Awards for 2012

César

Best Film (Meilleur film)

WINNER

The Artist: Michel Hazanavicius (director), Thomas Langmann (producer)

NOMINEES

Polisse: Maïwenn (director), Alain Attal (producer)
The Minister: Pierre Schoeller (director), Denis Freyd (producer)
Declaration of War: Edouard Weil (producer), Valérie Donzelli (director)
The Intouchables: Olivier Nakache (director), Yann Zenou (producer), Eric Toledano (director), Laurent Zeitoun (producer), Nicolas Duval-Adassovsky (producer)
Le Havre: Aki Kaurismäki (director), Fabienne Vonier (producer)
Pater: Michel Seydoux (producer), Alain Cavalier (director)

Best Actor (Meilleur acteur)

WINNER

The Intouchables: Omar Sy

NOMINEES

The Artist: Jean Dujardin
The Intouchables: François Cluzet
Omar m'a tuer: Sami Bouajila
The Conquest: Denis Podalydès
Guilty: Philippe Torreton
The Minister: Olivier Gourmet

Most Promising Actor (Meilleur espoir masculin)

WINNER

Angel & Tony: Grégory Gadebois

NOMINEES

Jimmy Rivière: Guillaume Gouix
You Will Be My Son: Nicolas Bridet
A Gang Story: Dimitri Storoge
18 Years Old and Rising: Pierre Niney

Most Promising Actress (Meilleur espoir féminin)

WINNERS

Polisse: Naidra Ayadi
Angel & Tony: Clotilde Hesme

NOMINEES

House of Tolerance: Adèle Haenel
House of Tolerance: Céline Sallette
Twiggy: Christa Theret

Best Actress (Meilleure actrice)

WINNER

The Artist: Bérénice Bejo

NOMINEES

The Source: Leïla Bekhti
The Snows of Kilimanjaro: Ariane Ascaride
All Our Desires: Marie Gillain
Polisse: Marina Foïs
Polisse: Karin Viard
Declaration of War: Valérie Donzelli

Best Supporting Actor (Meilleur acteur dans un second rôle)

WINNER

The Minister: Michel Blanc

NOMINEES

The Conquest: Bernard Le Coq
Polisse: Joey Starr
Polisse: Nicolas Duvauchelle
Polisse: Frédéric Pierrot

Best Supporting Actress (Meilleure actrice dans un second rôle)

WINNER

The Women on the 6th Floor: Carmen Maura

NOMINEES

The Minister: Zabou Breitman
House of Tolerance: Noémie Lvovsky
The Intouchables: Anne Le Ny
Polisse: Karole Rocher

Best Director (Meilleur réalisateur)

WINNER

The Artist: Michel Hazanavicius

NOMINEES

The Minister: Pierre Schoeller
The Intouchables: Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano
Pater: Alain Cavalier
Polisse: Maïwenn
Declaration of War: Valérie Donzelli
Le Havre: Aki Kaurismäki

Best Original Screenplay (Meilleur scénario original)

WINNER

The Minister: Pierre Schoeller

NOMINEES

Declaration of War: Valérie Donzelli, Jérémie Elkaïm
The Intouchables: Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano
Polisse: Emmanuelle Bercot, Maïwenn
The Artist: Michel Hazanavicius

Best Adapted Screenplay (Meilleure adaptation)

WINNER

Carnage: Roman Polanski, Yasmina Reza

NOMINEES

Omar m'a tuer: Roschdy Zem, Rachid Bouchareb, Olivier Gorce, Olivier Lorelle
Rebellion: Mathieu Kassovitz, Pierre Geller, Benoît Jaubert
Guilty: Vincent Garenq
Delicacy: David Foenkinos

Best Cinematography (Meilleure photographie)

WINNER

The Artist: Guillaume Schiffman

NOMINEES

The Minister: Julien Hirsch
Polisse: Pierre Aïm
House of Tolerance: Josée Deshaies
The Intouchables: Mathieu Vadepied

Best Costume Design (Meilleurs costumes)

WINNER

House of Tolerance: Anaïs Romand

NOMINEES

The Source: Viorica Petrovici
My Little Princess: Catherine Baba
The Women on the 6th Floor: Christian Gasc
The Artist: Mark Bridges

