Agat Movies – Ex Nihilio’s Muriel Meynard was named producer of the yr at France’s Academy of Movie Arts & Sciences’ Daniel Toscan du Plantier Prize ceremony held on February 17 in Paris.
The prize is awarded to the French movie producer who has made the best influence over the previous yr.
Meynard has been with the Agat Movies – Ex Nihilio producing collective since 2006. Her latest credit embrace Louise Courvoisier’s Holy Cow, Cesar-nominated documentary Madame Hoffman and Roberto Minervini’s The Different Aspect.
Upcoming movies embrace Michel Leclerc’s Not All Males However… and Stéphane Demoustier’s The Nice Arch.
Agat Movies – Ex Nihilo is coming off a banner yr with six movies chosen at Cannes 2024 and 15 nominations for the upcoming Cesar awards together with seven for The Marching Band which has been a neighborhood box-office hit with 2.5 million tickets bought.
Meynard was chosen from 33 finalists, all producers of characteristic movies eligible for the César for greatest movie which have acquired at the least one nomination. The award is voted on by a 176-member electoral faculty, plus all artists and crew members nominated for a César since 2008, the yr the award was created.
Agat Movies – Ex Nihilo’s Marc Bordure, Robert Guediguian and present Cesar Academy president Patrick Sobelman had been additionally among the many finalists. Meynard known as all of them to the stage when accepting her award saying the prize must be shared between them: “I’d be nothing with out my associates.”
She continued: “The job of producer is a rollercoaster stuffed with ups and downs… It’s been an unbelievable yr for Agat Movies – Ex Nihilio, what’s occurring for us is wild and we all know we’ll come down finally, however we’re stronger collectively.”
Throughout a ceremony and dinner held on the InterContinental Paris – Le Grand resort, the Academy additionally paid homage to producer Margaret Menegoz who died final yr. Among the many finalists in attendance had been business heavyweights Alain Attal of Trésor Movies, filmmaker-producer Bertrand Bonello of My New Image, Hugo Selignac and Antoine Lafon of Ch-Fou-Mi, and Dimitri Rassam of Chapter 2, who produced field workplace hit The Rely Of Monte-Cristo.
The Fiftieth-anniversary ceremony of the Cesar awards will likely be held on February 28 in Paris. The Rely Of Monte-Cristo leads the cost with 14 nominations, adopted by Gilles Lellouche’s Beating Hearts with 13 and Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Perez with 12.
