César Award for Most Promising Actress
| César Award for Most Promising Actress César du meilleur espoir féminin | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best Female Newcomer |
| Country | France |
| Presented by | Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma |
| First awarded | 1983 |
| Currently held by | Zita Hanrot for Fatima (2016) |
| Official website |
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The César Award for Most Promising Actress (French: César du meilleur espoir féminin) 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.
In English, the award is variously referred to as "Breakthrough performance, actress"[1] or "Newcomer, female".[2]
Winners and nominees
Following the AATC's practice, the films below are listed by year of ceremony, which corresponds to the year following the film's year of release. For example, the César Award for Most Promising Actress of 2010 was awarded on 27 February 2010 for a performance in a film released between 1 January 2009 and 31 December 2009.
As with the other César awards, actresses are selected via a two-round vote: first round to choose the nominees, second round to designate the winner. All the members of the Académie, without regard to their branch, are eligible to vote on both rounds. But in order to "facilitate" the nomination vote, the Révélations Committee of the Académie, consisting of casting directors, establishes and proposes a list of a maximum of 16 actresses. However, this list is non-binding and Académie members are free to vote for an actress who has not been shortlisted.[3] Initially set to four, the number of nominees was expanded to five in 1990.
Winners are listed first in bold, followed by the other nominees.
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
Révélations
Each year, the Academy's Governing Board and the Révélations Committee (made up of casting directors working in French film productions) propose a list of a maximum of 16 young actresses ("Révélations des César") to facilitate the voting for the "Most Promising Actress" award. Since 2007, all young actresses who have worked on French feature-length films or primarily French-language productions are eligible for the list. However, beginning from 2013, an actress cannot qualify for the list more than twice. The "Révélations" are also featured in a short film directed by an artist appointed by the Academy yearly. The short film, unveiled at a gala dinner which is organised in honour of the "Révélations", is also later screened at select cinemas in France.[4][5]
Nominees of the César Award for Most Promising Actress are highlighted in boldface.[6]
2000s
2007
- Morjana Alaoui – Marock
- Leïla Bekhti – Bad Faith (Mauvaise Foi)
- Lizzie Brochere – One to Another (Chacun sa nuit)
- Sophie Cattani – Charlie Says (Selon Charlie)
- Maroussia Dubreuil – The Exterminating Angels (Les Anges exterminateurs)
- Déborah François – The Page Turner (La Tourneuse de pages)
- Marina Hands – Lady Chatterley
- Hande Kodja – Murderers (Meurtrières)
- Mélanie Laurent – Don't Worry, I'm Fine (Je vais bien ne t'en fais pas)
- Adélaïde Leroux – Flanders (Flandres)
- Aïssa Maiga – Bamako
- Maiwenn – Pardonnez-moi
- Joséphine de Meaux – Those Happy Days (Nos jours heureux)
- Clémence Poésy – Le Grand Meaulnes
- Sophie Quinton – April in Love (Avril)
- Céline Sallette – Murderers (Meurtrières)
2008
- Louise Blachère – Water Lilies (Naissance des pieuvres)
- Chloé Coulloud – La Tête de maman
- Audrey Dana – Roman de Gare
- Judith Davis – Jacquou le Croquant
- Anaïs Demoustier – L'Année suivante
- Émilie de Preissac – Regarde-moi
- Adèle Haenel – Water Lilies (Naissance des pieuvres)
- Hafsia Herzi – The Secret of the Grain (La Graine et le Mulet)
- Clotilde Hesme – Love Songs (Les Chansons d'amour)
- Yeelem Jappain – Those Who Remain (Ceux qui restent)
- Marie Kremer – Beneath the Rooftops of Paris (Les Toits de Paris)
- Clémence Poésy – Sans moi
- Constance Rousseau – All Is Forgiven (Tout est pardonné)
- Stéphanie Sokolinski – On the Ropes (Dans les cordes)
- Louise Szpindel – On the Ropes (Dans les cordes)
- Christa Theret – Et toi, t'es sur qui?
2009
- Nora Arnezeder – Paris 36 (Faubourg 36)
- Leïla Bekhti – Dolls and Angels (Des poupées et des anges)
- Mélanie Bernier – Passe-passe
- Marilou Berry – Vilaine
- Olympe Borval – Le Chant des mariées
- Louise Bourgoin – The Girl from Monaco (La Fille de Monaco)
- Lizzie Brocheré – Le Chant des mariées
- Judith Chemla – Versailles
- Anaïs Demoustier – Les Grandes Personnes
- Déborah François – The First Day of the Rest of Your Life (Le premier jour du reste de ta vie)
- Juliette Lamboley – Daddy Cool (15 ans et demi)
- Adélaïde Leroux – Home
- Clémentine Poidatz – Frontier of the Dawn (La Frontière de l'aube)
- Léa Seydoux – The Beautiful Person (La Belle Personne)
- Salomé Stévenin – Like a Star Shining in the Night (Comme une étoile dans la nuit)
- Fanny Valette – Welcome Home (Sur ta joue ennemie)
2010s
2010
- Marie-Julie Baup – Micmacs (Micmacs à tire-larigot)
- Astrid Berges Frisbey – The Sea Wall (Un barrage contre le Pacifique)
- Agathe Bonitzer – Un chat un chat
- Sophie Cattani – I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive (Je suis heureux que ma mère soit vivante)
- Judith Davis – You Will Be Mine (Je te mangerais)
- Anaïs Demoustier – Sois sage
- Mati Diop – 35 Shots of Rum (35 rhums)
- Pauline Etienne – Silent Voice (Qu’un seul tienne et les autres suivront)
- Alice de Lencquesaing – The Father of My Children (Le Père de mes enfants)
- Florence Loiret-Caille – Je l'aimais
- Sara Martins – Mensch
- Lola Naymark – The Army of Crime (L'Armée du crime)
- Vimala Pons – Bitter Victory (La Sainte Victoire)
- Soko – In the Beginning (À l'origine)
- Christa Theret – LOL (Laughing Out Loud)
- Mélanie Thierry – One for the Road (Le Dernier pour la route)
2011
- Raphaëlle Agogué – The Round Up (La Rafle)
- Clara Augarde – Love Like Poison (Un poison violent)
- Leïla Bekhti – Tout ce qui brille
- Judith Chemla – De vrais mensonges
- Vanessa David – Sweet Valentine
- Anaïs Demoustier – Living on Love Alone (D'amour et d'eau fraîche)
- Adèle Exarchopoulos – Turk's Head (Tête de turc)
- Ana Girardot – Lights Out (Simon Werner a disparu...)
- Annabelle Hettmann – The Sentiment of the Flesh (Le Sentiment de la chair)
- Audrey Lamy – Tout ce qui brille
- Elise Lhomeau – Young Girls in Black (Des filles en noir)
- Nina Meurisse – Accomplices (Complices)
- Veronika Novak – My Father's Guests
- Agathe Schlencker – Belle Épine
- Léa Seydoux – Belle Épine
- Yahima Torres – Black Venus (Vénus noire)
2012
- Naidra Ayadi – Polisse
- Anne Azoulay – Léa
- Alice Barnole – House of Tolerance (L'Apollonide : Souvenirs de la maison close)
- Astrid Bergès-Frisbey – The Well-Digger's Daughter (La Fille du puisatier)
- Lola Créton – Goodbye First Love (Un amour de jeunesse)
- Marie Denarnaud – The Adopted (Les Adoptés)
- Amandine Dewasmes – All Our Desires (Toutes nos envies)
- Golshifteh Farahani – Si tu meurs, je te tue
- Adèle Haenel – House of Tolerance (L'Apollonide : Souvenirs de la maison close)
- Clotilde Hesme – Angel & Tony (Angèle et Tony)
- Joséphine Japy – The Monk (Le Moine)
- Céline Sallette – House of Tolerance (L'Apollonide : Souvenirs de la maison close)
- Christa Théret – Twiggy (La Brindille)
- Alison Wheeler – Mon père est femme de ménage
- Iliana Zabeth – House of Tolerance (L'Apollonide : Souvenirs de la maison close)
2013
- Laurence Arné – Bowling
- Alice Belaïdi – Porn in the Hood (Les Kaïra)
- Agathe Bonitzer – A Bottle in the Gaza Sea (Une bouteille à la mer)
- Lola Créton – Something in the Air (Après mai)
- Alice de Lencquesaing – Au galop
- Lola Dewaere – Mince alors!
