Molière Award
The Molière is the national theater award of France. The award is named after the famous French playwright Molière (1622-1673) and was first awarded in 1987 on the initiative of journalist Georges Cravenne, who was also co-founder of the National Film Award César. Since then, the Union of Artists of the French theater, the Association professionnelle et artistique du théâtre ( APAT ), recognized annually in April or May in Paris, the best French-language stage productions and theater artists of last year. The award ceremony will be broadcast on French television, and in line with the annual Cesar Awards as "La Nuit des Molière " (engl.: "The Night of Molière " ) referred.
Election procedures
About the Award winners who will be awarded with a golden bust of Molière, the members of the Association professionnelle et artistique du théâtre decide in two ballots. In the past, winners were determined by a panel of judges whose decisions were often met with criticism in public. A 2006 newly introduced voting procedure is to make the distribution of prices balanced and representative, although theater journalists and critics, will no longer be allowed to participate in the election, as in 2006, the former President of APAT, Pierre Santini announced.
The APAT may include a maximum of 1,500 members, the proportion of actors must not be more than half of the total number of members. At the last ceremony in the year 2006 1300 Members of Molière Academy voted on the nominated titles and artists, which were composed by theater professionals (850 people), past winners (150 ) and producers from public and private theaters (300). You decide according to objective criteria, such as activity, geographical location or representative character.
In addition, in 2006 one-off special juries were launched, the Molière among other things, for the best theater company and theater musicals and two special prize ( Grand Prix spécial du jury ) awarded the distinguished public and private theater.
Categories
So far, the theater prizes were awarded in 28 categories varying annually. It was between the award of Molière and the Grand Prix spécial du jury, the Special Jury Prize ( awarded to 2006 ) distinguished. At the 21st ceremony of Molière on 14 May 2007 triumphed as the best stage play of a private theater Le Gardien ( The Caretaker ) by Harold Pinter at the Théâtre de l' Oeuvre (directed by Didier Long, adaptation: Philippe Djian ) and with public funds financed production of Cyrano de Bergerac at the Comédie - Denis Podalydès Française, which won six prizes for being the most successful. Criticized the award of prizes by the French daily Le Monde, which denounced the decentralization of the French theater scene. In the two major categories Best play - private theater and the Best play - Public Theatre, a staged theater in Paris to be considered while stage productions will be awarded outside the French capital separately with the award for the best regional theater ( Molière du théâtre en région ). Also, the multi recent years about the criticism that particularly well cut, especially with government subsidies funded theater productions each year at the Molière.
The price ranges of the year 2007: