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César Award For Best Supporting Actress
The César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (French: ''César de la meilleure actrice dans un second rôle'') is one of the César Awards, presented annually by the ''Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma'' to recognize the outstanding performance in a supporting 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. History Superlatives As of 2019, 137 actresses have been nominated in the category, with a total of 34 different winners. The average age at first nomination is 41 and the average age of winners at first win is 38. With three wins (1991, 1993, 1999), Dominique Blanc holds the record of most César Award for Best Supporting Actress. Eight actresses have won the César twice: Marie-France Pisier (1976, 1977), Nathalie Baye (1981, 1982), Suzanne Flon (1984, 1990), Annie Girardot (1996, 2002), Valérie Lemer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Meurisse
Nina Meurisse (born 14 November 1988) is a French actress. For her role in Souleymane's Story, she won the Cesar Award for Best Supporting Actress. Theater Filmography Cinema Television References External links * Living people French film actresses French television actresses 1988 births Most Promising Actress Lumières Award winners Best Supporting Actress César Award winners {{France-screen-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Cérémonie
''La Cérémonie'' ( English: lit. ''The Ceremony'') is a 1995 French-German psychological thriller film by Claude Chabrol, adapted from the 1977 novel '' A Judgement in Stone'' by Ruth Rendell. The film echoes the case of Christine and Lea Papin, two French maids who brutally murdered their employer's wife and daughter in 1933, as well as the 1947 play they inspired, ''The Maids'' by Jean Genet. The film received widespread critical acclaim with praise for Chabrol's screenplay and directing, and Bonnaire and Huppert's performances. In a interview South Korean director Bong Joon Ho said the movie was one of his main inspirations to his 2019 South Korean highly acclaimed film, ''Parasite''. Plot ''La Cérémonie'' tells the story of a young woman, Sophie Bonhomme ( Sandrine Bonnaire), who is hired as a maid by the Lelièvre family. The Lelièvres live in an isolated mansion in Brittany. The family consists of four members: Catherine (Jacqueline Bisset) and Georges, the parents ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-France Pisier
Marie-France Pisier (10 May 194424 April 2011) was a French actress, screenwriter, and director. She appeared in numerous films of the French New Wave, and twice earned the national César Award for César Award for Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actress. Early life Pisier was born on 10 May 1944 in Da Lat, Dalat (now Vietnam), where her father was serving as a colonial official in French Indochina. Her younger brother, Gilles Pisier, is a mathematician and a member of the French Academy of Sciences. Her sister, political scientist Évelyne Pisier, Evelyn, was the first wife of Bernard Kouchner, a French politician and the co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières. The family moved to Paris when Marie-France was 12 years old. Career Five years later, Pisier made her screen acting debut for director François Truffaut in his 1962 film ''Antoine and Colette''. She had a brief, but incendiary, romance with the older, married Truffaut. Despite its end, she later appeared in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Pascal
Christine Pascal (29 November 1953 – 30 August 1996) was a French actress, writer, and director known for '' Le Petit Prince a dit'', 1992. Biography Born in Lyon, Rhône, Pascal made her film debut at 21 in Michel Mitrani's ''Les Guichets du Louvre'' (1974), and began an association with Bertrand Tavernier with her next film, '' L'Horloger de Saint-Paul'' (1974). Other films with Tavernier include '' Que la fête commence'' (1975), for which she received a César nomination for Best Supporting Actress; '' The Judge and the Assassin'' (1976); '' Des enfants gatés'' (1977), which she co-scripted; and '' Round Midnight''. Other film appearances include ''Black Thursday'' (1974), '' La Meilleure façon de marcher'' (1976), '' The Maids of Wilko'' (1979), '' Entre Nous'' (1983), and '' Le Grand Chemin'' (1987). She made her directorial debut with '' Félicité'', and also directed '' La Garce'', ''Zanzibar'', '' Le Petit prince a dit'' (which won the Louis Delluc Prize The Lou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Déborah Lukumuena
Déborah Lukumuena (born 4 December 1994) is a French actress. She is best known for her debut role in the 2016 drama film '' Divines'', for which she won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress. Career After her baccalaureate, she obtained a degree in letters. During her studies, she discovered the series The Tudors ''The Tudors'' is a historical fiction television series set primarily in 16th-century England, created and written by Michael Hirst and produced for the American premium cable television channel Showtime. The series was a collaboration among ... and the interpretation of Jonathan Rhys-Meyers made her want to become an actress. She responded to a casting ad, with the idea of getting a job as an extra, but she was selected to play one of the main roles in the film '' Divines'' directed by Houda Benyamina. In 2017, Déborah Lukumuena won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role and became the first black woman and the youngest winner i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandrine Bonnaire
Sandrine Bonnaire (; born 31 May 1967) is a French actress, film director and screenwriter who has appeared in more than 40 films. She won the César Award for Most Promising Actress for '' À Nos Amours'' (1983), the César Award for Best Actress for '' Vagabond'' (1985) and the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for '' La Cérémonie'' (1995). Her other films include '' Under the Sun of Satan'' (1987), '' Monsieur Hire'' (1989), '' East/West'' (1999) and '' The Final Lesson'' (2015). Life and career Bonnaire was born in the town of Gannat, Allier, in the Auvergne region. She was born into a working-class family, the seventh of eleven children. She grew up in Grigny, Essonne. Her acting career began in 1983, when she starred in the Maurice Pialat film '' À Nos Amours'' at age 16, as a girl from Paris beginning her sexual awakening. In 1984 she received the César Award for Most Promising Actress. Her international breakthrough came in 1985 with her portrayal of the main charac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Gensac
