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Romy Schneider was a German-French actress. She began her career in the German Heimatfilm genre in the early 1950s when she was 15. From 1955 to 1957, she played the central character of Empress Elisabeth of Austria in the Austrian Sissi trilogy, and later reprised the role in a more mature version in Luchino Visconti's Ludwig (1973). Schneider moved to France, where she made successful and critically acclaimed films with some of the most notable film directors of that era.
Patrick Dewaere was a French film actor. Born in Saint-Brieuc, Côtes-d'Armor, he was the son of French actress Mado Maurin. Actor from a young age, his career lasted more than 21 years, until his suicide in Paris, in 1982.
Sylvette Herry, known professionally as Miou-Miou, is a French actress. A ten-time César Award nominee, she won the César Award for Best Actress for the 1979 film Memoirs of a French Whore. Her other films include This Sweet Sickness (1977), Entre Nous (1983), May Fools (1990), Germinal (1993), Dry Cleaning (1997) and Arrêtez-moi (2013). In her career she has worked with a number of international directors, including Michel Gondry, Bertrand Blier, Claude Berri, Jacques Deray, Patrice Leconte, Joseph Losey and Louis Malle.
Jacques Dutronc is a French singer, songwriter, guitarist, composer, and actor. He has been married to singer Françoise Hardy since 30 March 1981 and the two have a son ; they separated in 1988. He also has been a longtime songwriting collaborator with Jacques Lanzmann. Some of Dutronc's best-known hits include "Il est cinq heures, Paris s'éveille", "Le Responsable", and "Les Cactus".
The César Award for Best Actress is one of the César Awards, presented annually by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma to recognize the outstanding performance in a leading role of an 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.
Claude Sautet was a French film director and screenwriter.
Laura Huguette Smet is a French actress. She is the daughter of rock musician Johnny Hallyday and actress Nathalie Baye. In 1986, Johnny Hallyday recorded in her honor the song "Laura", written by Jean-Jacques Goldman.
Pierre Granier-Deferre was a French film director and screenwriter
Emma de Caunes is a French actress. She is the daughter of actor and director Antoine de Caunes and director and designer Gaëlle Royer.
The Romy television award in honor of the Austrian-born actress Romy Schneider was created in 1990 by the Austrian newspaper Kurier – or rather their movie reviewer Rudolf John, who also designed the 30.5 cm gilded trophy. It recalls a scene from the movie The Swimming Pool with Alain Delon, when Romy Schneider arranges her dress.. The award ceremony is conducted at the Hofburg in Vienna.
The 5th César Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, honoured the best French films of 1979 and took place on 2 February 1980 at the Salle Pleyel in Paris. The ceremony was chaired by Jean Marais and hosted by Pierre Tchernia and Peter Ustinov. Tess won the award for Best Film.
The Prix Romy Schneider is awarded annually to a young and upcoming actress working in the French film industry.
Bérénice Bejo is a French-Argentine actress best known for playing Christiana in A Knight's Tale (2001) and Peppy Miller in The Artist (2011). Her work in the latter earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and won her the César Award for Best Actress. For her performance in The Past, she won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013 and was nominated for a César.
Raphaël Personnaz is a French actor. He has appeared in more than fifty films since 1998. He was awarded the Prix Patrick Dewaere in 2013.
Lou de Laâge is a French actress. She has been nominated for two César Awards—the French equivalent to the Oscars—for her performances in the independent film Jappeloup (2013) and the drama film Respire (2014).
Lily-Rose Melody Depp is a French-American actress and model. Depp began her acting career with a small role in Tusk (2014), and went on to star in the period drama The Dancer (2016), in which she played Isadora Duncan, Planetarium (2016), and The King (2019). Depp has been nominated for César Awards for Most Promising Actress for her performances in The Dancer and A Faithful Man (2018). Since 2015, she has been a Chanel brand ambassador.
Vincent Lacoste is a French actor. He began his acting career at the age of fifteen, playing the lead role of Hervé in the film The French Kissers. The role won him the Lumières Award for Most Promising Actor and a nomination for the César Award for Most Promising Actor in 2010. He was awarded the Prix Patrick Dewaere in 2016. He is the main character of Le jeune acteur graphic novel which recounts how he was selected for his first film.
The Prix Jean Gabin was a French award presented each year between 1981 and 2006 to a young and upcoming actor working in the French film industry.
Diane Rouxel is a French actress. She was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actress in 2016 for her role in the film Standing Tall. She received the Prix Romy Schneider in 2019.
Dewaere is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: