Caesar: favorites, nominations… What you need to know about the 2024 ceremony

CESAR 2024. The 49th CÉsar ceremony will reveal its prize list this Friday, February 23, 2024 live from the 'Olympia. What are the films in competition? Are there already any films in competition? predictions? What you need to know about the evening.

Which film will emerge as winner of the César ? The 49th ceremony which rewards the best of French cinemaé ;ccedil;ais takes place this Friday, February 23, 2024. The evening takes place live from the Olympia, and is broadcast unencrypted on Canal++ à from 8:45 p.m.

The Académie des César is finishing the final preparations before the big night. Behind the scenes, Valérie Lemercier wasé ; chosen as president of this 49th edition, while a team of several stars is in charge of liven up the evening. Dany Boon, Juliette Binoche, Benoît Magimel, B&rénice Béjo, Ariane Ascaride, Ana Girardot and Diane Krüger will notably be on stage à this occasion.

Difficult to predict The C'sar winners advance in advance, even if some films are already starting out. as favorites. The Animal Kingdom takes the lead with 12 quotes, followed by pr& egrave;s by Anatomy of a fall (winner of a Palme d&# 39;gold and nominated five times for the Oscars), with 11 nominations. These two films are logically the big favorites of this 49th ceremony. Are also in competition I'll always see your faces (9 nominations), The Goldman trial(8 nominations), Scrapyard Dog (7 nominations). Christopher Nolan and Agnès Jaoui will also receive an honorary C'sar rewarding their entire career.

Let us note, however, thatAnatomy of a Fall could win everything on Friday evening, since the film is already there winner of several awards across the Atlantic and across the Channel: the feature film has already been acclaimed. won the Palme d'or 2023, two Golden Globes (best foreign language film and best screenplay), and the Bafta for best original screenplay. nbsp;It is also called &agrav; five times at the Oscars, notably in the Best Picture category.

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The César du cinema ceremony has rewarded the best of the seventh French art since 1976. Prizes are awarded each year to Paris by the Academy of César, also called the Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques. It was the sculptor César who created & the trophy, which has the shape of compressions of metal objects. Every year, between February and March, the ceremony is often broadcast live and unencrypted on the Canal+ channel. Radio fans can also follow the ceremony on Europe 1 from 2022. Among the most awarded films of the year, history of the Césars, we count The Last Metro and Cyrano de Bergerac (ten rewards each), A prophet (9 rewards), My heart has stopped beating (8 rewards). The 49th CéSar ceremony will take place on February 23, 2024.

CéCésar for Best Film : 

• Anatomy of a Fall
• Scrapyard Dog
• I will always see your faces
• The Goldman Trial
• The animal kingdom

César for Best Director:

• Justine Triet, Anatomy of a fall
• Catherine Breillat, Summer last
• Jeanne Herry, I will always see your faces
• Cédric Kahn, The Goldman Trial
• Thomas Cailley, The animal kingdom

César for Best Actor:

• Romain Duris, The animal kingdom
• Benjamin Lavernhe, L'abbé Pierre – a life of fighting
• Melvil Poupaud, L'love and the forests
• Raphaël Quenard, Yannick
• Arieh Worthalter, The Goldman Trial

CéCésar for Best Actress :

• Marion Cotillard, Little girl blue
• Léa Drucker, Summer last
• Virginie Efira, Love and the forests
• Hafsia Herzi, The Rapture
• Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall

CéCéBest Actress in a Supporting Role :

• Leïla Bekhti, I will always see your faces
• Galatea Bellugi, Scrapyard Dog
• Elodie Bouchez, I will always see your faces
• Adèle Exarchopoulos, I will always see your faces
• Miou Miou, I will always see your faces

CéCéBest Actor in a Supporting Role :

• Swann Arlaud, Anatomy of a Fall
• Anthony Bajon, Scrapyard Dog
• Arthur Harari, The Goldman Trial
• Pio Marmaï, Yannick
• Antoine Reinartz, Anatomy of a Fall

César for Best Female Revelation:

• Céleste Brunnquell, Her fatherès daughter
• Kim Higelin, Consent
• Suzanne Jouannet, The royal road
• Rebecca Marder, Great Hopes
• Ella Rumpf, Marguerite's Theme

