40th César Awards

40th César Awards
The official César Award poster features French actress Fanny Ardant, in the 1983 film Vivement dimanche !
Date	20 February 2015
Site	Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, France
Host	Édouard Baer
Highlights
Best Film	Timbuktu
Best Actor	Pierre Niney
Best Actress	Adèle Haenel
Most awards	Timbuktu (7)
Most nominations	Saint Laurent (10)
Television coverage
Network	Canal+

The 40th César Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, honoured the best films of 2014 in France and took place on 20 February 2015 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. The ceremony was chaired by actor-director Dany Boon, with actor Édouard Baer acting as master of ceremonies for the second time.^[1][2]

The nominations were announced on 28 January 2015 by Édouard Baer and Academy President Alain Terzian. Saint Laurent received the most nominations with ten, followed by Love at First Fight with nine nominations.^[3][4][5]

In related events, the Médaille d’Or was awarded for the first time at a ceremony held at Monnaie de Paris on 19 January 2015. Luc Besson was honoured by the Academy for his outstanding artistic and entrepreneurial contribution to the French cinema for the past 3 decades.^[6][7] On 16 February 2015, in a ceremony at the Four Seasons Hotel George V, Sylvie Pialat, who produced Timbuktu via Les Films du Worso, was awarded the Prix Daniel Toscan du Plantier for producer of the year for the second consecutive year.^[8]

Timbuktu won seven awards including Best Film and Best Director for Abderrahmane Sissako. Other winners included Love at First Fight with three awards, and Yves Saint Laurent, Hippocrate, Clouds of Sils Maria, La Famille Bélier, Diplomacy, Saint Laurent, Beauty and the Beast, The Salt of the Earth, Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants, Les Petits Cailloux, La Femme de Rio and Mommy with one.^[9][10]

Winners and nominees

Dany Boon, President of the ceremony.

Édouard Baer hosted the ceremony.

Abderrahmane Sissako, director and writer of Timbuktu, won the César Awards for Best Film, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.

Pierre Niney, Best Actor winner.

Adèle Haenel, Best Actress winner.

Reda Kateb, Best Supporting Actor winner.

