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No Women Nominees in Top Categories for France’s Cesar Awards

Best Film. Best Director. Best Foreign (Language) Film. These are the categories where women filmmakers have been completely shut out by Oscar and Cesar this year.

France’s answer to the Academy Awards proved that “liberte, egalite, fraternite” is really just about that last one, at least this year. Cesar comes out looking a smidge better than Oscar does — two of its Best Cinematography nods and three of its Best Editing nods have gone to women. The Oscars had no female nominees in those categories this year.

Blue is the Warmest Color received eight nominations, including Best Film, Best Director for Abdellatif Kechiche, Best Actress for Lea Seydoux, Best Female Newcomer for Adele Exarchopoulos, Best Adapted Screenplay for Kechiche and co-writer Ghalya Lacroix, and Best Editing for Camille Toubkis, Albertine Lastera & Jean-Marie Lengelle.

Scroll down for the list of female Cesar nominees:

BEST ACTRESS

Fanny
Ardant, Bright Days Ahead

Berenice
Bejo, The Past

Catherine
Deneuve, On My Way

Sara
Forestier, Suzanne

Sandrine
Kiberlain, Nine-Month Stretch

Emmanuelle
Seignier, Venus in Fur

Lea
Seydoux, Blue Is The Warmest Color

BEST
FEMALE NEWCOMER

Lou
de Laage, Jappeloup

Pauline
Etienne, The Nun

Adele
Exarchopoulos, Blue Is The Warmest Color

Golshifteh
Farahani, ‘The Patience Stone’

Marine
Vacth, ‘Young & Beautiful’

BEST
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Katell
Quillevere & Mariette Desert, Suzanne

BEST
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Julie
Peyr & Kent Jones, Jimmy P

Abdellatif
Kechiche & Ghalya Lacroix, Blue Is The Warmest Color

BEST
CINEMATOGRAPHY

Claire
Mathon, Stranger by the Lake

Jeanne
Lapoirie, Michael Kohlhaas

BEST
EDITING

Camille
Toubkis, Albertine Lastera & Jean-Marie Lengelle, Blue Is The Warmest Color

Valérie
Deseine, Me, Myself and Mum

Juliette
Welfling, The Past

BEST
COSTUMES

Florence
Fontaine, Mood Indigo

Madeline
Fontaine, The Young and Prodigious Spivet

Anina
Diener, Michael Kohlhaas

Pascaline
Chavanne, Renoir


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