The Molière Award is the national theatre award of France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 decided by the Association professionnelle et artistique du théâtre (APAT) and given out every April or May since 1987, during a ceremony called La Nuit des Molières (The Night of the Molières). The award was created by Georges Cravenne, who was also the creator of the 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....

 for cinema. The name of the award is an homage to the seventeenth-century French dramatist Molière

Molière

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature...

.

1987

Jury presided by Jean-Louis Barrault

Jean-Louis Barrault

Jean-Louis Barrault was a French actor, director and mime artist, training that served him well when he portrayed the 19th-century mime Jean-Gaspard Deburau in Marcel Carné's 1945 film Les Enfants du Paradis .Jean-Louis Barrault studied with Charles Dullin in whose troupe he acted...

. Awards hosted by François Périer

François Périer

François Périer, , born François Pillu in Paris, was one of France's most distinguished actors.He made over 110 film and TV appearances between 1938 and 1996. He was also prominent in the theatre. Among his most notable parts was that of Hugo in the first production of Jean-Paul Sartre's Les Mains...

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• Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor. Winners and nominees.*1987 : Philippe Clévenot in Elvire Jouvet 40** Michel Bouquet in The Imaginary Invalid ** Jacques Dufilho in Staircase...
  
   - Philippe Clévenot, in Elvire Jouvet 40
• Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Pierre Arditi in The Rehearsal **Jean-Michel Dupuis in Conversations After a Burial...
  
   - Pierre Arditi
  Pierre Arditi
  Pierre Arditi was born on 1 December 1944 in Paris, child of the French paintor Georges Arditi , from Marseille, and a Belgian mother. He is an award-winning French film and stage actor...
  
  , in La Répétition ou l'Amour puni (The Rehearsal
  The Rehearsal
  The Rehearsal may refer to:* The Rehearsal , 1672, by George Villiers.* The Rehearsal , 1974, about the Greek junta.* The Rehearsal , 2008, by Eleanor Catton.* The Rehearsal, a short film....
  
  )
• Best Male Newcomer - Philippe Caubère
  Philippe Caubère
  Philippe Caubère is a noted French film actor, writer and producer.He is known for his memorable performances as Molière in the 1978 French movie and the TV series as well...
  
  , in Ariane ou l'Âge d'or
• Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Suzanne Flon in Léopold le bien aimé** Nicole Garcia in Two for the Seesaw ** Denise Grey in Harold and Maude...
  
   - Suzanne Flon
  Suzanne Flon
  Suzanne Flon was a French film actress and comedienne.-Early life:Her father was a railway worker and her mother crafted jewelry....
  
  , in Léopold le bien aimé
• Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Sabine Haudepin in Kean**Anne Alvaro in Tonight We Improvise **Catherine Arditi in Adriana Monti...
  
   - Sabine Haudepin
  Sabine Haudepin
  Sabine Haudepin is a French actress. She has appeared in over 50 films since 1962. She was born in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.-Selected filmography:* Jules and Jim * The Soft Skin * Sweet Movie...
  
  , in Kean
• Best Female Newcomer - Ute Lemper
  Ute Lemper
  Ute Lemper is a German chanteuse and actress renowned for her interpretation of the work of Kurt Weill.- Biography :Born in Münster, Germany, Ute Lemper was raised in a Roman Catholic family. She joined the punk music group known as the Panama Drive Band at the age of 16...
  
  , in Cabaret
  Cabaret (musical)
  Cabaret is a musical based on a book written by Christopher Isherwood, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb. The 1966 Broadway production became a hit and spawned a 1972 film as well as numerous subsequent productions....
  
  
• Best Show in an Independent theatre - Ariane ou l'Âge d'or, at the Théâtre des Arts
  Théâtre Hébertot
  Théâtre Hébertot is a theatre at 78, boulevard des Batignolles, in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, France. The theatre, completed in 1838 and opening as the Théâtre des Batignolles, was later renamed Théâtre des Arts in 1907...
  
  /Théâtre Tristan Bernard
• Best Show in a National theatre - La Folle Journée ou le Mariage de Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro
  The Marriage of Figaro
  Le nozze di Figaro, ossia la folle giornata , K. 492, is an opera buffa composed in 1786 in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro .Although the play by...
  
  ), at the Théâtre national de Chaillot
  Théâtre national de Chaillot
  The Théâtre national de Chaillot is a theatre located in the Palais de Chaillot at 1, place du Trocadero, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. Close by the Eiffel Tower and the Trocadéro Gardens—the Théâtre de Chaillot is among the largest concert halls in Paris. It has long been synonymous with...
  
  
• Best Musical - Cabaret
  Cabaret
  Cabaret is a form, or place, of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue: a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting at tables watching the performance, as introduced by a master of ceremonies or...
  
  , at the Théâtre du 8ème (Lyon)
• Best Adaptation of a Foreign Play - Jean-Loup Dabadie
  Jean-Loup Dabadie
  Jean-Loup Dabadie is a French journalist, writer, lyricist, award-winning screenwriter and member of the Académie Française.-Selected filmography:* Anna * Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me -Awards:...
  
  , for Deux sur la balançoire (Two for the Seesaw
  Two for the Seesaw
  Two for the Seesaw is a 1962 romance-drama film directed by Robert Wise and starring Robert Mitchum and Shirley MacLaine. It was adapted from the Broadway play written by William Gibson.-Plot:...
  
  )
• Best Playwright - Yasmina Reza
  Yasmina Reza
  Yasmina Reza is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter. Her parents were both of Jewish origin, her father Iranian, her mother Hungarian.-Career:...
  
  , for Conversations après un enterrement (Conversations After a Burial)
• Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Jean-Pierre Vincent for The Marriage of Figaro **Robert Hossein, for Kean...
  
   - Jean-Pierre Vincent, for La Folle Journée ou le Mariage de Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro
  The Marriage of Figaro
  Le nozze di Figaro, ossia la folle giornata , K. 492, is an opera buffa composed in 1786 in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro .Although the play by...
  
  )
• Best Costumes - Yannis Kokkos, for Madame de Sade
  Madame de Sade
  Madame de Sade is a 1965 play written by Yukio Mishima. It was first published in English, translated by Donald Keene by Grove Press and is currently out of print....
  
  
• Best Stage Design/Set - Yannis Kokkos, for L'Échange

1988

Jury presided by. Awards hosted by.

• Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor. Winners and nominees.*1987 : Philippe Clévenot in Elvire Jouvet 40** Michel Bouquet in The Imaginary Invalid ** Jacques Dufilho in Staircase...
  
   - Jacques Dufilho
  Jacques Dufilho
  Jacques Dufilho was a French actor.He was born at Bègles and he died at Ponsampère .He was also famous for his collection of Bugatti cars.-Filmography:More than 150 movie, including:...
  
   in Je ne suis pas Rappaport
• Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Pierre Arditi in The Rehearsal **Jean-Michel Dupuis in Conversations After a Burial...
  
   - Pierre Vaneck
  Pierre Vaneck
  -Biography:Son of a Belgian officer, Pierre Vaneck passed his youth to Antwerp before continuing at 17 years, of the studies of medicine in Paris. Then it followed studies of dramatic art with the courses Rene Simon and the Theater Academy, the class of Henri Rollan. It earned its living while...
  
   in Le Secret (The Secret)
• Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Suzanne Flon in Léopold le bien aimé** Nicole Garcia in Two for the Seesaw ** Denise Grey in Harold and Maude...
  
   - 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...
  
   in Le Récit de la servante Zerline (Zerline's Tale)
• Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Sabine Haudepin in Kean**Anne Alvaro in Tonight We Improvise **Catherine Arditi in Adriana Monti...
  
   - Catherine Salviat in Dialogue des carmélites (Dialogues of the Carmelites
  Dialogues of the Carmelites
  Dialogues of the Carmelites , is an opera in three acts by Francis Poulenc. In 1953, M. Valcarenghi approached Poulenc to commission a ballet for La Scala in Milan; when Poulenc found the proposed subject uninspiring, Valcarenghi suggested instead a screenplay by Georges Bernanos, based on the...
  
  )
• Best Newcomer - Thierry Fortineau in Journal d'un curé de campagne (Diary of a Country Priest
  Diary of a Country Priest
  Diary of a Country Priest is a 1951 French film directed by Robert Bresson, and starring Claude Laydu. It was closely based on the novel of the same name by Georges Bernanos. Published in 1937, the novel received the Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française...
  
  )
• Best Show in an Independent theatre - Ce que voit Fox (Fall) at the Théâtre La Bruyère
• Best Show in a National theatre - Le Soulier de satin (The Satin Slipper
  The Satin Slipper
  The Satin Slipper is a long play by the French dramatist and poet Paul Claudel. It was written in 1929, but first performed on stage in 1943. Today it is rarely staged because of its extreme length and its challenging production requirements...
  
  ) at the Théâtre national de Chaillot
  Théâtre national de Chaillot
  The Théâtre national de Chaillot is a theatre located in the Palais de Chaillot at 1, place du Trocadero, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. Close by the Eiffel Tower and the Trocadéro Gardens—the Théâtre de Chaillot is among the largest concert halls in Paris. It has long been synonymous with...
  
  
• Best Musical - Les Petits Pas at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
• Best Adaptation of a Foreign Play - Jean-Claude Grumberg
  Jean-Claude Grumberg
  Jean-Claude Grumberg is a French writer of children's books and a playwright.- Early life :Before becoming a playwright, Jean-Claude Grumberg held several jobs including working as a tailor, he takes to the middle part of his play L'Atelier. He discovered drama being an actor in the company...
  
   for Mort d'un commis voyageur (Death of a Salesman
  Death of a Salesman
  Death of a Salesman is a 1949 play written by American playwright Arthur Miller. It was the recipient of the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play. Premiered at the Morosco Theatre in February 1949, the original production ran for a total of 742 performances.-Plot :Willy Loman...
  
  )
• Best Playwright - Loleh Bellon for L'Éloignement
• Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Jean-Pierre Vincent for The Marriage of Figaro **Robert Hossein, for Kean...
  
   - Laurent Terzieff
  Laurent Terzieff
  Laurent Terzieff was a French actor.- Biography :Laurent Terzieff was the son of a plastician and of Jean Terzieff, a Russian sculptor who emigrated to France during the First World War. The original surname of his family was Čemerzin.The spectacle of the bombardments had a dramatic effect on...
  
   for Ce que voit Fox (Fall)
• Best Costumes - Jacques Schmidt for Georges Dandin
• Best Stage Design/Set - Ezio Frigerio for George Dandin

1989

Jury presided by. Awards hosted by.

• Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor. Winners and nominees.*1987 : Philippe Clévenot in Elvire Jouvet 40** Michel Bouquet in The Imaginary Invalid ** Jacques Dufilho in Staircase...
  
   - Gérard Desarthe in Hamlet
  Hamlet
  The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...
  
  
• Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Pierre Arditi in The Rehearsal **Jean-Michel Dupuis in Conversations After a Burial...
  
   - Etienne Chicot in Une absence
• Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Suzanne Flon in Léopold le bien aimé** Nicole Garcia in Two for the Seesaw ** Denise Grey in Harold and Maude...
  
   - Maria Casarès
  María Casares
  María Casares was a Spanish actress and one of the most distinguished stars of the French stage. She was usually credited in France as Maria Casarès.-Early life:...
  
   in Hécube (Hecuba
  Hecuba (play)
  Hecuba is a tragedy by Euripides written c. 424 BC. It takes place after the Trojan War, but before the Greeks have departed Troy . The central figure is Hecuba, wife of King Priam, formerly Queen of the now-fallen city...
  
  )
• Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Sabine Haudepin in Kean**Anne Alvaro in Tonight We Improvise **Catherine Arditi in Adriana Monti...
  
   - Christine Murillo in La Mouette (The Seagull
  The Seagull
  The Seagull is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major plays by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. The Seagull was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896...
  
  )
• Best Newcomer - Elisabeth Maccoco in Callas (Master Class
  Master Class
  Master Class is a play by Terrence McNally, with incidental music by Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, and Vincenzo Bellini.The play originally was staged by the Philadelphia Theatre Company and the Mark Taper Forum. After twelve previews, the Broadway production, directed by Leonard Foglia, opened...
  
  )
• Best Show in an Independent theatre - L'Avare (The Miser
  The Miser
  L'Avare is a 1668 five-act satirical comedy by French playwright Molière. Its title is usually translated as The Miser when the play is performed in English....
  
  ) at the Théâtre du Marais
  Théâtre du Marais
  The Théâtre du Marais has been the name of several theatres and theatrical troupes in Paris, France. The original and most famous theatre of the name operated in the 17th century. The name was briefly revived for a revolutionary theatre in 1791, and revived again in 1976...
  
  
• Best Show in a National theatre - Le Foyer at the Théâtre de la Plaine
• Best Musical - Cats
  Cats (musical)
  Cats is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot...
  
   at the Théâtre de Paris
  Théâtre de Paris
  The Théâtre de Paris is a theatre located at 15, rue Blanche in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. It includes a second smaller venue, called the Petit Théâtre de Paris.-History:...
  
