Virginie Efira was awarded the César for best actress for her role in “Review Paris” and Benoît Magimel wins that of the best actor for the second consecutive year.
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The film La Nuit du 12 by Dominik Moll, which relates the impossible investigation into female, triumphed Friday, February 24, at the Césars on Friday by winning six awards, including that of the best film and the best director. “I have a thought for the real Clara, the real victim of the case which gave rise to the film. Her name was Maud,” said Dominik Moll, receiving the César for the best film.
The main actor, Bastien Bouillon, also won the César for best male hope, while his colleague on the screen, Bouli Lanners, was rewarded the César for best actor in a supporting role. Finally, the film wins the prize in the categories of the best adaptation and the best sound.
Furthermore, Benoît Magimel won, for the second year in a row, the César for best actor for Pacific. Turment on the islands, a first in the history of this prize. “I did not think I had as much freedom as an actor on this film, that it was possible to be so free,” said the actor rewarded last year for his lifetime. “Tonight is a pretty crazy moment.”
The César for best actress was awarded to Virginie Efira for her role as a survivor of an attack in Review Paris. “This film [is] just, beautiful, consoler, cathartic, thank you for paying tribute to the victims,” said the Franco-Belgian actress, dedicating the prize to the director of the film Alice Winocour and all “the other directors “Who accompanied her.
The complete list of the 48th Césars ceremony:
- Best actress: Virginie Efira, in Review Paris;
- Best actor: Benoît Magimel, in Pacific: torment on the islands;
- Best actress in a supporting role: Noémie Merlant in Innocent;
- Best actor in a supporting role: Bouli Lanners, on the night of 12;
- Best female hope: Nadia Tereszkiewicz in almond trees;
- Best male hope: Bastien Bouillon on the night of 12;
- Best original scenario: Louis Garrel, Tanguy Viel and Naïla Guiguet, for Innocent;
- Best adaptation: Gilles Marchand and Dominik Moll, for the night of 12;
- Best original music: Irene Drésel for full time;
- Best sound: François Maurel, Olivier Mortier and Luc Thomas for the night of 12;
- Best photo: Artur Tort for Pacific: torment on the islands;
- Best editing: Mathilde Van de Moortel, for full time;
- Best costumes: Gigi Lepage for Simone, Le Voyage du siècle;
- Best sets: Christian Marti for Simone, the journey of the century;
- Best visual effects: Laurens Ehrmann for Notre-Dame burns;
- Best realization: Dominik Moll, for the night of 12;
- Best animated short film film: Mamie’s sexual life, directed by Urska Djukic;
- Best documentary short film film: Maria Schneider, 1983, directed by Elisabeth Subrin;
- Best fictional short film film: Leaving one day, directed by Amélie Bonnin;
- Best animated film: my Afghan family, directed by Michaela Pavlatova;
- Best documentary film: Back to Reims [Fragments], directed by Jean-Gabriel PERIOT;
- Best first film: Saint Omer, directed by Alice Diop;
- Best foreign film: As Bestas, directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen;
- Best film: The night of 12, directed by Dominik Moll;
- Honor Caesar: David Fincher.