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12th César Awards
The 12th César Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, honoured the best French films of 1986 and took place on 7 March 1987 at the Palais des Congrès in Paris. The ceremony was chaired by Sean Connery and hosted by Michel Drucker and Pierre Tchernia. '' Thérèse'' won the award for Best Film. Winners and nominees The winners are highlighted in bold: * Best Film:'' Thérèse'', directed by Alain Cavalier'' 37°2 le matin'', directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix'' Jean de Florette'', directed by Claude Berri'' Mélo'', directed by Alain Resnais'' Tenue de soirée'', directed by Bertrand Blier * Best Foreign Film:'' Der Name der Rose'', directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud'' After Hours'', directed by Martin Scorsese''Hannah and Her Sisters'', directed by Woody Allen'' The Mission'', directed by Roland Joffé'' Out of Africa'', directed by Sydney Pollack * Best First Work:'' La Femme de ma vie'', directed by Régis Wargnier'' Black Mic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
César Awards
The César Award is the national film award of France. It is delivered in the ' ceremony and was first awarded in 1976. The nominations are selected by the members of twelve categories of filmmaking professionals and supported by the French Ministry of Culture. The nationally televised award ceremony is held in Paris each year in February. The exact location has changed over the years (in the Théâtre du Châtelet from 2002 to 2016). It is an initiative of the , which was founded in 1975. The César Award is considered the highest film honor in France, the French film industry's equivalent to the Molière Award for theatre, and the Victoires de la Musique for music. In cinema, it is the French equivalent to the Academy Award. The award was created by Georges Cravenne, who was also the creator of the Molière Award for theatre. The name of the award comes from the sculptor César Baldaccini (1921–1998) who designed it. The 50th César Awards ceremony took place on 28 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Blue
''Betty Blue'' () is a 1986 French erotic psychological drama film written and directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix, based on the 1985 novel ''37°2 le matin'' by Philippe Djian. The film stars Jean-Hugues Anglade and Béatrice Dalle. It was the eighth highest-grossing film of 1986 in France. The film received both a BAFTA Award and Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1987. Plot Zorg, an aspiring writer in his 30s, makes a living as a handyman for a community of beach houses in the seaside resort of Gruissan on France's Mediterranean coast. He meets Betty, a volatile and impulsive 19-year-old woman, and the two begin a passionate affair, living in his borrowed shack on the beach. Following a row with him where she tears apart and smashes up the house, she finds the manuscript of his first novel; she reads it in one long sitting and decides that he is a genius. However, after another argument with his boss, she empties the shack and burns it down. The two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannah And Her Sisters
''Hannah and Her Sisters'' is a 1986 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen. It tells the intertwined stories of an extended family over two years that begins and ends with a family Thanksgiving#Thanksgiving dinner, Thanksgiving dinner. Allen also stars in the film, along with Mia Farrow as Hannah, Michael Caine as her husband, and Barbara Hershey and Dianne Wiest as her sisters. Alongside them, the film features Carrie Fisher, Lloyd Nolan, Maureen O'Sullivan, Max Von Sydow, Daniel Stern (actor), Daniel Stern, John Turturro, Lewis Black (debut), and Julie Kavner. ''Hannah and Her Sisters'' was, for a long time, Allen's biggest box office success, with a North American gross of US$40 million. The film won Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay (for Allen), Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actor (for Caine), and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actress (for Wiest). It is often considered one of Allen's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Scorsese
Martin Charles Scorsese ( , ; born November17, 1942) is an American filmmaker. One of the major figures of the New Hollywood era, he has received List of awards and nominations received by Martin Scorsese, many accolades, including an Academy Award, four British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and three Golden Globe Awards. Four of his films have been inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". Scorsese received a Master of Arts degree from New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development in 1968. His directorial debut, ''Who's That Knocking at My Door'' (1967), was accepted into the Chicago Film Festival. In the 1970s and 1980s, Martin Scorsese filmography, Scorsese's films, much influenced by his Italian Americans, Italian-American background and upbringing in New York City, centered on macho-pos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
After Hours (film)
''After Hours'' is a 1985 American neo-noir black comedy film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Joseph Minion, and produced by Amy Robinson, Griffin Dunne, and Robert F. Colesberry. Dunne stars as Paul Hackett, an office worker who experiences a series of misadventures while attempting to make his way home from Manhattan's SoHo district during the night. ''After Hours'' was critically acclaimed for its black humor, and is now considered to be a cult classic. As of 2025, it is Scorsese's most recent film that is not an adaptation or biopic. The film won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature. Scorsese won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Director for the film. Plot After a boring day at work, computer data entry worker Paul Hackett strikes up conversation with a stranger named Marcy Franklin in a café in New York City. Marcy tells him that she is living in SoHo with a sculptor named Kiki Bridges, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Jean-Jacques Annaud (; born 1 October 1943) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He directed ''Quest for Fire (film), Quest for Fire'' (1981), ''The Name of the Rose (film), The Name of the Rose'' (1986), ''The Bear (1988 film), The Bear'' (1988), ''The Lover (1992 film), The Lover'' (1992), ''Seven Years in Tibet (1997 film), Seven Years in Tibet'' (1997), ''Enemy at the Gates'' (2001), ''Black Gold (2011 Qatari film), Black Gold'' (2011), and ''Wolf Totem (film), Wolf Totem'' (2015). Annaud has received numerous awards for his work, including five César Awards, one David di Donatello Awards, David di Donatello Award, and one National Academy of Cinema Award. Annaud's first film, ''Black and White in Color'' (1976), received an Academy Awards, Academy Award for Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Best Foreign Language Film. His most recent film is ''Notre-Dame on Fire,'' released in 2022. Early life Jean-Jacques Annaud was born on 1 October 1943 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Name Of The Rose (film)