  
• Best Adaptation of a Foreign Play - Dominique Deschamps for Je ne suis pas Rappaport
• Best Playwright - François Billetdoux
  François Billetdoux
  François Billetdoux was a French dramatic author and novelist. His works describe the world with a fierce humor of a somewhat burlesque style, which sometimes turns into black humor....
  
   for Réveille-toi Philadelphie !
• Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Jean-Pierre Vincent for The Marriage of Figaro **Robert Hossein, for Kean...
  
   - Patrice Chéreau
  Patrice Chéreau
  Patrice Chéreau is a French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor, and producer.-Biography:Patrice Chéreau was born in Lézigné, Maine-et-Loire, and went to school in Paris. At a young age he became well-known to Parisian critics as director, actor, and stage manager of his high-school theatre...
  
   for Hamlet
  Hamlet
  The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...
  
  
• Best Costumes - Jacques Schmidt for Hamlet
  Hamlet
  The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...
  
  
• Best Stage Design/Set - Richard Peduzzi
  Richard Peduzzi
  Richard Peduzzi is a French scenographer. He was the director of the French Academy in Rome from September 2002 to August 2008....
  
   for Hamlet
  Hamlet
  The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...
  
  

1990

Jury presided by. Awards hosted by.

• Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor. Winners and nominees.*1987 : Philippe Clévenot in Elvire Jouvet 40** Michel Bouquet in The Imaginary Invalid ** Jacques Dufilho in Staircase...
  
   - Pierre Dux
  Pierre Dux
  Pierre Dux was a French actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1932 and 1990.-Selected filmography:* The Reader * Section spéciale * Z * Is Paris Burning?...
  
   in Quelque part dans cette vie
• Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Pierre Arditi in The Rehearsal **Jean-Michel Dupuis in Conversations After a Burial...
  
   - Michel Robin
  Michel Robin
  Michel Robin is a French film actor and comedian. He has appeared in 120 films since 1966.-Selected filmography:* The Invitation * Les Guichets du Louvre * L'important c'est d'aimer...
  
   in La Traversée de l'hiver (The Passage of Winter)
• Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Suzanne Flon in Léopold le bien aimé** Nicole Garcia in Two for the Seesaw ** Denise Grey in Harold and Maude...
  
   - Denise Gence in Avant la retraite
• Best Supporting Actress - Judith Magre in Greek
• Best Newcomer - Redjep Mitrovitsa in Lorenzaccio
  Lorenzaccio
  Lorenzaccio is a French play of the Romantic period written by Alfred de Musset in 1834, set in 16th-century Florence, and depicting Lorenzino de' Medici, who killed Florence's tyrant, Alessandro de' Medici, his cousin. Having engaged in debaucheries to gain the Duke's confidence, he loses the...
  
  
• Best Show in an Independent theatre - Les Palmes de Monsieur Schutz at the Théâtre des Mathurins
• Best Show in a National theatre - Greek at the Tnéâtre national de la Colline
• Best Musical - Tempo at the Théâtre Fontaine
• Best Adaptation of a Foreign Play - Michel Butel for Le Chemin solitaire
• Best Playwright - Jean-Noël Fenwick for Les Palmes de Monsieur Schutz
• Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Jean-Pierre Vincent for The Marriage of Figaro **Robert Hossein, for Kean...
  
   - Gérard Caillaud for Les Palmes de Monsieur Schutz
• Best Costumes - Patrice Cauchetier for La Mère coupable ou l'Autre Tartuffe
• Best Stage Design/Set - Jacques Voizot for Les Palmes de Monsieur Schutz
• Best Fringe Production - Yasmina Reza
  Yasmina Reza
  Yasmina Reza is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter. Her parents were both of Jewish origin, her father Iranian, her mother Hungarian.-Career:...
  
   for La Traversée de l'hiver (The Passage of Winter)

1991

Jury presided by. Awards hosted by.

• Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor. Winners and nominees.*1987 : Philippe Clévenot in Elvire Jouvet 40** Michel Bouquet in The Imaginary Invalid ** Jacques Dufilho in Staircase...
  
   - Guy Tréjan in Heldenplatz
• Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Pierre Arditi in The Rehearsal **Jean-Michel Dupuis in Conversations After a Burial...
  
   - Jean-Paul Roussillon
  Jean-Paul Roussillon
  Jean-Paul Roussillon was a French actor. He appeared in 87 films and television shows between 1954 and 2008. He starred in the film Playing 'In the Company of Men, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival...
  
   in Zone libre
• Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Suzanne Flon in Léopold le bien aimé** Nicole Garcia in Two for the Seesaw ** Denise Grey in Harold and Maude...
  
   - Dominique Valadié
  Dominique Valadié
  Dominique Valadié is a French actress. She studied acting at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique in Paris. Valadié has been a lecturer at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique since 1983....
  
   in La Dame de chez Maxim (The Girl from Maxim's)
• Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Sabine Haudepin in Kean**Anne Alvaro in Tonight We Improvise **Catherine Arditi in Adriana Monti...
  
   - Catherine Arditi in A croquer... ou l'ivre de cuisine
• Best Female Newcomer - Sophie Marceau
  Sophie Marceau
  Sophie Marceau is a French actress director, screenwriter, and author. She has appeared in 38 films. As a teenager, Marceau achieved popularity with her debut films La boum and La boum 2 , receiving a César Award for Most Promising Actress...
  
   in Eurydice
• Best Show in an Independent theatre - Le Souper at the Théâtre Montparnasse
  Théâtre Montparnasse
  The Théâtre Montparnasse is a theater at 31, rue de la Gaîté in the 14th arrondissement of Paris.-History:The present structure was built in 1886 on a site that had been dedicated to theatre since 1817...
  
  
• Best Show in a National theatre - La Tempête
  The Tempest
  The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place,...
  
   at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
• Best Musical - Christophe Colomb at the TLP Dejazet
• Best Adaptation of a Foreign Play - Jean-Claude Carrière
  Jean-Claude Carrière
  Jean-Claude Carrière is a screenwriter and actor. Alumnus of the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud, he was a frequent collaborator with Luis Buñuel...
  
   for La Tempête (The Tempest
  The Tempest
  The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place,...
  
  )
• Best Playwright - Jean-Claude Grumberg
  Jean-Claude Grumberg
  Jean-Claude Grumberg is a French writer of children's books and a playwright.- Early life :Before becoming a playwright, Jean-Claude Grumberg held several jobs including working as a tailor, he takes to the middle part of his play L'Atelier. He discovered drama being an actor in the company...
  
   for Zone libre
• Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Jean-Pierre Vincent for The Marriage of Figaro **Robert Hossein, for Kean...
  
   - Peter Brook
  Peter Brook
  Peter Stephen Paul Brook CH, CBE is an English theatre and film director and innovator, who has been based in France since the early 1970s.-Life:...
  
   for La Tempête (The Tempest
  The Tempest
  The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place,...
  
  )
• Best Costumes - Dominique Borg for La Cerisaie
  The Cherry Orchard
  The Cherry Orchard is Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's last play. It premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre 17 January 1904 in a production directed by Constantin Stanislavski. Chekhov intended this play as a comedy and it does contain some elements of farce; however, Stanislavski insisted on...
  
   (The Cherry Orchard
  The Cherry Orchard
  The Cherry Orchard is Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's last play. It premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre 17 January 1904 in a production directed by Constantin Stanislavski. Chekhov intended this play as a comedy and it does contain some elements of farce; however, Stanislavski insisted on...
  
  )
• Best Stage Design/Set - Louis Bercut for Heldenplatz

1992

Jury presided by. Awards hosted by.

• Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor. Winners and nominees.*1987 : Philippe Clévenot in Elvire Jouvet 40** Michel Bouquet in The Imaginary Invalid ** Jacques Dufilho in Staircase...
  
   - Henri Virlogeux in L'Antichambre
• Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Pierre Arditi in The Rehearsal **Jean-Michel Dupuis in Conversations After a Burial...
  
   - Robert Hirsch
  Robert Hirsch (actor)
  Robert Paul Hirsch is a French actor. He has been a sociétaire of the Comédie-Française since 1952. In 1990 he won César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role in Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre...
  
   in Le Misanthrope
  Le Misanthrope
  The Misanthrope is a 17th-century comedy of manners in verse written by Molière. It was first performed on 4 June 1666 at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Paris by the King's Players....
  
  
• Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Suzanne Flon in Léopold le bien aimé** Nicole Garcia in Two for the Seesaw ** Denise Grey in Harold and Maude...
  
   - Ludmila Mikaël in Célimène et le Cardinal
• Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Sabine Haudepin in Kean**Anne Alvaro in Tonight We Improvise **Catherine Arditi in Adriana Monti...
  
   - Danièle Lebrun in Le Misanthrope
  Le Misanthrope
  The Misanthrope is a 17th-century comedy of manners in verse written by Molière. It was first performed on 4 June 1666 at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, Paris by the King's Players....
  
  
• Best Newcomer - Stéphane Freiss
  Stéphane Freiss
  Stéphane Freiss is a French actor.-Selected filmography:* The King's Whore * Crime Spree * Monsieur N. * 5x2 * Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis -External links:...
  
   in C'était bien
• Best Show in an Independent theatre - Cuisine et dépendances at the Théâtre La Bruyère
• Best Show in a National theatre - Le Temps et la chambre at the Théâtre de l'Odéon
• Best Musical - Les Misérables
  Les Misérables (musical)
  Les Misérables , colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz , is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg, based on the novel of the same name by Victor Hugo....
  
   at the Théâtre Mogador
  Théâtre Mogador
  Théâtre Mogador founded in 1913 and designed by Bertie Crewe, is a Parisian music hall theatre located at 25, rue de Mogador in the 9th district. It seats 1,800 people on three tiers.In 1913 financier Sir Alfred Butt rented an area in Paris...
  
  
• Best Adaptation of a Foreign Play - Jean Poiret
  Jean Poiret
  Jean Poiret, born Jean Poiré, was a French actor, director, and screenwriter. He is primarily known as the author of the original play La Cage Aux Folles. Jean Poiret was born in Paris, France, where he died of a heart attack in 1992...
  
   for Sans rancune
• Best Playwright - 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...
  
   and 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...
  
   for Cuisine et dépendances
• Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Jean-Pierre Vincent for The Marriage of Figaro **Robert Hossein, for Kean...
  
   - Stéphan Meldegg for Cuisine et dépendances
• Best Costumes - Bernadette Villard for Célimène et le Cardinal
• Best Stage Design/Set - Nicolas Sire for Célimène et le Cardinal

1993

Jury presided by. Awards hosted by.

• Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor. Winners and nominees.*1987 : Philippe Clévenot in Elvire Jouvet 40** Michel Bouquet in The Imaginary Invalid ** Jacques Dufilho in Staircase...
  
   - Michel Aumont in Macbett
  Macbett
  Macbett is Eugène Ionesco's satire on Shakespeare's Macbeth.-Plot:Two generals, Macbett and Banco, put down a rebellion. In payment for their heroic service, Archduke Duncan promises to bestow on them land, titles and cash, but he reneges on the deal. Encouraged by the seductive Lady Duncan,...
  
  
• Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Pierre Arditi in The Rehearsal **Jean-Michel Dupuis in Conversations After a Burial...
  
   - Jean-Pierre Sentier in L'Eglise
• Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Suzanne Flon in Léopold le bien aimé** Nicole Garcia in Two for the Seesaw ** Denise Grey in Harold and Maude...
  
   - Edwige Feuillère
  Edwige Feuillère
  Edwige Feuillère was a distinguished French stage and film actress....
  
   in Edwige Feuillère en scène
• Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Sabine Haudepin in Kean**Anne Alvaro in Tonight We Improvise **Catherine Arditi in Adriana Monti...
  
   - Françoise Bertin in Temps contre temps
• Best Newcomer - Emmanuelle Laborit in Les Enfants du silence
• Best Show in an Independent theatre - Temps contre temps at the Théâtre La Bruyère
• Best Show in a National theatre - La Serva amorosa at the Comédie-Française
  Comédie-Française
  The Comédie-Française or Théâtre-Français is one of the few state theaters in France. It is the only state theater to have its own troupe of actors. It is located in the 1st arrondissement of Paris....
  
  
• Best Musical - Mortadella at the Théâtre Montparnasse
  Théâtre Montparnasse
  The Théâtre Montparnasse is a theater at 31, rue de la Gaîté in the 14th arrondissement of Paris.-History:The present structure was built in 1886 on a site that had been dedicated to theatre since 1817...
  
   and La Cigale
  La Cigale
  La Cigale is a theater at 120, boulevard de Rochechouart near Place Pigalle, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. The theatre is part of a complex that is connected to Le Trabendo and the Boule Noire. The hall can accommodate 1389 people or 954 people...
  
  
• Best Adaptation of a Foreign Play - Jean Dalric and Jacques Collard for Les Enfants du silence
• Best Playwright - René de Obaldia
  René de Obaldia
  René de Obaldia is a French playwright and poet. He was elected to the Académie française June 24, 1999.He grew up in Paris, studying at the Lycée Condorcet before being mobilised for the army in 1940. Taken prisoner, he was sent to Stalag VIII C...
  
   for Monsieur Klebs et Rozalie
• Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Jean-Pierre Vincent for The Marriage of Figaro **Robert Hossein, for Kean...
  
