After the Oscars ceremony, here are the Césars in France, that should see the victory of Mesrine with Vincent Cassel, and remind us the death this year of several well known celebrities like Claude Berri and Guillaume Depardieu. Dany Boon (actor, director, co-producer of "Bienvenue chez les ch'tis") shouldn't be at the ceremony as his film was only nominated once this year.
As a reminder Dany Boon would have earned in 2009 at least 26 million Euros after the success of his film seen by more than 20 million people in french theaters. At a first sight, this astronomic number may be compared to american film stars, but that's not so simple as Dany Boon was not only an actor in this great comedy.
Here is the list of the nominees and winners of these Oscars 2009.
Best Motion Picture of the Year :
- Slumdog Millionaire [winner]
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Frost/Nixon
- Milk
- The Reader
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role :
- Sean Penn - Milk [winner]
- Brad Pitt - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Frank Langella - Frost/Nixon
- Richard Jenkins - The Visitor
- Mickey Rourke - TheWrestler
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role :
- Kate Winslet - The Reader [winner]
- Angelina Jolie - Changeling
- F Meryl Streep - Doubt
- Melissa Leo - Frozen River
- Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role :
- Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight [winner]
- Philip Seymour Hoffman - Doubt
- Josh Brolin - Milk
- Michael Shannon (V) - Revolutionary Road
- Robert Downey Jr. - Tropic Thunder
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role :
- Penélope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona [winner]
- Taraji P. Henson - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Amy Adams (III) - Doubt
- Viola Davis - Doubt
- Marisa Tomei - The Wrestler
Best Achievement in Directing :
- Danny Boyle - Slumdog Millionaire [winner]
- David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Ron Howard - Frost/Nixon
- Gus Van Sant - Milk
- Stephen Daldry - The Reader
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year :
- Okuribito / The departures - Japan. [winner]
- Entre les murs - France.
- Baader Meinhof Komplex, Der - Germany.
- Revanche - Austria.
- Vals Im Bashir - Israel.
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year :
- WALL·E - Andrew Stanton [winner]
- Bolt - Chris Williams (IX), Byron Howard
- Kung Fu Panda - John Stevenson (XI), Mark Osborne
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen :
- Milk - Dustin Lance Black [winner]
- Happy-Go-Lucky - Mike Leigh
- In Bruges - Martin McDonagh
- WALL·E - Andrew Stanton (screenplay/story) ;
- Jim Reardon (screenplay), Pete Docter (story)
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published :
- Slumdog Millionaire - Simon Beaufoy [winner]
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button -
- Eric Roth (screenplay/story), Robin Swicord (story)
- Doubt - John Patrick Shanley
- The Reader - David Hare
- Frost/Nixon - Peter Morgan
Best Achievement in Cinematography :
- Anthony Dod Mantle - Slumdog Millionaire [winner]
- Claudio Miranda - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
- Tom Stern - Changeling
- Wally Pfister - The Dark Knight
- Chris Menges ; Roger Deakins - The Reader
Best Achievement in Art Direction :
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Donald Graham Burt (art director) [winner]
- Victor J. Zolfo (set decorator)
- Changeling - James J. Murakami (art director)
- Gary Fettis (set decorator)
- The Dark Knight - Nathan Crowley (art director)
- Peter Lando (set decorator)
- Duchess, The - Michael Carlin (art director)
- Rebecca Alleway (set decorator)
- Revolutionary Road - Kristi Zea (art director)
- Debra Schutt (set decorator)
Best Achievement in Costume Design :
- Duchess, The - Michael O’Connor [winner]
- Australia - Catherine Martin
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Jacqueline West
- Milk - Danny Glicker
- Revolutionary Road - Albert Wolsky
Best Achievement in Sound :
- Slumdog Millionaire - Ian Tapp, Richard Pryke, Resul Pookutty [winner]
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button -
- David Parker (III), Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce, Mark Weingarten
- The Dark Knight - Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo, Ed Novick
- WALL·E - Tom Myers, Michael Semanick, Ben Burtt
- Wanted - Chris Jenkins, Frank A. Montaño, Petr Forejt
Best Achievement in Editing :
- Slumdog Millionaire - Chris Dickens [winner]
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Kirk Baxter, Angus Wall
- The Dark Knight - Lee Smith
- Frost/Nixon - Mike Hill, Daniel P. Hanley
- Milk - Elliot Graham
Best Achievement in Sound Editing :
- The Dark Knight - Richard King [winner]
- Iron Man - Frank E. Eulner, Christopher Boyes
- Slumdog Millionaire - Tom Sayers, Glenn Freemantle
- WALL·E - Ben Burtt, Matthew Wood
- Wanted - Wylie Stateman
Best Achievement in Visual Effects :
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button [winner]
- Eric Barba, Steve Preeg, Burt Dalton, Craig Barron
- Iron Man - John Nelson
- The Dark Knight -
- Nick Davis, Chris Corbould, Timothy Webber, Paul J. Franklin
- Ben Snow, Daniel Sudick, Shane Mahan
Best Achievement in Makeup :
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Greg Cannom [winner]
- The Dark Knight - John Caglione Jr., Conor O’Sullivan
- Hellboy II : The Golden Army - Mike Elizalde, Thomas Floutz
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song :
- Slumdog Millionaire - A.R. Rahman (music), Sampooran Singh Gulzar (lyrics) - For the song "Jai Ho". [winner]
- Slumdog Millionaire -
- A.R. Rahman, Maya Arulpragasam - For the song "O Saya".
- WALL·E - Peter Gabriel (music/lyrics), