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