   - Laurent Terzieff
  Laurent Terzieff
  Laurent Terzieff was a French actor.- Biography :Laurent Terzieff was the son of a plastician and of Jean Terzieff, a Russian sculptor who emigrated to France during the First World War. The original surname of his family was Čemerzin.The spectacle of the bombardments had a dramatic effect on...
  
   for Temps contre temps (Another Time)
• Best Costumes - Nicole Galerne for Légende de la forêt viennoise
• Best Stage Design/Set - Nicky Rieri for Légende de la forêt viennoise

1994

Jury presided by. Awards hosted by.

• Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor. Winners and nominees.*1987 : Philippe Clévenot in Elvire Jouvet 40** Michel Bouquet in The Imaginary Invalid ** Jacques Dufilho in Staircase...
  
   - 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...
  
   in Le Retour (The Homecoming
  The Homecoming
  The Homecoming is a two-act play written in 1964 by Nobel laureate Harold Pinter and first published in 1965. The original Broadway production won the 1967 Tony Award for Best Play and its 40th-anniversary Broadway production at the Cort Theatre was nominated for a 2008 Tony Award for "Best Revival...
  
  )
• Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Pierre Arditi in The Rehearsal **Jean-Michel Dupuis in Conversations After a Burial...
  
   - Roland Blanche
  Roland Blanche
  -Selected filmography:- External links :...
  
   in La Résistible ascension d'Arturo Ui (The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
  The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
  The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a play by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, originally written in 1941...
  
  )
• Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Suzanne Flon in Léopold le bien aimé** Nicole Garcia in Two for the Seesaw ** Denise Grey in Harold and Maude...
  
   - Tsilla Chelton in Les Chaises (The Chairs)
• Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Sabine Haudepin in Kean**Anne Alvaro in Tonight We Improvise **Catherine Arditi in Adriana Monti...
  
   - Annick Alane
  Annick Alane
  Annick Alane is a French film, television, and theatre actress.-Filmography :*1956: Les Truands directed by Carlo Rim*1964: Les Pieds dans le plâtre directed by Jacques Fabbri and Pierre Lary...
  
   in Tailleur pour dames
• Best Newcomer - Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
  Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
  Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is a French dramatist, novelist and fiction writer. His plays have been staged in over fifty countries all over the world.- Life :...
  
   (Playwrighter) for Le Visiteur (The Visitor)
• Best Show in an Independent theatre - Le Visiteur (The Visitor) at the Théâtre de Paris
  Théâtre de Paris
  The Théâtre de Paris is a theatre located at 15, rue Blanche in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. It includes a second smaller venue, called the Petit Théâtre de Paris.-History:...
  
  
• Best Show in a National theatre - Comment va le monde, Môssieu ? Il tourne, Môssieu ! at the Théâtre national de la Colline
  Théâtre national de la Colline
  The Théâtre national de la Colline is a theatre at 15, rue Malte-Brun in the 20th arrondissement of Paris. It is one of the five national theatres dedicated to drama which are entirely supported by the French Ministry of Culture. The other four are the Odéon-Théâtre, the Comédie-Française, the...
  
  
• Best Musical - Le Quatuor at the Théâtre Dejazet
  Théâtre Déjazet
  The Théâtre Dejazet is a theatre on the boulevard du Temple in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris. It was originally founded in 1770 by Comte d'Artois who later was crowned Charles X, but it was then closed down and not reopened until 1851...
  
  
• Best Adaptation of a Foreign Play - Attica Guedj and Stéphan Meldegg for L'Ampoule magique (The Floating Light Bulb
  The Floating Light Bulb
  The Floating Light Bulb is a 1981 Broadway play by Woody Allen. Semi-autobiographical, it focuses on a lower middle class family living in Canarsie, Brooklyn in 1945.-Plot:...
  
  )
• Best Playwright - Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
  Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
  Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt is a French dramatist, novelist and fiction writer. His plays have been staged in over fifty countries all over the world.- Life :...
  
   for Le Libertin (The Libertine)
• Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Jean-Pierre Vincent for The Marriage of Figaro **Robert Hossein, for Kean...
  
   - Benno Besson
  Benno Besson
  Benno Besson was a Swiss actor and director. He had great success as director at Volksbühne Berlin, Deutsches Theater and Berliner Ensemble in East-Berlin, where he went by an invitation of Bertolt Brecht in 1949...
  
   for Quisaitout et Grobêta
• Best Costumes - Jean-Marc Stehlé for Quisaitout et Grobêta
• Best Stage Design/Set - Jean-Marc Stehlé for Quisaitout et Grobêta

1995

Jury presided by. Awards hosted by.

• Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor. Winners and nominees.*1987 : Philippe Clévenot in Elvire Jouvet 40** Michel Bouquet in The Imaginary Invalid ** Jacques Dufilho in Staircase...
  
   - Pierre Meyrand in Les Affaires sont les affaires (Business is business
  Business is business
  Business is business is a French comedy in three acts, by the novelist and playwright Octave Mirbeau, performed in April 1903 on the stage of Comédie-Française, in Paris, and worldwide acclaimed, especially in Russia, Germany and United States....
  
  )
• Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Pierre Arditi in The Rehearsal **Jean-Michel Dupuis in Conversations After a Burial...
  
   - Darry Cowl
  Darry Cowl
  Darry Cowl, born André Darricau, was a French actor and musician. He won a César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 2004 for his role as a concierge in Pas sur la bouche , which proved to be his last appearance.He was born in Vittel, and came to prominence when he was cast by Sacha...
  
   in On purge bébé
  On purge bébé
  On purge bébé is Jean Renoir's first sound film. It is a 1931 comedy about a supposedly unbreakable chamberpot and a constipated baby. It is noted for mocking the French bourgeoisie....
  
   (Baby's Laxative) and Feu la mère de Madame (Madame's Late Mother)
• Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Suzanne Flon in Léopold le bien aimé** Nicole Garcia in Two for the Seesaw ** Denise Grey in Harold and Maude...
  
   - Suzanne Flon
  Suzanne Flon
  Suzanne Flon was a French film actress and comedienne.-Early life:Her father was a railway worker and her mother crafted jewelry....
  
   in La Chambre d'amis
• Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Sabine Haudepin in Kean**Anne Alvaro in Tonight We Improvise **Catherine Arditi in Adriana Monti...
  
   - 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...
  
   in Un air de famille
  Un air de famille
  Un air de famille is a 1996 French film. It was directed by Cédric Klapisch, and written by him, Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri...
  
  
• Best Newcomer - Didier Bezace
  Didier Bezace
  Didier Bezace, born 10 February 1946 in Paris, is a French actor.-Biography:Theatre student at the International Dramatic University Centre in Nancy, Didier Bezace received lessons from Bernard Drot, Jean-Marie Patte, Gilles Sandier, Maria Casarès and Henri Gourbion.Co-founder with Jean-Louis...
  
   in La Femme changée en renard
• Best Show in an Independent theatre - "Art"
  'Art' (play)
  ‘Art’ is a French language play by Yasmina Reza that premiered on 28 October 1994 at Comédie des Champs-Élysées in Paris. The English language adaptation, translated by Christopher Hampton opened in London's West End on 15 October 1996, starring Albert Finney. It played on Broadway in New York...
  
   at the Comédie des Champs-Élysées
• Best Show in a National theatre - Les Affaires sont les affaires (Business is business
  Business is business
  Business is business is a French comedy in three acts, by the novelist and playwright Octave Mirbeau, performed in April 1903 on the stage of Comédie-Française, in Paris, and worldwide acclaimed, especially in Russia, Germany and United States....
  
  ) at La Limmousine
• Best Musical - Les Années Twist at the Folies Bergère
• Best Adaptation of a Foreign Play - Jean-Claude Grumberg
  Jean-Claude Grumberg
  Jean-Claude Grumberg is a French writer of children's books and a playwright.- Early life :Before becoming a playwright, Jean-Claude Grumberg held several jobs including working as a tailor, he takes to the middle part of his play L'Atelier. He discovered drama being an actor in the company...
  
   for Encore une histoire d'amour
• Best Playwright - Yasmina Reza
  Yasmina Reza
  Yasmina Reza is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter. Her parents were both of Jewish origin, her father Iranian, her mother Hungarian.-Career:...
  
   for "Art"
  'Art' (play)
  ‘Art’ is a French language play by Yasmina Reza that premiered on 28 October 1994 at Comédie des Champs-Élysées in Paris. The English language adaptation, translated by Christopher Hampton opened in London's West End on 15 October 1996, starring Albert Finney. It played on Broadway in New York...
  
  
• Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Jean-Pierre Vincent for The Marriage of Figaro **Robert Hossein, for Kean...
  
   - Alain Françon for Pièces de guerre (The War Plays)
• Best Costumes - Michel Dussarat for Chantecler
• Best Stage Design/Set - Claude Plet for Les Affaires sont les affaires (Business is business
  Business is business
  Business is business is a French comedy in three acts, by the novelist and playwright Octave Mirbeau, performed in April 1903 on the stage of Comédie-Française, in Paris, and worldwide acclaimed, especially in Russia, Germany and United States....
  
  )
• Best Author - Yasmina Reza
  Yasmina Reza
  Yasmina Reza is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter. Her parents were both of Jewish origin, her father Iranian, her mother Hungarian.-Career:...
  
   for "Art"
  'Art' (play)
  ‘Art’ is a French language play by Yasmina Reza that premiered on 28 October 1994 at Comédie des Champs-Élysées in Paris. The English language adaptation, translated by Christopher Hampton opened in London's West End on 15 October 1996, starring Albert Finney. It played on Broadway in New York...
  
  

1996

Jury presided by. Awards hosted by.

• Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor. Winners and nominees.*1987 : Philippe Clévenot in Elvire Jouvet 40** Michel Bouquet in The Imaginary Invalid ** Jacques Dufilho in Staircase...
  
   - Didier Sandre in Un mari idéal (An Ideal Husband
  An Ideal Husband
  An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour...
  
  )
• Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Pierre Arditi in The Rehearsal **Jean-Michel Dupuis in Conversations After a Burial...
  
   - Jean-Paul Roussillon
  Jean-Paul Roussillon
  Jean-Paul Roussillon was a French actor. He appeared in 87 films and television shows between 1954 and 2008. He starred in the film Playing 'In the Company of Men, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival...
  
   in Colombe (Mademoiselle Colombe)
• Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Suzanne Flon in Léopold le bien aimé** Nicole Garcia in Two for the Seesaw ** Denise Grey in Harold and Maude...
  
   - Christiane Cohendy in Décadence
• Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Sabine Haudepin in Kean**Anne Alvaro in Tonight We Improvise **Catherine Arditi in Adriana Monti...
  
   - Sonia Vollereaux in Lapin, lapin
• Best Newcomer - Nathalie Cerda in Piaf, je t'aime
• Best Show in an Independent theatre - Monsieur Schpill et Monsieur Tippeton by La Compagnie Eroc
• Best Show in a National theatre - Un mari idéal (An Ideal Husband
  An Ideal Husband
  An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour...
  
  ) at the Théâtre Antoine
• Best Musical - Chimère by Zingaro
• Best Adaptation of a Foreign Play - Jean-Michel Déprats for L'Importance d'être Constant (The Importance of Being Earnest
  The Importance of Being Earnest
  The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at St. James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae in order to escape burdensome social obligations...
  
  )
• Best Playwright - Gilles Segal for Monsieur Schpill et Monsieur Tippeton
• Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Jean-Pierre Vincent for The Marriage of Figaro **Robert Hossein, for Kean...
  
   - Patrice Chéreau
  Patrice Chéreau
  Patrice Chéreau is a French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor, and producer.-Biography:Patrice Chéreau was born in Lézigné, Maine-et-Loire, and went to school in Paris. At a young age he became well-known to Parisian critics as director, actor, and stage manager of his high-school theatre...
  
   for Dans la solitude des champs de coton
• Best Costumes - Christian Lacroix
  Christian Lacroix
  Christian Marie Marc Lacroix is a French fashion designer. The name may also refer to the company he founded.-Early life:Lacroix was born in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône in southern France. At a young age he began sketching historical costumes and fashions. Lacroix graduated from high school in 1969...
  
   for Phèdre
  Phèdre
  Phèdre is a dramatic tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by Jean Racine, first performed in 1677.-Composition and premiere:...
  
  
• Best Stage Design/Set - Jacques Noël
  Jacques Noël
  Jacques Noël was a French fencer. He won a gold medal in the team foil event at the 1952 Summer Olympics.-References:...
  
   for Noël chez les Cupiello

1997

Jury presided by. Awards hosted by.

• Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor. Winners and nominees.*1987 : Philippe Clévenot in Elvire Jouvet 40** Michel Bouquet in The Imaginary Invalid ** Jacques Dufilho in Staircase...
  
   - Pierre Cassignard in Les Jumeaux vénitiens (The Two Venetian Twins)
• Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Pierre Arditi in The Rehearsal **Jean-Michel Dupuis in Conversations After a Burial...
  
