France’s Césars At 50: Academy Heads Patrick Sobelman & Ariane Toscan Du Plantier Talk Landmark Ceremony & Future Of French Awards
deadline.comFrance’s César Awards mark their 50th ceremony at the Olympia Theatre in Paris this evening with swashbuckler The Count of Monte Cristo, star-crossed romance Beating Hearts and Mexico-set, Spanish language musical Oscar hopeful Emilia Pérez leading the nominations.
Other multi-nominated titles include asylum seeker drama Souleymane’s Story, thriller Misericordia and The Marching Band, a feel-good movie set in a declining manufacturing town in northern France.
Voted on by the just under 5,000 members of the Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques, or César Academy, France’s equivalent of the Oscars or Baftas, celebrate French productions released in the country between January 1 to December 31 of a given year. “We’re particularly happy this year because there’s a rich variety in the nominations.
There’s everything from popular mainstream cinema to more difficult, demanding films, which have found success in festivals, which is also a reflection of the DNA and diversity of French cinema,” says César Academy President Patrick Sobelman.
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