depardieu* Emmanuelle Devos* Brice Fournier - Louis* Roch Leibovici...

    • 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...

       – Welcome
      Welcome (2009 film)
      Welcome is a 2009 French film directed by Philippe Lioret. It stars Vincent Lindon and features Firat Ayverdi and Derya Ayverdi in their inaugural roles. The film was released on 11 March 2009 in France...


Best Costume Design

  • Catherine LeterrierCoco avant Chanel
    • Chattoune & Fab – Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
      Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
      Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky is a 2009 French film directed by Jan Kounen. It was chosen as the Closing Film of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, and was shown on 24 May 2009....

    • Charlotte David – OSS 117 Rio ne répond plus...
    • Madeline Fontaine – Micmacs à tire-larigot
    • Virginie Montel – A Prophet
      A Prophet
      A Prophet is a 2009 French prison film directed by Jacques Audiard. Audiard claims that the film aims at "creating icons, images for people who don't have images in movies, like the Arabs in France," though he also had stated that the film "has nothing to do with his vision of society," and is a...


Best Production Design

  • Michel Barthélemy
    Michel Barthélemy
    Michel Barthélemy was born in France, became a Sulpician priest and came to New France in 1665. He was sent as a missionary to the Algonquins with François Dollier de Casson to learn their language and study their way of life....

    A Prophet
    A Prophet
    A Prophet is a 2009 French prison film directed by Jacques Audiard. Audiard claims that the film aims at "creating icons, images for people who don't have images in movies, like the Arabs in France," though he also had stated that the film "has nothing to do with his vision of society," and is a...

    • 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...

       – Micmacs à tire-larigot
    • Maamar Ech Cheikh – OSS 117 Rio ne répond plus...
    • Francois-Renaud Labarthe – A l’Origine
      In the Beginning (2009 film)
      In the Beginning is a 2009 French drama film directed by Xavier Giannoli. The film competed in the main competition at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.- Cast :* François Cluzet* Gérard Depardieu* Emmanuelle Devos* Brice Fournier - Louis* Roch Leibovici...

    • Olivier Radot – Coco avant Chanel

Best Documentary

  • L’Enfer d’Henri-Georges ClouzotSerge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea
    • La Danse
      La Danse
      La Danse is a painting created by artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau around 1856. The painting is currently held in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.- External links :*...

      Frederick Wiseman
      Frederick Wiseman
      Frederick Wiseman is an American documentary filmmaker. He came to documentary filmmaking after first being trained as a lawyer...

    • Himalaya, le chemin du ciel – Marianne Chaud
    • Home
      Home (2009 film)
      Home is a 2009 documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. The film is almost entirely composed of aerial shots of various places on Earth. It shows the diversity of life on Earth and how humanity is threatening the ecological balance of the planet...

      – Yann-Arthus Bertrand
    • Ne me liberez pas je m’en charge – Fabienne Godet

Best Short Film

  • C’est gratuit pour les fillesClaire Burger and Marie Amachoukeli
    • ¿Donde Esta Kim Basinger? – Edouard Deluc
    • La Raison De L’Autre – Foued Mansour
    • Seance Familiale – Cheng-Chui Kuo
    • Les Williams – Alban Mench

Best Foreign Film

  • Gran Torino
    Gran Torino
    Gran Torino is a 2008 American drama film directed by, produced by, and starring Clint Eastwood. The film marks Eastwood's return to a lead acting role after four years, his previous leading role having been in Million Dollar Baby, and Eastwood has stated that this is his final film as an actor...

    Clint Eastwood
    Clint Eastwood
    Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series Rawhide...

    (United States
    Cinema of the United States
    The cinema of the United States, also known as Hollywood, has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century. Its history is sometimes separated into four main periods: the silent film era, classical Hollywood cinema, New Hollywood, and the contemporary period...

    )
    • AvatarJames Cameron
      James Cameron
      James Francis Cameron is a Canadian-American film director, film producer, screenwriter, editor, environmentalist and inventor...

       (United States)
    • Milk
      Milk (film)
      Milk is a 2008 American biographical film on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors...

      Gus Van Sant
      Gus Van Sant
      Gus Green Van Sant, Jr. is an American director, screenwriter, painter, photographer, musician, and author. He is a two time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Director for his 1997 film Good Will Hunting and his 2008 film Milk, both of which were also nominated for Best Picture, and won the...

       (United States)
    • J'ai tué ma mère
      J'ai tué ma mère
      J'ai tué ma mère is a French Canadian film, released in 2009. Written and directed by Xavier Dolan, it is an exposé on the complexity of the mother and son bond. The film attracted international press' attention when it won three awards from the Director's Fortnight program at the 2009 Cannes Film...

      Xavier Dolan
      Xavier Dolan
      Xavier Dolan , sometimes credited as Xavier Dolan-Tadros, is a Québécois actor and filmmaker, the son of Geneviève Dolan, a teacher, and Manuel Tadros, a Quebecois actor and singer of Egyptian descent...

       (Canada)
    • Panique au Village
      A Town Called Panic (film)
      A Town Called Panic is a 2009 stop-motion animated film, co-produced by Belgium, Luxembourg and France. It was directed by Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar and is based on the TV series of the same name...

      – Stepahne Aubier and Vicent Patar (Belgium
      Cinema of Belgium
      Belgium is essentially a bi-lingual country divided into the Flemish north and the French-speaking south. There is also a small community of German speakers in the border region with Germany...

      )
    • The White Ribbon
      The White Ribbon
      The White Ribbon is a 2009 Austrian-German film, released in black and white, written and directed by Michael Haneke. The drama darkly depicts society and family in a northern German village just before World War I...

      Michael Haneke
      Michael Haneke
      Michael Haneke is a German born Austrian filmmaker and writer best known for his bleak and disturbing style. His films often document problems and failures in modern society. Haneke has worked in television‚ theatre and cinema. He is also known for raising social issues in his work...

       (Germany
      Cinema of Germany
      Cinema in Germany can be traced back to the late 19th century. German cinema has made major technical and artistic contributions to film.Unlike any other national cinemas, which developed in the context of relatively continuous and stable political systems, Germany witnesses major changes to its...

      )
    • Slumdog Millionaire
      Slumdog Millionaire
      Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British epic romantic drama adventure film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. It is an adaptation of the novel Q & A by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup...

      Danny Boyle
      Danny Boyle
      Daniel "Danny" Boyle is an English filmmaker and producer. He is best known for his work on films such as Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours, 28 Days Later, Sunshine and Trainspotting. For Slumdog Millionaire, Boyle won numerous awards in 2008, including the Academy Award for Best Director...

       (United Kingdom
      Cinema of the United Kingdom
      The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...

      )

Special Tributes

During the ceremony, actor 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...

 presented a tribute to filmmaker Éric Rohmer
Éric Rohmer
Éric Rohmer was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter and teacher. A figure in the post-war New Wave cinema, he was a former editor of Cahiers du cinéma....

, who had died the month before.

External links

  • Nominations and winners
  • César Awards 2010 at IMDb
    Internet Movie Database
    Internet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...

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