   - Robert Hirsch
  Robert Hirsch (actor)
  Robert Paul Hirsch is a French actor. He has been a sociétaire of the Comédie-Française since 1952. In 1990 he won César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role in Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre...
  
   in En attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot
  Waiting for Godot
  Waiting for Godot is an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for someone named Godot to arrive. Godot's absence, as well as numerous other aspects of the play, have led to many different interpretations since the play's...
  
  )
• Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Suzanne Flon in Léopold le bien aimé** Nicole Garcia in Two for the Seesaw ** Denise Grey in Harold and Maude...
  
   - Myriam Boyer in Qui a peur de Virginia Woolf? (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a play by Edward Albee that opened on Broadway at the Billy Rose Theater on October 13, 1962. The original cast featured Uta Hagen as Martha, Arthur Hill as George, Melinda Dillon as Honey and George Grizzard as Nick. It was directed by Alan Schneider...
  
  )
• Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Sabine Haudepin in Kean**Anne Alvaro in Tonight We Improvise **Catherine Arditi in Adriana Monti...
  
   - Dominique Blanchar in Tout comme il faut
• Best Newcomer - 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...
  
   in Le Roman de Lulu
• Best Show : New Play - Kinkali at the Théâtre national de la Colline
• Best Show : Classical Play - Les Jumeaux vénitiens (The Two Venetian Twins) at the Théâtre de la Criée
• Best Musical - Le Passe-muraille at the Théâtre Montansier
  Théâtre Montansier
  The Théâtre Montansier is a French theatre in rue des Réservoirs, Versailles, near the royal château. It was created by the actress and theatre director Mademoiselle Montansier, designed by Jean-François Heurtier, inspecteur général des bâtiments du roi and designer of the Salle Favart at the...
  
   and at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens
• Best Adaptation of a Foreign Play - Jean Piat
  Jean Piat
  Jean Piat is a French actor and writer.-Life:Piat was born in Lannoy, Nord. He enlisted in the Comédie-Française on 1 September 1947, and became a member on 1 January 1953. He left the Comédie-Française on 31 December 1972, and became an honorary member the following day...
  
   for L'Affrontement
• Best Playwright - Arnaud Bédouet for Kinkali
• Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Jean-Pierre Vincent for The Marriage of Figaro **Robert Hossein, for Kean...
  
   - Alain Sachs for Le Passe-muraille
• Best Costumes - Dominique Borg for Le Libertin (The Libertine)
• Best Stage Design/Set - Guy-Claude François for Le Passe-muraille (The Man Who Walked Through Walls)
• Best Comedy - Accalmies passagères (Communicating Doors
  Communicating Doors
  Communicating Doors is a play written in 1994 by Alan Ayckbourn. The setting is a hotel suite that moves through time from 1974 to 2014. The central character, Poopay, must save herself from the murderous Julian by preventing the murders of Reece's two wives.-External links:*...
  
  ) by Alan Ayckbourn
  Alan Ayckbourn
  Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE is a prolific English playwright. He has written and produced seventy-three full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of his plays have received their...
  
  

1998

Jury presided by Dario Fo

Dario Fo

Dario Fo is an Italian satirist, playwright, theater director, actor and composer. His dramatic work employs comedic methods of the ancient Italian commedia dell'arte, a theatrical style popular with the working classes. He currently owns and operates a theatre company with his wife, actress...

. Awards hosted by.

• Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor. Winners and nominees.*1987 : Philippe Clévenot in Elvire Jouvet 40** Michel Bouquet in The Imaginary Invalid ** Jacques Dufilho in Staircase...
  
   - Michel Bouquet
  Michel Bouquet
  Michel Bouquet is a French film actor. He has appeared in over 90 films since 1947. He was born in Paris, France.-Selected filmography:* La petite chambre * Le Promeneur du Champ de Mars...
  
   in Les Côtelettes
  Les Côtelettes
  Les Côtelettes is a 2003 French drama film directed by Bertrand Blier. It was entered into the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Philippe Noiret as Léonce Grison* Michel Bouquet as Potier* Farida Rahouadj as Nacifa* Catherine Hiegel as Death...
  
  
• Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Pierre Arditi in The Rehearsal **Jean-Michel Dupuis in Conversations After a Burial...
  
   - Maurice Barrier in Douze hommes en colère (Twelve Angry Men)
• Best Male Newcomer - Nicolas Vaude in Château en Suède (Château in Sweden) and Michel Vuillermoz in André le Magnifique
• Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Suzanne Flon in Léopold le bien aimé** Nicole Garcia in Two for the Seesaw ** Denise Grey in Harold and Maude...
  
   - 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...
  
   in Une maison de poupée (A Doll's House
  A Doll's House
  A Doll's House is a three-act play in prose by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It premièred at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month....
  
  )
• Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Sabine Haudepin in Kean**Anne Alvaro in Tonight We Improvise **Catherine Arditi in Adriana Monti...
  
   - Geneviève Casile in Bel-Ami (Bel Ami
  Bel Ami
  Bel Ami is French author Guy de Maupassant's second novel, published in 1885. An English translation titled Bel ami, or, The history of a scoundrel: a novel appeared in 1903....
  
  )
• Best Female Newcomer - Isabelle Candelier
  Isabelle Candelier
  -Selected filmography:* Andre the Magnificent * Lise and Andre * Mademoiselle * Le pacte du silence * Strange Gardens * A Good Year * Bancs publics -External links:...
  
   in André le Magnifique
• Best Show : new play - André le magnifique at the Théâtre Tristan-Bernard
• Best Show : classical play - Les Fourberies de Scapin
  Les Fourberies de Scapin
  Les Fourberies de Scapin is a three-act comedy by French playwright Molière. The title character Scapin is similar to the archetypical Scapino character. The play was first staged in 1671 in Paris....
  
   at the Comédie-Française
  Comédie-Française
  The Comédie-Française or Théâtre-Français is one of the few state theaters in France. It is the only state theater to have its own troupe of actors. It is located in the 1st arrondissement of Paris....
  
  
• Best Musical - Le Quatuor, il pleut des cordes at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal
  Théâtre du Palais-Royal
  The Théâtre du Palais-Royal is a 750 seat theatre at 38, rue Montpensier in Paris. In 1637 Cardinal Richelieu began work on a theatre on the east wing of the Palais-Royal building, to break the theatre monopoly of the Hôtel de Bourgogne, and it was opened in 1641...
  
  
• Best Adaptation of a Foreign Play - Attica Guedj and Stéphan Meldegg for Pop-corn (Popcorn
  Popcorn (play)
  Popcorn is a 1998 play by English author Ben Elton adapted from his novel of the same title....
  
  )
• Best Playwright - Isabelle Candelier
  Isabelle Candelier
  -Selected filmography:* Andre the Magnificent * Lise and Andre * Mademoiselle * Le pacte du silence * Strange Gardens * A Good Year * Bancs publics -External links:...
  
  , Loïc Houdre, Patrick Ligardes, Denis Podalydes
  Denis Podalydès
  Denis Podalydès is a French actor, director and scriptwriter of Greek descent. He is a Sociétaire of the Comédie-Française....
  
   and Michel Vuillermoz for André le magnifique
• Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Jean-Pierre Vincent for The Marriage of Figaro **Robert Hossein, for Kean...
  
   - Jean-Louis Benoît
  Jean-Louis Benoît
  Jean-Louis Benoît, born in January 1947, 22nd, is a French actor, screenwriter, theater and film director.He is co-founder with Didier Bezace and Jacques Nichet of the theatre of l'Aquarium-Cartoucherie de Vincennes.-Filmography:As an actor :...
  
   for Les Fourberies de Scapin
  Les Fourberies de Scapin
  Les Fourberies de Scapin is a three-act comedy by French playwright Molière. The title character Scapin is similar to the archetypical Scapino character. The play was first staged in 1671 in Paris....
  
  
• Best Costumes - Jean-Marc Stehlé for Le Roi cerf
• Best Stage Design/Set - Jean-Marc Stehlé for Le Roi cerf

1999

Jury presided by Pierre Arditi

Pierre Arditi

Pierre Arditi was born on 1 December 1944 in Paris, child of the French paintor Georges Arditi , from Marseille, and a Belgian mother. He is an award-winning French film and stage actor...

. Awards hosted by.

• Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor. Winners and nominees.*1987 : Philippe Clévenot in Elvire Jouvet 40** Michel Bouquet in The Imaginary Invalid ** Jacques Dufilho in Staircase...
  
   - Robert Hirsch
  Robert Hirsch (actor)
  Robert Paul Hirsch is a French actor. He has been a sociétaire of the Comédie-Française since 1952. In 1990 he won César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role in Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre...
  
   in Le Bel Air de Londres (London Assurance
  London Assurance
  London Assurance is a five-act comedy by Dion Boucicault. It was the second play that he wrote, but his first to be produced. Its first production, from March 4, 1841 at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden was Boucicault's first major success...
  
  )
• Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Pierre Arditi in The Rehearsal **Jean-Michel Dupuis in Conversations After a Burial...
  
   - Michel Aumont in Rêver peut-être
• Best Male Newcomer - Denis Podalydes
  Denis Podalydès
  Denis Podalydès is a French actor, director and scriptwriter of Greek descent. He is a Sociétaire of the Comédie-Française....
  
   in Le Revizor (The Government Inspector)
• Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Suzanne Flon in Léopold le bien aimé** Nicole Garcia in Two for the Seesaw ** Denise Grey in Harold and Maude...
  
   - 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 ,...
  
   in Mademoiselle Else
• Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Sabine Haudepin in Kean**Anne Alvaro in Tonight We Improvise **Catherine Arditi in Adriana Monti...
  
   - Geneviève Fontanel in Délicate Balance
• Best Female Newcomer - Marie-Christine Orry dans L'Atelier (The Workshop)
• Best Show : New Play - Copenhague (Copenhagen
  Copenhagen (play)
  Copenhagen is a play by Michael Frayn, based around an event that occurred in Copenhagen in 1941, a meeting between the physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. It debuted in London in 1998...
  
  ) by Michael Frayn
  Michael Frayn
  Michael J. Frayn is an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce Noises Off and the dramas Copenhagen and Democracy...
  
   at the Théâtre Montparnasse
• Best Show : Classical Play - L'Atelier (The Workshop) at the Théâtre Hébertot
• Best Musical - L'Ultima Récital at the Théâtre Mogador
• Best one man show - Philippe Avron for Je suis un saumon
• Best Comedy - Après la pluie at the Théâtre de Poche Montparnasse
• Best Adaptation of a Foreign Play - Jean-Marie Besset for Copenhague (Copenhagen
  Copenhagen (play)
  Copenhagen is a play by Michael Frayn, based around an event that occurred in Copenhagen in 1941, a meeting between the physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. It debuted in London in 1998...
  
  )
• Best Playwright - Jean-Claude Grumberg
  Jean-Claude Grumberg
  Jean-Claude Grumberg is a French writer of children's books and a playwright.- Early life :Before becoming a playwright, Jean-Claude Grumberg held several jobs including working as a tailor, he takes to the middle part of his play L'Atelier. He discovered drama being an actor in the company...
  
   for L'Atelier (The Workshop)
• Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Jean-Pierre Vincent for The Marriage of Figaro **Robert Hossein, for Kean...
  
   - Gildas Bourdet for L'Atelier (The Workshop)
• Best Costumes - Pascale Bordet for Mademoiselle Else
• Best Stage Design/Set - Jean-Marc Stehlé for Rêver peut-être
• Honorary Molière : Vittorio Gassman
  Vittorio Gassman
  Vittorio Gassman Knight Grand Cross OMRI , popularly known as Il Mattatore, was an Italian theatre and film actor and director...
  
   and Arthur Miller
  Arthur Miller
  Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American theatre, writing dramas that include plays such as All My Sons , Death of a Salesman , The Crucible , and A View from the Bridge .Miller was often in the public eye,...
  
  

2000

Jury presided by Suzanne Flon

Suzanne Flon

Suzanne Flon was a French film actress and comedienne.-Early life:Her father was a railway worker and her mother crafted jewelry....

. Awards hosted by.

• Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor. Winners and nominees.*1987 : Philippe Clévenot in Elvire Jouvet 40** Michel Bouquet in The Imaginary Invalid ** Jacques Dufilho in Staircase...
  
   - Michel Aumont in Un sujet de roman
• Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Pierre Arditi in The Rehearsal **Jean-Michel Dupuis in Conversations After a Burial...
  
   - Marcel Cuvelier in Mon père avait raison
• Best Male Newcomer - Christian Hecq in La Main passe
• Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Suzanne Flon in Léopold le bien aimé** Nicole Garcia in Two for the Seesaw ** Denise Grey in Harold and Maude...
  
   - Judith Magre in Shirley
• Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Sabine Haudepin in Kean**Anne Alvaro in Tonight We Improvise **Catherine Arditi in Adriana Monti...
  
   - Dominique Blanchar in Les Femmes savantes
  Les Femmes Savantes
  Les Femmes savantes is a play by Molière in five acts, written in verse. A satire on academic pretention, female education, and préciosité , it was one of his most popular comedies...
  
