(Paris) The Césars have bet on a regular in the exercise by entrusting Thursday to Antoine de Caunes the role of master of ceremonies for the next awards ceremony for the most prestigious French cinema.
The 47e Césars evening, organized at the Olympia on February 25, 2022, will be broadcast as usual unencrypted and live on Canal +, the organizers said.
Antoine de Caunes succeeds Marina Foïs, after a 46e ceremony organized in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, which crowned best film Goodbye idiots by Albert Dupontel.
The latter had not come to receive his prize, the evening had its worst audience score in ten years (1.6 million viewers), and the tone of the ceremony, punctuated by the schoolboy humor of Marina Foïs, had been deplored by many film and cultural personalities, starting with Minister Roselyne Bachelot.
By choosing Antoine de Caunes, a television and media man who is also an actor and director, the Césars are entrusting the ceremony this year to a regular at Canal + and the exercise, which he will take charge for the tenth time since 1996.
This will be the second Césars ceremony since the existential crisis experienced by the institution, accused of opacity and self-reliance. The Academy has since been profoundly renewed under the aegis of a new direction, in the sense of greater diversity and parity.
The peak of the crisis was reached two years ago, when the 45e ceremony, with the coronation of Roman Polanski, accused of rape, as best director for his film I accuse.
The departure of the ceremony, in protest, of actress Adèle Haenel, had become one of the symbols of the fight against sexual violence and for equality in the world of cinema.