Best Film
Love at First Fight
Eastern Boys
The Belier Family
Hippocrates
Saint Laurent
Sils Maria
Timbuktu
Best Director
Celine Sciamma for Girlhood
Thomas Cailley for Love at First Fight
Robin Campillo for Eastern Boys
Thomas Lilti for Hippocrates
Bertrand Bonello for Saint Laurent
Olivier Assays for Sils Maria
Abderrahmane Sissako for Timbuktu
Best Actress
Juliette Binoche for Sils Maria
Marion Cotillard for Two Days, One Night
Catherine Deneuve for Dans la Cour
Emilie Dequenne for Not My Type
Adele Haenel for Love at First Fight
Sandrine Kiberlain for Elle l’Adore
Karin Viard for The Belier Family
Best Supporting Actress
Marianne Denicourt for Hippocrates
Claude Gensac for Lulu in the Nude
Izia Higelin for Samba
Charlotte Le Bon for Yves Saint Laurent
Kristen Stewart for Sils Maria
Best Actor
Niels Arestrup for Diplomatie
Guillaume Canet for Next Time I’ll Aim for the Heart
Francois Damines for The Belier Family
Romain Duris for The New Girlfriend
Vincent Lacoste for Hippocrates
Pierre Niney for Yves Saint Laurent
Gaspard Ulliel for Saint Laurent
Best Supporting Actor
Eric Elmosnino for The Belier Family
Guillaume Gallienne for Yves Saint Laurent
Louis Garrel for Saint Laurent
Reda Kateb for Hippocrates
Jeremie Renier for Saint Laurent
Best Original Screenplay
Thomas Cailley, Claude le Pape for Love at First Fight
Victoria Bedos, Stanislas Carre de Malberg, Eric Lartigau and Thomas Bidegain for The Belier Family
Thomas Lilti, Baya Kasmi, Julien Lilti and Pierre Chosson for Hippocrates
Oliver Assayas for Sils Maria
Abderrahmane Sissako, Kessen Tall for Timbuktu
Best Adapted Screenplay
Mathieu Almaric, Stephanie Cleau for The Blue Room
Cyril Gely, Volker Schlondorff for Diplomatie
Solveig Anspach, Jean-Luc Gaget for Lulu in the Nude
Lucas Belvaux for Not My Type
Cederic Anger for Next Time I’ll Aim for the Heart
Best Costume
Pierre-Yves Gayraud for The Beauty and the Beast
Carine Sarfati for The Connection
Anais Romand for Saint Laurent
Pascaline Chavanne for The New Girlfriend
Madeline Fontaine for Yves Saint Laurent
Best Set Decoration
Thierry Flamand for The Beauty and the Beast
Jean-Philippe Moreau for The Connection
Katia Wyszkop for Saint Laurent
Sebastian Birchler for Timbuktu
Aline Bonetto for Yves Saint Laurent
Best Cinemaphotography
Christophe Beaucarne for The Beauty and the Beast
Josee Deshaies for Saint Laurent
Yorick le Saux for Sils Maria
Sofian el Fani for Timbuktu
Thomas Hardmeier for Yves Saint Laurent
Best Editing
Lilian Corbielle for Love at First Fight
Christel Dewynter for Hippocrates
Frederic Baillehaiche for Party Girl
Fabrice Rouad for Saint Laurent
Nadia Ben Rachid for Timbuktu
Best Sound
Pierre Andre and Daniel Sobrino for Girlhood
Jean-Jacques Ferran, Nicolas Moreau, Jean-Pierre Laforce for Bird People
Jean-Luc Audy, Guillaume Bouchateau, Niels Barletta for Love at First Fight
Nicolas Cantin, Nicolas Moreau, Jean-Pierre Laforce for Saint Laurent
Philippe Welsh, Roman Dymn, Thierry Delor for Timbuktu
Best Animated Film
Le Chant de la Mer
Jack and the Cuckooclock Heart
Miniscule
Best First Film
Love at First Fight by Thomas Cailley
Elle l’Adore by Jeanne Herry
Fidelio by Lucie Borleteau
Party Girl by Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger and Samuel Theis
May Allah Bless France by Abd al Malik
Best New Actress
Lou de Laage for Breathe
Louane Emera for The Belier Family
Josephine Japy for Breathe
Ariane Labed for Fidelio
Karidja Toure for Girlhood
Best New Actor
Kevin Azais for Love at First Fight
Ahmed Drame for Les Heritiers
Kirill Emelyanov for Eastern Boys
Pierre Rochefort for Going Away
Marc Zinga for May Allah Bless France
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Saint Laurent MURDERS Yves Saint Laurent with those Best Film and Best Director nominations!
Bertrand Bonello ftw!
While my favorite by far is Two Days, One Night I quite liked Clouds of Sils Maria. Not sure why some say Kstew is playing off her public persona, as Chloe is the exaggerated Hollywood wild child. That said there are a lot of quasi meta moments as it focuses on youth and aging in Hollywood. As the person above said, the interplay involving the two women was quite good and probably the reason for KStew’s nomintation imo as she managed to hold her own in a good way opposite Binoche. I very much enjoyed it, although I thought it ran a bit long. My male friend found it boring. I think it is the type of film that may resonate with women more.
I saw Sils Maria at the EU Film Festival at the AFI in DC last month. The movie is essentially a long meditation on acting and actresses growing older in the industry. My $0.02. The movie has really interesting moments. Binoche is, as usual, wonderful and really does the character justice in an understated way. Stewart’s character doesn’t have a big emotional arc. She is clearly just playing a one-off of herself (or at least her public personna), and that is fine enough. She is perfectly serviceable in the role. And she and Binoche have surprisingly interesting chemistry together. The Chloe Grace Moretz parts skew over-the-top. Her role (not her fault) disrupts the rhythm of the film a little. Overall, I say see it. But just settle in for 2.5 hours of looooonnnnng meditations on acting and aging.
Isn’t this list missing the Cesar nominees for Best Foreign Film?
* ”Winter Sleep,” dir: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
* ”Boyhood,” dir: Richard Linklater
* ”12 Years A Slave,” dir: Steve McQueen
* ”Deux Jours, Une Nuit,” dirs: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
* ”Mommy,” dir Xavier Dolan
* ”Ida,” dir: Pawel Pawlikowski
* ”The Grand Budapest Hotel,” dir: Wes Anderson
P.S. There’s a French movie called ”Girlhood”? 😉 And here’s the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJudaZEY-Uc
Is SILS MARIA any good? What’s the buzz around it?
Over the moon for the all the SAINT LAURENT received. I beat them to the punch and anointed it a week ago. Part of my Top 15 no less. Also glad they liked EASTERN BOYS so much, another Essential Title designee from a week ago. I can’t wait to see TIMBUKTU — it’s looking more and more like the premier film I missed on 2014. Disappointed they’ve failed to recognize EDEN, but then again, the thing is not very awardsy, also not so short.
I didn’t particularly love “Sils Maria”, but both the acting nominations are, in fact, spot on.
As is any nom for “Two Days, One Night”.
However, the hightlight is clearly the love for “Timbuktu”. Now that’s something I can shake off my head. Not that I want to.
I really need to see Sils Maria. Thrilled for Kristen who has made wise choices post-Twilight and it is paying off.
Kristen Stewart winning = America winning.
I saw Sils Maria at a festival in DC last month. For me it’s among the best films I’ve seen last year, and one I’m sure the AD crew will love.