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7th César Awards
The 7th César Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, honoured the best French films of 1981 and took place on 27 February 1982 at the Salle Pleyel in Paris. The ceremony was chaired by Orson Welles and hosted by Pierre Tchernia and Jacques Martin. '' Quest for Fire'' won the award for Best Film. Winners and nominees The winners are highlighted in bold: *Best Film:'' Quest for Fire'', directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud''Coup de Torchon'', directed by Bertrand Tavernier''Garde à vue'', directed by Claude Miller''Les Uns et les Autres'', directed by Claude Lelouch *Best Foreign Film:''The Elephant Man'', directed by David Lynch''Die Fälschung'', directed by Volker Schlöndorff''Raiders of the Lost Ark'', directed by Steven SpielbergMan of Iron, directed by Andrzej Wajda * Best First Work:''Diva'', directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix'' Le Jardinier'', directed by Jean-Pierre Sentier'' Neige'', directed by Juliet Berto and Jean-Henri Roger'' Une ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
César Award
Cesar or César may refer to: Arts and entertainment * César (film), ''César'' (film), a 1936 French romantic drama * César (film), ''César'' (play), a play by Marcel Pagnolt Places * Cesar, Portugal * Cesar Department, Colombia * Cesar River, in Colombia * Cesar River, Chile * César (restaurant), a restaurant in New York City People * César (name), including a list of people with the given name and surname * César (footballer, born 1956) (1956–2024), Brazilian football forward * César (footballer, born 1974), Brazilian football midfielder and defender * César (footballer, born May 1979), Brazilian football defender and coach * César (footballer, born July 1979), Brazilian football winger * César (footballer, born 1992), Brazilian football goalkeeper * César (footballer, born 1995), Brazilian football goalkeeper * César (sculptor), César Baldaccini (1921–1998), French sculptor Other uses * César (grape), an ancient red wine grape from northern Burgundy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
César Award For Best Film
The winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Film ( French: ). Winners and nominees 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s See also * Lumière Award for Best Film * Louis Delluc Prize for Best Film * French Syndicate of Cinema Critics — Best French Film *Magritte Award for Best Film *European Film Award for Best Film *Academy Award for Best Picture *BAFTA Award for Best Film * David di Donatello for Best Film *Goya Award for Best Film * Sophia Award for Best Film References External links * César Award for Best Filmat ''AlloCiné'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Cesar Award For Best Film Film A film, also known as a movie or motion picture, is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, emotions, or atmosphere through the use of moving images that are generally, sinc ... Awards for best film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' is a 1981 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Lawrence Kasdan, based on a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman. Set in 1936, the film stars Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, a globetrotting archaeologist vying with Nazi German forces to recover the long-lost Ark of the Covenant which is said to make an army invincible. Teaming up with his tough former romantic interest Marion Ravenwood ( Karen Allen), Jones races to stop rival archaeologist René Belloq ( Paul Freeman) from guiding the Nazis to the Ark and its power. Lucas conceived ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' in the early 1970s. Seeking to modernize the serial films of the early 20th century, he developed the idea further with Kaufman, who suggested the Ark as the film's goal. Lucas eventually focused on developing his 1977 film ''Star Wars''. Development on ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' resumed that year when he shared the idea with Spielberg, who jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volker Schlöndorff
Volker Schlöndorff (; born 31 March 1939) is a German film director, screenwriter and producer who has worked in Germany, France and the United States. He was a prominent member of the New German Cinema of the late 1960s and early 1970s. He has won an Academy Awards, Oscar as well as the Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival for ''The Tin Drum (film), The Tin Drum'' (1979), the film version of the novel by Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass. Early life Volker Schlöndorff was born in Wiesbaden, then part of Nazi Germany, to the physician Georg Schlöndorff. His mother was killed in a kitchen fire in 1944. His family moved to Paris in 1956, where Schlöndorff won awards at school for his work in philosophy. He graduated in political science at the University of Paris, Sorbonne, while at the same time studying film at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques, where he was friends with Bertrand Tavernier and met Louis Malle. Mal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Circle Of Deceit
''Circle of Deceit'' (German title: ''Die Fälschung'', 'the deception'; French title: ''Le Faussaire'') is an anti-war film directed by Volker Schlöndorff and internationally released in 1981. An international co-production, it was an adaptation of Nicolas Born's novel ''The Deception'', which had appeared in 1979. The film follows a German journalist sent to Beirut to report on the Lebanese Civil War, which had begun in 1975. Cast *Bruno Ganz as Georg Laschen * Hanna Schygulla as Ariane Nassar *Jerzy Skolimowski as Hoffmann *Jean Carmet as Rudnik * Gila von Weitershausen as Greta Laschen * Khaled El Sayed as Progressive Officer (uncredited) Plot Journalist Georg Laschen is sent to Beirut to report on the Lebanese civil war. His feelings about this mission are influenced by the dysfunctionality of his marriage to the unfaithful Greta, who resents his frequent absences for war reporting and remains in Germany with their young children, and his lack of understanding of the confli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Lynch
