Louis Garrel’s “The Harmless” and Dominik Moll’s thriller “The Night time of the twelfth” are main the race at France’s forty eighth Cesar Awards, France’s equal to the Oscars.
Different high Cesar contenders embrace Cedric Klapisch’s “En Corps,” Albert Serra’s “Pacifiction,” Valeria Bruni Tedeschi’s “Endlessly Younger,” Cedric Jimenez’ “November,” Eric Gravel’s “A Plein Temps,” and Alice Diop’s “Saint Omer,” amongst others.
Nominations have been unveiled on-line on Wednesday morning (Jan. 25). The forty eighth version of the César Awards will happen on Feb. 24 and can hand out an honorary award to American director David Fincher. As beforehand introduced, Tahar Rahim will preside over this upcoming ceremony.
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The French César Academy just lately voted to not prolong invites for the upcoming César Awards to anyone who has been indicted or sentenced for acts of sexual or sexist violence. This determination adopted the scandal surrounding the shortlisting of Sofiane Bennacer, the French actor of Valeria Bruni Tedeschi’s Cannes film “Endlessly Younger,” for finest newcomer on the César Awards. The César Academy finally determined to exclude him from the shortlist after reviews got here out saying he had been indicted on a number of fees of rape and violence.