Best Film Timbuktu Love at First Fight Eastern Boys La Famille Bélier Hippocrate Saint Laurent Clouds of Sils Maria	Best Director Abderrahmane Sissako – Timbuktu Céline Sciamma – Girlhood Thomas Cailley – Love at First Fight Robin Campillo – Eastern Boys Thomas Lilti – Hippocrate Bertrand Bonello – Saint Laurent Olivier Assayas – Clouds of Sils Maria
Best Actor Pierre Niney – Yves Saint Laurent as Yves Saint Laurent Niels Arestrup – Diplomacy as General Dietrich von Choltitz Guillaume Canet – Next Time I'll Aim for the Heart as Franck François Damiens – La Famille Bélier as Rodolphe Bélier Romain Duris – The New Girlfriend as David / Virginia Vincent Lacoste – Hippocrate as Benjamin Barois Gaspard Ulliel – Saint Laurent as Yves Saint Laurent	Best Actress Adèle Haenel – Love at First Fight as Madeleine Juliette Binoche – Clouds of Sils Maria as Maria Enders Marion Cotillard – Two Days, One Night as Sandra Catherine Deneuve – In the Courtyard as Mathilde Émilie Dequenne – Not My Type as Jennifer Sandrine Kiberlain – Elle l'adore as Muriel Bayen Karin Viard – La Famille Bélier as Gigi Bélier
Best Supporting Actor Reda Kateb – Hippocrate as Abdel Rezzak Éric Elmosnino – La Famille Bélier as M. Thomasson Guillaume Gallienne – Yves Saint Laurent as Pierre Bergé Louis Garrel – Saint Laurent as Jacques de Bascher Jérémie Renier – Saint Laurent as Pierre Bergé	Best Supporting Actress Kristen Stewart – Clouds of Sils Maria as Valentine Marianne Denicourt – Hippocrate as Dr. Denormandy Claude Gensac – Lulu femme nue as Marthe Izïa Higelin – Samba as Manu Charlotte Le Bon – Yves Saint Laurent as Victoire Doutreleau
Most Promising Actor Kévin Azaïs – Love at First Fight as Arnaud Labrède Ahmed Dramé – Once in a Lifetime as Malik Kirill Emelyanov – Eastern Boys as Marek / Rouslan Pierre Rochefort – Going Away as Baptiste Cambière Marc Zinga – May Allah Bless France! as Régis / Abd Al Malik	Most Promising Actress Louane Emera – La Famille Bélier as Paula Bélier Lou de Laâge – Respire as Sarah Joséphine Japy – Respire as Charlie Ariane Labed – Fidelio, l’odyssée d’Alice as Alice Karidja Touré – Girlhood as Marieme / Vic
Best Original Screenplay Timbuktu – Abderrahmane Sissako, Kessen Tall La Famille Bélier – Victoria Bedos, Stanislas Carré de Malberg, Eric Lartigau, Thomas Bidegain Love at First Fight – Thomas Cailley and Claude Le Pape Hippocrate – Thomas Lilti, Baya Kasmi, Julien Lilti, Pierre Chosson Clouds of Sils Maria – Olivier Assayas	Best Adaptation Diplomacy – Cyril Gely, Volker Schlöndorff The Blue Room – Mathieu Amalric, Stéphanie Cléau Lulu femme nue – Sólveig Anspach, Jean-Luc Gaget Not My Type – Lucas Belvaux Next Time I’ll Aim for the Heart – Cédric Anger
Best First Feature Film Love at First Fight Elle l'adore Fidelio, l’odyssée d’Alice Party Girl May Allah Bless France!	Best Cinematography Sofian El Fani – Timbuktu Christophe Beaucarne – Beauty and the Beast Josée Deshaies – Saint Laurent Yorick Le Saux – Clouds of Sils Maria Thomas Hardmeier – Yves Saint Laurent
Best Editing Nadia Ben Rachid – Timbuktu Lilian Corbeille – Love at First Fight Christel Dewynter – Hippocrate Frédéric Baillehaiche – Party Girl Fabrice Rouaud – Saint Laurent	Best Sound Philippe Welsh, Roman Dymny and Thierry Delor – Timbuktu Pierre André and Daniel Sobrino – Girlhood Jean-Jacques Ferran, Nicolas Moreau and Jean-Pierre Laforce – Bird People Jean-Luc Audy, Guillaume Bouchateau and Niels Barletta – Love at First Fight Nicolas Cantin, Nicolas Moreau and Jean-Pierre Laforce – Saint Laurent
Best Music Written for a Film Amine Bouhafa – Timbuktu Jean-Baptiste de Laubier – Girlhood Béatrice Thiriet – Bird People Lionel Flairs, Benoît Rault and Philippe Deshaies – Love at First Fight Ibrahim Maalouf – Yves Saint Laurent	Best Costume Design Anaïs Romand – Saint Laurent Pierre-Yves Gayraud – Beauty and the Beast Carine Sarfati – The Connection Pascaline Chavanne – The New Girlfriend Madeline Fontaine – Yves Saint Laurent
Best Production Design Thierry Flamand – Beauty and the Beast Jean-Philippe Moreaux – The Connection Katia Wyszkop – Saint Laurent Sébastien Birchler – Timbuktu Aline Bonetto – Yves Saint Laurent	Best Documentary Film The Salt of the Earth Cartoonists - Foot Soldiers of Democracy Les Chèvres de ma mère School of Babel National Gallery
Best Animated Feature Film Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants Song of the Sea Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart	Best Animated Short Film Les Petits Cailloux Bang Bang! La Bûche de Noël Anatole's Little Saucepan
Best Short Film La Femme de Rio Aïssa Inupiluk The Days Before My Sense of Modesty La Virée à Paname	Best Foreign Film Mommy 12 Years a Slave Boyhood Two Days, One Night Ida The Grand Budapest Hotel Winter Sleep
Honorary César Sean Penn
Prix Daniel Toscan du Plantier Sylvie Pialat
Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma – Médaille d’Or Luc Besson