Claude Gensac (1 March 1927 – 27 December 2016) was a French actress. She appeared in more than 70 films and television productions since 1952. Gensac is the oldest nominee to date in the category César Award for Best Supporting Actress, nominated in 2015 for her role as Marthe in the film ''Lulu femme nue''. Career In 1952, Gensac portrayed the character of Evelyne in her first feature film, ''La Vie d'un homme honnête.'' She collaborated on a number of films with Louis de Funès, often playing his wife, to international acclaim. She appeared in the series of movies "Les Gendarmes" with Louis de Funès. She played De Funès' wife, Josepha Cruchot. After De Funès's death in 1983, Gensac was rarely involved in film, but was active as a theater actress. In 2001 she returned to film in the French version of ''Absolutely Fabulous'', her first film role since 1983. Gensac appeared in over 100 cinema and television films, as well as numerous theater roles. In 2011 she was awarde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzanne Flon
Suzanne Flon (28 January 1918 – 15 June 2005) was a French people, French stage, film, and television actress. She won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for her performance in the 1961 film ''Tu ne tueras point, Thou Shalt Not Kill''. Flon also received two César Awards and two Molière Awards in her career. Early life Her father was a railway worker and her mother crafted jewellery. Prior to becoming an actress, Flon worked as an English translator at the Paris department store Printemps, Au Printemps and then as personal secretary to Édith Piaf. The great love of her life was the legendary film director John Huston. She never married. Theatre roles Flon's stage credits included plays by Jean Anouilh (''L'Alouette'', ''Antigone (Anouilh play), Antigone'', ''Roméo et Jeannette''), André Roussin (''La Petite Hutte''), and Loleh Bellon (''La Chambre d'amis'', ''Les Dames du jeudi'', ''Changement à vue'', and ''Une Absence''). Her English-language theatrical roles included Kath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmanuelle Riva
Emmanuelle Riva (; 24 February 1927 – 27 January 2017) was a French actress, best known for her roles in the films '' Hiroshima mon amour'' (1959) and '' Amour'' (2012). Riva was nominated for a BAFTA Award for her role in ''Hiroshima mon amour'', and won Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for '' Thérèse Desqueyroux'' (1962). For her lead role in Michael Haneke's ''Amour'', she won a BAFTA Award and the César Award, and was nominated for an Academy Award. Early life Riva was born Paulette Germaine Riva on 24 February 1927 in Cheniménil, France, the daughter of Jeanne Fernande (née Nourdin), a seamstress, and René Alfred Riva, a sign painter. Growing up in Remiremont, Riva showed an early passion for acting, performing in plays at her local theatre, but worked for several years as a seamstress. After seeing an advertisement on a local newspaper, Riva applied to an acting school in Paris. At 26, she moved to Paris to pursue acting despite her family's objec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venus Beauty Institute
''Venus Beauty Institute'' (), also known as ''Venus Beauty'', is a 1999 French romantic comedy. The story centers on three employees of a beauty parlor and their search for love and happiness. The film is directed by Tonie Marshall. It stars Nathalie Baye, Bulle Ogier, Samuel Le Bihan, Jacques Bonnaffé, Mathilde Seigner, Audrey Tautou, Robert Hossein, Claire Denis, Micheline Presle, Emmanuelle Riva and Elli Medeiros Elli Medeiros (born 18 January 1956) is a Uruguayan-French singer and actress. Career Stinky Toys Originally from Uruguay, Medeiros moved to Paris, France, at the age of 14, dropped out of high school a couple of years later and joined the .... It won the César Award for Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay or Adaptation and Most Promising Actress. Plot Angèle is a 40-year-old beautician who works at the title establishment in Paris. She has been an orphan from the age of eight, her father having killed her mother for suspected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Crise
''La crise'' (), is a 1992 French film written and directed by Coline Serreau. Synopsis Victor is a legal advisor who finds himself abandoned by his wife and fired the same day. He tries to seek comfort from different friends and family members, but everyone he meets is concerned with their own problems. His morale begins to falter when he realizes that no one cares about him. He meets Michou, a simple but clingy homeless man, who is the only person to listen to him. Victor gradually realizes that his own egocentric attitude is responsible for the lack of consideration from those close to him, and he slowly adopts a different attitude. He hires Michou as his assistant, though the latter is less than competent. In the final scene, Victor finds his wife, who had wanted to get away from him for a while, and the film ends with doubts that their relationship will continue. Through the successive dialogues between the different protagonists that Victor meets, the film addresses vario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In Safe Hands
''In Safe Hands'' () is a 2018 French drama film directed by Jeanne Herry starring her mother Miou-Miou. Cast * Sandrine Kiberlain : Karine * Gilles Lellouche : Jean * Élodie Bouchez : Alice * Olivia Côte : Lydie * Clotilde Mollet : Mathilde * Miou-Miou : Irène * Stéfi Celma : Elodie * Jean-François Stévenin : Alice's father * Bruno Podalydès : Alice's ex * Grégory Gadebois : PFS Head of Service * Émilie Gavois-Kahn : The pediatric nurse Production The film was shot in seven weeks, between October and November 2017. Filming took place primarily in the Finistère department. Scenes were shot in the neonatal unit at the Hôpital Morvan in Brest. Additional scenes were shot at the town hall of Brest. Filming also took place in the nearby commune of Locmaria-Plouzané. Filming also took place in Belgium Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is borde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
