César Award for Best First Feature Film | |
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Awarded for | Best Debut Feature of the Year |
Country | France |
Presented by | Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma |
First awarded | 1982 |
Currently held by | Junkyard Dog (2024) |
Website | academie-cinema |
The César Award for Best First Feature Film (French : César du meilleur premier film) is an award presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma since 1982. It was originally named the César Award for Best Debut (César de la meilleure première œuvre in French) between 1982 and 1999, and César Award for Best Debut in Fiction (César de la meilleure première œuvre de fiction) until 2005, when it has been renamed again in 2006 to its current name.
Year | English title | Original title | Director |
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2020 (45th) | Papicha | Mounia Meddour | |
Atlantics | Atlantique | Mati Diop | |
Au nom de la terre | Édouard Bergeon | ||
The Wolf's Call | Le Chant du loup | Antonin Baudry | |
Les Misérables | Ladj Ly | ||
2021 (46th) [3] | Two of Us | Deux | Filippo Meneghetti |
My Best Part | Garçon chiffon | Nicolas Maury | |
Cuties | Mignonnes | Maïmouna Doucouré | |
Simply Black | Tout simplement noir | Jean-Pascal Zadi | |
Arab Blues | Un divan à Tunis | Manele Labid | |
2022 (47th) | Magnetic Beats [4] | Les Magnétiques | Vincent Maël Cardona |
Gagarine | Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh | ||
Slalom | Charlène Favier | ||
The Swarm | La Nuée | Just Philippot | |
The Velvet Queen | La panthère des neiges | Marie Amiguet and Vincent Munier | |
2023 (48th) | Saint Omer [5] | Alice Diop | |
Bruno Reidal, Confessions of a Murderer | Bruno Reidal | Vincent Le Port | |
Falcon Lake | Charlotte Le Bon | ||
The Sixth Child | Le Sixième Enfant | Léopold Legrand | |
The Worst Ones | Les Pires | Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret | |
2024 (49th) | Junkyard Dog | Chien de la casse | Jean-Baptiste Durand |
Bernadette | Léa Domenach | ||
The Rapture | Le Ravissement | Iris Kaltenbäck | |
Infested | Vermines | Sebastien Vanicek | |
Vincent Must Die | Vincent doit mourir | Stéphan Castang |
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