42nd César Awards

Date: February 26, 2016

Host: Florence Foresti

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Best Film

• Elle (2016)

Divines (2016)
Frantz (2016)
The Innocents (2016)
Slack Bay (2016)
From the Land of the Moon (2016)
In Bed with Victoria (2016)


Best Director

• Xavier Dolan (It's Only the End of the World)

Houda Benyamina (Divines)
Paul Verhoeven (Elle)
François Ozon (Frantz)
Anne Fontaine (The Innocents)
Bruno Dumont (Slack Bay
Nicole Garcia (From the Land of the Moon)


Best Actor

• Gaspard Ulliel (It's Only the End of the World)

François Cluzet (Irreplaceable)
Pierre Deladonchamps (A Kid)
Nicolas Duvauchelle (A Decent Man)
Fabrice Luchini (Slack Bay)
Pierre Niney (Frantz)
Omar Sy (Chocolat)



Best Actress

• Isabelle Huppert (Elle)

Judith Chemla (A Woman's Life)
Marion Cotillard (From the Land of the Moon)
Virginie Efira (In Bed with Victoria)
Marina Foïs (Irréprochable)
Sidse Babett Knudsen (150 Milligrams)
Soko (The Dancer)


Best Supporting Actor

• James Thierrée (Chocolat)

Gabriel Arcand (A Kid)
Vincent Cassel (It's Only the End of the World)
Vincent Lacoste (In Bed with Victoria)
Laurent Lafitte (Elle)
Melvil Poupaud (In Bed with Victoria)


Best Supporting Actress

• Déborah Lukumuena (Divines)

Nathalie Baye (It's Only the End of the World)
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (Slack Bay)
Anne Consigny (Elle)
Mélanie Thierry (The Dancer)


Most Promising Actor

• Niels Schneider (Dark Inclusion)

Jonas Bloquet (Elle)
Damien Bonnard (Staying Vertical
Corentin Fila (Being 17)
Kacey Mottet Klein (Being 17)


Most Promising Actress

• Oulaya Amamra (Divines)

Paula Beer (Frantz)
Lily-Rose Depp (The Dancer)
Noémie Merlant (Heaven Will Wait)
Raph (Slack Bay)


Best Original Screenplay

• Sólveig Anspach and Jean-Luc Gaget (The Aquatic Effect)

Romain Compingt, Houda Benyamina and Malik Rumeau (Divines)
Sabrina B. Karine, Alice Vial, Pascal Bonitzer and Anne Fontaine (The Innocents)
Bruno Dumont (Slack Bay)
Justine Triet (In Bed with Victoria)


Best Adaptation

• Céline Sciamma (My Life as a Courgette)

David Birke (Elle)
Séverine Bosschem and Emmanuelle Bercot (150 Milligrams)
François Ozon (Frantz)
Nicole Garcia and Jacques Fieschi (From the Land of the Moon)
Katell Quillévéré and Gilles Taurand (Heal the Living)


Best First Feature Film

• Houda Benyamina (Divines)

Sophie Reine (Cigarettes et chocolat chaud)
Stéphanie Di Giusto (The Dancer)
Arthur Harari (Dark Inclusion)
Julien Rappeneau (Rosalie Blum)


Best Cinematography

• Pascal Marti (Frantz)

Stéphane Fontaine (Elle)
Caroline Champetier (The Innocents)
Guillaume Deffontaines (Slack Bay)
Christophe Beaucarne (From the Land of the Moon)


Best Editing

• Xavier Dolan (It's Only the End of the World)

Loïc Lallemand and Vincent Tricon (Divines)
Job ter Burg (Elle)
Laure Gardette (Frantz)
Simon Jacquet (From the Land of the Moon)


Best Sound

• Marc Engels, Fred Demolder, Sylvain Réty and Jean-Paul Hurier (The Odyssey)

Brigitte Taillandier, Vincent Guillon and Stéphane Thiébaut (Chocolat)
Jean-Paul Mugel, Alexis Place, Cyril Holtz and Damien Lazzerini (Elle)
Martin Boissau, Benoît Gargonne and Jean-Paul Hurier (Frantz)
Jean-Pierre Duret, Sylvain Malbrant and Jean-Pierre Laforce (From the Land of the Moon)


Best Original Music

• Ibrahim Maalouf (In the Forests of Siberia)

Gabriel Yared (Chocolat)
Anne Dudley (Elle)
Philippe Rombi (Frantz)
Sophie Hunger (My Life as a Courgette)


Best Costume Design

• Anaïs Romand (The Dancer)

Pascaline Chavanne (Frantz)
Alexandra Charles (Slack Bay)
Catherine Leterrier (From the Land of the Moon)
Madeline Fontaine (A Woman's Life)


Best Production Design

• Jérémie D. Lignol (Chocolat)

Carlos Conti (The Dancer)
Michel Barthélémy (Frantz)
Riton Dupire-Clément (Slack Bay)
Katia Wyszkop (Planetarium)


Best Documentary Film

• Merci patron! (2016)

Latest News From the Cosmos (2016)
Fire at Sea (2016)
Swagger (2016)
Journey Through French Cinema (2016)


Best Animated Feature Film

• My Life as a Courgette (2016)

The Girl Without Hands (2016)
The Red Turtle (2016)


Best Animated Short Film

• Celui qui a deux âmes (2016)

Café froid (2016)
Journal animé (2016)
Peripheria (2016)


Best Short Film

• Maman(s) (2016)

Vers la tendresse (2016)
Après Suzanne (2016)
Au bruit des clochettes (2016)
Chasse Royale (2016)


Best Foreign Film

• I, Daniel Blake (2016)

Aquarius (2016)
Graduation (2016)
The Unknown Girl (2016)
It's Only the End of the World (2016)
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Toni Erdmann (2016)


Honorary César

• George Clooney

Nominations Film

• Elle (11)
• Frantz (11)

Slack Bay (9)
From the Land of the Moon (8)
Divines (7)
It's Only the End of the World (6)
The Dancer (6)
Chocolat (5)
In Bed with Victoria (5)
The Innocents (4)
My Life as a Courgette (3)
Dark Inclusion (2)
Being 17 (2)
150 Milligrams (2)
A Kid (2)
A Woman's Life (2)


Awards Film

• Divines (3)
• It's Only the End of the World (3)

Elle (2)
Chocolat (2)
My Life as a Courgette (2)