Best Actor – Leading Role

César Award for Best Actor

This is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Actor .-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:-2010s:...

• Adrien Brody
  Adrien Brody
  Adrien Brody is an American actor and film producer. He received widespread recognition and acclaim after starring in Roman Polanski's The Pianist . Winning the Academy Award for Best Actor in 2003 at age 29, he is the youngest actor to do so...
  
   – The Pianist
  The Pianist (2002 film)
  The Pianist is a 2002 biographical war film directed by Roman Polanski, starring Adrien Brody. It is an adaptation of the autobiography of the same name by Jewish-Polish musician Władysław Szpilman...
  
  
  • Daniel Auteuil
    Daniel Auteuil
    Daniel Auteuil is a French film, television and theatre actor.-Early life and education:He was born in Algiers, French Algeria.-Career:...
    
     – The Adversary (L'adversaire)
  • François Berléand
    François Berléand
    François Berléand is a French actor.Berléand was born in Paris, France of . He plays Gilles Triquet, the officer manager and equivalent of David Brent in Le Bureau, the French version of The Office, produced by Canal+. He released a book about his childhood in 2006, Le fils de l'homme invisible...
    
     – My Idol (Mon idole)
  • Bernard Campan
    Bernard Campan
    Bernard Campan is a French actor, film director and writer. He is a member of Les Inconnus trio of humorists. He won a César Award for Best Debut for Les Trois Frères, and was nominated for best actor for his role in Se souvenir des belles choses.-Selected filmography:* The Bet * Augustin, King of...
    
     – Beautiful Memories
    Se souvenir des belles choses
    Se souvenir des belles choses Se souvenir des belles choses Se souvenir des belles choses (English: Beautiful Memories is a 2001 French film directed by Zabou Breitman. It won the César Awards for Best Debut, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor, and was nominated for Best Actor...
    
     (Se souvenir des belles choses)
  • Mathieu Kassovitz
    Mathieu Kassovitz
    Mathieu Kassovitz is a French director, screenwriter, producer and actor, best known for his Cannes-winning drama La Haine. Kassovitz is also the founder of MNP Entreprise, a film production company....
    
     – Amen.

Best Actor – Supporting Role

• Bernard Le Coq – Beautiful Memories
  Se souvenir des belles choses
  Se souvenir des belles choses Se souvenir des belles choses Se souvenir des belles choses (English: Beautiful Memories is a 2001 French film directed by Zabou Breitman. It won the César Awards for Best Debut, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor, and was nominated for Best Actor...
  
   (Se souvenir des belles choses)
  • François Cluzet
    François Cluzet
    François Cluzet is a French film and theatre actor, best known in the English-speaking world for starring in the 2006 French film "Tell No One", based on the novel of the same name by the American author Harlan Coben...
    
     – The Adversary (L'adversaire)
  • Gérard Darmon
    Gérard Darmon
    Gérard Darmon is a French movie actor and singer.Second husband to Mathilda May.He has three children: Virginie and the last two by Mathilda May, daughter Sarah and son Jules...
    
     – Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
    Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
    Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra, originally titled Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre, is a 2002 French-German film based on the comic book Astérix et Cléopatre by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo and a sequel for the 1999 movie Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar. It was the most expensive French...
    
     (Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre)
  • Jamel Debbouze
    Jamel Debbouze
    Jamel Debbouze is an actor, comedian and producer of Moroccan descent.-Biography:Debbouze is the oldest of five brothers. He was born in Paris, France, but his family moved to Morocco the following year...
    
     – Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
    Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
    Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra, originally titled Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre, is a 2002 French-German film based on the comic book Astérix et Cléopatre by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo and a sequel for the 1999 movie Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar. It was the most expensive French...
    
     (Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre)
  • Denis Podalydès
    Denis Podalydès
    Denis Podalydès is a French actor, director and scriptwriter of Greek descent. He is a Sociétaire of the Comédie-Française....
    
     – Summer Things (Embrassez qui vous voudrez)

Best Actress – Leading Role

César Award for Best Actress

List of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Actress .-Winners and nominees:...

• 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 ,...
  
   – Beautiful Memories
  Se souvenir des belles choses
  Se souvenir des belles choses Se souvenir des belles choses Se souvenir des belles choses (English: Beautiful Memories is a 2001 French film directed by Zabou Breitman. It won the César Awards for Best Debut, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor, and was nominated for Best Actor...
  
   (Se souvenir des belles choses)
  • Fanny Ardant
    Fanny Ardant
    Fanny Marguerite Judith Ardant is a French actress. She has appeared in more than fifty motion pictures since 1976. Ardant won the César Award for Best Actress in 1997 for her performance in Pédale douce.-Early life:...
    
     – 8 Women (8 femmes)
  • Ariane Ascaride
    Ariane Ascaride
    Ariane Ascaride is a French actress and screenwriter. She has appeared in such films as Marius et Jeannette , Ma vraie vie à Rouen and À la place du coeur...
    
     – Marie-Jo and Her 2 Lovers (Marie-Jo et ses 2 amours)
  • Juliette Binoche
    Juliette Binoche
    Juliette Binoche is a French actress, artist and dancer. She has appeared in more than 40 feature films, been recipient of numerous international accolades, is a published author and has appeared on stage across the world. Coming from an artistic background, she began taking acting lessons during...
    
     – Jet Lag
    Jet Lag (film)
    Jet Lag is a 2002 film starring Juliette Binoche and Jean Reno. It is the second film directed by Danièle Thompson, after the 1999 release La Bûche.-Plot:...
    
     (Décalage horaire)
  • Isabelle Huppert
    Isabelle Huppert
    Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert is a French actress who has appeared in over 90 film and television productions since 1971. She has had 14 films in official competition at the Cannes Film Festival, and won the Best Actress Award twice, for Violette Nozière and La pianiste . She is also the most...
    
     – 8 Women (8 femmes)

Best Actress – Supporting Role

• Karin Viard
  Karin Viard
  Karin Viard is a multi-award-winning French actress. She made her film debut in Tatie Danielle in 1990.Since then she has appeared in such films as Delicatessen, L'Emploi du temps , Adultère, mode d'emploi and La parenthèse enchantée.She was a member of the 2003 Cannes Film Festival...
  
   – Summer Things (Embrassez qui vous voudrez)
  • 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...
    
     – Special Delivery
    Special Delivery
    Special Delivery may refer to:*Special delivery , a postal service for urgent postal packets-Literature:*"Special Delivery" , a 1953 short story by Damon Knight*Special Delivery , a 1997 novel by Danielle Steel...
    
     (C'est le bouquet!)
  • 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....
    
     – 8 Women (8 femmes)
  • Emmanuelle Devos
    Emmanuelle Devos
    Emmanuelle Devos is a French actress. Devos was born to daughter of actress Marie Henriau in Paris. She appeared in 50 films between 1986 and 2009. She won the César Award for Best Actress in 2002 for her performance in Sur mes lèvres, directed by Jacques Audiard...
    
     – The Adversary (L'adversaire)
  • Judith Godrèche – The Spanish Apartement (L'auberge espagnole)

Best Cinematography

César Award for Best Cinematography

The following are the winners of the annual César Award for Best Cinematography .-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:-2010s:...

• The Pianist
  The Pianist (2002 film)
  The Pianist is a 2002 biographical war film directed by Roman Polanski, starring Adrien Brody. It is an adaptation of the autobiography of the same name by Jewish-Polish musician Władysław Szpilman...
  
   – Paweł Edelman
  • 8 Women (8 femmes) – Jeanne Lapoirie
  • Amen. – Patrick Blossier

• Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
  Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
  Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra, originally titled Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre, is a 2002 French-German film based on the comic book Astérix et Cléopatre by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo and a sequel for the 1999 movie Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar. It was the most expensive French...
  
   (Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre) – Philippe Guillotel, Tanino Liberatore
  Tanino Liberatore
  Gaetano Liberatore , better known as Tanino Liberatore, is an Italian comics author and illustrator. His best known fictional character is RanXerox.- Life and work :...
  
   and Florence Sadaune
  • 8 Women (8 femmes) – Pascaline Chavanne
  • The Pianist
    The Pianist (2002 film)
    The Pianist is a 2002 biographical war film directed by Roman Polanski, starring Adrien Brody. It is an adaptation of the autobiography of the same name by Jewish-Polish musician Władysław Szpilman...
    
     – Anna B. Sheppard
    Anna B. Sheppard
    Anna Biedrzycka Sheppard is a Polish costume designer. She graduated architecture from Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and now lives in London. A sister to fellow costume designer Magdalena Biedrzycka, Sheppard made many films with directing masters like Steven Spielberg or Roman Polański...
    
    

Best Debut

César Award for Best Debut

The César Award for Best Debut was an award given out at the annual César Awards between 1982 and 1999...

• Beautiful Memories
  Se souvenir des belles choses
  Se souvenir des belles choses Se souvenir des belles choses Se souvenir des belles choses (English: Beautiful Memories is a 2001 French film directed by Zabou Breitman. It won the César Awards for Best Debut, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor, and was nominated for Best Actor...
  
   (Se souvenir des belles choses) – Zabou Breitman
  Isabelle Breitman
  Zabou Breitman born Isabelle Breitman is a French actress and director of Jewish origin, known as Zabou or Zabou Breitman. She is the daughter of actors Jean-Claude Deret and Céline Léger. At age four, she appeared in her first movie. Since 1981, Zabou has acted in dozens of roles in films, TV...
  
  
  • Carnage (Carnages) – Delphine Gleize
    Delphine Gleize
    Delphine Gleize is a French film director and screenwriter. She has directed ten films since 1998. Her film Carnages was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Sale battars...
    
    
  • Hypnotized and Hysterical (Filles perdues, cheveux gras) – Claude Duty
  • Irène
    Irene
    Irene is a name derived from the Greek word εἰρήνη meaning "peace". It may also be spelled or transliterated as "Irini", "Eirene", or "Eirini".It may refer to:-Mythical figures:* Eirene , one of the Horae...
    
     – Ivan Calbérac
  • My Idol (Mon idole) – Guillaume Canet
    Guillaume Canet
    Guillaume Canet is a French actor and film director.Canet began his career in theatre and television before moving to film. He starred in several films like Joyeux Noël, Love Me If You Dare and The Beach...
    
    

Best Director

César Award for Best Director

This is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Director .-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:-2010s:...

• Roman Polanski
  Roman Polanski
  Roman Polanski is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few "truly international filmmakers."...
  
   – The Pianist
  The Pianist (2002 film)
  The Pianist is a 2002 biographical war film directed by Roman Polanski, starring Adrien Brody. It is an adaptation of the autobiography of the same name by Jewish-Polish musician Władysław Szpilman...
  
  
  • Costa Gavras – Amen.
  • Cédric Klapisch
    Cédric Klapisch
    Cédric Klapisch , is a French film director.Klapisch was born at Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine. He is from a Jewish family; his maternal grandparents were deported to Auschwitz. He studied cinema at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle as well as at the University of Paris VIII...
    
     – The Spanish Apartement (L'auberge espagnole)
  • François Ozon
    François Ozon
    François Ozon is a French film director and screenwriter and whose films are usually characterized by sharp satirical wit and a freewheeling view on human sexuality....
    
     – 8 Women (8 femmes)
  • Nicolas Philibert – To Be and to Have (Être et avoir)

Best Editing

César Award for Best Editing

The César Award for Best Editing is one of the annual César Awards given by the French Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinema. Eligible films are usually in the French language.-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:...

• To Be and to Have (Être et avoir) – Nicolas Philibert
  • The Pianist
    The Pianist (2002 film)
    The Pianist is a 2002 biographical war film directed by Roman Polanski, starring Adrien Brody. It is an adaptation of the autobiography of the same name by Jewish-Polish musician Władysław Szpilman...
    
     – Hervé de Luze
    Hervé de Luze
    Hervé de Luze is a French film editor with about fifty feature film credits.de Luze had a long collaboration with the director Claude Berri, for whom he edited eight films between 1981 and 1999. de Luze has been director Roman Polanski's principal editor since Pirates , including the much honored...
    
    
  • The Spanish Apartement (L'auberge espagnole) – Francine Sandberg

Best Film

César Award for Best Film

The winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Film .-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:-2010s:...

• The Pianist
  The Pianist (2002 film)
  The Pianist is a 2002 biographical war film directed by Roman Polanski, starring Adrien Brody. It is an adaptation of the autobiography of the same name by Jewish-Polish musician Władysław Szpilman...
  
   – Roman Polanski
  Roman Polanski
  Roman Polanski is a French-Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few "truly international filmmakers."...
  
  
  • 8 Women (8 femmes) – François Ozon
    François Ozon
    François Ozon is a French film director and screenwriter and whose films are usually characterized by sharp satirical wit and a freewheeling view on human sexuality....
    
    
  • Amen. – Costa Gavras
  • The Spanish Apartement (L'auberge espagnole) – Cédric Klapisch
    Cédric Klapisch
    Cédric Klapisch , is a French film director.Klapisch was born at Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine. He is from a Jewish family; his maternal grandparents were deported to Auschwitz. He studied cinema at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle as well as at the University of Paris VIII...
    
    
  • To Be and to Have (Être et avoir) – Nicolas Philibert

Best Film – European Union

César Award for Best Film from the European Union

This is a list of the winners of and nominees for the César Award for Best Film from the European Union . The prize was awarded three times, in 2003, 2004 and 2005, and was subsequently discontinued...

• Talk to Her
  Talk to Her
  Talk to Her is a 2002 Spanish comedy-drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Geraldine Chaplin, and Rosario Flores...
  
   (Hable con ella) – Pedro Almodóvar
  Pedro Almodóvar
  Pedro Almodóvar Caballero is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.Almodóvar is arguably the most successful and internationally known Spanish filmmaker of his generation. His films, marked by complex narratives, employ the codes of melodrama and use elements of pop culture, popular...
  
  
  • 11'9"01 September 11 – Youssef Chahine
    Youssef Chahine
    Youssef Chahine was an Egyptian film director active in the Egyptian film industry since 1950. He was credited with launching the career of actor Omar Sharif...
    
    , Amos Gitai
    Amos Gitai
    Amos Gitai , born 11 October 1950 in Haifa, Israel, is an Israeli filmmaker and director. He is mainly known for making documentaries and experimental / minimalist feature films...
    
    , Alejandro González Iñárritu
    Alejandro González Iñárritu
    Alejandro González Iñárritu is a Mexican film director.González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and by the DGA of America for Best Director. He is also the first and only Mexican born director to have won the Prix de la mise en scene...
    
    , Shohei Imamura
    Shohei Imamura
    was a Japanese film director. Imamura was the first Japanese director to win two Palme d'Or awards.His eldest son Daisuke Tengan is also a script writer and film director, and worked on the screenplays to Imamura's filmsThe Eel , Dr...
    
    , Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach
    Ken Loach
    Kenneth "Ken" Loach is a Palme D'Or winning English film and television director.He is known for his naturalistic, social realist directing style and for his socialist beliefs, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as homelessness , labour rights and child abuse at the...
    
    , Samira Makhmalbaf
    Samira Makhmalbaf
    Samira Makhmalbaf is an internationally acclaimed Iranian filmmaker and script writer. She is the daughter of Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the film director and writer. Samira Makhmalbaf belongs to the New Wave movement within Iranian cinema...
    
    , Mira Nair
    Mira Nair
    Mira Nair is an Indian film director and producer based in New York. Her production company is Mirabai Films.She was educated at Delhi University and Harvard University. Her debut feature film, Salaam Bombay! , won the Golden Camera award at the Cannes Film Festival and also earned the nomination...
    
    , Idrissa Ouedraogo
    Idrissa Ouedraogo
    Idrissa Ouedraogo is a film director from Burkina Faso. He is best known for his films Yaaba and Tilaï.-Biography:...
    
    , Sean Penn
    Sean Penn
    Sean Justin Penn is an American actor, screenwriter and film director, also known for his political and social activism...
    
     and Danis Tanović
    Danis Tanovic
    Danis Tanović is a Bosnian film director and screenwriter.Tanović is best known for having directed and written the script for the 2001 Bosnian movie No Man's Land which won an Academy Award. He was a member of the jury at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.-Biography:Danis Tanović was born in the...
    
    
  • Gosford Park
    Gosford Park
    Gosford Park is a 2001 British-American mystery comedy-drama film directed by Robert Altman and written by Julian Fellowes. The film stars an ensemble cast, which includes Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Alan Bates, and Michael Gambon...
    
     – Robert Altman
    Robert Altman
    Robert Bernard Altman was an American film director and screenwriter known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his body of work with an Academy Honorary Award.His films MASH , McCabe and...
    
    
  • The Man Without a Past
    The Man Without a Past
    The Man Without a Past is a 2002 Finnish comedy-drama film directed by Aki Kaurismäki and starring Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen and Juhani Niemelä. It is the second installment in Kaurismäki's Finland trilogy, the other two films being Drifting Clouds and Lights in the Dusk...
    
     (Mies vailla menneisyyttä) – Aki Kaurismäki
    Aki Kaurismäki
    -Career:After studying Media Studies at the University of Tampere, Aki Kaurismäki started his career as a co-director in the films of his elder brother Mika Kaurismäki. His debut as an independent director was Crime and Punishment , Dostoyevsky's famous crime story set in modern-day Helsinki...
    
    
  • Sweet Sixteen
    Sweet Sixteen (2002 film)
    Sweet Sixteen is a 2002 film by director Ken Loach. The film tells the story of a working class Scottish teenage boy, Liam , a typical 'ned', who dreams of starting afresh with his mother who is completing a prison term...
    
     – Ken Loach
    Ken Loach
    Kenneth "Ken" Loach is a Palme D'Or winning English film and television director.He is known for his naturalistic, social realist directing style and for his socialist beliefs, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as homelessness , labour rights and child abuse at the...
    
    

Best Foreign Film

César Award for Best Foreign Film

This is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Foreign Film .-1970s:-1980s:-1990s:-2000s:-2010s:...

• Bowling for Columbine
  Bowling for Columbine
  Bowling for Columbine is a 2002 documentary film written, directed, produced, and narrated by Michael Moore. The film explores what Michael Moore suggests are the causes for the Columbine High School massacre and other acts of violence with guns...
  
   – Michael Moore
  Michael Moore
  Michael Francis Moore is an American filmmaker, author, social critic and activist. He is the director and producer of Fahrenheit 9/11, which is the highest-grossing documentary of all time. His films Bowling for Columbine and Sicko also place in the top ten highest-grossing documentaries...
  
   • USA
  • Minority Report
    Minority Report (film)
    Minority Report is a 2002 American neo-noir science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg and loosely based on the short story "The Minority Report" by Philip K. Dick. It is set primarily in Washington, D.C...
    
     – Steven Spielberg
    Steven Spielberg
    Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...
    
     • USA
  • Ocean's Eleven
    Ocean's Eleven (2001 film)
    Ocean's Eleven is a 2001 American comedy-crime caper and remake of the 1960 Rat Pack caper film of the same name. The 2001 film was directed by Steven Soderbergh and features an ensemble cast including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Andy García, and Julia Roberts. The film was...
    
     – Steven Soderbergh
    Steven Soderbergh
    Steven Andrew Soderbergh is an American film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, and an Academy Award-winning film director. He is best known for directing commercial Hollywood films like Erin Brockovich, Traffic, and the remake of Ocean's Eleven, but he has also directed smaller less...
    
     • USA
  • Painted Fire
    Chi-hwa-seon
    Chi-hwa-seon or Chwi-hwa-seon, , is a 2002 South Korean drama film directed by Im Kwon-taek about Jang Seung-up , a nineteenth-century Korean painter who changed the direction of Korean art.-Synopsis:It begins with the Korean artist being suspicious of a Japanese...
    
     (Chi-hwa-seon) – Im Kwon-taek
    Im Kwon-taek
    Im Kwon-taek is one of South Korea's most renowned film directors. In an active and prolific career, his films have won many domestic and international film festival awards as well as considerable box-office success, and helped bring international attention to the Korean film industry.- Early life...
    
     • South Korea
    South Korea
    The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
    
    
  • Spirited Away
    Spirited Away
    is a 2001 Japanese animated fantasy-adventure film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. The film tells the story of Chihiro Ogino, a sullen ten-year-old girl who, while moving to a new neighborhood and after her parents are transformed into pigs by the witch Yubaba,...
    
     (千と千尋の神隠し / Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi) – Hayao Miyazaki
    Hayao Miyazaki
    is a Japanese manga artist and prominent film director and animator of many popular anime feature films. Through a career that has spanned nearly fifty years, Miyazaki has attained international acclaim as a maker of animated feature films and, along with Isao Takahata, co-founded Studio Ghibli,...
    
     • Japan
    Japan
    Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
    
    

Best Music

César Award for Best Music Written for a Film

This is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Music Written for a Film . Before 2000, the award was called "César Award for Best Music".-1970s:...

• The Pianist
  The Pianist (2002 film)
  The Pianist is a 2002 biographical war film directed by Roman Polanski, starring Adrien Brody. It is an adaptation of the autobiography of the same name by Jewish-Polish musician Władysław Szpilman...
  
   – Wojciech Kilar
  Wojciech Kilar
  Wojciech Kilar ; b. 17 July 1932 in Lwów, Poland) is a Polish classical and film music composer.-Biography:Wojciech Kilar is one of Poland’s esteemed composers. Born in 1932 in Lwów . His father was a gynecologist and his mother was a theater actress...
  
  
  • 8 Women (8 femmes) – Krishna Levy
    Krishna Levy
    Krishna Levy, born on May 27, 1964, in New Delhi , is a French film score composer.- External links :* * on Internet Movie Database- References :* at * CD booklets...
    
    
  • Amen. – Armand Amar
    Armand Amar
    Armand Amar is an Israel-born French composer who grew up in Morocco. He won the 2010 César Award for Best Music Written for a Film for Le Concert .-Biography:...
    
    
  • Laissez-passer – Antoine Duhamel
    Antoine Duhamel
    Antoine Duhamel , is a French composer, orchestra conductor and music teacher.Born in Valmondois in the Val-d'Oise département of France, Antoine Duhamel came from a cinematic family and studied music at the Sorbonne. He wrote the score for his first film in 1960, going on to work with many of...
    
    

• The Pianist
  The Pianist (2002 film)
  The Pianist is a 2002 biographical war film directed by Roman Polanski, starring Adrien Brody. It is an adaptation of the autobiography of the same name by Jewish-Polish musician Władysław Szpilman...
  
   – Allan Starski
  • 8 Women (8 femmes) – Arnaud de Moleron
  • Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
    Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
    Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra, originally titled Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre, is a 2002 French-German film based on the comic book Astérix et Cléopatre by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo and a sequel for the 1999 movie Asterix & Obelix Take On Caesar. It was the most expensive French...
    
     (Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre) – Hoang Thanh At
  • Laissez-passer – Emile Ghigo

Best Short Film

César Award for Best Short Film

The César Award for Best Short Film is a category of the César Awards, France's national film award.The winners since its inauguration in 1992 have been:...

• Peau de vache – Gérald Hustache-Mathieu
  • Candidature – Emmanuel Bourdieu
  • Ce vieux rêve qui bouge – Alain Guiraudie
  • Squash
    Squash (2002 film)
    Squash is a 2002 French short film directed and written by Lionel Bailliu. The film has won multiple awards at film festivals and was nominated for an Academy Award in the Live Action Short Film category in 2004...
    
     – Lionel Bailliu
    Lionel Bailliu
    Lionel Bailliu is a filmmaker best known for writing and directing his Academy Award-nominated 2002 film Squash. According to the Internet Movie Database, Bailliu also wrote four episodes of the French T.V. series Élodie Bradford, a show he created in 2004...
    
    

Best Sound

César Award for Best Sound

This is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Sound .-Winners and nominees:*1976 : Nara Kollery *1977 : Jean-Pierre Ruh *1978 : Jacques Maumont...

• The Pianist
  The Pianist (2002 film)
  The Pianist is a 2002 biographical war film directed by Roman Polanski, starring Adrien Brody. It is an adaptation of the autobiography of the same name by Jewish-Polish musician Władysław Szpilman...
  
   – Jean-Marie Blondel, Gérard Hardy, Dean Humphreys
  • 8 Women (8 femmes) – Pierre Gamet, Benoît Hillebrant and Jean-Pierre Laforce
  • Amen. – Dominique Gaborieau and Pierre Gamet

• Amen. – Costa Gavras, 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...
  
  
  • 8 Women (8 femmes) – François Ozon
    François Ozon
    François Ozon is a French film director and screenwriter and whose films are usually characterized by sharp satirical wit and a freewheeling view on human sexuality....
    
     and Marina de Van
    Marina de Van
    Marina de Van is a French film director, screenwriter and actress. Her film, Don't Look Back, was screened out of competition at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* See the Sea...
    
    
  • The Pianist
    The Pianist (2002 film)
    The Pianist is a 2002 biographical war film directed by Roman Polanski, starring Adrien Brody. It is an adaptation of the autobiography of the same name by Jewish-Polish musician Władysław Szpilman...
    
     – Ronald Harwood
    Ronald Harwood
    Sir Ronald Harwood CBE is an author, playwright and screenwriter. He is most noted for his plays for the British stage as well as the screenplays for The Dresser and The Pianist, for which he won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay...
    
    
  • The Spanish Apartement (L'auberge espagnole) – Cédric Klapisch
    Cédric Klapisch
    Cédric Klapisch , is a French film director.Klapisch was born at Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine. He is from a Jewish family; his maternal grandparents were deported to Auschwitz. He studied cinema at the University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle as well as at the University of Paris VIII...
    
    
  • Summer Things (Embrassez qui vous voudrez) – Michel Blanc
    Michel Blanc
    Michel Blanc is a French actor and director who is noted for his roles of losers and hypochondriacs...
    
    

Most Promising Actor

César Award for Most Promising Actor

This is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Most Promising Actor .-1980s:-1990s:*1991: Gérald Thomassin: Le petit criminel*1992: Manuel Blanc: J'embrasse pas...

• Jean-Paul Rouve
  Jean-Paul Rouve
  Jean-Paul Rouve , who was part of Les Robins des Bois, is a French film and television actor. He is also a film director and screenwriter.-Career:Rouve has appeared in over thirty films and over ten television productions....
  
   – Monsieur Batignole
  • Lorànt Deutsch
    Lorànt Deutsch
    Laszlo Matekovics, aka « Lorànt Deutsch » , is a French actor and writer.Born at Alençon, his father was Hungarian and his mother was French....
    