CéCésar for Best Male Revelation :

• Julien Frison, Marguerite's Theorem
• Paul Kircher, The animal kingdom
• Samuel Kircher, L'été last
• Milo Machado-Graner, Anatomy of a Fall
• Raphaël Quenard, Scrapyard dog

CéCéBest Original Screenplay : 

• Anatomy of a Fall
• Scrapyard Dog
• I will always see your faces
• The Goldman Trial
• The animal kingdom

César for Best Adaptation: 

• Love and the Forests
• Consent
• L'été last

C&eac;sar for Best Costumes: 

• Jeanne du Barry
• My crime
• The passion of Dodin Bouffant
• The animal kingdom
• The Three Musketeers (part 1 2)

CéCébest decors :

• Anatomy of a Fall
• Jeanne du Barry
• The passion of Dodin Bouffant
• The animal kingdom
• The Three Musketeers (part 1 and 2)

César for Best Photography:

• Anatomy of a Fall
• The passion of Dodin Bouffant
• The Goldman Trial
• The animal kingdom
• The Three Musketeers (part 1 and 2)

César for Best Editing:

• Anatomy of a Fall
• I will always see your faces
• Little Girl Blue
• The Goldman Trial
• The animal kingdom

César for Best Sound:

• Anatomy of a Fall
• I will always see your faces
• The Goldman Trial
• The animal kingdom
• The Three Musketeers (part 1 and 2)

César for Best Visual Effects:

• Acid
• The mountain
• The animal kingdom
• The Three Musketeers (part 1 and 2)
• Vermin

César for Best Original Music:

• Love and the Forests
• Scrapyard Dog
• Disco boy
• The animal kingdom
• The Three Musketeers (part 1 and 2)

CéCésar for Best First Film : 

• Bernadette
• Scrapyard Dog
• The Rapture
• Vermin
• Vincent must die

CéSar for Best Animated Feature Film:

• Forbidden to dogs and Italians
• Linda wants chicken!
• Mars Express

César for Best Animated Short Film:

• Drôthe birds
• Andé 96
• Miss Tang's forest

César du Best foreign film : 

• L'enlèvement
• Dead leaves
• Oppenheimer
• Perfect Days
• Simple as Sylvain

César for Best Fiction Short Film :

• Waiting
• Boléro
• Fast
• The silencers

C&eac;sar for Best Documentary:

• Atlantic bar
• The Daughters of Olfa
• Little Girl Blue
• Our body
• On the adamant

César du Best documentary short :

• The actor or the surprising virtue of incomprehension
• The effect of my wrinkles
• Fluid mechanics

Honorary C'sar: Christopher Nolan and Agnès Jaoui

For the moment, the complete winners of the 2024 C'sar are not known since the ceremony takes place on Friday 23 February 2024, & from 8:45 p.m.  à the Olympia. While waiting to discover the films which will win a statuette for this 49th edition, let's take a look back at the latest César winners.  In 2023, it was The night of 12 by Domink Moll who ;was the big winner of the evening: 

• Best film : The Night of the 12th
• Best production: Dominik Moll for La Nuit du 12
• Best actor: Benoît Magimel in Pacifiction – Torment sur les &icirc ;les
• Best actress: Virginie Efira in Revoir Paris
• Best supporting actress: Noémie Merlant in  The innocent
• Best actor in a supporting role: Bouli Lanners in La Nuit du 12
• Best female hope : Nadia Tereszkiewicz in Les Amandiers
• Best male hopeful: Bastien Bouillon in La Nuit du 12
• Best original screenplay : L'innocent< /em>
• Best adaptation: The Night of the 12th
• Best costumes : Simone the journey of the century
• Best settings: Simone, the journey of the century
• Best photography: Pacifiction – Torment sur les &icir;les
• Best edit: Full time
• Best sound: The Night of the 12th
• Best visual effects: Notre-Dame burns
• Best original music: Full time
• Best first film : Saint Omer d&# 39;Alice Diop
• Best animated feature film: My Afghan family< /i>
• Best animated short film: Granny's Sex Life
• Best foreign film : As Bestas
• Best short fiction film: Leaving one day
• Best documentary: Return à Reims
• Best documentary short film: Maria Schneider 1983
• Honorary C'sar: David Fincher