The 80-year-old screenwriter, director and writer Danièle Thompson will be the president of the next César du cinema ceremony which will take place on February 25 (and should not fail to pay tribute to Gaspard Ulliel), announced the Academy by a communicated : “We are very happy to announce that the great screenwriter and filmmaker Danièle Thompson will preside over the 47th Cesar Ceremony on February 25 on the Olympia stage.”
director’s daughter Gerard Oury (The Big Mop, The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob, The Ace of Aces) and actress Jacqueline Roman, Danièle Thompson made a name for herself in the cinema in the mid-1960s by writing successful screenplays. She co-wrote the screenplay with her father The big mop in 1966 then will write on all the films of this last until the end of his career. Danièle Thompson, who married in 2012, received 4 César nominations for best screenplay for Queen Margot, Those who love me will take the train, La Bûche and Orchestra seats, as well as an Oscar nomination for the screenplay of cousin, cousin in 1976.