36th César Awards

The 36th Cesar Awards took place on 25 February 2011 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. The awarded by the French Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma film awards were presented in 22 categories. The annually changing chaired the gala took over in 2011, the American actress Jodie Foster. After Marcello Mastroianni (1993 ), the Office was responsible so again a non- French. As the host ( maître de ceremony ) by the evening was Antoine de Caunes. The French actor had already moderated the event six times in the past.

The award ceremony was broadcast live on the French television station Canal . The annual award honorary prize went to the American director and screenwriter Quentin Tarantino. Tributes dedicated to the Claude Chabrol died in 2010, who had never received a César despite four nominations, as well as the late actor Bernard Giraudeau and the imprisoned Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi. As guests attended, among others, the American actress Olivia de Havilland, the French Minister of Culture Frédéric Mitterrand and former French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin part in the event. The latter had completed a brief guest appearance in the nominated comedy The Names of Love.

Favorite Movies

The nominations were announced on 21 January 2011 at the Parisian restaurant Le Fouquet's on the Champs- Élysées. The year 2010 was more than 206 million moviegoers and a market share of 35 percent, the most successful for over 40 years for the French film, said Alain Terzian, President of the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, which assigns the César Awards.

Favorites on France's national film prize was Xavier Beauvois ' Of Gods and Men. The drama starring Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Philippe Laudenbach, Jacques Herlin in the lead roles was able to put three of its eleven nominations in victories and won the awards for the best French film of the year, for Best Supporting Actor (Michael Lonsdale ) and Best Cinematography. It tells of the fate of several Cistercian monks who stand against fundamentalist terror in Algeria and pay for it with their lives. The film, which is based on a true story, had won at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival the Grand Jury Prize and the 2011 French Prix Lumière. In addition to the critical acclaim received was Of Gods and Men with more than 3.2 million visitors in France as commercially successful, but was not reached as France's candidate in the foreign Oscar 2011 shortlist.

Also to the extended circle of favorites included Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer and Joann Sfars Gainsbourg - The man who loved women, each with eight nominations. Polański language film is a ghostwriter (played by Ewan McGregor ) in the center, which revised the memoirs of a former British prime minister (Pierce Brosnan ) and he's confronted with inconsistencies. The European co-production based on the novel by Robert Harris, had won the Best Director Award and the European Film Awards 2010 at the 60th International Film Festival of Berlin. When Cesar Awards became The Ghost Writer with four awards for the most successful film of the evening. Polanski was awarded for the third time after 1980 ( Tess ) and 2003 ( The Pianist ) the director's prize, more often than any other filmmaker. There were also awards for best adapted screenplay, film music and editing. Sfar dedicated his feature film debut, the biography of the artist, musician and playboy Serge Gainsbourg, who triumphed in the categories of Best First Feature and interface. Éric Elmosnino won for the title role of the César for best actor. The field in the category of best film by the comedy Tournee ( Best Director Award at Cannes, six nominations, no win ), Heartbreaker (5 nominations, no win ), The Names of Love ( 4 nominations, two hits ) and the drama of mammoth ( 3 nominations, no win ) supplements. Despite seven nominations Bertrand Tavernier's historical film was The Princess of Montpensier been denied a nomination in this category. The director filmed the novel by Madame de Lafayette with Mélanie Thierry in the title role and won for the best costumes. For the Best Director Award had next to the eventual winner Polanski, Beauvois and Bertrand Blier also Mathieu Amalric ( On Tour ) and Olivier Assayas ( Carlos - The Jackal ) was taken into account.

Gérard Depardieu had received his 16 César nomination for his starring role as mammoth. But he had to share with Romain Duris ( Heartbreaker ), Jacques Gamblin ( The Names of Love ) and Lambert Wilson ( Of Gods and Men ) Éric Elmosnino ( Gainsbourg - The Man Who Loved Women ) to surrender. In the category of Best Actress Catherine Deneuve had been taken into account for their title role in François Ozon's comedy Potiche for the tenth time. They met together with Isabelle Carré (Les émotifs anonymous ), Charlotte Gainsbourg ( The Tree ) and the British Prix Lumière winner Kristin Scott Thomas (Elle s'appelait Sarah ) on Sara Forestier ( The Names of Love ), which was excellent. In Michel Leclerc's comedy, which has been awarded a further award for best screenplay, Forestier plays a political activist who is passionate in the fight for marginalized groups. At the same time young and attractive woman sleeping with politically right-wing men to turn them ideologically.

Ahead scarcely been considered by the over 4000 -member Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma was Guillaume Canets tragicomedy Little White Lies. The film about a group of friends (played by, among others, François Cluzet, Marion Cotillard and Benoît Magimel ), who decide after an upsetting event to a common holiday by the sea, received two nominations for the two Supporting Actor Valérie Bonneton and Gilles Lellouche, remained but unprämiert. In France, the production had registered over 5.2 million moviegoers, making it the most successful French film. The newspaper Le Figaro had noticed among the nominated films and artists few surprises and - as well as the online service of Libération - the lack of Fabien Ontenientes Comedy Camping 2 pointed out that had 3.9 million visitors lured into the cinema. Been ignored were also Raúl Ruiz's international co-production Mistérios de Lisboa, who won the 2010 Louis- Delluc Prize and Abbas Kiarostami's Copie conforme movie Love, was awarded the Best Actor Award for lead actress Juliette Binoche 2010 in Cannes. Ajourd'hui en France had noticed that comedies were still well represented and advised of the considered production Heartbreaker, Tout ce qui brille and with the appointments of the actresses Deneuve, Carré and Forestier.