  
• Best Female Newcomer - Irina Brook
  Irina Brook
  Irina Brook is a British stage actress, director and producer. The daughter of film and theatre director Peter Brook and actress Natasha Parry, she was named a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2002 by the French Ministry of Culture...
  
   for Résonnances
• Best Show : New Play - Tambours sur la digue at the Théâtre du Soleil
• Best Show : Classical Play - Le Révizor (The Government Inspector) at the Comédie-Française
  Comédie-Française
  The Comédie-Française or Théâtre-Français is one of the few state theaters in France. It is the only state theater to have its own troupe of actors. It is located in the 1st arrondissement of Paris....
  
  
• Best Musical - Peines de coeur d'une chatte française at the MC 93
• Best Comical Play Mort accidentelle d'un anarchiste (Accidental Death of an Anarchist
  Accidental Death of an Anarchist
  Accidental Death of an Anarchist is perhaps the best-known play by the Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo.- About the play :...
  
  ) at the Théâtre La Bruyère
• Best One Man Show - Arturo Brachetti
  Arturo Brachetti
  Arturo Brachetti is an Italian quick-change artist. In the Guinness Book of Records 2006 and 2007, he is described as the fastest quick change artist in the world.-Biography:Brachetti was born in Turin...
  
   for L'Homme aux mille visages (The Man With a Thousand Faces)
• Best Adaptation of a Foreign Play - Valérie Tasca for Mort accidentelle d'un anarchiste (Accidental Death of an Anarchist
  Accidental Death of an Anarchist
  Accidental Death of an Anarchist is perhaps the best-known play by the Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo.- About the play :...
  
  )
• Best Playwright - Dario Fo
  Dario Fo
  Dario Fo is an Italian satirist, playwright, theater director, actor and composer. His dramatic work employs comedic methods of the ancient Italian commedia dell'arte, a theatrical style popular with the working classes. He currently owns and operates a theatre company with his wife, actress...
  
   for Mort accidentelle d'un anarchiste (Accidental Death of an Anarchist
  Accidental Death of an Anarchist
  Accidental Death of an Anarchist is perhaps the best-known play by the Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo.- About the play :...
  
  )
• Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Jean-Pierre Vincent for The Marriage of Figaro **Robert Hossein, for Kean...
  
   - Ariane Mnouchkine
  Ariane Mnouchkine
  Ariane Mnouchkine is a world-renowned French stage director. She founded the Parisian avant-garde stage ensemble Théâtre du Soleil in 1964. She has written and directed 1789 and Molière , and in 1989, she directed La Nuit Miraculeuse...
  
   for Tambours sur la digue
• Best Costumes - Chloé Obolensky for Peines de coeur d'une chatte française
• Best Stage Design/Set - Guy-Claude François for Tambours sur la digue
• Honorary Molière : Raymond Devos
  Raymond Devos
  Raymond Devos was a Belgian-French humorist, stand-up comedian and clown. He is best known for his sophisticated puns and surreal humour.- Early life :...
  
  , Hubert Gignoux, Charles Trénet
  Charles Trenet
  Charles Trenet was a French singer and songwriter, most famous for his recordings from the late 1930s until the mid-1950s, though his career continued through the 1990s...
  
   and the Théâtre de la Huchette
  Théâtre de la Huchette
  The Théâtre de la Huchette is a theatre in Paris.This small theatre in Paris' Left Bank, located at 23 rue de la Huchette in the 5th arrondissement, is known for playing Eugene Ionesco's absurdist double-bill of The Lesson and The Bald Soprano in permanent repertory since 1957, as "Spectacle...
  
  

2001

Jury presided by Robert Hossein

Robert Hossein

Robert Hossein is a French film actor of Azeri origin, director and writer. He directed the 1982 adaption of Les Misérables, and appeared in Vice and Virtue, Le Casse, Les Uns et les Autres and Venus Beauty Institute...

. Awards hosted by.

• Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor. Winners and nominees.*1987 : Philippe Clévenot in Elvire Jouvet 40** Michel Bouquet in The Imaginary Invalid ** Jacques Dufilho in Staircase...
  
   - Simon Abkarian
  Simon Abkarian
  Simon Abkarian is a French-Armenian actor.Born in Gonesse, Val d'Oise, of Armenian descent, Abkarian spent his childhood in Lebanon. He moved to Los Angeles, where he joined an Armenian theater company managed by Gerald Papazian. He returned to France in 1985, settling in Paris...
  
   in Une bête sur la lune (Beast on the Moon)
• Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Pierre Arditi in The Rehearsal **Jean-Michel Dupuis in Conversations After a Burial...
  
   - Georges Wilson
  Georges Wilson
  Georges Wilson was a French film and television actor. He is the father of French actor Lambert Wilson.Wilson was born in Champigny-sur-Marne, Seine , to a French father and an Irish mother...
  
   in Une chatte sur un toit brûlant (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a play by Tennessee Williams. One of Williams's best-known works and his personal favorite, the play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1955...
  
  )
• Best Male Newcomer - Édouard Baer
  Édouard Baer
  Édouard Baer is a French actor.- Filmography :*Un monde à nous *Seuls two *Passe-passe *Crosse *La fille coupée en deux...
  
   in Cravate Club
• Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Suzanne Flon in Léopold le bien aimé** Nicole Garcia in Two for the Seesaw ** Denise Grey in Harold and Maude...
  
   - Corinne Jaber in Une bête sur la lune (Beast on the Moon)
• Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Sabine Haudepin in Kean**Anne Alvaro in Tonight We Improvise **Catherine Arditi in Adriana Monti...
  
   - Annick Alane
  Annick Alane
  Annick Alane is a French film, television, and theatre actress.-Filmography :*1956: Les Truands directed by Carlo Rim*1964: Les Pieds dans le plâtre directed by Jacques Fabbri and Pierre Lary...
  
   in Une chatte sur un toit brûlant (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a play by Tennessee Williams. One of Williams's best-known works and his personal favorite, the play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1955...
  
  )
• Best Female Newcomer - Barbara Schulz
  Barbara Schulz
  Barbara Schulz is a French actress who won the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti in 2001. She was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actress for the 1999 film La Dilettante....
  
   in Joyeuses Pâques
• Best Show : New Play - : Les Directeurs at the Théâtre de Poche Montparnasse
• Best Show : Classical Play - Une chatte sur un toit brûlant (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a play by Tennessee Williams. One of Williams's best-known works and his personal favorite, the play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1955...
  
  )
• Best Musical - Chantons sous la pluie (Singin' in the Rain
  Singin' in the Rain
  Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 American comedy musical film starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds and directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, with Kelly also providing the choreography...
  
  ) at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin
  Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin
  The Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin is a venerable theatre and opera house at 18, Boulevard Saint-Martin in the 10e arrondissement of Paris.- History :...
  
  
• Best Comedy - Ladies night at the Théâtre Rive Gauche
• Best One-Man Show - Valérie Lemercier at the Folies Bergère
• Best Adaptation of a Foreign Play - Daniel Loayza pour Une bête sur la lune (Beast on the Moon)
• Best Playwright - Daniel Besse pour Les Directeurs
• Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Jean-Pierre Vincent for The Marriage of Figaro **Robert Hossein, for Kean...
  
   - Irina Brook
  Irina Brook
  Irina Brook is a British stage actress, director and producer. The daughter of film and theatre director Peter Brook and actress Natasha Parry, she was named a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2002 by the French Ministry of Culture...
  
   pour Une bête sur la lune (Beast on the Moon)
• Best Costume Design - Ezio Toffolutti pour Le Cercle de craie caucasien (The Caucasian Chalk Circle
  The Caucasian Chalk Circle
  The Caucasian Chalk Circle is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. An example of Brecht's epic theatre, the play is a parable about a peasant girl who rescues a baby and becomes a better mother than its natural parents....
  
  )
• Best Stage Design/Set - Ezio Toffolutti pour Le Cercle de craie caucasien (The Caucasian Chalk Circle
  The Caucasian Chalk Circle
  The Caucasian Chalk Circle is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. An example of Brecht's epic theatre, the play is a parable about a peasant girl who rescues a baby and becomes a better mother than its natural parents....
  
  )
• Best Lighting Design - André Diot for Le Cercle de craie caucasien (The Caucasian Chalk Circle
  The Caucasian Chalk Circle
  The Caucasian Chalk Circle is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. An example of Brecht's epic theatre, the play is a parable about a peasant girl who rescues a baby and becomes a better mother than its natural parents....
  
  )
• Honorary Molière - Madeleine Robinson

2002

Jury presided by Jean Piat

Jean Piat

Jean Piat is a French actor and writer.-Life:Piat was born in Lannoy, Nord. He enlisted in the Comédie-Française on 1 September 1947, and became a member on 1 January 1953. He left the Comédie-Française on 31 December 1972, and became an honorary member the following day...

. Awards hosted by.

• Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor. Winners and nominees.*1987 : Philippe Clévenot in Elvire Jouvet 40** Michel Bouquet in The Imaginary Invalid ** Jacques Dufilho in Staircase...
  
   - Jean-Paul Roussillon
  Jean-Paul Roussillon
  Jean-Paul Roussillon was a French actor. He appeared in 87 films and television shows between 1954 and 2008. He starred in the film Playing 'In the Company of Men, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival...
  
   in Le Jardin des apparences
• Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Pierre Arditi in The Rehearsal **Jean-Michel Dupuis in Conversations After a Burial...
  
   - Maurice Chevit
  Maurice Chevit
  - Filmography:* Mr. Orchid * Les Hussards * The Sleeping Car Murders * Molière : The priest of the school* Le Coup de sirocco : General Bauvergne* Les Bronzés font du ski : Marius...
  
   in Conversations avec mon père (Conversations with my Father
  Conversations with my Father
  Conversations with My Father is a play by Herb Gardner.At its core are Eddie Ross , a Russian immigrant Canal Street bartender, and his son Charlie, who yearns to establish - at the very least - a peaceful co-existence with his angry, remote, and verbally and emotionally abusive father, who has...
  
  )
• Best Male Newcomer - Eric Elmosnino
  Eric Elmosnino
  Eric Elmosnino is a French actor and musician of jewish origin. He is best known internationally for portraying Serge Gainsbourg in the film Gainsbourg for which he won the César Award for Best Actor....
  
   in Léonce et Léna
• Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Suzanne Flon in Léopold le bien aimé** Nicole Garcia in Two for the Seesaw ** Denise Grey in Harold and Maude...
  
   - Annie Girardot
  Annie Girardot
  Annie Girardot was a French actress.She began performing in 1955, making her film debut in Treize à table. Girardot won the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti in 1956, and in 1977 won the César Award for Best Actress portraying the title character in Docteur Françoise Gailland...
  
   in Madame Marguerite
• Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Sabine Haudepin in Kean**Anne Alvaro in Tonight We Improvise **Catherine Arditi in Adriana Monti...
  
   - Annie Gregorio in Théâtre sans animaux
• Best Female Newcomer - Rachida Brakni
  Rachida Brakni
  Rachida Brakni is a French actress of Algerian origin. She is married to the football hero turned film actor Eric Cantona, whom she met on the filmset of Outremangeur in 2002....
  
   in Ruy Blas
  Ruy Blas
  Ruy Blas is a tragic drama by Victor Hugo. It was the first play presented at the Théâtre de la Renaissance and opened on November 8, 1838. Though considered by many to be Hugo’s best drama, the play initially met with only average success....
  
  
• Best Show - New play - La Boutique au coin de la rue (The Shop Around the Corner
  The Shop Around the Corner
  -External links:* Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism, Issue 1, 2010...
  
  ) at the Théâtre Montparnasse
• Best Show - Classical play - Bent
  Bent (play)
  Bent is a 1979 play by Martin Sherman. It revolves around the persecution of gays in Nazi Germany, and takes place during and after the Night of the Long Knives....
  
   at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre
  Théâtre de l'Œuvre
  The Théâtre de l'Œuvre is a Paris theatre, located atop cité Monthiers, at 55 rue de Clichy in the 9° arrondissement in Paris, France. It is best known as the theatre where Alfred Jarry’s nihilistic farce Ubu Roi premiered in 1896....
  
  
• Best Comedy - Théâtre sans animaux at the Théâtre Tristan Bernard
• Best One Man Show - Philippe Avron in Le Fantôme de Shakespeare
• Best Musical - Frou-Frou les Bains at the Théâtre Daunou
• Best Adaptation of a Foreign Play - Evelyne Fallot and Jean-Jacques Zilbermann for La Boutique au coin de la rue (The Shop Around the Corner
  The Shop Around the Corner
  -External links:* Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism, Issue 1, 2010...
  
  )
• Best Playwright - Jean-Michel Ribes
  Jean-Michel Ribes
  Jean-Michel Ribes is a French actor, playwright, screenwriter, theatre director and film maker. Since 2002 he has been the managing director of the Théâtre du Rond-Point.- Awards :* 2001: Plaisir du Théâtre Award...
  
   for Théâtre sans animaux
• Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Jean-Pierre Vincent for The Marriage of Figaro **Robert Hossein, for Kean...
  
