Agnès Jaoui is a French actress, screenwriter, film director and singer.
Benoît Magimel is a French actor. He was 14 when he appeared in his first film, and has starred in a variety of roles in French cinema. At age 16, Magimel left school to pursue acting as a career. In 2001, he won the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival for his role in Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher. He also starred in Claude Chabrol's La Demoiselle d'honneur.
The César Award for Best Female Revelation is one of the César Awards, presented annually by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma to recognize the outstanding breakthrough performance of a young actress who has worked within the French film industry during the year preceding the ceremony. Nominees and winner are selected via a run-off voting by all the members of the Académie, within a group of 16 actresses previously shortlisted by the Révélations Committee.
The César Award for Best Male Revelation is one of the César Awards, presented annually by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma to recognize the outstanding breakthrough performance of a young actor who has worked within the French film industry during the year preceding the ceremony. Nominees and winner are selected via a run-off voting by all the members of the Académie, within a group of 16 actors previously shortlisted by the Révélations Committee.
Noémie Lvovsky is a French film director, screenwriter, and actress.
Lights Out is a 2010 French thriller film written and directed by Fabrice Gobert and starring Jules Pelissier, Ana Girardot, Arthur Mazet, Laurent Delbecque, Selma El Mouissi, Audrey Bastien, Esteban Carvajal Alegria, Yan Tassin, Serge Riaboukine and Laurent Capelluto.
Declaration of War is a 2011 French film directed by Valérie Donzelli, and written by and starring Donzelli and Jérémie Elkaïm; it is based on actual events in their lives together, when they were a young couple caring for their dangerously ill son. It was released on the 31 August 2011 and received very positive reviews; Allociné, a review aggregation website gave it an average of 4.3 stars out of five. Le Monde gave it a full five stars, saying "Against cancer, an undoubtable force of happiness". The film was selected as the French entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.
The Lumière Awards, officially the Lumières de la presse internationale, are French film awards presented by the Académie des Lumières to honor the best in the French-speaking cinema of the previous year. The awards ceremony is organized by the Académie des Lumières which consists of over 200 representatives of the international press based in Paris. Today they are regarded as one of the most prestigious French film industry awards, and are considered France's equivalent to the Golden Globe Awards.
The 4th Magritte Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie André Delvaux, honored the best films of 2013 in Belgium and took place on 1 February 2014, at the Square in the historic site of Mont des Arts, Brussels beginning at 8:00 p.m. CET. During the ceremony, the Académie André Delvaux presented Magritte Awards in 21 categories. The ceremony was televised in Belgium by BeTV. Actress Émilie Dequenne presided the ceremony, while actor Fabrizio Rongione hosted the show for the second time.
Ana Girardot is a French actress and director. She is known for Escobar: Paradise Lost (2014); her role of Lucy in the television series Les Revenants ; and Someone, Somewhere (2019).
François Civil is a French actor. He has appeared in both French and English-language productions and is known for his roles in films such as Frank (2014), As Above, So Below (2014), Five (2016), Burn Out (2017), Love at Second Sight (2019), The Wolf's Call (2019), Who You Think I Am (2019), Someone, Somewhere (2019), BAC Nord (2021), for voicing Buzz Lightyear in the French version of the animated film Lightyear (2022), and for playing D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan (2023) and The Three Musketeers: Milady (2023). On television, he has starred in the Disney Channel teen sitcom series Trop la Classe! (2006), in the France 2 comedy-drama series Call My Agent! (2015–17), and in the Netflix comedy miniseries Fiasco (2024).
Next Time I'll Aim for the Heart is a 2014 French thriller film written and directed by Cédric Anger. It was adapted from the novel Un assassin au-dessus de tout soupçon by Yvan Stefanovitch. Set in 1970s Oise, France, it is based on the story of Alain Lamare, a gendarme who was later revealed to be a murderer.
La Crème de la crème is a 2014 French comedy-drama film directed by Kim Chapiron. The film received three nominations at the 20th Lumières Awards, where Thomas Blumenthal and Jean-Baptiste Lafarge were nominated for Best Male Revelation and Alice Isaaz for Best Female Revelation.
Thomas Cailley is a French screenwriter and film director. In 2014, he made his feature directorial debut with Love at First Fight, which won three César Awards including Best First Film. In 2023 he made his second movie The Animal Kingdom.
Bastien Bouillon is a French actor. He has appeared in more than 30 film and television productions since 2009. He is the son of the stage director Gilles Bouillon. In 2023, he received the César Award for Most Promising Actor. He also portrayed Fernand de Morcerf in The Count of Monte Cristo (2024).
18 Years Old and Rising is a 2011 French comedy film directed by Frédéric Louf.
Radiostars is a 2012 French comedy film co-written and directed by Romain Levy.
The Night of the 12th is a 2022 mystery thriller film directed by Dominik Moll, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Gilles Marchand, based on the 2020 non-fiction book 18.3 – Une année à la PJ by Pauline Guéna. It stars Bastien Bouillon, Bouli Lanners, Anouk Grinberg, Théo Cholbi, Johann Dionnet, Thibault Evrard, Julien Frison, Paul Jeanson, Mouna Soualem and Pauline Serieys.
Raphaël Quenard is a French actor. After starring in small-scale short films and television productions as well as a variety of supporting film roles, Quenard earned acclaim for his breakthrough performances in Junkyard Dog (2023) and Yannick (2023). He received 3 nominations at the 49th César Awards, including Best Actor for Yannick, and won Best Male Revelation for Junkyard Dog.
The 49th César Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, took place on 23 February 2024 at the Olympia in Paris, to honour the best French films of 2023. Valérie Lemercier presided over the ceremony, after serving as the host for three previous editions. Mirroring the previous ceremony, multiple actors and filmmakers hosted the 49th iteration: Ariane Ascaride, Bérénice Bejo, Dali Benssalah, Juliette Binoche, Dany Boon, Bastien Bouillon, Audrey Diwan, Ana Girardot, Diane Kruger, Benoît Magimel, Paul Mirabel, Nadia Tereszkiewicz and Jean-Pascal Zadi.
