Cesar Award Winners 2024 (Updating Live)
variety.comElsa Keslassy International Correspondent The frontrunners for this year’s 49th Cesar Awards are Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or winner “Anatomy of a Fall” and Thomas Cailley’s supernatural drama “The Animal Kingdom” which are nominated for 11 and 12 prizes, respectively.
The ceremony is unfolding at the Olympia Theater in Paris on Friday evening). The first awards of the evening went to Adele Exarchopoulos (“Blue is the Warmest Color”) for her role in “All Your Faces,” while Valérie Donzelli, and Audrey Diwan won best adapted screenplay with “Just The Two Of Us.” “Junkyard Dog,” meanwhile, won best first film, beating strong contenders such as “Bernadette” starring Catherine Deneuve as the former first lady, As previously announced, “Oppenheimer” director Christopher Nolan, alongside Agnes Jaoui, a beloved French actor, screenwriter and filmmaker, will receive an honorary Cesar Awards during the ceremony.
Triet’s movie, which just garnered an impressive five Oscar nominations, stars Sandra Hüller as a novelist who is put on trial following the mysterious death of her husband at their remote chalet.
The movie is nominated for five Oscars, and already won a pair of Golden Globes. It’s produced by Marie-Ange Luciani at Les Films de Pierre and David Thion at Les Films Pelleas. “The Animal Kingdom,” world premiered at Cannes where it won a prize in the Un Certain Regard selection.
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