Cesar Awards 2017: Isabelle Huppert and Xavier Dolan Lead This Year’s Winners
Before Hollywood takes the spotlight this
weekend, the film world turns its eyes to France for the annual Cesar Awards.
Presented by the French Academy, this year’s nominees represent a distinct blend
of international favorites, festival standouts and homegrown hits.
Paul Verhoeven’s “Elle” led this year’s nominees, scoring 11 nominations
for Verhoeven as Best Director, lead actress Isabelle Huppert, Best Adapted
Screenplay and a trio of other acting awards.
The evening’s winners at Paris’ Salle
Pleyel featured a variety of upsets and sure things. Huppert, going into a busy
weekend in the States, won her category. In a pair of surprises, Xavier Dolan
and Gaspard Ulliel both won their respective categories for Dolan’s “It’s Only
the End of the World.” Houda Benyamina’s debut feature “Divines” also won big,
taking home prizes for Best First Film, Best New Actress and Best
Supporting Actress.
A full list of nominees is below, with winners bolded in
each category:
Best Film
Divines
Elle - Winner
Franz
The Innocents
The Innocents
Slack Bay
From the Land of the Moon
Victoria
Best Director
Houda Benyamina for Divines
Paul Verhoeven for Elle
Francois Ozon for Frantz
Anne Fontaine for The Innocents
Xavier Dolan for It’s
Only the End of the World - Winner
Bruno Dumont for Slack Bay
Nicole Garcia for From the Land of the Moon
Best Actress
Judith Chemla for A Woman’s Life
Marion Cotillard for From the Land of the Moon
Virginie Efira for Victoria
Marina Fois for Faultless
Isabelle Huppert for Elle - Winner
Sidse Babett Knudsen for 150 Milligrams
Best Actor
Francois Cluzet for Irreplaceable
Pierre Deladonchamps for The Son of John
Nicolas Duvauchelle for A Decent Man
Gaspard Ulliel for It’s
Only the End of the World - Winner
Fabrice Luchini for Slack Bay
Omar Sy for Chocolat
Best Supporting Actress
Nathalie Baye for It’s Only the End of the World
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi for Slack Bay
Anne Consigny for Elle
Deborah Lukumuena for Divines - Winner
Melanie Thierry for The Dancer
Best Supporting Actor
Gabriel Arcand for The Son of John
Vincent Cassel for It’s Only the End of the World
Vincent Lacoste for Victoria
Laurent Lafitte for Elle
James Thierree for Chocolat - Winner
Melvil Poupad for Victoria
Best New Actress
Paula Beer for Frantz
Oulaya Amamra for Divines - Winner
Lily-Rose Depp for The Dancer
Noemie Merlant for Heaven Will Wait
Raph for Slack Bay
Best New Actor
Jonas Bloquet for Elle
Damien Bonnard for Staying Vertical
Niels Schneider for Dark
Inclusion - Winner
Corentin Fila for Being 17
Kacey Mottet Klein for Being 17
Best Foreign Film
Aquarius by
Kleber Mendonca Filho (Brazil)
Graduation by Cristian
Mungiu (Romania)
The Unknown Girl by The
Dardenne Brothers (Belgium)
Manchester by the Sea by Kenneth
Lonergan (United States)
I, Daniel Blake by Ken Loach (United Kingdom) - Winner
Toni Erdmann by Maren Ade
(Germany)
Best Original Screenplay
Romain Compingt, Houda Benyamina and Malik
Rumeau for Divines
Solveig Anspach, Jean-Luc Gaget
for The Aquatic Effect - Winner
Sabrina Karine, Alice Vial, Pascal Bonitzer and Anne
Fontaine for The Innocents
Bruno Dumont for Slack Bay
Justine Triet for Victoria
Best Adapted Screenplay
David Birke for Elle
Severine Bosschem, Emmanuelle Bercot for 150 Milligrams
Francois Ozon for Frantz
Celine Sciamma for My
Life as a Zucchini - Winner
Nicole Garcia, Jacquest Fieschi for From the Land of the Moon
Katell Quillevere, Gille Taurand for Heal the Living
Best Documentary Film
Derniers
Nouvelles du Cosmos by Julie
Bertucelli
Fire at Sea by
Gianfranco Rosi
Thanks Boss! by Francois Ruffin - Winner
Swagger by Olivier
Babinet
Journey Through French Cinema by
Bertrand Tavernier
Best First Film
The
Fabulous Patars by Sophie
Reine
The Dancer by Stephanie
di Guisto
Dark Inclusion by Arthur
Harari
Divines by Houda Benyamina - Winner
Rosalie Blum by Julien
Rappeneau
Best Original Score
Gabriel Yared for Chocolat
Ibrahim Maalouf for In
the Forests of Siberia - Winner
Anne Dudley for Elle
Philippe Romi for Frantz
Sophie Hunger for My Life as a Zucchini
Best Sound
Brigitte Taillandier, Vincent Guillon,
Stephane Thiebaut for Chocolat
Jean-Paul Mugel, Alexis Place, Cyril Holtz, Damie
Lazzerini for Elle
Martin Boissau, Benoit Gargonne, Jean-Paul Hurier for Frantz
Marc Engles, Fred Demolder,
Sylvain Rety, Jean-Paul Hurier for The
Odyssey - Winner
Jean-Pirre Duret, Sylvain Malbrant, Jean-Pierre Laforce
for From the Land of the Moon
Best Editing
Loic Lallemand, Vincent Tricon for Divines
Job Ter Burg for Elle
Laure Gardette for Frantz
Xavier Dolan for It’s
Only the End of the World - Winner
Simon Jacquet for From the Land of the Moon
Best Cinematography
Stephane Fontaine for Elle
Pascal Marti for Frantz - Winner
Caroline Champetier for The Innocents
Guillaume Deffontaines for Slack Bay
Christophe Beaucarne for From the Land of the Moon
Best Costumes
Pascaline Chavanne for Frantz
Catherine Leterrier for From the Land of the Moon
Anais Romand for The
Dancer - Winner
Alexander Charles for Slack Bay
Madeline Fontain for A Woman’s Life
Best Animated Film
The
Girl Without Hands
My Life as a Zucchini - Winner
The Red Turtle
Best Animated Short Film
Cafe Froid
Celui Qui a Deux Ames - Winner
Journal Anime
Peripheria
Best Short Film
After
Suzanne
Au Bruit des Clochettes
Chasse Royale
Mamans (tie) - Winner
Vers la Tendresse (tie) - Winner
