Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Parronaud's Persepolis Enters French Film History with two Awards at French Oscars Les Césars Du Cinéma before Final Oscar Run !
See Satrapi and Parronaud accept First Best Film Award [1]
One for Best first Film and a Second for Best Screenplay adaptation. Interestingly but only by Coincidence another French Director of Iranian birth Barbet Schroeder [2] ( born in Tehran 1941) and legendary figure of Les Cahiers Du Cinema and French New Wave Cinema ( also working in Hollywood) also won Best Documentary César for his film L'Avocat de La Terreur [3] about the controversial Lawyer Jacques Verges [4]. Marillon Cotillard's performance for La Vie En Rose aka La Mome won several awards including Best Actress. VIVE LE CINEMA ! & Persepolis ! ;0) See Complete List of Winners Below and Visit Website of Academy [5] : Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, on February 22, 2008. President of the ceremony: Jean Rochefort. Host: Antoine de Caunes.
BEST FILM / MEILLEUR FILM
La graine et le mulet / The Secret of the Grain
directed by Abdellatif Kechiche
produced by Claude Berri
BEST FIRST FILM / MEILLEUR PREMIER FILM
Persepolis
directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
produced by Marc-Antoine Robert and Xavier Rigault
BEST FOREIGN FILM / MEILLEUR FILM ÉTRANGER
Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others / La vie des autres directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
BEST DOCUMENTARY / MEILLEUR FILM DOCUMENTAIRE
L’avocat de la terreur / Terror’s Advocate directed by Barbet Schroeder
BEST DIRECTOR / MEILLEUR RÉALISATEUR
Abdellatif Kechiche for The Secret of the Grain
BEST ACTOR / MEILLEUR ACTEUR
Mathieu Amalric in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
BEST ACTRESS / MEILLEURE ACTRICE
Marion Cotillard in La Vie en Rose
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR / MEILLEUR ACTEUR DANS UN SECOND RÔLE
Sami Bouajila in The Witnesses
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS / MEILLEURE ACTRICE DANS UN SECOND RÔLE
Julie Depardieu in A Secret
BEST MALE NEWCOMER / MEILLEUR ESPOIR MASCULIN
Laurent Stocker in Ensemble, c’est tout
CÉSAR HOMMAGE: Romy Schneider
Links:
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xky25wwkXP0
[2] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0775447/
[3] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1032854/
[4] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1605230/
[5] http://www.lescesarducinema.com/#news