César Award for Best First Film
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| César Award for Best First Film | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best Debut Feature of the Year |
| Country | France |
| Presented by | Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma |
| First award | 1982 |
| Currently held by | Junkyard Dog (2024) |
| Website | academie-cinema |
The César Award for Best First 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.
Winners and nominees
[edit]1980s
[edit]1990s
[edit]| Year | English title | Original title | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 (15th) |
Love Without Pity | Un monde sans pitié | Eric Rochant |
| Thick Skinned | Peaux de vaches | Patricia Mazuy | |
| La Salle de bain | John Lvoff | ||
| La Soule | Michel Sibra | ||
| Suivez cet avion | Patrice Ambard | ||
| Tolérance | Pierre-Henry Salfati | ||
| 1991 (16th) |
La Discrète | Christian Vincent | |
| Halfaouine Child of the Terraces | Halfaouine, l'enfant des terrasses | Férid Boughedir | |
| Mado poste restante | Alexandre Adabachian | ||
| Outremer | Brigitte Roüan | ||
| Un week-end sur deux | Nicole Garcia | ||
| 1992 (17th) |
Delicatessen | Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro | |
| Les Arcandiers | Manuel Sanchez | ||
| L'Autre | Bernard Giraudeau | ||
| Fortune Express | Olivier Schatzky | ||
| Cold Moon | Lune froide | Patrick Bouchitey | |
| 1993 (18th) |
Savage Nights | Les Nuits fauves | Cyril Collard |
| Nord | Xavier Beauvois | ||
| Riens du tout | Cédric Klapisch | ||
| The Sentinel | La Sentinelle | Arnaud Desplechin | |
| Le Zèbre | Jean Poiret | ||
| 1994 (19th) |
The Scent of Green Papaya | L'Odeur de la papaye verte | Tran Anh Hung |
| Wild Target | Cible émouvante | Pierre Salvadori | |
| The Son of the Shark | Le Fils du requin | Agnès Merlet | |
| Normal People Are Nothing Exceptional | Les Gens normaux n'ont rien d'exceptionnel | Laurence Ferreira-Barbosa | |
| Métisse | Mathieu Kassovitz | ||
| 1995 (20th) |
See How They Fall | Regarde les hommes tomber | Jacques Audiard |
| Colonel Chabert | Le Colonel Chabert | Yves Angelo | |
| Mina Tannenbaum | Martine Dugowson | ||
| Personne ne m'aime | Marion Vernoux | ||
| Petits arrangements avec les morts | Pascale Ferran | ||
| 1996 (21st) |
The Three Brothers | Les Trois Frères | Didier Bourdon and Bernard Campan |
| En avoir (ou pas) | Laetitia Masson | ||
| Inner City | Etats des lieux | Jean-François Richet | |
| Pigalle | Karim Dridi | ||
| Rosine | Christine Carriere | ||
| 1997 (22nd) |
Will It Snow for Christmas? | Y aura-t-il de la neige à Noël? | Sandrine Veysset |
| The Apartment | L'Appartement | Gilles Mimouni | |
| Bernie | Albert Dupontel | ||
| Encore | Pascal Bonitzer | ||
| Microcosmos | Claude Nuridsany and Marie Pérennou | ||
| 1998 (23rd) |
Didier | Alain Chabat | |
| The Other Shore | L'Autre côté de la mer | Dominique Cabrera | |
| Les Démons de Jésus | Bernie Bonvoisin | ||
| The Life of Jesus | La Vie de Jésus | Bruno Dumont | |
| Ma vie en rose | Alain Berliner | ||
| 1999 (24th) |
Only God Sees Me | Dieu seul me voit | Bruno Podalydès |
| Hinterland | L'Arrière Pays | Jacques Nolot | |
| The Kid from Chaaba | Le Gone du Chaâba | Christophe Ruggia | |
| The Perfect Guy | Jeanne et le Garçon formidable | Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau | |
| The Dreamlife of Angels | La Vie rêvée des anges | Erick Zonca | |
2000s
[edit]2010s
[edit]2020s
[edit]| Year | English title | Original title | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 2025 (50th) |
Holy Cow | Vingt Dieux | Louise Courvoisier |
| Ghost Trail | Les Fantômes | Jonathan Millet | |
| The Kingdom | Le Royaume | Julien Colonna | |
| A Little Something Extra | Un P'tit Truc En Plus | Artus | |
| Wild Diamond | Diamant brut | Agathe Riedinger | |
See also
[edit]- Lumière Award for Best First Film
- Louis Delluc Prize for Best First Film
- French Syndicate of Cinema Critics — Best First Film
- Magritte Award for Best First Feature Film
References
[edit]- ^ "Cesar Awards: Philippe Faucon's Drama 'Fatima' Wins Best Film". Variety. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
- ^ France's César awards celebrate diversity with ‘Fatima’ and ‘Mustang’ - France 24
- ^ "'Bye Bye Morons' Wins Best Film at France's Cesar Awards". Hollywood Reporter.
- ^ Cesar Awards Winners 2022: Complete List - The Hollywood Reporter
- ^ Cesar Awards Announced for 2023 - Variety