Best Sound (Meilleur son)

WINNER

The Minister: Jean-Pierre Laforce, Julie Brenta, Olivier Hespel

NOMINEES

House of Tolerance: Jean-Pierre Laforce, Jean-Pierre Duret, Nicolas Moreau
The Intouchables: Jean-Paul Hurier, Pascal Armant, Jean Goudier
Polisse: Emmanuel Croset, Nicolas Provost, Rym Debbarh-Mounir
Declaration of War: Laurent Gabiot, Sébastien Savine, André Rigaut

Best Editing (Meilleur montage)

WINNER

Polisse: Laure Gardette, Yann Dedet

NOMINEES

Declaration of War: Pauline Gaillard
The Intouchables: Dorian Rigal-Ansous
The Minister: Laurence Briaud
The Artist: Anne-Sophie Bion, Michel Hazanavicius

Best Original Music (Meilleure musique originale)

WINNER

The Artist: Ludovic Bource

NOMINEES

House of Tolerance: Bertrand Bonello
A Monster in Paris: Patrice Renson, Mathieu Chedid
Beloved: Alex Beaupain
The Minister: Philippe Schoeller

Best Short Film (Meilleur film de court-métrage)

WINNER

The Piano Tuner: Thibault Gast (producer), Matthias Weber (producer), Olivier Treiner (director)

NOMINEES

Je pourrais être votre grand-mère: Benoît Blanchard (producer), Bernard Tanguy (director/producer)
A World Without Women: Nicholas Nonon (producer), Guillaume Brac (director/producer), Maya Haffar (producer)
J'aurais pu être une pute: Baya Kasmi (director), Antoine Gandaubert (producer)
La France qui se lève tôt: Pauline Seigland (producer), Pierre-François Bernet (producer), Hugo Chesnard (director)

Best Documentary Film (Meilleur film documentaire)

WINNER

Tous au Larzac: Marie Masmonteil (producer), Sandrine Brauer (producer), Denis Carot (producer), Christian Rouaud (director)

NOMINEES

Michel Petrucciani: Michael Radford (director), Serge Lalou (producer)
Le bal des menteurs: Daniel Leconte (director/producer)
Crazy Horse: Pierre Olivier Bardet (producer), Frederick Wiseman (director)
Here We Drown Algerians: October 17th, 1961: Blanche Guichou (producer), Yasmina Adi (director)

Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film étranger)

WINNER

A Separation: Asghar Farhadi

NOMINEES

Incendies: Denis Villeneuve
Drive: Nicolas Winding Refn
The King's Speech: Tom Hooper
The Kid with a Bike: Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Melancholia: Lars von Trier
Black Swan: Darren Aronofsky

Best Animated Film (Meilleur film d'animation)

WINNER

The Rabbi's Cat: Antoine Delesvaux (director/producer), Joann Sfar (director)

NOMINEES

A Monster in Paris: Luc Besson (producer), Bibo Bergeron (director)
Le cirque: Nicolas Brault (director), Pascal Le Nôtre (producer)
The Painting: Eric Jacquot (producer), Armelle Glorennec (producer), Jean-François Laguionie (director)
A Mouse's Tale: Annick Teninge (producer), Benjamin Renner (director)

Best Production Design (Meilleurs décors)

WINNER

The Artist: Laurence Bennett

NOMINEES

House of Tolerance: Alain Guffroy
The Minister: Jean-Marc Tran Tan Ba
The Women on the 6th Floor: Pierre-François Limbosch
Le Havre: Wouter Zoon

Best First Film (Meilleur premier film)

WINNER

When Pigs Have Wings: Sylvain Estibal (director), Franck Chorot (producer)

NOMINEES

17 Girls: Denis Freyd (producer), Delphine Coulin (director), Muriel Coulin (director)
My Little Princess: Eva Ionesco (director), François Marquis (producer)
Delicacy: Stéphane Foenkinos (director), Xavier Rigault (producer), David Foenkinos (director), Marc-Antoine Robert (producer)
Angel & Tony: Alix Delaporte (director), Hélène Cases (producer)

Honorary César

WINNER

Kate Winslet

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