Filmmaker Christopher Nolan and actress and director Agnès Jaoui will each receive an honorary César for their careers, during the 49e César ceremony on February 23 in Paris, the organizers announced on Friday.
The American-British Christopher Nolan, 53, combines popular success and artistic demands, from “Dunkirk” to “Interstellar” via “Inception”.
“His latest masterpiece, “Oppenheimer”, a true global phenomenon, has been acclaimed by critics and the public for its revolutionary visual aesthetic,” said the Académie des César, which awards these awards each year, in a press release. cinematographic.
Agnès Jaoui, “complete artist” with a forty-year career, with five feature films directed, including “Le Goût des Autres” (2000), has also played around fifty roles on screen (“Smoking / No Smoking » and “We know the song” by Alain Resnais, “Un Air de Famille” by 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 César 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 most awarded female artist at the César, with six statuettes”, underlines the press release.
She will be showing again on Wednesday 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 César nominations must be revealed next Wednesday. The film “Anatomy of a Fall”, which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival (southeast of France) 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.