The Académie des César unveiled this Wednesday, January 26, the films nominated for the 2022 ceremony. Last year, “Adieu les cons”, by Albert Dupontel won seven trophies. The ceremony will take place on February 25 and will try to make people forget the pandemic. Some 4,363 film professionals, members of the Academy, will have one month to vote and decide between the films nominated in 24 categories.
With 15 nominations, Illusions losts part big favorite of the next Caesars. This period film, selected for the Venice festival and acclaimed by critics, had attracted 850,000 spectators in theaters, seduced by this satire of the middle of the 19th century press with contemporary echoes. The Académie des César dedicates this adaptation of Honoré de Balzac, nominated in the queen categories: Best Film and Best Director for Xavier Giannoli.
Then come two musical films with respectively eleven and ten nominations: AnnetteLeos Carax’s rock opera for which the American Adam Driver could win the Best Actor award and the Maël brothers the Best Music award, as well as the real fake biopic of Celine Dion, Alinesigned Valérie Lemercier.
The Césars do not shy away from box office success. North ferrythe muscular thriller about rogue Marseille cops, has won seven nominations, including Best Director for Cédric Jimenez, Best Film, and Gilles Lellouche nominated for the César for Best Actor.
Finally this year, and after the scandals accusing the Académie des César of favoritism and lack of diversity, three women are nominated in the category of best director: Audrey Diwan, for The EventValérie Lemercier for Aline and Julia Ducournau for her horror film Titanium who won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.