- Arta Dobroshi – Three Worlds (Trois mondes)
- Julia Faure – Camille Rewinds (Camille redouble)
- India Hair – Camille Rewinds (Camille redouble)
- Izïa Higelin – Bad Girl (Mauvaise Fille)
- Sarah Le Picard – Alyah
- Sofiia Manousha – Le noir (te) vous va si bien
- Noémie Merlant – L'Orpheline avec en plus un bras en moins
- Alice Pol – A Perfect Plan (Un plan parfait)
- Clara Ponsot – Bye Bye Blondie
- Camille Rutherford – Low Life
2014
- Margot Bancilhon – Les Petits Princes
- Flore Bonaventura – Chinese Puzzle (Casse-tête chinois)
- Pauline Burlet – The Past (Le Passé)
- Lou de Laâge – Jappeloup
- Laetitia Dosch – Age of Panic (La Bataille de Solférino)
- Pauline Etienne – The Nun (La Religieuse)
- Adèle Exarchopoulos – Blue Is the Warmest Colour (La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2)
- Golshifteh Farahani – The Patience Stone (Syngué sabour. Pierre de patience)
- Esther Garrel – Youth (Jeunesse)
- Ariane Labed – A Place on Earth (Une place sur la terre)
- Charlotte Le Bon – The Marchers (La Marche)
- Chloé Lecerf – Vandal
- Anamaria Marinca – Un nuage dans un verre d'eau
- Pauline Parigot – Les Lendemains
- Vimala Pons – La Fille du 14 juillet
- Marine Vacth – Young & Beautiful (Jeune & jolie)
2015
- Soumaye Bocoum – Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone
- Armande Boulanger – La Pièce manquante
- Lolita Chammah – Gaby Baby Doll
- Lou de Laâge – Respire
- Louane Emera – La Famille Bélier
- Alice Isaaz – La Crème de la crème
- Joséphine Japy – Respire
- Ariane Labed – Fidelio, Alice's Odyssey (Fidelio, l'odyssée d'Alice)
- Sofia Lesaffre – Les Trois Frères : Le Retour
- Mélodie Richard – Métamorphoses
- Solène Rigot – Tonnerre
- Ariana Rivoire – Marie's Story (Marie Heurtin)
- Anna Sigalevitch – Loup-Garou
- Philippine Stindel – Mercuriales
- Assa Sylla – Girlhood (Bande de filles)
- Karidja Touré – Girlhood (Bande de filles)
2016
- Mathilde Bisson – Au plus près du Soleil
- Camille Cottin – Connasse, Princesse des cœurs
- Lucie Debay – Melody
- Sara Giraudeau – Les Bêtises
- Zita Hanrot – Fatima
- Stacy Martin – Taj Mahal
- Freya Mavor – The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (La Dame dans l'auto avec des lunettes et un fusil)
- Baya Medhaffar – As I Open My Eyes (À peine j'ouvre les yeux)
- Lena Paugam – In the Shadow of Women (L'Ombre des femmes)
- Diane Rouxel – Standing Tall (La Tête haute)
- Lou Roy-Lecollinet – My Golden Days (Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse)
- Georgia Scalliet – L'Odeur de la mandarine
- Noémie Schmidt – The Student and Mister Henri (L'Étudiante et Monsieur Henri)
- Pauline Serieys – Une famille à louer
- Sarah Suco – Discount
- Lily Taieb – My Golden Days (Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse)
- Sophie Verbeeck – All About Them (À trois on y va)
2017
- Oulaya Amamra – Divines
- Naomi Amarger – Heaven Will Wait (Le Ciel attendra)
- Paula Beer – Frantz
- Galatéa Bellugi – Keeper
- Sigrid Bouaziz – Personal Shopper
- Lily-Rose Depp – The Dancer (La Danseuse)
- Eye Haïdara – Jailbirds (La Taularde)
- Liv Henneguier – Crache cœur
- Manal Issa – Parisienne (Peur de rien)
- Annabelle Lengronne – La Fine Équipe
- Marilyn Lima – Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story) (Bang Gang (une histoire d'amour moderne))
- Noémie Merlant – Heaven Will Wait (Le Ciel attendra)
- Raph – Slack Bay (Ma Loute)
- Salomé Richard – Baden Baden
- Ginger Romàn – The Stopover (Voir du pays)
- Julia Roy – Never Ever (À jamais)
- Anastasia Shevtsova – Polina (Polina, danser sa vie)
See also
References
- ↑ Rebecca Leffler (22 January 2010). "'A Prophet,' 'Welcome' lead Cesar noms". The Hollywood Reporter. AP. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
- ↑ "Cesar nominations list". Variety. 19 February 2010. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
- ↑ "Regulation of the "Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma", Retrieved 2015-02-22.
- ↑ "Les autres comités". Académie des César. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
- ↑ "Révélations". Académie des César. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
- ↑ "Liste des Révélations" (PDF). Académie des César. Retrieved 19 March 2015.