David Keith Lynch (January 20, 1946 – January 16, 2025) was an American filmmaker, visual artist, musician, and actor. Widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, Lynch was often called a "visionary" and received acclaim for David Lynch filmography, films distinguished by their Surrealist cinema, surrealist and experimental film, experimental qualities. In a career spanning more than five decades, he received List of accolades received by David Lynch, numerous accolades, including the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival in 2006 and an Academy Honorary Award in 2019. Lynch studied painting and made short films before making his first feature, the independent body horror film ''Eraserhead'' (1977), which found success as a midnight movie. He earned critical acclaim and nominations for the Academy Award for Best Director for the biographical drama ''The Elephant Man (1980 film), The Elephant Man'' (1980) and the neo-noir mystery ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Elephant Man (1980 Film)
''The Elephant Man'' is a 1980 biographical drama film loosely based on the life of Joseph Merrick (named "John" in the film), a severely deformed man who lived in London in the late 19th century. The film was directed by David Lynch, produced by Jonathan Sanger, and executive produced by Mel Brooks (who was uncredited, to avoid audiences anticipating the film being in the vein of his comedic works, although his company Brooksfilms is in the opening credits). It stars John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Michael Elphick, Hannah Gordon, and Freddie Jones. The screenplay was adapted by Lynch, Christopher De Vore, and Eric Bergren from Frederick Treves' ''The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences'' (1923) and Ashley Montagu's ''The Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignity'' (1971). It was shot in black-and-white by Freddie Francis and featured make-up work by Christopher Tucker. ''The Elephant Man'' was a critical and commercial success with ... [...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] |
Claude Lelouch
Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch (; born 30 October 1937) is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. Lelouch grew up in an Algerian Jewish family. He emerged as a prominent director in the 1960s. Lelouch gained critical acclaim for his 1966 romantic melodrama film ''A Man and a Woman, A Man and A Woman''. At the 39th Academy Awards in 1967, ''A Man and a Woman'' won Best Original Screenplay and Best Foreign Language Film. Lelouch was also nominated for Best Director. While his films have gained him international recognition since the 1960s, Lelouch's methods and style of film are known for attracting criticism. Life and career Lelouch was born in the 9th arrondissement of Paris to Charlotte () and Simon Lelouch. His father was born to an Algerian Jewish family while his mother was a Conversion to Judaism, convert to Judaism. Lelouch says that his first contact with cinema was very young: "My mother hid me in movie theaters when I was little. We were wan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Uns Et Les Autres
''Les Uns et les Autres'' (English: ''The Ones and the Others'') is a 1981 French film by Claude Lelouch. The film is a musical epic and it is widely considered as the director's best work, along with '' Un Homme et une Femme (A Man and a Woman)''. It won the Technical Grand Prize at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. In the United States, it was distributed under the name ''Boléro'' in reference to Maurice Ravel's orchestral piece, used in the film. The film was very successful in France with 3,234,549 admissions and was the 6th highest-grossing film of the year. Plot The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian, and American) but with the same passion for music, from the 1930s to the 1980s. The various story lines cross each other time and again in different places and times, with their own theme scores that evolve as time passes. In Moscow, 1936, an aspiring dancer Tatiana marries a man, Boris, who will give her a son just before he is k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Miller
Claude Miller (20 February 1942 – 4 April 2012) was a French film director, producer and screenwriter. Life and career Claude Miller was born to a Jewish family. A student at Paris' IDHEC film school from 1962 through 1963, Miller had his first practical cinematic experience while he was in uniform, serving with the ''Service Cinéma de l'Armée''. From 1965 until 1974, Miller worked in assistant and supervisory capacities for many of France's major directors, including Robert Bresson and Jean-Luc Godard. His principal mentor was François Truffaut, under whose tutelage Miller directed a trio of shorts and (''The Best Way to Walk'', 1976), his first theatrical feature, a coming-of-age drama which bore traces of Truffaut's '' Les Mistons'' (1957) and ''The 400 Blows'' (1959). Miller received César nominations for Best Director and César Award for Best Screenplay, Dialogue or Adaptation for this film. His subsequent films can also be perceived as homages to Truffaut, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garde à Vue
''Garde à Vue'' (also known as ''The Inquisitor'') is a 1981 French psychological crime drama directed by Claude Miller and starring Romy Schneider, Michel Serrault, Lino Ventura and Guy Marchand. It is based on the 1979 British novel ''Brainwash'', by John Wainwright. It won the César Award for Best Screenplay, Dialogue or Adaptation, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor. The film had 2,098,038 admissions in France and was the 17th-most-attended film of the year. Plot Jérôme Martinaud, a wealthy, influential attorney in a small French town, falls under suspicion for the rape and murder of two little girls. He is the only suspect, but the evidence against him is circumstantial. As the city celebrates New Year's Eve, the police, led by Inspector Antoine Gallien, who is investigating the double rape/murder case, brings the lawyer in for questioning. At first politely, and then less so, the interrogation team consisting of Inspectors Gallien and Marcel Belmont chips away at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
