César Award For Best First Feature Film
The César Award for Best First Feature Film (french: César du meilleur premier film) is an award presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma since 1982. It was originally named the César Award for Best Debut (César de la meilleure première œuvre in French) between 1982 and 1999, and César Award for Best Debut in Fiction (César de la meilleure première œuvre de fiction) until 2005, when it has been renamed again in 2006 to its current name. Winners and nominees 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s See also *Lumières Award for Best First Film * Louis Delluc Prize for Best First Film * French Syndicate of Cinema Critics — Best First Film *Magritte Award for Best First Feature Film The Magritte Award for Best First Feature Film ( French: Magritte du meilleur premier film) is an award presented annually by the Académie André Delvaux The Académie André Delvaux is a Belgium, Belgian professional organisation dedicated to th ... References Exte ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Académie Des Arts Et Techniques Du Cinéma
The Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma ( en, Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques) is an organization that gives out the César Award. It was created in 1975, on the initiative of Georges Cravenne. Board of directors The board is made up of 50 members, with an additional 13 selected for their contributions to cinema. They handle admissions, criteria and overall management. Protests over the structure of the board came to a head in February 2020. An open letter signed by over 400 French directors and actors decried the "opaqueness" of the Board's structure and the lack of democratic governance; members of the Academy do not vote on leadership, unlike similar organizations such as Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Motion Picture Academy or the BAFTA. In response, the entire board of directors resigned in the weeks before the 45th César Awards, 2019/2020 César Award ceremony. Academy president The Academy is led by a president since its creation (Not to ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Christopher Frank
Christopher Frank (5 December 1942, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, UK – 19 November 1993, Paris, France) was a British-born French writer, screenwriter, and film director. He won the 1972 Prix Renaudot for his novel ''La Nuit américaine'' that served the basis for Andrzej Zulawski's film '' That Most Important Thing: Love''. Awards *1967: Prix Hermès de Littérature for ''Mortelle'' *1972: Prix Renaudot for ''La Nuit américaine'' Works Screenwriter *1974 '' Le Mouton enragé'' Michel Deville *1975 '' That Most Important Thing: Love'' Andrzej Zulawski *1977 ''Les Passagers'' Serge Leroy *1977 ''Attention, les enfants regardent'' Serge Leroy *1977 ''L'Homme pressé'' Édouard Molinaro *1979 ''Memoirs of a French Whore'' Daniel Duval *1979 ''Clair de femme'' Costa-Gavras *1980 '' Trois hommes à abattre'' Jacques Deray *1981 ''Eaux profondes'' Michel Deville *1981 ''Josepha'' Christopher Frank *1981 ''Pour la peau d'un flic'' Alain Delon *1981 ''Une étrange affair ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bernard Favre
Bernard (''Bernhard'') is a French and West Germanic masculine given name. It is also a surname. The name is attested from at least the 9th century. West Germanic ''Bernhard'' is composed from the two elements ''bern'' "bear" and ''hard'' "brave, hardy". Its native Old English reflex was ''Beornheard'', which was replaced by the French form ''Bernard'' that was brought to England after the Norman Conquest. The name ''Bernhard'' was notably popular among Old Frisian speakers. Its wider use was popularized due to Saint Bernhard of Clairvaux (canonized in 1174). Bernard is the second most common surname in France. Geographical distribution As of 2014, 42.2% of all known bearers of the surname ''Bernard'' were residents of France (frequency 1:392), 12.5% of the United States (1:7,203), 7.0% of Haiti (1:382), 6.6% of Tanzania (1:1,961), 4.8% of Canada (1:1,896), 3.6% of Nigeria (1:12,221), 2.7% of Burundi (1:894), 1.9% of Belgium (1:1,500), 1.6% of Rwanda (1:1,745), 1.2% of German ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Trail
''The'' () is a grammatical Article (grammar), article in English language, English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the Most common words in English, most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when fol ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Aline Issermann
Aline Issermann (born 16 November 1948 in Paris) is a French filmmaker. She began her career as an author and illustrator of comics, then became director of feature films and television films. Among her films are '' Le Destin de Juliette'' (1983), '' L'Amant magnifique'' (1986), '' La Vallée des anges'' (1988), '' L'Ombre du doute'' (1993), '' Dieu, l'amant de ma mère et le fils du charcutier'' (1995) and '' Cherche fiancé tous frais payés'' (2007). References 1948 births Living people French women film directors Film directors from Paris {{France-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Luc Besson
Luc Paul Maurice Besson (; born 18 March 1959) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He directed or produced the films '' Subway'' (1985), ''The Big Blue'' (1988), and '' La Femme Nikita'' (1990). Besson is associated with the '' Cinéma du look'' film movement. He has been nominated for a César Award for Best Director and Best Picture for his films '' Léon: The Professional'' (1994) and the English-language '' The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc'' (1999). He won Best Director and Best French Director for his sci-fi action film ''The Fifth Element'' (1997). He wrote and directed the 2014 sci-fi action film ''Lucy'' and the 2017 space opera film ''Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets''. Near the beginning of his career, in 1980 he founded his own production company, Les Films du Loup, later renamed as Les Films du Dauphin. These were superseded in 2000 when he co-founded EuropaCorp with his longtime collaborator . As writer, director, or producer, Be ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Le Dernier Combat
