Prix Suzanne Bianchetti
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The Prix Suzanne Bianchetti is an award in French
cinema given annually since 1937 to the most promising young film actress.
The award was created by writer/actor René Jeanne
(1887-1969) who served as the director of L'Etablissement Cinématographique des Armées. When his wife, actress Suzanne Bianchetti
died in 1936 at the age of 47, he established an award dedicated to her memory to be given annually to the most promising young actress.
The award was given for the first time in 1937 to actress Junie Astor (1912-1967) for her performance in the film, "Club de femmes." The award comes in the form of a medallion engraved with Suzanne Bianchetti's image. Since its inception, the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti has been awarded to many of the greatest names in French cinema who went on to national and international stardom.
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cinema given annually since 1937 to the most promising young film actress.
The award was created by writer/actor René Jeanne
René Jeanne
René Jeanne was a French actor, writer, and cinema historian. He was born in 1887 and died in 1969. Jeanne was married to actress Suzanne Bianchetti.Jeanne was also notable for serving on the jury of the Mostra de Venise in 1937 and 1938.- Film Festival :...
(1887-1969) who served as the director of L'Etablissement Cinématographique des Armées. When his wife, actress Suzanne Bianchetti
Suzanne Bianchetti
Suzanne Bianchetti was a film actress.Suzanne Bianchetti appeared in her first film in the early 1900s and quickly became one of France's most loved and respected actresses...
died in 1936 at the age of 47, he established an award dedicated to her memory to be given annually to the most promising young actress.
The award was given for the first time in 1937 to actress Junie Astor (1912-1967) for her performance in the film, "Club de femmes." The award comes in the form of a medallion engraved with Suzanne Bianchetti's image. Since its inception, the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti has been awarded to many of the greatest names in French cinema who went on to national and international stardom.
List of winners (incomplete)
- 1937 – Junie Astor (Club de femmesClub de femmesClub de femmes is a 1936 French film directed and written by Jacques Deval, and starring Danielle Darrieux.-Cast:*Danielle Darrieux - Claire Derouve*Josette Day - Juliette*Betty Stockfeld - Greta Kremmer...
, 1936) - 1938 – Janine DarceyJanine DarceyJanine Darcey was a French film actress. She appeared in 60 films between 1936 and 1993.-Selected filmography:* French Without Tears * Cavalcade d'amour * Old Bill and Son...
- 1939 – Sylvia BatailleSylvia BatailleSylvia Bataille was a French actress, born Sylvia Maklès in Paris , of Romanian-Jewish descent. When she was twenty, she married the writer Georges Bataille with whom she had a daughter, the psychoanalyst Laurence Bataille . Georges Bataille and Sylvia separated in 1934 but did not divorce until...
- 1940 – Micheline PresleMicheline PresleMicheline Presle is a French actress also known in English language films as Micheline Prelle.Born Micheline Nicole Julia Émilienne Chassagne in Paris, she wanted to be an actress from an early age. She took acting classes in her early teens and made her film debut at the age of fifteen in the...
(Jeunes filles en detresse, 1939) - 1941-1945 no award due to World War II
- 1947 – Simone SignoretSimone SignoretSimone Signoret was a French cinema actress often hailed as one of France's greatest movie stars. She became the first French person to win an Academy Award, for her role in Room at the Top...
- 1948 – Odile Versois
- 1949 – Arlette Thomas
- 1950 – Christiane Lenier
- 1951 – Nadine Alari
- 1952 – Nadine Basile
- 1953 – Etchika Choureau (L'Envers du paradis, 1953)
- 1954 – Marina VladyMarina VladyMarina Vlady is a French actress.She won the Best Actress Award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival for The Conjugal Bed. From 1955 to 1959 she was married to actor/director Robert Hossein...
- 1955 – Geneviève Kervine
- 1956 – Annie GirardotAnnie GirardotAnnie 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...
- 1957 – Anne Doat
- 1958 – Pascale PetitPascale PetitPascale Petit is a poet. She grew up in France and Wales. She trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art and was a visual artist for the first part of her life...
(Une vie, 1957) - 1959 – Roger DumasRoger DumasRoger 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...
(awarded to a male actor) - 1960 – Perrette PradierPerrette PradierPerrette Pradier, , is a French actress.Two years after making her film debut, in 1961 Perrette Pradier was awarded the prestigious Prix Suzanne Bianchetti as most promising new actress in France for her performance as "Amenita" in the Sacha Guitry film, "Stop Thief." That year she gained further...
- 1961 – Renée Marie Potet
- 1962 – Corinne Marchand
- 1963 – Marie DuboisMarie DuboisMarie Dubois is a French actress.She made her film debut in 1959, and first gained notice in Shoot the Piano Player...
- 1964 – Colette Castel
- 1965 – Macha MérilMacha MérilMacha Méril, born Princess Maria-Magdalena Vladimirovna Gagarina on 3 September 1940, Rabat, Morocco, is a French actress and writer, descended by her father from the Russian princely house Gagarin and by her mother from a Ukrainian noble family...
- 1966 – Geneviève BujoldGeneviève BujoldGeneviève Bujold is a Canadian actress best known for her portrayal of Anne Boleyn in the 1969 film Anne of the Thousand Days, for which she won a Golden Globe Award for best actress and was nominated for an Academy Award....
- 1967 – Caroline CellierCaroline CellierCaroline Cellier is a French actress. She has appeared in such films as L'année des méduses , La vie, l'amour, la mort, Le zèbre and Le plaisir .-External links:...
(awarded for a stage performance in Pygmalion) - 1968 – Danièle Evenou
- 1970 – Ludmila Mikaël
- 1972 – Bulle OgierBulle OgierBulle 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...
- 1974 – Isabelle AdjaniIsabelle AdjaniIsabelle Yasmine Adjani is a French film actress and singer. Adjani has appeared in 30 films since 1970. She holds the record for most César Awards for Best Actress with five, for Possession , One Deadly Summer , Camille Claudel , Queen Margot and Skirt Day...
(La Gifle, 1974) - 1976 – Isabelle HuppertIsabelle HuppertIsabelle 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...
(Le Juge et l'assassinThe Judge and the AssassinThe Judge and the Assassin is a 1976 French comedy-drama film directed by Bertrand Tavernier. The film won two César Awards in 1977.-Selected cast:*Philippe Noiret as Judge Rousseau*Michel Galabru as Sgt. Joseph Bouvier*Isabelle Huppert as Rose...
, 1976) - 1980 – Dominique LaffinDominique LaffinDominique Laffin was a French actress, who has appeared in 19 films between 1975 and 1985....
- 1986 – Juliette BinocheJuliette BinocheJuliette 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...
(Mauvais Sang, 1986) - 1988 – Marianne Basler
- 1990 – Dominique BlancDominique BlancDominique 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...
- 1991 – Anouk Grinberg
- 1993 – Charlotte Kady
- 1994 – Isabelle CarréIsabelle CarréIsabelle 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 ,...
- 1995 – Clotilde Courau
- 1996 – Sandrine KiberlainSandrine KiberlainSandrine 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...
- 1998 – Virginie LedoyenVirginie LedoyenVirginie Fernandez , known by her stage name Virginie Ledoyen, is a French actress.-Life and career:She was born in Aubervilliers, Paris, the daughter of Olga, a restaurateur, and Bernard Fernandez, a merchant who sold cleaning products. Her paternal grandfather was Spanish...
- 2000 – Audrey TautouAudrey TautouAudrey Justine Tautou is a French model and film actress, best known for playing the title character in the award-winning 2001 film Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, Sophie Neveu in the 2006 thriller The Da Vinci Code, Irène in Priceless and Coco Chanel in Coco avant Chanel...
- 2001 – Barbara SchulzBarbara SchulzBarbara 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....
- 2002 – Françoise Gillard
- 2003 – Mélanie DouteyMélanie DouteyMélanie 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...
- 2004 – Sara ForestierSara ForestierSara Forestier is a French actress who lives in Paris. She began her film career in 2001 and received a César Award for Most Promising Actress in Games of Love and Chance...
and Sophie QuintonSophie QuintonSophie Quinton is a French actress. She has played in a number of short films directed by Gérald Hustache-Mathieu, and starred in the 2003 film Who Killed Bambi?-Biography:... - 2005 – Chloé Lambert
- 2006 – Nathalie BoutefeuNathalie BoutefeuNathalie Boutefeu is a French actress, film director and screenwriter. She has appeared in 40 films since 1990. She starred in the film The Butterfly's Dream, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival....
- 2007 – Déborah FrançoisDéborah FrançoisDéborah François is a Belgian actress. She starred in the Palme d'Or winning film L'Enfant playing the lead role of Sonya...
- 2008 – Clotilde HesmeClotilde HesmeClotilde Hesme is a French actress. She is the sister of Annelise Hesme, and Élodie Hesme, who are also actresses....
- 2009 – Astrid Berges-FrisbeyAstrid Bergès-FrisbeyÀstrid Bergès-Frisbey is a Spanish actress and model. She is best known for playing Suzanne in The Sea Wall and the mermaid Syrena in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the fourth film in the series.-Life and career:...
- 2010 – Elodie NavarreÉlodie Navarre- Selected filmography :* Love Me If You Dare * Grande École * Empire of the Wolves * Conversations with My Gardener * The Art of Love -External links:...