Films with multiple nominations and awards

The following films received multiple nominations: Nominations Film 10 Saint Laurent 9 Love at First Fight 8 Timbuktu 7 Hippocrate Yves Saint Laurent 6 La Famille Bélier Clouds of Sils Maria 4 Girlhood 3 Eastern Boys Beauty and the Beast 2 Diplomacy Next Time I'll Aim for the Heart The New Girlfriend Two Days, One Night Not My Type Elle l'adore Lulu femme nue Respire Fidelio, l’odyssée d’Alice May Allah Bless France! Party Girl Bird People The Connection

The following films received multiple awards: Awards Film 7 Timbuktu 3 Love at First Fight

Presenters

Kristen Stewart (left), Best Supporting Actress winner, and Juliette Binoche, Best Actress nominee, presented the award for Best Actor.

Guillaume Gallienne presented the award for Best Actress.

The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented awards at the ceremony.

Name(s)	Role
Cécile de France and Cédric Klapisch	Presenters of the award for Most Promising Actress
Alex Lutz and Stéphane De Groodt	Presenters of the awards for Best Cinematography and Best Sound
Zabou Breitman and Pierre Deladonchamps	Presenters of the award for Best First Feature Film
Leïla Bekhti and Géraldine Nakache	Presenters of the award for Best Supporting Actor
Cécile Cassel and Étienne Daho	Presenters of the award for Best Music Written for a Film
Laura Smet and Joann Sfar	Presenters of the awards for Best Animated Feature Film & Best Animated Short Film
Julie Gayet and Denis Podalydès	Presenters of the award for Most Promising Actor
Marilou Berry and Jean-Paul Gaultier	Presenters of the award for Best Costume Design
Pascal Elbé	Presenter of the award for Best Original Screenplay
Franck Gastambide and Léa Drucker	Presenters of the awards for Best Production Design and Best Editing
Charlotte Le Bon and Jalil Lespert	Presenters of the award for Best Documentary Film
Marion Cotillard	Presenter of the Honorary César
Sabrina Ouazani and Félix Moati	Presenters of the award for Best Short Film
Céline Sallette and Joey Starr	Presenters of the award for Best Supporting Actress
Nathalie Baye and Guillaume Canet	Presenters of the award for Best Director
Emilie Dequenne and Lambert Wilson	Presenters of the award for Best Foreign Film
Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart	Presenters of the award for Best Actor
Sylvie Testud and Abd al Malik	Presenters of the award for Best Adaptation
Guillaume Gallienne	Presenter of the award for Best Actress
Dany Boon	Presenter of the award for Best Film

Viewers

The show was followed by 2.3 millions of viewers. This corresponds to 13.6% of the audience.^[11]

See also

• 20th Lumières Awards
• 27th European Film Awards
• 87th Academy Awards
• 68th British Academy Film Awards

References

1. "Dany Boon président des César : la Ch'ti revanche". Le Figaro. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
2. "César 2015 : Édouard Baer présentera la cérémonie". Le Figaro. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
3. "L'Agenda-Conférence de Presse d'Annonce des Nominations 2015". Académie du cinéma. Retrieved 3 October 2014.
4. "César 2015 : les nominations". AlloCiné. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
5. "Juliette Binoche, Marion Cotillard, Kristen Stewart Among France's Cesar Awards Nominees". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
6. "Médaille d'Or de l'Académie". Académie des César. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
7. "César 2015 : Une Médaille d'Or pour Luc Besson". Canal+. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
8. "‘Timbuktu’ Producer Sylvie Pialat Wins Second Toscan du Plantier Award". Variety. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
9. "César Awards: 'Timbuktu' Best Film; Kristen Stewart In Historic Supporting Actress Win". Deadline.com. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
10. "Cesar Awards: 'Timbktu' Sweeps, Kristen Stewart Makes History". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
11. http://tvmag.lefigaro.fr/le-scan-tele/actu-tele/2015/02/21/28001-20150221ARTFIG00039-cesar-2015-audiences-en-legere-hausse-pour-canal.php

External links

• César Awards official website
• 40th César Awards at the Internet Movie Database
• 40th César Awards at AlloCiné