42nd César Awards

The 42nd César Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, was held on 24 February 2017, at the Salle Pleyel in Paris to honour the best French films of 2016. Jérôme Commandeur hosted the César Awards ceremony for the first time.

42nd César Awards
Official poster featuring a picture of Marion Cotillard in the 2013 film Blood Ties
Date24 February 2017
SiteSalle Pleyel, Paris
Hosted byJérôme Commandeur
Highlights
Best FilmElle
Best ActorGaspard Ulliel
It's Only the End of the World
Best ActressIsabelle Huppert
Elle
Most awardsDivines (3)
It's Only the End of the World (3)
Most nominationsElle (11)
Frantz (11)
Television coverage
NetworkCanal+

The nominations were announced on 25 January 2017 by Academy president Alain Terzian and awards ceremony host Jérôme Commandeur.[1]

Divines and It's Only the End of the World won three awards each.[2] Other films with multiple awards include Chocolat, My Life as a Courgette and Elle with two, with the latter film winning the Best Film honour.[3]

Winners and nominees

Paul Verhoeven, director of Elle, won Best Film.
Xavier Dolan, director of It's Only the End of the World, won the César Awards for Best Director and Best Editing.
Isabelle Huppert, Best Actress winner.
James Thierree, Best Supporting Actor winner.
Déborah Lukumuena, Best Supporting Actress winner.
Claude Barras and Céline Sciamma, won the César Awards for Best Animated Feature Film and Best Adaptation for My Life as a Courgette.

Elle – produced by Saïd Ben Saïd and Michel Merkt, directed by Paul Verhoeven

Xavier Dolan – It's Only the End of the World

Gaspard Ulliel – It's Only the End of the World

Isabelle Huppert – Elle

James Thierrée – Chocolat

Déborah Lukumuena – Divines

Niels Schneider – Dark Inclusion

Oulaya Amamra – Divines

The Aquatic Effect – Sólveig Anspach and Jean-Luc Gaget

My Life as a Courgette – Céline Sciamma

Divines – Houda Benyamina

Pascal Marti – Frantz

Xavier Dolan – It's Only the End of the World

Marc Engels, Fred Demolder, Sylvain Réty and Jean-Paul Hurier – The Odyssey

  • Brigitte Taillandier, Vincent Guillon and Stéphane Thiébaut – Chocolat
  • Jean-Paul Mugel, Alexis Place, Cyril Holtz and Damien Lazzerini – Elle
  • Martin Boissau, Benoît Gargonne and Jean-Paul Hurier – Frantz
  • Jean-Pierre Duret, Sylvain Malbrant and Jean-Pierre Laforce – From the Land of the Moon

Ibrahim Maalouf – In the Forests of Siberia

Anaïs Romand – The Dancer

Jérémie D. Lignol – Chocolat

Merci patron! – François Ruffin

My Life as a Courgette – Claude Barras

Celui qui a deux âmes – Fabrice Luang-Vija

  • Café froid – Stéphanie Lansaque and François Leroy
  • Journal animé – Donato Sansone
  • Peripheria – David Coquard-Dassault

Maman(s) – Maïmouna Doucouré
Vers la tendresse – Alice Diop

I, Daniel Blake – Ken Loach

George Clooney

Multiple nominations and awards

The following films received multiple nominations:

NominationsFilm
11Elle
Frantz
9Slack Bay
8From the Land of the Moon
7Divines
6It's Only the End of the World
The Dancer
5Chocolat
In Bed with Victoria
4The Innocents
3My Life as a Courgette
2Dark Inclusion
Being 17
150 Milligrams
A Kid
A Woman's Life

The following films received multiple awards:

AwardsFilm
3Divines
It's Only the End of the World
2Elle
Chocolat
My Life as a Courgette

Viewers

The show was followed by 1.9 million viewers. This corresponds to 10.5% of the audience.[4]

See also

References