35th César Awards

35th César Awards
Date	27 February 2010
Site	Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, France
Host	Valérie Lemercier and Gad Elmaleh
Highlights
Best Picture	A Prophet
Best Actor	Tahar Rahim
Best Actress	Isabelle Adjani
Most awards	A Prophet (9)
Most nominations	A Prophet (13)
Television coverage
Network	Canal Plus

The 35th César Awards ceremony was presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma in Paris to honour its selection of the best films of 2009 on 27 February 2010. The ceremony was chaired by Marion Cotillard, with Valérie Lemercier and Gad Elmaleh acting as the host. Harrison Ford was presented with an Honorary César by Sigourney Weaver.

Winners and nominees

Best Film

• A Prophet – Jacques Audiard
  • À l’Origine – Xavier Giannoli
  • Le Concert – Radu Mihăileanu
  • Les Herbes folles – Alain Resnais
  • La journée de la jupe – Jean-Paul Lilienfeld
  • Rapt – Lucas Belvaux
  • Welcome – Philippe Lioret

Best Director

• Jacques Audiard – A Prophet
  • Lucas Belvaux – Rapt
  • Xavier Giannoli – À l’Origine
  • Philippe Lioret – Welcome
  • Radu Mihăileanu – Le Concert

Best Actor – Leading Role

• Tahar Rahim – A Prophet
  • Yvan Attal – Rapt
  • François Cluzet – À l’Origine
  • François Cluzet – Le Dernier pour la Route
  • Vincent Lindon – Welcome

Best Actress – Leading Role

• Isabelle Adjani – La journée de la jupe
  • Dominique Blanc – L'Autre
  • Sandrine Kiberlain – Mademoiselle Chambon
  • Kristin Scott Thomas – Partir
  • Audrey Tautou – Coco avant Chanel

Best Actor – Supporting Role

• Niels Arestrup – A Prophet
  • Jean-Hugues Anglade – Persecution
  • Joeystarr – The Ball of the Actresses
  • Benoît Poelvoorde – Coco Before Chanel
  • Michel Vuillermoz – The End of the Road

Best Actress – Supporting Role

• Emmanuelle Devos – À l’Origine
  • Aure Atika – Mademoiselle Cambon
  • Anne Consigny – Rapt
  • Audrey Dana – Welcome
  • Noemie Lvosvsky – Les Beaux Gosses

Most Promising Actor

• Tahar Rahim – A Prophet
  • Firat Ayverdi – Welcome
  • Adel Bencherif – A Prophet
  • Vincent Lacoste – The French Kissers
  • Vincent Rottiers – Je suis hereux que ma mere soit vivante

Most Promising Actress

• Mélanie Thierry – Le dernier pour la route
  • Pauline Etienne – Silent Voice
  • Florence Loiret-Caille – Je l’amais
  • Soko – À l’Origine
  • Christa Theret – LOL (Laughing Out Loud)®

Best First Film

• Les Beaux Gosses – Riad Sattouf
  • Le Dernier pour la Route – Philippe Godeau
  • Espions – Nicolas Saada
  • La Premiere Etiole – Lucien Jean-Baptiste
  • Silent Voice – Léa Fehner

Best Writing – Adaptation

• Stephane Brize, Florence Vignon – Mademoiselle Chambon
  • Anne Fontaine, Camille Fontaine – Coco avant Chanel
  • Philippe Godeau, Agnes De Sacy – Le dernier pour la route
  • Laurent Tirard, Gregoire Vigneron – Le Petit Nicolas
  • Alex Reval, Laurent Herbiet – Les Herbes folles

Best Writing – Original

• Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Raouf Dafri, Nicolas Peufaillit – A Prophet
  • Xavier Giannoli – À l’Origine
  • Jean-Paul Lilienfeld – La journée de la jupe
  • Philippe Lioret, Emmanuel Courcol, Oliver Adam – Welcome
  • Radu Mihăileanu, Alain-Michel Blanc – Le Concert

Best Cinematography

• Stephane Fontaine – A Prophet
  • Christophe Beaucarne – Coco avant Chanel
  • Laurent Dailland – Welcome
  • Éric Gautier – Les Herbes folles
  • Glynn Speeckaert – À l’Origine

Best Editing

• Juliette Welfling – A Prophet
  • Celia Lafitedupont – À l’Origine
  • Hervé de Luze – Les Herbes folles
  • Andrea Sedlackova – Welcome
  • Ludo Troch – Le Concert

