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César Awards, France

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    César

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    Best Actor (Meilleur acteur)

    • Christopher Lambert in The Hunted (1995)
      Winner
      • Christopher Lambert
      • Subway
    • Robin Renucci in Un village français (2009)
      • Robin Renucci
      • Escalier C
    • Lambert Wilson in The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
      • Lambert Wilson
      • Rendez-vous
    • Gérard Depardieu
      • Gérard Depardieu
      • Police
    • Michel Serrault in La Cage aux Folles (1978)
      • Michel Serrault
      • He Died with His Eyes Open

    Best Actress (Meilleure actrice)

    • Sandrine Bonnaire in Intimate Strangers (2004)
      Winner
      • Sandrine Bonnaire
      • Vagabond
    • Isabelle Adjani
      • Isabelle Adjani
      • Subway
    • Juliette Binoche at an event for Breaking and Entering (2006)
      • Juliette Binoche
      • Rendez-vous
    • Charlotte Rampling
      • Charlotte Rampling
      • He Died with His Eyes Open
    • Nicole Garcia
      • Nicole Garcia
      • Death in a French Garden

    Best Advertising Film (Meilleur film publicitaire)

    • Jean Becker
      Winner
      • Jean Becker
      "Clémenceau, Le" (Citro‰n Visa GTI).
      • Sarah Moon
      "Castinge" (Cacharel).
      • Jean-Paul Goude
      "Lee Cooper".
    • Étienne Chatiliez
      • Étienne Chatiliez
      "Cave, La" (Free Time).
    • Étienne Chatiliez
      • Étienne Chatiliez
      "C'est la question" (Eram).

    Best Cinematography (Meilleure photographie)

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      He Died with His Eyes Open

      6.1 (836)
      Jean Penzer
    • [object Object]

      Rendez-vous

      6.4 (3.3K)
      Renato Berta
    • [object Object]

      Harem

      4.7 (873)
      Pasqualino De Santis
    • [object Object]

      Subway

      6.5 (18K)
      Carlo Varini

    Best Costume Design (Meilleurs costumes)

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Harem

      4.7 (873)
      Olga Berluti
      Catherine Gorne-Achdjian
    • [object Object]

      Bras de fer

      6.1 (96)
      Elisabeth Tavernier
    • [object Object]

      Rendez-vous

      6.4 (3.3K)
      Christian Gasc
    • [object Object]

      Bras de fer

      6.1 (96)
      Christian Dior
    • [object Object]

      L'effrontée

      6.8 (2.3K)
      Jacqueline Bouchard

    Best Director (Meilleur réalisateur)

    • Michel Deville
      Winner
      • Michel Deville
      • Death in a French Garden
    • Agnès Varda
      • Agnès Varda
      • Vagabond
    • Luc Besson
      • Luc Besson
      • Subway
    • Coline Serreau in Three Men and a Cradle (1985)
      • Coline Serreau
      • Three Men and a Cradle
    • Claude Miller in Thérèse (2012)
      • Claude Miller
      • L'effrontée

    Best Editing (Meilleur montage)

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Death in a French Garden

      6.8 (1.9K)
      Raymonde Guyot
    • [object Object]

      Subway

      6.5 (18K)
      Sophie Schmit
    • [object Object]

      He Died with His Eyes Open

      6.1 (836)
      Henri Lanoë
    • [object Object]

      Police

      6.5 (3.2K)
      Yann Dedet

    Best Film (Meilleur film)

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Three Men and a Cradle

      6.6 (4.2K)
      Coline Serreau
    • [object Object]

      Subway

      6.5 (18K)
      Luc Besson
    • [object Object]

      L'effrontée

      6.8 (2.3K)
      Claude Miller
    • [object Object]

      Death in a French Garden

      6.8 (1.9K)
      Michel Deville
    • [object Object]

      Vagabond

      7.6 (15K)
      Agnès Varda

    Best First Work (Meilleure première oeuvre)

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Tea in the Harem

      6.9 (495)
      Mehdi Charef
    • [object Object]

      Harem

      4.7 (873)
      Arthur Joffé
    • [object Object]

      The Night Wears Suspenders

      5.3 (89)
      Virginie Thévenet
    • [object Object]

      Strictly Personal

      5.3 (63)
      Pierre Jolivet

    Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film étranger)

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      The Purple Rose of Cairo

      7.6 (58K)
      Woody Allen
    • [object Object]

      Year of the Dragon

      6.8 (19K)
      Michael Cimino
    • [object Object]

      The Killing Fields

      7.8 (63K)
      Roland Joffé
    • [object Object]

      Ran

      8.2 (149K)
      Akira Kurosawa
    • [object Object]

      Desperately Seeking Susan

      6.1 (28K)
      Susan Seidelman

    Best French Language Film (Meilleur film francophone)

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Derborence

      6.3 (112)
      Francis Reusser
    • [object Object]

      La dame en couleurs

      6.2 (119)
      Claude Jutra
    • [object Object]

      Dust

      6.0 (283)
      Marion Hänsel
    • [object Object]

      Hail Mary

      6.4 (4K)
      Jean-Luc Godard
    • [object Object]

      Visage pâle

      6.5 (29)
      Claude Gagnon
    • [object Object]

      Vivement ce soir

      6.7 (27)
      Patrick Van Antwerpen

    Best Music (Meilleure musique)

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Tangos, the Exile of Gardel

      7.1 (743)
      Astor Piazzolla
      José Luis Castiñeira de Dios
    • [object Object]

      Bras de fer

      6.1 (96)
      Michel Portal
    • [object Object]

      He Died with His Eyes Open

      6.1 (836)
      Claude Bolling
    • [object Object]

      Subway

      6.5 (18K)
      Éric Serra

    Best Poster (Meilleure affiche)