''The Name of the Rose'' is a 1986 historical mystery film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, based on the 1980 novel of the same title by Umberto Eco. Sean Connery stars as the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville, called upon to solve a deadly mystery in a medieval abbey. Christian Slater portrays his young apprentice, Adso of Melk, and F. Murray Abraham his Inquisitor rival, Bernardo Gui. Michael Lonsdale, William Hickey, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Valentina Vargas, and Ron Perlman play supporting roles. This English-language film was an international co-production between West German, French and Italian companies and was filmed in Rome and at the former Eberbach Abbey in the Rheingau. It received mixed to positive reviews from critics and won several awards, including the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Sean Connery. Another adaptation was made in 2019 as a television miniseries for RAI. Plot Franciscan friar William of Baskerville and his novic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
César Award For Best Foreign Film
The Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, sponsored by France and Canada, presents an annual César Award for Best Foreign Film (). This is the list of winners and nominees of the award since the 1970s. Winners and nominees 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Awards by nation Multiple winners 6 directors have won the award multiple times. Notes See also * Lumière Award for Best French-Language Film * Academy Award for Best International Feature Film * BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language References External links * César Award for Best Foreign Filmat ''AlloCiné'' ''Adapted from the articlCésar Award for Best Foreign Film from Wikinfo, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Cesar Award For Best Foreign Film Foreign film World cinema is a term in film theory in the United States that refers to films made outside of the Cinema of the United States, American motion picture industry, par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bertrand Blier
Bertrand Blier (; 14 March 1939 – 20 January 2025) was a French film director and writer. His 1978 film '' Get Out Your Handkerchiefs'' won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 51st Academy Awards. Career His 1996 film '' Mon Homme'' was entered into the 46th Berlin International Film Festival. His 2005 film '' How Much Do You Love Me?'' was entered into the 28th Moscow International Film Festival where he won the Silver George for Best Director. A defence of Blier's work until 2000 was written by Sue Harris, Queen Mary College, London and published in 2001 by Manchester University Press. Personal life and death Blier was born in Boulogne-Billancourt on 14 March 1939, as the son of pianist Gisèle Brunet and actor Bernard Blier Bernard Blier (; 11 January 1916 – 29 March 1989) was a French character actor. Life and career Blier was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where his father, a researcher at the Pasteur Institute, was posted at the ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ménage
''Evening Dress'' (, also known as ''Ménage'') is a 1986 French comedy-drama film directed by Bertrand Blier. It was entered into the 1986 Cannes Film Festival where Michel Blanc won the award for Best Actor. Background The idea for ''Tenue de soirée'' came to Blier around the time of ''Les Valseuses'', and his intention then was to cast Depardieu with his co-star from the earlier film, Patrick Dewaere. In the 1980s Blier created the screenplay and shared it with Depardieu, with the other male lead now intended for Bernard Giraudeau, but he was in turn replaced by Michel Blanc.Roud, Richard. Cannes '86. ''Sight and Sound'', Summer 1986, p162-163. After ''Les Valseuses'' and ''Préparez vos mouchoirs'' the Depardieu-Blanc couple in this film allows Blier to examine further aspects of male relationships, mainly in terms of dominant/dominated. Although Blier had wanted to repeat the central trio of ''Valseuses'' (Depardieu, Dewaere, Miou-Miou), the suicide of Dewaere in 1982 had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alain Resnais
Alain Resnais (; 3 June 19221 March 2014) was a French film director and screenwriter whose career extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct short films including '' Night and Fog'' (1956), an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps.Ephraim Katz, ''The International Film Encyclopedia''. (London: Macmillan, 1980.) p. 966–967. Resnais began making feature films in the late 1950s and consolidated his early reputation with (1959), '' Last Year at Marienbad'' (1961), and '' Muriel'' (1963), all of which adopted unconventional narrative techniques to deal with themes of troubled memory and the imagined past. These films were contemporary with, and associated with, the French New Wave (''la nouvelle vague''), though Resnais did not regard himself as being fully part of that movement. He had closer links to the "Left Bank" group of authors and filmmakers who shared a commitment to modernism and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mélo (film)
''Mélo'' is a 1986 French romantic drama film directed by Alain Resnais and starring Fanny Ardant, André Dussollier, Sabine Azéma and Pierre Arditi based on the 1929 play by Henri Bernstein. Plot Pierre Belcroix and Marcel Blanc are violinists and lifelong friends living in Paris in the 1920s. While Marcel has become famous and Pierre has not, both are happy with their lives. Pierre is happily married to Romaine, a stylish young flapper. However, Marcel meets and falls in love with her, which Pierre little suspects. Romaine carries on her affair with Marcel, even as Pierre falls ill, which she may have deliberately exacerbated with her treatment in order to murder him. Soon Marcel goes on a concert tour, and Romaine abandons Pierre for a romantic tryst. When Marcel returns, Romaine reconsiders the affair, and realizes that she loves both Pierre and Marcel. She decides that she does not want to hurt either her husband or her lover, and as no other solution seems possib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
