NYFF51 features Blue Is the Warmest Color and Stranger By the Lake are among the films nominated for Best Film by France's César Awards. The awards are the Galllic version of the Academy Awards, with nominations selected by the French Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma.
[Related: 86th Oscars: The Full List of Nominees]
Abdellatif Kechiche's Blue Is the Warmest Color won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival last year, while Alain Guiraudie's Stranger By the Lake won a director award in the event's Un Certain Regard section. Film Society hosted a recent retrospective of Guiraudie's work and Stranger is currently playing as a first-run at Film Society.
Both Kechiche and Guiraudie are nominated for a Best Director César. Nominees in the Best Film category are mirrored in the Best Director category this year. Other films nominated for both awards include Albert Dupontel's 9 Month Stretch, Guillaume Gallienne's Me, Myself and Mum, Arnaud Desplechin's Jimmy P., Asghar Farhadi's The Past and Roman Polanski's Venus in Fur, according to Indiewire.
Winners will be announced at a ceremony February 28 in Paris.
Best Film
9 Month Stretch
Me, Myself and Mum
Stranger by the Lake
Jimmy P.
The Past
Venus in Fur
Blue is the Warmest Color
Best Director
Albert Dupontel, 9 Month Stretch
Guillaume Gallienne, Me, Myself and Mum
Alain Guiraudie, Stranger by the Lake
Arnaud Desplechin, Jimmy P.
Asghar Farhadi, The Past
Roman Polanski, Venus in Fur
Abdellatif Kechiche, Blue is the Warmest Color
Best Foreign Film
Alabama Monroe, director Felix Van Groeningen
Blancanieves, director Pablo Berger
Blue Jasmine, director Woody Allen
Dead Man Talking, director Patrick Ridremont
Django Unchained, director Quentin Tarantino
The Great Beauty, director Paolo Sorrentino
Gravity, director Alfonso Cuaron
Best Actress
Fanny Ardant, Les Beaux Jours
Berenice Bejo, The Past
Catherine Deneuve, Elle S'En Va
Sara Forestier, Suzanne
Sandrine Kiberlain, 9 Month Stretch
Emmanuelle Seigner, Venus in Fur
Lea Seydoux, Blue is the Warmest Color
Best Actor
Mathieu Amalric, Venus in Fur
Michel Bouquet, Renoir
Albert Dupontel, 9 Month Stretch
Gergory Gadebois, Mon Ame Par Toi Guerie
Guillaume Gallienne, Me, Myself and Mum
Fabrice Luchini, Alceste a Bicyclette
Mads Mikkelsen, Michael Kohlhaas
Best Documentary
Comment J'ai Deteste les Maths, director Olivier Peyon
The Last of the Unjust, director Claude Lanzmann
Il Etait une Foret, director Luc Jacquet
La Maison de la Raido, director Nicolas Philibert
Sur le Chemin de l'Ecole, director Pascal Plisson
[Additional César nominations can be found on Indiewire ]
