(Paris) Filmmaker Christopher Nolan and actress and director Agnès Jaoui will each receive an honorary César for their career, during the 49e Césars ceremony on February 23 in Paris, the organizers announced on Friday.
The American-British Christopher Nolan, 53, reconciles popular success and artistic demands, Dunkirk has Interstellar Passing by Inception.
“His last masterpiece, Oppenheimera true global phenomenon, has been acclaimed by critics and the public for its revolutionary visual aesthetic,” underlined in a press release the Académie des Césars, which awards these cinematographic awards each year.
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Agnes Jaoui
Agnès Jaoui, “complete artist” with a forty-year career, with five feature films directed, including The taste of Others (2000), also played around fifty roles on screen (Smoking/No Smoking And We know the song at Alain Resnais, A family resemblance at Cédric Klapisch…). Not to mention the scene.
“It was at the theater, in 1987, that her career really took off and was forever marked: there she met a certain Jean-Pierre Bacri. A true creative fusion takes place between them, giving birth to numerous successful plays and films,” underlines the Académie des Césars in another press release. They were one of the most famous couples in cinema and remained close until Bacri’s death in 2021.
Agnès Jaoui is “the female artist most awarded at the Césars, with six statuettes”, underlines the press release.
She will still be starring in a comedy, The last of the Jews.
Committed, she spoke out in 2020 against sexism and misogyny, recounting abuse suffered in her childhood.
The nominations for the Césars must be revealed next Wednesday. The film Anatomy of a fallwhich won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in May, is the favorite.
Academy members will have one month to vote, before the ceremony takes place on February 23 at the Olympia.
The evening, often the occasion for political or social demands, will also be a baptism of fire for the new French Minister of Culture Rachida Dati.