     – Shooting Stars
    Shooting Stars (film)
    Shooting Stars is a 1927 British drama film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Annette Benson, Brian Aherne and Wally Patch. It was Asquith's first film.The novelisation of the film was written by the popular novelist E. Charles Vivian....
    
     (3 zéros)
  • Morgan Marinne – The Son
    The Son (film)
    -Synopsis:Olivier , a carpenter by trade who teaches at a trades training centre, knowingly takes on Francis Thorion, the murderer of his son, as an apprentice. Francis is unaware of his connection with Olivier from five years ago. Olivier, tormented by the loss of his son and his separation from...
    
     (Le fils)
  • Gaspard Ulliel
    Gaspard Ulliel
    Gaspard Ulliel is a French film actor and model. He began appearing in made-for-television films during the late 1990s and early 2000s, and then began to be known as a film actor in France, as well as starring in the title role in the thriller Hannibal Rising.-Life and career:Ulliel was born in...
    
     – Summer Things (Embrassez qui vous voudrez)
  • Malik Zidi
    Malik Zidi
    Malik Zidi is a French film, television and theater actor. Zidi is a four-time nominated and one time César Award recipient for Most Promising Actor.-Career:...
    
     – Un moment de bonheur

Most Promising Actress

César Award for Most Promising Actress

The following is the list of winners of the César Award for Most Promising Actress . Since its inception in 1983, the award is given as part of the French film industry's annual César Awards....

• Cécile de France
  Cécile de France
  Cécile de France is a Belgian actress. After achieving success in French cinema hits such as L'Art de la séduction and Irène , she gained international attention for her lead role in Haute Tension and Hereafter .- Career :Born in Namur, she left Belgium at the age of 17 to go to Paris where she...
  
   – The Spanish Apartement (L'auberge espagnole)
  • Émilie Dequenne
    Émilie Dequenne
    Émilie Dequenne is a French-speaking Belgian actress.-Biography:She won the Best Actress award at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival for her debut film performance in the Palme d'Or-winning film Rosetta...
    
     – A Housekeeper (Une femme de ménage)
  • Mélanie Doutey
    Mélanie Doutey
    Mélanie Doutey is a French actress, the daughter of director and producer, Alain Doutey, and the actress Arielle Séménoff. She has appeared in Claude Chabrol's La Fleur du Mal, which also starred Nathalie Baye, and El Lobo, the true story of a mole within the Basque terrorist group ETA...
    
     – The Warrior's Brother (Le frère du guerrier)
  • Marina Foïs
    Marina Foïs
    -Selected filmography:* Poliss * 22 Bullets * The Ball of the Actresses * RRRrrrr!!! * Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra * The Race -External links:...
    
     – Hypnotized and Hysterical (Filles perdues, cheveux gras)
  • Ludivine Sagnier
    Ludivine Sagnier
    Ludivine Sagnier is a French actress and model, who has appeared in 33 films since 1989. She was nominated for two César Awards for Best Supporting Actress in Swimming Pool and Un secret .-Early life:...
    
     – 8 Women (8 femmes)

Honorary César

Honorary César

The César Award is France's national film award. Recipients are selected by the members of the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinema. The following are the recipients of the honorary César award since 1976.- See also :**...

• Bernadette Lafont
  Bernadette Lafont
  Bernadette Lafont is a French actress and the mother of Pauline Lafont .Bernadette Lafont won the César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for L'Effrontée...
  
  , French actress.
• Spike Lee
  Spike Lee
  Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His production company, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983....
  
  , American actor, director and screenwriter.
• Meryl Streep
  Meryl Streep
  Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep is an American actress who has worked in theatre, television and film.Streep made her professional stage debut in 1971's The Playboy of Seville, before her screen debut in the television movie The Deadliest Season in 1977. In that same year, she made her film debut with...
  
  , American actress.

External links

• César Awards 2003 at the IMDb