   - Jean-Jacques Zilbermann for La Boutique au coin de la rue (The Shop Around the Corner
  The Shop Around the Corner
  -External links:* Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism, Issue 1, 2010...
  
  )
• Best Costumes - Pascale Bordet for Le Dindon (Sauce for the Goose)
• Best Lighting Design - Jacques Rouveyrollis pour La Boutique au coin de la rue (The Shop Around the Corner
  The Shop Around the Corner
  -External links:* Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism, Issue 1, 2010...
  
  )
• Best Stage Design/Set - Stéfanie Jarre for La Boutique au coin de la rue (The Shop Around the Corner
  The Shop Around the Corner
  -External links:* Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism, Issue 1, 2010...
  
  )
• Honorary Molière - Annie Girardot
  Annie Girardot
  Annie Girardot was a French actress.She began performing in 1955, making her film debut in Treize à table. Girardot won the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti in 1956, and in 1977 won the César Award for Best Actress portraying the title character in Docteur Françoise Gailland...
  
  , Simone Valère and Jean Desailly
  Jean Desailly
  Jean Desailly was a French actor. He was a member of the Comédie-Française from 1942 – 1946, and later participated in about ninety movies.Desailly was married to the French actress Simone Valère....
  
  

2003

Jury presided by Jean Piat

Jean Piat

Jean Piat is a French actor and writer.-Life:Piat was born in Lannoy, Nord. He enlisted in the Comédie-Française on 1 September 1947, and became a member on 1 January 1953. He left the Comédie-Française on 31 December 1972, and became an honorary member the following day...

. Awards hosted by Jean Piat

Jean Piat

Jean Piat is a French actor and writer.-Life:Piat was born in Lannoy, Nord. He enlisted in the Comédie-Française on 1 September 1947, and became a member on 1 January 1953. He left the Comédie-Française on 31 December 1972, and became an honorary member the following day...

.

• Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor. Winners and nominees.*1987 : Philippe Clévenot in Elvire Jouvet 40** Michel Bouquet in The Imaginary Invalid ** Jacques Dufilho in Staircase...
  
   - Thierry Fortineau in Gros-Câlin
• Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Pierre Arditi in The Rehearsal **Jean-Michel Dupuis in Conversations After a Burial...
  
   - Michel Duchaussoy
  Michel Duchaussoy
  Michel Duchaussoy is a French film actor. He has appeared in 130 films since 1962.-Selected filmography:* The Killing Game * The Unfaithful Wife * This Man Must Die * Just Before Nightfall...
  
   in Phèdre
  Phèdre
  Phèdre is a dramatic tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by Jean Racine, first performed in 1677.-Composition and premiere:...
  
  
• Best Male Newcomer - Marc Fayet in Un petit jeu sans conséquence
• Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Suzanne Flon in Léopold le bien aimé** Nicole Garcia in Two for the Seesaw ** Denise Grey in Harold and Maude...
  
   - Danielle Darrieux
  Danielle Darrieux
  Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux is a French actress and singer, who has appeared in more than 110 films since 1931. She is one of France's great movie stars and her eight-decade career is among the longest in film history....
  
   in Oscar et la dame rose (Oscar and the Lady in Pink
  Oscar and the Lady in Pink (novel)
  Oscar and the Lady in Pink is a novel of Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, the third chapter of « Cycle de l'Invisible », published in 2002.These are the letters of a boy of ten addressed to God. They are found by 'Mamie Rose', the Lady in Pink of the title, who visits him in hospital in the pink uniform worn...
  
  )
• Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Sabine Haudepin in Kean**Anne Alvaro in Tonight We Improvise **Catherine Arditi in Adriana Monti...
  
   - Annie Sinigalia in Poste restante (A Song at Twilight
  A Song at Twilight
  A Song at Twilight is a play in two acts by Noël Coward. It is one of a trio of plays collectively entitled Suite in Three Keys, all of which are set in the same suite in a luxury hotel in Switzerland...
  
  )
• Best Female Newcomer - Valérie Karsenty in Un petit jeu sans conséquence
• Best Show in an Independent theatre - Un petit jeu sans conséquence at the Théâtre La Bruyère
• Best Show in a National theatre - Phèdre
  Phèdre
  Phèdre is a dramatic tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by Jean Racine, first performed in 1677.-Composition and premiere:...
  
   at the Théâtre de l'Odéon-Ateliers Berthier
  Odeon Theatre
  The Odeon Theatre is a theatre in Bucharest, Romania, located on Calea Victoriei, and is one of the best-known performing arts venues in Bucharest. As an institution, it descends from the Teatrul Muncitoresc CFR Giuleşti, founded 1946; it moved to its current location, the Sala Majestic, in 1974...
  
  
• Best French New Play - Un petit jeu sans conséquence at the Théâtre La Bruyère
• Best Musical - Le Quatuor, sur la corde rêve
• Best One Man Show - Shirley et Dino for Shirley & Dino - Le duo
• Best Adaptation of a Foreign Play - Pascale de Boysson for Le Regard
• Best Playwright - Victor Haïm for Jeux de scène
• Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Jean-Pierre Vincent for The Marriage of Figaro **Robert Hossein, for Kean...
  
   - Stéphane Hillel for Un petit jeu sans conséquence
• Best Costumes - Christian Gasc for L'Éventail de Lady Windermere (Lady Windermere's Fan
  Lady Windermere's Fan
  Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first produced 22 February 1892 at the St James's Theatre in London. The play was first published in 1893...
  
  )
• Best Stage Design/Set - Gérard Stehlé for L'Enfant do
• Best Lighting Design - Dominique Brugière for Phèdre
  Phèdre
  Phèdre is a dramatic tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by Jean Racine, first performed in 1677.-Composition and premiere:...
  
  
• Honorary Molière - Gisèle Casadesus

2004

Jury presided by. Awards hosted by.

• Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor. Winners and nominees.*1987 : Philippe Clévenot in Elvire Jouvet 40** Michel Bouquet in The Imaginary Invalid ** Jacques Dufilho in Staircase...
  
   - Dominique Pinon
  Dominique Pinon
  Dominique Pinon is a French actor whose most famous roles have been in the films of Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Jean-Jacques Beineix. In the theatre, he has appeared in the plays of Gildas Bourdet, Jorge Lavelli and Valère Novarina...
  
   in L'Hiver sous la table
• Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Pierre Arditi in The Rehearsal **Jean-Michel Dupuis in Conversations After a Burial...
  
   - Thierry Frémont
  Thierry Frémont
  Thierry Frémont is a French actor. He has appeared in over 65 films and television shows since 1984. He starred in the 1991 film Fortune Express, which was entered into the 41st Berlin International Film Festival.-Selected filmography:...
  
   in Signé Dumas
• Best Male Newcomer - Xavier Gallais in Roberto Zucco
• Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Suzanne Flon in Léopold le bien aimé** Nicole Garcia in Two for the Seesaw ** Denise Grey in Harold and Maude...
  
   - 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 ,...
  
   in L'Hiver sous la table
• Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Sabine Haudepin in Kean**Anne Alvaro in Tonight We Improvise **Catherine Arditi in Adriana Monti...
  
   - Martine Sarcey in L'Inscription
• Best Female Newcomer - Marie Vincent in ...Comme en 14 !
• Best Show in an Independent theatre - L'Hiver sous la table at the Théâtre de l'Atelier
  Théâtre de l'Atelier
  The Théâtre de l'Atelier is a theater at 1, place Charles Dullin in the 18th arrondissement of Paris.-History:Opened on November 23, 1822 under the name Théâtre Montmartre this theater was one of the first built by Pierre-Jacques Seveste, who held the license to operate theaters outside the town...
  
  
• Best Show in a National theatre - ...Comme en 14 ! at the Théâtre 13/Pépinière Opéra
• Best French New Play - ...Comme en 14 ! at the Théâtre 13/Pépinière Opéra
• Best Comedy - L'Amour est enfant de salaud (Things We Do for Love) by Alan Ayckbourn
  Alan Ayckbourn
  Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE is a prolific English playwright. He has written and produced seventy-three full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of his plays have received their...
  
   at the Théâtre Tristan Bernard
• Best Adaptation of a Foreign Play - Michel Blanc
  Michel Blanc
  Michel Blanc is a French actor and director who is noted for his roles of losers and hypochondriacs...
  
   for L'Amour est enfant de salaud (Thigs We Do For Love)
• Best Playwright - Denise Bonal for Portrait de famille
• Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Jean-Pierre Vincent for The Marriage of Figaro **Robert Hossein, for Kean...
  
   - Zabou Breitman for L'Hiver sous la table
• Best Costumes - Moidele Bickel
  Moidele Bickel
  Moidele Bickel is a costume designer born in 1937, in Germany. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Costume Design for her work in the film Queen Margot .- External links :...
  
   for Les Fables de la Fontaine
• Best Stage Design/Set - Jacques Gabel for L'Hiver sous la table
• Best Lighting Design - André Diot for L'Hiver sous la table

2005

Jury presided by. Awards hosted by Laurent Ruquier

Laurent Ruquier

Laurent Ruquier, born February 24, 1963 in Le Havre , Normandy, France is a popular French journalist, satirical comedian, and TV and radio host. He is also a columnist, lyricist, author, screenwriter, and impresario.-Biography:...

 and William Leymergie

William Leymergie

William Leymergie is a journalist television producer and host, best known for the French breakfast television news show Télématin, broadcast on public broadcaster France 2.- Biography :...

.

• Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor. Winners and nominees.*1987 : Philippe Clévenot in Elvire Jouvet 40** Michel Bouquet in The Imaginary Invalid ** Jacques Dufilho in Staircase...
  
   - Michel Bouquet
  Michel Bouquet
  Michel Bouquet is a French film actor. He has appeared in over 90 films since 1947. He was born in Paris, France.-Selected filmography:* La petite chambre * Le Promeneur du Champ de Mars...
  
   in Le roi se meurt (Exit the King)
• Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Pierre Arditi in The Rehearsal **Jean-Michel Dupuis in Conversations After a Burial...
  
   - Maurice Chevit
  Maurice Chevit
  - Filmography:* Mr. Orchid * Les Hussards * The Sleeping Car Murders * Molière : The priest of the school* Le Coup de sirocco : General Bauvergne* Les Bronzés font du ski : Marius...
  
   in Brooklyn Boy
  Brooklyn Boy
  Brooklyn Boy is a play by American playwright Donald Margulies.Novelist Eric Weiss, critically celebrated but unsuccessful, "arrives" when his new, autobiographical novel becomes a best-seller. An outsider all his life, he is suddenly on the inside of everything: town cars, television studios, the...
  
  
• Best Male Newcomer - Micha Lescot in Musée haut, musée bas
• Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Suzanne Flon in Léopold le bien aimé** Nicole Garcia in Two for the Seesaw ** Denise Grey in Harold and Maude...
  
   - Christine Murillo in Dis à ma fille que je pars en voyage
• Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Sabine Haudepin in Kean**Anne Alvaro in Tonight We Improvise **Catherine Arditi in Adriana Monti...
  
   - Norah Krief in Hedda Gabler
  Hedda Gabler
  Hedda Gabler is a play first published in 1890 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The play premiered in 1891 in Germany to negative reviews, but has subsequently gained recognition as a classic of realism, nineteenth century theatre, and world drama...
  
  
• Best Female Newcomer - Emmanuelle Bougerol in Les Muses orphelines
• Best Show in an Independent theatre - Le roi se meurt (Exit the King) at the Théâtre Hébertot
• Best Show in a National theatre - Le Dernier Caravansérail at the Théâtre du Soleil
• Best Music - Jean-Jacques Lemètre for Le Dernier Caravansérail
• Best Adaptation of a Foreign Play - Séverine Magois and Didier Bezace
  Didier Bezace
  Didier Bezace, born 10 February 1946 in Paris, is a French actor.-Biography:Theatre student at the International Dramatic University Centre in Nancy, Didier Bezace received lessons from Bernard Drot, Jean-Marie Patte, Gilles Sandier, Maria Casarès and Henri Gourbion.Co-founder with Jean-Louis...
  
   for La Version de Browning (The Browning Version)
• Best Playwright - Wajdi Mouawad
  Wajdi Mouawad
  Wajdi Mouawad, OC is a Canadian writer, actor and director born in Lebanon in 1968. After living in France for a short time, he moved to Quebec in 1983.- Biography :He obtained his diploma from the National Theatre School of Canada in 1991....
  
   pour Littoral
• Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Jean-Pierre Vincent for The Marriage of Figaro **Robert Hossein, for Kean...
  