Was newly introduced category for the best animated film in which the Oscar-winning short film Logorama on Luc Besson's Arthur et la guerre des deux mondes, L' Homme à la Gordini by Jean -Christophe Lie, Jean- Loup Feliciolis Une vie de chat and the eventual winner - the Golden Globe and Oscar -nominated post by Sylvain Chomet L' Illusioniste - met. For the first time a technology award ( " Trophée César & Techniques" ) was awarded separately also. At the awards ceremony on 10 January 2011, the award went to the company archipelago Production, which had been involved at the intersection of Pierre Salva Doris De Copie conforme vrais mensonges as well. A film ( " Révélations 2011" ) on the 32 pre-selected young actors (each 16 women and men) had been introduced by the U.S. director Zoe Cassavetes on January 17, 2011 in Paris, where famous artists such as Nicole Garcia, Lou Doillon, Emmanuelle Devos or Cédric Klapisch sponsorships took over.

In the category of Best Foreign Language Film award-winning or nominated at the Academy Awards 2010 Posts Bright Star (New Zealand), in their eyes (Argentina) and received Invictus - Invictus (USA) nominations. In addition to Les Amours imaginaires (Canada) and Illégal (Belgium) is favored for the Oscars 2011 Posts Inception and The Social Network ( Golden Globe Award 2011) were nominated. The Social Network won the award.

As the only German artist Albrecht Konrad had the Designer ( The Ghost Writer ) will receive a nomination.

Award winners and nominees

Best Picture ( " Meilleur film" )

Presented by Jodie Foster

Of Gods and Men (Des hommes et des dieux ) - Director: Xavier Beauvois

Best Director ( " Meilleur réalisateur " )

Presented by Nathalie Baye

Roman Polanski - The Ghost Writer ( The Ghost Writer)

Best Actress ( " Meilleure actrice " )

Presented by François Cluzet

Sara Forestier - The Names of Love (Le Nom des gens )

Best Actor ( " Meilleur acteur " )

Presented by Valérie Lemercier

Éric Elmosnino - Gainsbourg - The Man Who Loved Women ( Gainsbourg ( Vie héroïque ) )

Best Supporting Actress ( " Meilleure actrice dans un second rôle " )

Presented by Guillaume Gallienne

Anne Alvaro - The sound of ice cubes (Le Bruit of glaçons )

Best Supporting Actor ( " Meilleur acteur dans un second rôle " )

Presented by Mélanie Thierry

Michael Lonsdale - Of Gods and Men (Des hommes et des dieux )

Best Young Actress ( " Meilleur espoir féminin " )

Presented by Pascal Elbé

Leila Bekhti - Tout ce qui brille

Best Young Actor ( " Meilleur espoir féminin " )

Presented by Emmanuelle Seigner

Édgar Ramírez - Carlos - The Jackal ( Carlos )

Best Cinematography ( " Meilleure photograph " )

Caroline Champetier - Of Gods and Men (Des hommes et des dieux )

Best Editing ( " Meilleur montage" )

Presented by Elsa Zylberstein and Vincent Pérez

Hervé de Luze - The Ghost Writer ( The Ghost Writer)

Best Original Screenplay ( " Meilleur scénario original" )

Baya Kasmi and Michel Leclerc - The Names of Love (Le Nom des gens )

Best Adapted Screenplay ( " Meilleure adaptation" )

Robert Harris and Roman Polanski - The Ghost Writer ( The Ghost Writer)

Best Original Score ( " Meilleure musique " )

Alexandre Desplat - The Ghost Writer ( The Ghost Writer)

Best Sound ( " Meilleur son" )

Presented by Elsa Zylberstein and Vincent Pérez

Daniel Sobrino, Jean Goudier and Cyril Holtz - Gainsbourg - The Man Who Loved Women ( Gainsbourg ( Vie héroïque ) )

Best Art Direction ( " Meilleurs décors " )

Presented by the actresses of the film Tournee

Hugues Tissandier - Adèle and the Secret of the Pharaoh (Les Aventures extraordinaires d' Adèle Blanc -Sec )

Best Costumes ( " Meilleurs costumes " )

Presented by Elisa Sednaoui

Caroline de Vivaise - The Princess of Montpensier (La Princesse de Montpensier )

Best First Feature ( " Meilleur premier film" )

Presented by Roman Polanski

Gainsbourg - The Man Who Loved Women ( Gainsbourg ( Vie héroïque ) ) - Directed by Joann Sfar

Best animated film ( " Meilleur Film d'animation " )

Presented by Élie Semoun

The Illusionist - Directed by Sylvain Chomet

Best Documentary ( " Meilleur film- documentaire " )

Presented by Jean -Paul Rouve and his mother Myriam

Our oceans ( Océans ) - Director: Jacques Perrin

Best Short Film ( " Meilleur court- métrage " )

Presented by François Damiens

Logorama - Director: H5

Best Foreign Film ( " Meilleur Film étranger " )

Presented by Virginie Efira and Tomer Sisley

The Social Network, USA - Director: David Fincher

Speedwell ( " César d' honneur " )

Presented by Diane Kruger and Christoph Waltz

Quentin Tarantino - American film director and screenwriter