It’s awards season on daily basis, in all places, as France’s equal to the Oscars, the Césars, unveiled its personal ceremony of winners on Thursday night in Paris. The 51st annual presentation honored the very best French movies of 2025, with some shout-outs and prizes reserved for far-flung work, like Greatest Overseas Movie winner (what-else-but) Paul Thomas Anderson for “One Battle After One other.”
The present’s prime prize went to “L’attachement” (or “The Ties That Bind Us”), Carine Tardieu’s French-Belgian drama that premiered on the 2024 Venice Movie Pageant. “Nouvelle Obscure” led the evening’s nominations with 10 nods, profitable 4. The present was presided over by French actress Camille Cottin (most beloved stateside for her work on “Name My Agent!”), and co-hosted by French actor Benjamin Lavernhe. See the total record of winners beneath.
Various Oscar nominees have been current and represented among the many profitable and nominated titles, from “The Secret Agent” and “Sentimental Worth” to “Sirāt” — all Greatest Worldwide Characteristic Academy Award nominees. Ugo Bienvenu’s Oscar-nominated, Hayao Miyazaki-esque, and hand-sketched dystopian fantasy “Arco” gained the Greatest Animated Movie César. All these movies are Neon releases in North America.
Richard Linklater’s “Nouvelle Obscure” received its most beneficiant awards season swell, because the American filmmaker’s playful, black-and-white ode to Jean-Luc Godard and the making of “Breathless” naturally clicked with the French voters. Linklater gained Greatest Director amongst different prizes for the movie.
One French-language crossover we’re seeing an increasing number of of stateside as of late: Théodore Pellerin, who gained Greatest Male Revelation (because the award interprets) for his efficiency within the 2025 Cannes Critics’ Week drama “Nino” as a younger man with a foul case of most cancers. He’s not likely a newcomer, although. The Québécois actor just lately starred in Movie Unbiased Spirit Award winner “Lurker” because the parasocially poisonous fan of a Los Angeles pop star, which was broadly seen in American arthouses in 2025 (and on prime 10 lists). However Pellerin is hardly a newcomer — the famously tall, lithe actor had quite a lot of main roles, together with on the Showtime unique sequence “On Turning into a God in Central Florida,” and throughout French-Canadian movies.
The Académie des Arts et Strategies du Cinéma, which selects the César nominees and votes for the winners, boasts greater than 4,000 members.
All of the nominees and winners are beneath.
Greatest Movie
“Attachment”
“Case 137”
“New wave”
“The Little Sister”
“It Was Simply an Accident”
Greatest Director
Carine Tardieu, “Attachment”
Dominik Moll, “Case 137”
Stéphane Demoustier, “The Nice Arch”
Richard Linklater, “New Wave”
Hafsia Herzi, “The Little Sister”
Greatest Actress
Leïla Bekhti, “My Mom, God and Sylvie Vartan”
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, “The attachment”
Léa Drucker, “Case 137”
Isabelle Huppert, “The Richest Girl within the World”
Mélanie Thierry, “Mariana’s Room”
Greatest Actor
Claes Bang, “The Nice Arch”
Bastien Bouillon, “Depart One Day”
Laurent Lafitte, “The Richest Girl within the World”
Pio Marmaï, “Attachment”
Benjamin Voisin, “The Stranger”
Greatest Supporting Actress
Jeanne Balibar, “Nino”
Dominique Blanc, “Leaving One Day”
Marina Foïs, “The Richest Girl within the World”
Ji-Min Park, “The Little Sister”
Vimala Pons, “Attachment”
Greatest Supporting Actor
Swann Arlaud, “The Nice Arch”
Xavier Dolan, “The Nice Arch”
Michel Fau, “The Nice Arch”
Pierre Lottin, “The Stranger”
Raphaël Personnaz, “The Richest Girls within the World”
Greatest Feminine Newcomer
Manon Carnation, “Kika”
Suzanne Lindon, “The Coming of the Future”
Nadia Melliti, “The Little Sister”
Camille Rutherford, “Jane Austen Ruined My Life”
Anja Verderosa, “Trial by Fireplace”
Greatest Male Newcomer
Between Azougli, “Météors”
Sayyid El Alami, “La Pampa”
Félix Lefebvre, “The Trial by Fireplace”
Guillaume Marbeck, “New Wave”
Théodore Pellerin, “Nino”
Greatest Authentic Screenplay
Dominik Moll, Gilles Marchand, “Case 137”
Pauline Loquès, “Nino”
Holly Gent, Vince Palma, “New Wave”
Franck Dubosc, Sarah Kaminsky, “Easy methods to Make a Killing”
Jafar Panahi, “It Was Simply an Accident”
Greatest Tailored Screenplay
Carine Tardieu, Raphaëlle Moussafir, Agnès Feuvre, “Attachment”
Stéphane Demoustier, “The Nice Arch”
Hafsia Herzi, “The Little Sister”
Greatest Animated Characteristic
“Little Amélie or the Character of Rain”
“Arco”
“My Citadel Life: Rising Up in Versailles”
Greatest Documentary
“The Fifth Shot of La Jetée”
“Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Stroll”
“Trip Away”
“Sarkozy – Gaddafi: the Scandal of Scandals”
“Whispers within the Woods”
Greatest First Characteristic Movie
“Arco”
“Block Cross”
“Hearts on Fireplace”
“Depart One Day”
“Nino”
Greatest Worldwide Movie
“The Secret Agent,” Kleber Mendonça Filho
“Black Canine,” Guan Hu
“Shut Up,” Oliver Laxe
“One Battle After One other,” Paul Thomas Anderson
“Sentimental Worth,” Joachim Trier
Greatest Authentic Rating
Arnaud Toulon, “Arco”
Olivier Marguerit, “Case 137”
Fatima Al Qadiri, “The Stranger”
Alex Beaupain, “The Richest Girl within the World”
Amine Bouhafa, “The Little Sister”
Greatest Sound
“Arco”
“The Tune of the Forests”
“Case 137”
“New wave”
“Depart One Day”
Greatest Cinematography
Elin Kirschfink, “Attachment”
Patrick Ghiringhelli, “Case 137”
Marine Atlan, “L’Engloutie”
Manu Dacosse, “The Stranger”
David Chambille, “New Wave”
Greatest Modifying
Stan Collet, “13 Days, 13 Nights”
Christel Dewynter, “Attachment”
Laurent Rouan, “Case 137”
Catherine Schwartz, “Nouvelle Obscure”
Géraldine Mangenot, “The Little Sister”
Greatest Costume Design
Céline Guignard, “The Situation”
Corinne Bruand, “Dracula”
Jürgen Doering, “The Richest Girl within the World”
Pascaline Chavanne, “New Wave”
Pierre-Yves Gayraud, “The Coming of the Future”
Greatest Manufacturing Design
Jean-Philippe Moreaux, “Canine 51”
Catherine Cosme, “The Unknown of the Grande Arche”
Dupire-Clement, “As soon as Upon My Mom”
Katia Wyszkop, “Nouvelle Obscure”
Marie Cheminel, “The Coming of the Future”
Greatest Visible Results
Cédric Fayolle, “Canine 51”
Rodolphe Chabrier, Benoît de Longlée, “The Shrinking Man”
Lise Fischer, “The Nice Arch”
Alain Carsoux, “New Wave”