   - Didier Bezace
  Didier Bezace
  Didier Bezace, born 10 February 1946 in Paris, is a French actor.-Biography:Theatre student at the International Dramatic University Centre in Nancy, Didier Bezace received lessons from Bernard Drot, Jean-Marie Patte, Gilles Sandier, Maria Casarès and Henri Gourbion.Co-founder with Jean-Louis...
  
   for La Version de Browning (The Browning Version)
• Best Costumes - Alain Chambon for Le Menteur (The Liar)
• Best Stage Design/Set - Serge Nicolaï, Duccio Bellugi-Vannuccini and Guy-Claude François for Le Dernier Caravansérail
• Best Lighting Design - André Diot for Le Jugement dernier

2006

Jury presided by Jacques Weber

Jacques Weber

Jacques Weber is a French actor, director and writer, born in Paris .- Biography :Passionate about drama from his youth, Jacques Weber joined the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique at the age of 20, and won the prix d'Excellence when he left. He joined Robert Hossein in Reims...

. Awards hosted by Karine Le Marchand.

• Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor. Winners and nominees.*1987 : Philippe Clévenot in Elvire Jouvet 40** Michel Bouquet in The Imaginary Invalid ** Jacques Dufilho in Staircase...
  
   - Jacques Sereys in Du côté de chez Proust
• Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Pierre Arditi in The Rehearsal **Jean-Michel Dupuis in Conversations After a Burial...
  
   - Roger Dumas
  Roger Dumas
  Roger Dumas is a French film actor. He has appeared in over 100 films since 1954. He was born in Annonay, Ardèche.-Selected filmography:* Pouic-Pouic * That Man from Rio * La Ligne de démarcation...
  
   Moins 2
• Best Male Newcomer - James Thiérrée
  James Thiérrée
  James Thiérrée is the writer, director and star of The Junebug Symphony, La Veillée des Abysses and Au Revoir Parapluie ....
  
   in La Symphonie du hanneton (The Junebug Symphony)
• Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Suzanne Flon in Léopold le bien aimé** Nicole Garcia in Two for the Seesaw ** Denise Grey in Harold and Maude...
  
   - Judith Magre in Histoires d'hommes
• Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Sabine Haudepin in Kean**Anne Alvaro in Tonight We Improvise **Catherine Arditi in Adriana Monti...
  
   - Danièle Lebrun in Pygmalion
  Pygmalion (play)
  Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts is a play by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of...
  
  
• Best Female Newcomer - 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:...
  
   in Toc Toc
• Best Show in an Independent theatre - Moi aussi, je suis Catherine Deneuve at the Pépinière Opéra
• Best Show in a National theatre - La Symphonie du hanneton (The Junebug Symphony) at the Théâtre du Rond-Point
• Best Musical - Le Jazz et la Diva at the Théâtre Tristan Bernard
• Best Adaptation of a Foreign Play - André Markowicz and Françoise Morvan
  Françoise Morvan
  Françoise Morvan is a French writer who specialises in Breton history and culture.She studied literature in Colombes, then at the Sorbonne...
  
   for Platonov
  Platonov (play)
  Platonov is the name in English given to an early, untitled play written in Russian by Anton Chekhov in 1878. It was the first large-scale drama by Chekhov written specifically for Maria Yermolova, rising star of Maly Theatre...
  
  
• Best Playwright - Stéphan Wojtowicz for La Sainte Catherine
• Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Jean-Pierre Vincent for The Marriage of Figaro **Robert Hossein, for Kean...
  
   - James Thiérrée
  James Thiérrée
  James Thiérrée is the writer, director and star of The Junebug Symphony, La Veillée des Abysses and Au Revoir Parapluie ....
  
   for La Symphonie du hanneton (The Junebug Symphony)
• Best Costumes - Victoria Chaplin Thiérrée
  Victoria Chaplin
  Victoria Chaplin is an Anglo-American actress, the daughter of actor/comedian Charlie Chaplin and Oona O'Neill Chaplin, and the granddaughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill....
  
   for La Symphonie du hanneton
• Best Stage Design/Set - Nicky Rieti for Le Roi Lear (King Lear
  King Lear
  King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The title character descends into madness after foolishly disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all. The play is based on the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological...
  
  )
• Best Lighting Design - André Diot for Le Roi Lear (King Lear
  King Lear
  King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The title character descends into madness after foolishly disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all. The play is based on the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological...
  
  )

2007

Jury presided by Jacques Weber

Jacques Weber

Jacques Weber is a French actor, director and writer, born in Paris .- Biography :Passionate about drama from his youth, Jacques Weber joined the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique at the age of 20, and won the prix d'Excellence when he left. He joined Robert Hossein in Reims...

. Awards hosted by Karine Le Marchand.

• Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor. Winners and nominees.*1987 : Philippe Clévenot in Elvire Jouvet 40** Michel Bouquet in The Imaginary Invalid ** Jacques Dufilho in Staircase...
  
   - Robert Hirsch
  Robert Hirsch (actor)
  Robert Paul Hirsch is a French actor. He has been a sociétaire of the Comédie-Française since 1952. In 1990 he won César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role in Hiver 54, l'abbé Pierre...
  
   in Le Gardien (The Caretaker
  The Caretaker
  The Caretaker is a play by Harold Pinter. It was first published by both Encore Publishing and Eyre Methuen in 1960. The sixth play that Pinter wrote for stage or television production, it was his first significant commercial success...
  
  )
• Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Pierre Arditi in The Rehearsal **Jean-Michel Dupuis in Conversations After a Burial...
  
   - Éric Ruf in Cyrano de Bergerac
  Cyrano de Bergerac (play)
  Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. Although there was a real Cyrano de Bergerac, the play bears very scant resemblance to his life....
  
  
• Best Male Newcomer - Julien Cottereau in Imagine-toi
• Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Suzanne Flon in Léopold le bien aimé** Nicole Garcia in Two for the Seesaw ** Denise Grey in Harold and Maude...
  
   - Martine Chevallier in Le Retour au désert (Return to the Desert)
• Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Sabine Haudepin in Kean**Anne Alvaro in Tonight We Improvise **Catherine Arditi in Adriana Monti...
  
   - Catherine Hiegel in Le Retour au désert (Return to the Desert)
• Best Female Newcomer - Sara Giraudeau in La Valse des pingouins
• Best Show in an Independent theatre - Le Gardien (The Caretaker
  The Caretaker
  The Caretaker is a play by Harold Pinter. It was first published by both Encore Publishing and Eyre Methuen in 1960. The sixth play that Pinter wrote for stage or television production, it was his first significant commercial success...
  
  ) at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre
• Best Show in a National theatre - Cyrano de Bergerac
  Cyrano de Bergerac (play)
  Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. Although there was a real Cyrano de Bergerac, the play bears very scant resemblance to his life....
  
   at the Comédie-Française
  Comédie-Française
  The Comédie-Française or Théâtre-Français is one of the few state theaters in France. It is the only state theater to have its own troupe of actors. It is located in the 1st arrondissement of Paris....
  
  
• Best Musical - Le Cabaret des hommes perdus at the Théâtre du Rond-Point and at the Pépinière Opéra
• Best One Man Show - Michel Aumont in À la porte
• Best Adaptation of a Foreign Play - Marcel Bluwal
  Marcel Bluwal
  Marcel Bluwal is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed 40 films since 1955.-External links:...
  
   for À la porte
• Best Playwright - Christian Siméon for Le Cabaret des hommes perdus
• Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Jean-Pierre Vincent for The Marriage of Figaro **Robert Hossein, for Kean...
  
   - Denis Podalydès
  Denis Podalydès
  Denis Podalydès is a French actor, director and scriptwriter of Greek descent. He is a Sociétaire of the Comédie-Française....
  
   for Cyrano de Bergerac
  Cyrano de Bergerac (play)
  Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. Although there was a real Cyrano de Bergerac, the play bears very scant resemblance to his life....
  
  
• Best Costumes - Christian Lacroix
  Christian Lacroix
  Christian Marie Marc Lacroix is a French fashion designer. The name may also refer to the company he founded.-Early life:Lacroix was born in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône in southern France. At a young age he began sketching historical costumes and fashions. Lacroix graduated from high school in 1969...
  
   for Cyrano de Bergerac
  Cyrano de Bergerac (play)
  Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. Although there was a real Cyrano de Bergerac, the play bears very scant resemblance to his life....
  
  
• Best Stage Design/Set - Éric Ruf for Cyrano de Bergerac
  Cyrano de Bergerac (play)
  Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. Although there was a real Cyrano de Bergerac, the play bears very scant resemblance to his life....
  
  
• Best Lighting Design - Stéphanie Daniel for Cyrano de Bergerac
  Cyrano de Bergerac (play)
  Cyrano de Bergerac is a play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand. Although there was a real Cyrano de Bergerac, the play bears very scant resemblance to his life....
  
  

2008

Jury presided by 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....

 and Barbara Schulz

Barbara Schulz

Barbara Schulz is a French actress who won the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti in 2001. She was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actress for the 1999 film La Dilettante....

  Awards hosted by Karine Le Marchand

• Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor. Winners and nominees.*1987 : Philippe Clévenot in Elvire Jouvet 40** Michel Bouquet in The Imaginary Invalid ** Jacques Dufilho in Staircase...
  
   - Michel Galabru
  Michel Galabru
  Michel Louis Edmond Galabru is a French actor born on 27 October 1922 in Safi, Morocco.-Career:Over the course of his career, Galabru appeared in over 200 movies and worked with such renowned directors as Bertrand Blier, Costa-Gavras, Luc Besson , and Jean-Luc Godard...
  
   in Les Chaussettes - opus 124
• Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Pierre Arditi in The Rehearsal **Jean-Michel Dupuis in Conversations After a Burial...
  
   - Gilles Privat in L'Hôtel du libre échange
• Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Suzanne Flon in Léopold le bien aimé** Nicole Garcia in Two for the Seesaw ** Denise Grey in Harold and Maude...
  
   - Myriam Boyer in La Vie devant soi
  The Life Before Us
  The Life Before Us is a novel by French author Romain Gary who wrote it under the pseudonym of "Emile Ajar". It was originally published in English as Momo then re-published in 1986 as The Life Before Us...
  
  
• Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Sabine Haudepin in Kean**Anne Alvaro in Tonight We Improvise **Catherine Arditi in Adriana Monti...
  
   - Valérie Bonneton in Le Dieu du carnage
• Best Newcomer - Raphaëline Goupilleau in Une souris verte
• Best Show in an Independent theatre - La Vie devant soi
  The Life Before Us
  The Life Before Us is a novel by French author Romain Gary who wrote it under the pseudonym of "Emile Ajar". It was originally published in English as Momo then re-published in 1986 as The Life Before Us...
  
   at the Théâtre Marigny
  Théâtre Marigny
  The Théâtre Marigny is a theatre in Paris, situated near the junction of the Champs-Élysées and the Avenue Marigny, in the 8th arrondissement. It was originally built to designs of the architect Charles Garnier for the display of a panorama, which opened in 1883...
  
  
• Best Show in a National theatre - Juste la fin du monde at the Comédie-Française
  Comédie-Française
  The Comédie-Française or Théâtre-Français is one of the few state theaters in France. It is the only state theater to have its own troupe of actors. It is located in the 1st arrondissement of Paris....
  
  
• Best Musical - Le Roi Lion (The Lion King
  The Lion King (musical)
  The Lion King is a musical based on the 1994 Disney animated film of the same name with music by Elton John and lyrics by Tim Rice along with the musical score created by Hans Zimmer with choral arrangements by Lebo M. Directed by Julie Taymor, the musical features actors in animal costumes as well...
  
  )
• Best Adaptation - Xavier Jaillard for La Vie devant soi
  The Life Before Us
  The Life Before Us is a novel by French author Romain Gary who wrote it under the pseudonym of "Emile Ajar". It was originally published in English as Momo then re-published in 1986 as The Life Before Us...
  
  
• Best Playwright - Roland Dubillard for Les Diablogues
• Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Jean-Pierre Vincent for The Marriage of Figaro **Robert Hossein, for Kean...
  
   - John Malkovich
  John Malkovich
  John Gavin Malkovich is an American actor, producer, director and fashion designer with his label Technobohemian. Over the last 25 years of his career, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures. For his roles in Places in the Heart and In the Line of Fire, he received Academy Award...
  
   for Good Canary
• Best Costumes - Julie Taymor
  Julie Taymor
  Julie Taymor is an American director of theater, opera and film. Taymor's work has received many accolades from critics, and she has earned two Tony Awards out of four nominations, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design, an Emmy Award and an Academy Award nomination for Original Song...
  
   Le Roi Lion (The Lion King
  The Lion King (musical)
  The Lion King is a musical based on the 1994 Disney animated film of the same name with music by Elton John and lyrics by Tim Rice along with the musical score created by Hans Zimmer with choral arrangements by Lebo M. Directed by Julie Taymor, the musical features actors in animal costumes as well...
  
  )
• Best Stage Design/Set - Pierre-Francois Limbosch pour Good Canary

2009

Jury presided by Bernard Giraudeau

Bernard Giraudeau

Bernard Giraudeau was a French actor, film director, scriptwriter, producer and writer.-Life:Giraudeau was born in La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime. In 1963 he enlisted in the French navy as a trainee engineer, qualifying as the first in his class a year later...

 Awards hosted by Frédéric Mitterrand

Frédéric Mitterrand

Frédéric Mitterrand , a Franco-Tunisian citizen, is the French Minister of Culture and Communication. Throughout his career, he has been an actor, screenwriter, television presenter, writer, producer and director.-Biography:...

• Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor. Winners and nominees.*1987 : Philippe Clévenot in Elvire Jouvet 40** Michel Bouquet in The Imaginary Invalid ** Jacques Dufilho in Staircase...
  
   - Patrick Chesnais
  Patrick Chesnais
  - Biography :Patrick Chesnais was born in La Garenne-Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine. He was educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen.In 1989, he won the César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in the film La Lectrice directed by Michel Deville...
  
   in Cochons d'Inde
• Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Pierre Arditi in The Rehearsal **Jean-Michel Dupuis in Conversations After a Burial...
  
   - Roland Bertin
  Roland Bertin
  Roland Bertin is a French actor. He has appeared in 100 films and television shows since 1970.-Selected filmography:* Le Petit théâtre de Jean Renoir English title: The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir...
  
   in Coriolan
  Coriolanus (play)
  Coriolanus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1605 and 1608. The play is based on the life of the legendary Roman leader, Gaius Marcius Coriolanus.-Characters:*Caius Martius, later surnamed Coriolanus...
  
  
• Best Male Newcomer - David Lescot in La Commission centrale de l'enfance
• Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Suzanne Flon in Léopold le bien aimé** Nicole Garcia in Two for the Seesaw ** Denise Grey in Harold and Maude...
  
   - Anne Alvaro
  Anne Alvaro
  Anne Alvaro is a French actress whose work spans from the early 1970s through 2006. She is best known for her role as Eleonore in the 1983 biopic Danton. She also appeared in The Taste of Others, for which she won a César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in 2001...
  
   in Gertrude (le cri) (Gertrude (The Cry))
• Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Sabine Haudepin in Kean**Anne Alvaro in Tonight We Improvise **Catherine Arditi in Adriana Monti...
  
   - Monique Chaumette in Baby Doll
• Best Female Newcomer - Aude Briant in Le Journal à quatre mains
• Best Show in an Independent theatre - Des Gens at the Théâtre Montparnasse
  Théâtre Montparnasse
  The Théâtre Montparnasse is a theater at 31, rue de la Gaîté in the 14th arrondissement of Paris.-History:The present structure was built in 1886 on a site that had been dedicated to theatre since 1817...
  
  
• Best Show in a National theatre - Coriolan
  Coriolanus (play)
  Coriolanus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1605 and 1608. The play is based on the life of the legendary Roman leader, Gaius Marcius Coriolanus.-Characters:*Caius Martius, later surnamed Coriolanus...
  
   at the Théâtre national populaire
  Théâtre National Populaire
  The Théâtre National Populaire is a theatre now at Villeurbanne, France. It was founded in 1920 by Firmin Gémier in Paris. The theater's policy is to deliver quality entertainment accessible to the general public....
  
  
• Best Musical - L'Opéra de Sarah - avant l'Amérique at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre
  Théâtre de l'Œuvre
  The Théâtre de l'Œuvre is a Paris theatre, located atop cité Monthiers, at 55 rue de Clichy in the 9° arrondissement in Paris, France. It is best known as the theatre where Alfred Jarry’s nihilistic farce Ubu Roi premiered in 1896....
  
  
• Best Adaptation of a Foreign Play - Zabou Breitman for Des gens
• Best Playwright - Jean-Claude Grumberg
  Jean-Claude Grumberg
  Jean-Claude Grumberg is a French writer of children's books and a playwright.- Early life :Before becoming a playwright, Jean-Claude Grumberg held several jobs including working as a tailor, he takes to the middle part of his play L'Atelier. He discovered drama being an actor in the company...
  
   for Vers toi terre promise
• Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Jean-Pierre Vincent for The Marriage of Figaro **Robert Hossein, for Kean...
  
   - Christian Schiaretti for Coriolan
  Coriolanus (play)
  Coriolanus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1605 and 1608. The play is based on the life of the legendary Roman leader, Gaius Marcius Coriolanus.-Characters:*Caius Martius, later surnamed Coriolanus...
  
  
• Best Costumes - Claire Risterucci for Madame de Sade
• Best Stage Design/Set - Catherine Bluwal for Le Diable rouge

2010

Jury presided by Line Renaud

Line Renaud

- Early life :Line Renaud was born in Pont-de-Nieppe on 2 July 1928. Her mother Simone was a shorthand typist; her father was a truck driver during the week, but he played trumpet at the weekends, in a local brass band...

 Awards hosted by Michel Drucker

Michel Drucker

Michel Drucker, CQ is a popular French journalist and TV host.Michel Drucker was born in Vire, Calvados, in Normandy. Jacques Drucker, a doctor, is Michel's younger brother, and Jean Drucker, a TV top executive, is Michel's older brother. He started a journalistic career in 1965 at the ORTF as...

 and Marie Drucker

Marie Drucker

Marie Drucker is a French journalist and television personality.-Life:The daughter of Jean Drucker, a French television executive, and a niece of Michel Drucker, a television journalist, she was educated at the Sorbonne, where she received a degree in modern literature...

• Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor. Winners and nominees.*1987 : Philippe Clévenot in Elvire Jouvet 40** Michel Bouquet in The Imaginary Invalid ** Jacques Dufilho in Staircase...
  
   - Laurent Terzieff
  Laurent Terzieff
  Laurent Terzieff was a French actor.- Biography :Laurent Terzieff was the son of a plastician and of Jean Terzieff, a Russian sculptor who emigrated to France during the First World War. The original surname of his family was Čemerzin.The spectacle of the bombardments had a dramatic effect on...
  
   in L'Habilleur (The Dresser
  The Dresser
  The Dresser is a 1983 film which tells the story of an aging actor's personal assistant, who struggles to keep his charge's life together. It is based on a screenplay by Ronald Harwood, in turn based on his successful 1980 West End and Broadway play of the same name.The film was directed by Peter...
  
  ) and Philoctète (Philoctetes
  Philoctetes (Sophocles)
  Philoctetes is a play by Sophocles . The play was written during the Peloponnesian War. It was first performed at the Festival of Dionysus in 409 BC, where it won first prize. The story takes place during the Trojan War...
  
  )
• Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Pierre Arditi in The Rehearsal **Jean-Michel Dupuis in Conversations After a Burial...
  
   - Henri Courseaux in La Nuit des rois (Twelfth Night)
• Best Male Newcomer - Guillaume Gallienne
  Guillaume Gallienne
  Guillaume Gallienne is French actor who has been a member of the Comédie-Française company from 1998. He made his film debut 1992 in Tableau d'honneur and he has starred in Marie Antoinette by Sofia Coppola....
  
   in Les garçons et Guillaume, à table !
• Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Suzanne Flon in Léopold le bien aimé** Nicole Garcia in Two for the Seesaw ** Denise Grey in Harold and Maude...
  
   - 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...
  
   in La Douleur
  La Douleur
  La Douleur is a controversial, semi-autobiographical work by Marguerite Duras published in 1985 but drawn from diaries she supposedly wrote during World War II. It is a collection of six texts recounting a mix of her experiences of the Nazi Occupation of France with fictional details...
  
  
• Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Sabine Haudepin in Kean**Anne Alvaro in Tonight We Improvise **Catherine Arditi in Adriana Monti...
  
   - Claire Nadeau in La Serva amorosa (The Loving Maid)
• Best Female Newcomer - Alice Belaïdi in Confidences à Allah
• Best Show in an Independent theatre - L'Habilleur (The Dresser
  The Dresser
  The Dresser is a 1983 film which tells the story of an aging actor's personal assistant, who struggles to keep his charge's life together. It is based on a screenplay by Ronald Harwood, in turn based on his successful 1980 West End and Broadway play of the same name.The film was directed by Peter...
  
  ) at the Théâtre Rive Gauche
• Best Show in a National theatre - Les Naufragés du fol espoir at the Théâtre du Soleil
  Théâtre du Soleil
  Le Théâtre du Soleil is a Parisian avant-garde stage ensemble founded by Ariane Mnouchkine, Philippe Léotard and fellow students of the L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in 1964 as a collective of theatre artists. Le Théâtre du Soleil is located at La Cartoucherie, a former munitions...
  
  
• Best Musical - Les Douze Pianos d'Hercule by the Compagnie des Claviers
• Best Comedy - Les 39 marches at the Théâtre La Bruyère
• Best Adaptation of a Foreign Play - Gérald Sibleyras
  Gérald Sibleyras
  Gérald Sibleyras is a French dramatist, and actor, most noted for his 2003 play, Le vent des peupliers that received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy in 2006.-Work:* On a très peu d'amis * Le vent des peupliers...
  
   for Les 39 marches (The 39 Steps
  The 39 Steps
  -Film adaptations based on the novel The Thirty-Nine Steps:* The 39 Steps , directed by Alfred Hitchcock* The 39 Steps , directed by Ralph Thomas* The Thirty Nine Steps , directed by Don Sharp...
  
  )
• Best Playwright - Éric Assous for L'Illusion conjugale
• Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Jean-Pierre Vincent for The Marriage of Figaro **Robert Hossein, for Kean...
  
   - Alain Françon for La Cerisaie (The Cherry Orchard
  The Cherry Orchard
  The Cherry Orchard is Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's last play. It premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre 17 January 1904 in a production directed by Constantin Stanislavski. Chekhov intended this play as a comedy and it does contain some elements of farce; however, Stanislavski insisted on...
  
  )
• Best Costumes - Nathalie Thomas, Marie-Hélène Bouvet, Annie Tran for Les Naufragés du Fol Espoir
• Best Stage Design/Set - Catherine Bluwal for La Serva amorosa (The Loving Maid)
• Best Lighting Design - Gaëlle de Malglaive for La Nuit des rois (Twelfth Night)

2011

Jury presided by Michel Galabru

Michel Galabru

Michel Louis Edmond Galabru is a French actor born on 27 October 1922 in Safi, Morocco.-Career:Over the course of his career, Galabru appeared in over 200 movies and worked with such renowned directors as Bertrand Blier, Costa-Gavras, Luc Besson , and Jean-Luc Godard...

. Awards hosted by Laurent Lafitte

• Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor
  Molière Award for Best Actor. Winners and nominees.*1987 : Philippe Clévenot in Elvire Jouvet 40** Michel Bouquet in The Imaginary Invalid ** Jacques Dufilho in Staircase...
  
   - Christian Hecq in Un fil à la patte (A Fly in the Ointment)
• Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actor. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Pierre Arditi in The Rehearsal **Jean-Michel Dupuis in Conversations After a Burial...
  
   - Guillaume Gallienne
  Guillaume Gallienne
  Guillaume Gallienne is French actor who has been a member of the Comédie-Française company from 1998. He made his film debut 1992 in Tableau d'honneur and he has starred in Marie Antoinette by Sofia Coppola....
  
   in Un fil à la patte (A Fly in the Ointment)
• Best Male Newcomer - Guillaume Marquet in Le Dindon (Sauce for the Goose)
• Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress
  Molière Award for Best Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Suzanne Flon in Léopold le bien aimé** Nicole Garcia in Two for the Seesaw ** Denise Grey in Harold and Maude...
  
   - Catherine Hiegel in La Mère
• Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress
  Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Sabine Haudepin in Kean**Anne Alvaro in Tonight We Improvise **Catherine Arditi in Adriana Monti...
  
   - 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...
  
   in Rêve d'automne (Autumn Dream)
• Best Female Newcomer - Georgia Scalliet in Les Trois Sœurs (Three Sisters
  Three Sisters (play)
  Three Sisters is a play by Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov, perhaps partially inspired by the situation of the three Brontë sisters, but most probably by the three Zimmermann sisters in Perm...
  
  )
• Best Show in an Independent theatre - Le Repas des fauves at the Théâtre Michel
• Best Show in a National theatre - Un fil à la patte (A Fly in the Ointment) at the Comédie-Française
  Comédie-Française
  The Comédie-Française or Théâtre-Français is one of the few state theaters in France. It is the only state theater to have its own troupe of actors. It is located in the 1st arrondissement of Paris....
  
  
• Best Musical - Une flûte enchantée at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord
• Best Comedy - Thé à la menthe ou t'es citron at the Théâtre Fontaine
• Best Adaptation - Julien Sibre for Le Repas des fauves
• Best Playwright - Joël Pommerat for Ma chambre froide
• Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director
  Molière Award for Best Director. Winners and nominees.* 1987 : Jean-Pierre Vincent for The Marriage of Figaro **Robert Hossein, for Kean...
  
   - Julien Sibre for Le Repas des fauves
• Best Costumes - Jean-Daniel Vuillermoz for Henri IV, le bien aimé
• Best Stage Design/Set - Richard Peduzzi
  Richard Peduzzi
  Richard Peduzzi is a French scenographer. He was the director of the French Academy in Rome from September 2002 to August 2008....
  
   for Rêve d'automne (Autumn Dream)
• Best Lighting Design - Dominique Bruguière pour Rêve d'automne (Autumn Dream)
• Honorary Molière - Peter Brook
  Peter Brook
  Peter Stephen Paul Brook CH, CBE is an English theatre and film director and innovator, who has been based in France since the early 1970s.-Life:...
  
  

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