Best Sound

• Pierre Excoffier, Bruno Tarriere, Selim Azzazi – Le Concert
  • Pierre Mertens, Laurent Quaglio, Eric Tisserand – Welcome
  • Francois Musy, Gabriel Hafner – À l’Origine
  • Brigitte Taillandier, Francis Wargnier, Jean-Paul Hurier – A Prophet
  • Jean Umansky, Gerard Hardy, Vincent Arnardi – Micmacs à tire-larigot

Best Music Written for a Film

• Armand Amar – Le Concert
  • Alex Beaupain – Non ma fille, tu n’iras pas danser
  • Alexandre Desplat – A Prophet
  • Cliff Martinez – À l’Origine
  • Nicola Piovani – Welcome

Best Costume Design

• Catherine Leterrier – Coco avant Chanel
  • Chattoune & Fab – Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
  • Charlotte David – OSS 117 Rio ne répond plus...
  • Madeline Fontaine – Micmacs à tire-larigot
  • Virginie Montel – A Prophet

Best Production Design

• Michel Barthélemy – A Prophet
  • Aline Bonetto – Micmacs à tire-larigot
  • Maamar Ech Cheikh – OSS 117 Rio ne répond plus...
  • Francois-Renaud Labarthe – À l’Origine
  • Olivier Radot – Coco avant Chanel

Best Documentary

• L’Enfer d’Henri-Georges Clouzot – Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea
  • La Danse – Frederick Wiseman
  • Himalaya, le chemin du ciel – Marianne Chaud
  • Home – Yann-Arthus Bertrand
  • Ne me liberez pas je m’en charge – Fabienne Godet

Best Short Film

• C’est gratuit pour les filles – Claire Burger and Marie Amachoukeli
  • ¿Donde Esta Kim Basinger? – Edouard Deluc
  • La Raison De L’Autre – Foued Mansour
  • Seance Familiale – Cheng-Chui Kuo
  • Les Williams – Alban Mench

Best Foreign Film

• Gran Torino – Clint Eastwood (United States)
  • Avatar – James Cameron (United States)
  • Milk – Gus Van Sant (United States)
  • J'ai tué ma mère – Xavier Dolan (Canada)
  • Panique au Village – Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar (Belgium)
  • The White Ribbon – Michael Haneke (Germany)
  • Slumdog Millionaire – Danny Boyle (United Kingdom)

Honorary César

• Harrison Ford, American actor

Special tributes

During the ceremony, actor Fabrice Luchini presented a tribute to filmmaker Éric Rohmer, who had died the month before.

I’m gonna read a remarkable text written by Jacques Fieschi: "Writer, director; creator of “the cinematographe”, challenger of "Les cahiers du cinéma", which recently published a special edition on Eric Rohmer. Truffaut once said he was one of the greatest directors of the 20th century, Godard was his brother, Chabrol admired him, Wenders couldn’t stop taking photos of him. Rohmer is a tremendous international star. The one and only French director who was in coherence with the money spent on his films and the money that his films made. I remember a phrase by Daniel Toscan Du Plantier the day “Les Visiteurs” opened, which eventually sold 15 million tickets: “Yes but there is this incredible film called "L'arbre, le maire et la médiathèque" that sold 100,000 tickets, which may sound ridiculous in comparison, but no, because but it was only playing in one theater for an entire year." A happy time for cinema when this kind of thing could happen. Rohmer." Here is a tribute from Jacques Fieschi: "We are all connected with the cinema, at least for a short time. The cinema has its economical laws, its artistic laws, a craft that once in a while rewards us or forgets us. Eric Rohmer seems to have escaped from this reality by inventing his own laws, his own rules of the game. One could say his own economy of the cinema that served his own purpose, which could skip the others, or to be more accurate that couldn’t skip the audience with its originality. He had a very unique point of view on the different levels of language and on desire that is at work in the heart of each and every human being, on youth, on seasons, on literature, of course, and one could say on history. Eric Rohmer, this sensual intellectual, with his silhouette of a teacher and a walker. As an outsider he made luminous and candid films in which he deliberately forgot his perfect knowledge of the cinema in a very direct link with the beauty of the world." The text was by Jacques Fieschi and it was a tribute to Eric Rohmer, Thank You.

See also

• 82nd Academy Awards
• 63rd British Academy Film Awards
• 22nd European Film Awards
• 15th Lumières Awards

External links

• Official website
• 35th César Awards at IMDb
• 35th César Awards at AlloCiné