''Le Dernier Combat'' (; en, italic=yes, The Last Battle) is a 1983 post-apocalyptic French film. It was the first feature-film to be directed by Luc Besson, and also features Jean Reno's first prominent role. Music for the film was composed by Éric Serra. The film was the first of many collaborations between Besson, Reno and Serra. A dark vision of post-apocalyptic survival, the film was shot in black and white and contains only two words of dialogue. It depicts a world where people have been rendered mute by some unknown incident. Plot The film opens to a shot of an abandoned office, where the main character (Pierre Jolivet), who is only identified as 'The Man' in the end credits, is having intercourse with a sex doll. The Man is then seen attempting to salvage parts from abandoned vehicles, but returns to his dwelling empty handed, where he works on building a makeshift aircraft. The Man ventures outside the office building he lives in, which is surrounded by a desert wastela ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Euzhan Palcy
Euzhan Palcy (; born 13 January 1958) is a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. Her films are known to explore themes of race, gender, and politics, with an emphasis on the perpetuated effects of colonialism. Palcy's first feature film '' Sugar Cane Alley'' (1983) received numerous awards including the César Award for Best First Feature Film. For directing ''A Dry White Season'' (1989), she became the first black female director to have a film produced by a major Hollywood studio, that being by MGM. Palcy also directed the independent film '' Siméon'' (1992). She has since moved towards directing documentaries and television projects such as ''Aimé Césaire: A Voice for History'' (1994). She then directed the television films ''Ruby Bridges'' (1998) and ''The Killing Yard'' (2001), as well as the documentary ''The Journey of the Dissidents'' (2005) and the miniseries ''The Brides of Bourbon Island'' (2007). Throughout her career, Palcy has explored various genr ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sugar Cane Alley
''Sugar Cane Alley'' ( French title: ''La Rue Cases-Nègres'') is a 1983 film directed by Euzhan Palcy. It is set in Martinique in the 1930s, when Africans working sugarcane fields were still treated harshly by their white employers. It is based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Joseph Zobel of the same title (alternatively translated as ''Black Shack Alley''; literally "Street of the Houses of Negroes"). Synopsis José, the protagonist, is a young boy living in a rural part of Martinique in the 1930s. Many of the people around him, including his grandmother, Ma'Tine, with whom he lives, work in the sugar cane fields where they are browbeaten and badly paid by the white boss. Ma'Tine is chronically ill, suffering several heart episodes, but continues to recover from them and continue her work to support José. José, an orphan, has a father figure in an elderly man named Medouze who likes to tell him stories about Africa. José attends school at the insistence of his grandmother ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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9th César Awards
The 9th César Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, honoured the best French films of 1983 and took place on 3 March 1984 at the Théâtre de l'Empire in Paris. The ceremony was chaired by Gene Kelly and hosted by Léon Zitrone. '' Le Bal'' and À nos amours tied for the award for Best Film. Winners and nominees The winners are highlighted in bold: *Best Film:'' Le Bal'', directed by Ettore Scola'' À nos amours'', directed by Maurice Pialat'' Coup de foudre'', directed by Diane Kurys''Tchao pantin'', directed by Claude Berri'' L'Été meurtrier'', directed by Jean Becker *Best Foreign Film:''Fanny and Alexander'', directed by Ingmar Bergman''Carmen'', directed by Carlos Saura''The Gods Must Be Crazy'', directed by Jamie Uys''Tootsie'', directed by Sydney Pollack * Best First Work:'' Rue cases nègres'', directed by Euzhan Palcy''Le Dernier Combat'', directed by Luc Besson'' Le Destin de Juliette'', directed by Aline Issermann'' La Tr ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jean-Claude Missiaen
Jean-Claude is a French masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: * Jean-Claude Ades, an Italian electronic music producer * Jean-Claude Alibert (died 2020), a French racing driver * Jean-Claude Amiot (born 1939), a French composer, music professor and conductor * Jean-Claude Andruet (born 1942), a retired French professional rally driver * Jean-Claude Bajeux (1931–2011), a professor and director of the Ecumenical Center for Human Rights in Port-au-Prince, Haiti * Jean-Claude Baker (1943–2015), a French-born American restaurateur * Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais (born 1967), a Swiss entrepreneur with strong connections to Angola * Jean-Claude Beaulieu (born 1944), a member of the National Assembly of France * Jean-Claude Bergeron (born 1968), a retired Canadian ice hockey goaltender * Jean-Claude Bertrand (born 1954), a retired French badminton player * Jean-Claude Biver (born 1949), the CEO, board member and minority shareholder of Hublot * Jean-Claude Bla ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |