Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre De La Patelliere’s epic literary adaptation The Depend Of Monte-Cristo leads the nominations for France’s Cesar Awards with 14.
There have been additionally sturdy showings from Gilles Lellouche’s Beating Hearts with 13 and Jacques Audiard’s Oscar and Bafta-nominated Emilia Perez with 12.
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The Depend Of Monte-Cristo and Emilia Perez will compete for greatest movie of the 12 months alongside Boris Lojkine’s Souleymane’s Story, Alain Guiraudie’s Misericordia and Emmanuel Courcol’s The Marching Band.
All the movies within the high class world premiered at Might’s Cannes Movie Competition.
Gilles Lellouche’s decades-spanning crime romance Beating Hearts, one other field workplace triumph with 5 million admissions, didn’t make it into one of the best movie class however earned the filmmaker a greatest director nomination alongside Delporte and De La Patelliere, Audiard, Lojkine and Guiraudie.
Notably absent from each of these high classes are any feminine filmmakers. French director Coralie Fargeat was welcomed again at residence with a nomination for her Oscar-nominated physique horror The Substance in one of the best overseas movie class alongside Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice, Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Curiosity, and Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-winning Anora.
Emilia Perez stars Karla Sofia Gascon and Zoe Saldana will face off in one of the best actress class with Adele Exarchopoulos for Beating Hearts, Hafsia Herzi in Borgo and Helene Vincent in Francois Ozon’s When Fall is Coming.
The Depend of Monte-Cristo has been a business success in France with practically 10 million admissions since its June 2024 launch. The 12 months’s high movie on the native field workplace A Little One thing Further that has offered some 10.8 million tickets earned solely a nomination for its director Artus in one of the best movie class.
France’s Academy of Cinema Arts and Strategies, which oversees the distinguished awards, stated that the participation price for first spherical voting was 71.4%, or 3,535 votes.
Spherical two of voting opens on Wednesday, Feb.5 and can run till Friday, Feb. 28, simply hours earlier than the 50th version ceremony of the awards that will probably be held as soon as once more at Paris’ L’Olympia theatre. Catherine Deneuve will preside over the ceremony that will probably be broadcast reside and solely on Canal+. Julia Roberts and Costa-Gavras will obtain honorary Cesar awards.
The awards will probably be unveiled in Paris on February 28.
Cesar nominations 2025
Finest actress
Adele Exarchopolous, Beating Hearts
Karla Sofia Gascon, Emilia Perez
Hafsia Herzi, Borgo
Zoe Saldana, Emilia Perez
Helene Vincent, When Fall Is Coming
Finest actor
Francois Civil, Beating Hearts
Benjamin Lavernhe, The Marching Band
Karim Leklou, Jim’s Story
Pierre Niney, The Depend Of Monte-Cristo
Tahar Rahim, Monsieur Aznavour
Finest supporting actress
Elodie Bouchez, Beating Hearts
Anais Demoustier, The Depend Of Monte-Cristo
Catherine Frot, Misericordia
Nina Meurisse, Souleymane’s Story
Sarah Suco, The Marching Band
Finest supporting actor
David Ayala, Misericordia
Bastien Bouillon, The Depend Of Monte-Cristo
Alain Chabat, Beating Hearts
Jacques Develay, Misericordia
Laurent Lafitte, The Depend Of Monte-Cristo
Finest feminine breakthrough
Maiwene Barthelemey, Holy Cow
Malou Khebizi, Wild Diamond
Megan Northam, Rabia
Mallory Wanecque, Beating Hearts
Soheila Yacoub, Planet B
Finest male breakthrough
Abou Sangare, Souleymane’s Story
Adam Bessa, Ghost Path
Malik Frikah, Beating Hearts
Felix Kysyl, Misericordia
Pierre Lottin, The Marching Band
Finest authentic screenplay
Stephanie Demoustier, Borgo
Emmanuel Courcol, Irene Muscari, The Marching Band
Boris Lojkine, Delphine Agut, Souleymane’s Story
Alain Guiraudie, Misericordia
Louise Courvoisier, Theo Abadie, Holy Cow
Finest adaptation
Matthieu Delaporte, Alexandre de la Patelliere, The Depend Of Monte-Cristo
Jacques Audiard, Emilia Perez
Michel Hazanavicius, Jean-Claude Grumberg, The Most Treasured Of Cargoes
Finest authentic music
Jon Brion, Beating Hearts
Jerome Rebotier, The Depend Of Monte-Cristo
Clement Ducol, Camille, Emilia Perez
Alexandre Desplat, The Most Treasured Of Cargoes
Linda Courvoisier, Charlie Courvoisier, Holy Cow
Finest sound
Cedric Deloche, Gwennole Le Borgne, Jon Goc, Marc Doisne, Beating Hearts
David Rit, Gwennole Le Borgne, Olivier Touche, Laure-Anne Darras, Marion Papinot, Marc Doisne, Samuel Delorme, The Depend Of Monte-Cristo
Erwan Kerzanet, Aymeric Devoldere, Cyril Holtz, Niels Barletta, Emilia Perez
Pascal Armant, Sandy Notarianni, Niels Barletta, The Marching Band
Marc-Olivier Brulle, Pierre Bariaud, Charlotte Butrak, Samuel Aichoun, Souleymane’s Story
Finest cinematography
Laurent Tangy, Beating Hearts
Nicolas Bolduc, The Depend Of Monte-Cristo
Paul Guilhaume, Emilia Perez
Tristan Galand, Souleymane’s Story
Claire Mathon, Misericordia
Finest modifying
Simon Jacquet, Beating Hearts
Celia Lafitedupont, The Depend Of Monte-Cristo
Juliette Welfling, Emilia Perez
Guerric Catala, The Marching Band
Xavier Sirven, Souleymane’s Story
Finest costumes
Isabelle Pannetier, Beating Hearts
Thierry Delettre, The Depend Of Monte-Cristo
Virginie Montel, Emilia Perez
Isabelle Mathieu, Monsieur Aznavour
Anais Romand, Sarah Bernhardt, La Divine
Finest manufacturing design
Jean-Philippe Moreaux, Beating Hearts
Stephane Taillasson, The Depend Of Monte-Cristo
Emmanuelle Duplay, Emilia Perez
Stephane Rozenbaum, Monsieur Aznavour
Olivier Radot, Sarah Bernhardt, La Divine
Finest visible results
Cedric Gayolle, Hugues Namur, Emilien Lazaron, The Beast
Olivier Cauwet, The Depend Of Monte-Cristo
Cedric Fayolle, Emilia Perez
Stephane Dittoo, Monsieur Aznavour
Finest director
Gilles Lellouche, Beating Hearts
Matthieu Delaporte, Alexandre De La Patelliere, The Depend Of Monte-Cristo
Jacques Audiard, Emilia Perez
Boris Lojkine, Souleymane’s Story
Alain Guiraudie, Misercordia
Finest animated quick
Beurk!, dir. Loic Espuche
Gigi, dir. Cynthia Calvi
Papillon, dir. Florence Miailhe
Finest documentary quick
Southern Brides, dir. Elena Lopez Riera
Petit Spartacus, dir. Sara Ganem
Un Coeur perdu et autres reves de Beyrouth, dir. Maya Abdul-Malak
Finest fiction quick
Boucan, dir. Salome Da Souza
Ce qui appartient a Cesar, dir. Violette Gitton
The Man Who Might Not Stay Silent, dir. Nebojsa Slijepcevic
Queen Dimension, dir. Avril Besson
Finest animation
Move, dir. Gints Zilbalodis
The Most Treasured Of Cargoes, dir. Michel Hazanavicius
Savages, dir. Claude Barras
Finest documentary
The Belle From Gaza, dir. Yolande Zauberman
Bye Bye Tiberias, dir. Lina Soualem
Dahomey, dir. Mati Diop
Ernest Cole, Misplaced and Discovered, dir. Raoul Peck
La Ferme des Bertrand, dir. Gilles Perret
Madame Hofmann, dir. Sebastien Lifshitz
Finest debut movie
Wild Diamond, dir. Agathe Riedinger
Ghost Path, dir. Jonathan Millet
The Kingdom, dir. Julien Colonna
A Little One thing Further, dir. Artus
Holy Cow, dir. Louise Courvoisier
Finest overseas movie
Anora, dir. Sean Baker
The Seed Of The Sacred Fig, dir. Mohammad Rasoulof
The Apprentice, dir. Ali Abbasi
The Substance, dir. Coralie Fargeat
The Zone Of Curiosity, dir. Jonathan Glazer
Finest movie
The Depend Of Monte-Cristo
Emilia Perez
The Marching Band
Souleymane’s Story
Misericordia