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Harem

      4.7 (873)
    • [object Object]

      Ran

      8.2 (149K)
    • [object Object]

      The Emerald Forest

      6.9 (12K)
    • [object Object]

      Death in a French Garden

      6.8 (1.9K)
    • [object Object]

      Subway

      6.5 (18K)

    Best Production Design (Meilleurs décors)

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Subway

      6.5 (18K)
      Alexandre Trauner
    • [object Object]

      He Died with His Eyes Open

      6.1 (836)
      François de Lamothe
    • [object Object]

      Bras de fer

      6.1 (96)
      Jean-Jacques Caziot
    • [object Object]

      Death in a French Garden

      6.8 (1.9K)
      Philippe Combastel

    Best Screenplay, Original or Adaptation (Meilleur scénario, original ou adaptation)

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Three Men and a Cradle

      6.6 (4.2K)
      Coline Serreau
    • [object Object]

      Rendez-vous

      6.4 (3.3K)
      André Téchiné
      Olivier Assayas
    • [object Object]

      L'effrontée

      6.8 (2.3K)
      Annie Miller
      Luc Béraud
      Bernard Stora
      Claude Miller
    • [object Object]

      He Died with His Eyes Open

      6.1 (836)
      Jacques Deray
      Michel Audiard
    • [object Object]

      Death in a French Garden

      6.8 (1.9K)
      Michel Deville

    Best Short Film - Animation (Meilleur court-métrage d'animation)

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      L'enfant de la haute mer

      6.6 (25)
      Patrick Deniau

    • La campagne est si belle

      Michel Gauthier

    • Contes crépusculaires

      Yves Charnay

    Best Short Film - Documentary (Meilleur court-métrage documentaire)

    • Winner

      New York, N.Y.

      6.8 (118)
      Raymond Depardon

    • C'était la dernière année de ma vie

      Claude Weisz

    • La boucane

      Jean Gaumy

    Best Short Film - Fiction (Meilleur court-métrage de fiction)

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Grosse

      Brigitte Roüan
    • [object Object]

      Dialogue de sourds

      7.1 (68)
      Bernard Nauer

    • Juste avant le mariage

      Jacques Deschamps
    • [object Object]

      The Book of Mary

      6.9 (667)
      Anne-Marie Miéville
    • [object Object]

      La consultation

      Radovan Tadic

    Best Sound (Meilleur son)

    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Subway

      6.5 (18K)
      Gérard Lamps
      Luc Perini
      Harrik Maury
      Harald Maury
    • [object Object]

      Harem

      4.7 (873)
      Dominique Hennequin
      Pierre Gamet
    • [object Object]

      L'effrontée

      6.8 (2.3K)
      Paul Lainé
      Gérard Lamps
    • [object Object]

      Rendez-vous

      6.4 (3.3K)
      Jean-Louis Ughetto
      Dominique Hennequin

    Best Supporting Actor (Meilleur acteur dans un second rôle)

    • Michel Boujenah in Ad Lib (1986)
      Winner
      • Michel Boujenah
      • Three Men and a Cradle
      • Xavier Deluc
      • He Died with His Eyes Open
    • Jean-Hugues Anglade
      • Jean-Hugues Anglade
      • Subway
    • Michel Galabru and Michel Serrault in La Cage aux Folles (1978)
      • Michel Galabru
      • Subway
    • Jean-Pierre Bacri in Let it Rain (2008)
      • Jean-Pierre Bacri
      • Subway

    Best Supporting Actress (Meilleure actrice dans un second rôle)

    • Bernadette Lafont
      Winner
      • Bernadette Lafont
      • L'effrontée
    • Anémone in Death in a French Garden (1985)
      • Anémone
      • Death in a French Garden
    • Catherine Frot in Cavale (2002)
      • Catherine Frot
      • Escalier C
    • Dominique Lavanant
      • Dominique Lavanant
      • Three Men and a Cradle
    • Macha Méril at an event for Tender Cousins (1980)
      • Macha Méril
      • Vagabond

    Most Promising Actor (Meilleur jeune espoir masculin)

    • Wadeck Stanczak in Rendez-vous (1985)
      Winner
      • Wadeck Stanczak
      • Rendez-vous
    • Jean-Philippe Écoffey
      • Jean-Philippe Écoffey
      • L'effrontée
    • Lucas Belvaux at an event for The Right of the Weakest (2006)
      • Lucas Belvaux
      • Cop Au Vin
    • Jacques Bonnaffé in First Name: Carmen (1983)
      • Jacques Bonnaffé
      • La tentation d'Isabelle
      • Kader Boukhanef
      • Tea in the Harem

    Most Promising Actress (Meilleur jeune espoir féminin)

    • Charlotte Gainsbourg at an event for Melancholia (2011)
      Winner
      • Charlotte Gainsbourg
      • L'effrontée
    • Emmanuelle Béart
      • Emmanuelle Béart
      • Love on the Quiet
    • Zabou Breitman in No and Me (2010)
      • Zabou Breitman
      • Billy Ze Kick
    • Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu
      • Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu
      • Three Men and a Cradle
    • Charlotte Valandrey
      • Charlotte Valandrey
      • Red Kiss

    Honorary César

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    • [object Object]
      Winner

      Shoah

      8.7 (11K)
      Claude Lanzmann
    • Jean Delannoy, Annie Ducaux, Piéral, Jean-François Poron, and Marina Vlady in Princess of Cleves (1961)
      Winner
      • Jean Delannoy
    • Winner
      • René Ferracci
    • Bette Davis
      Winner
      • Bette Davis
    • Winner

      Also known as

      • La Nuit de Césars

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      Event date

      February 22, 1986

      Event location

      Paris, France

      Event links

      • https://www.academie-cinema.org

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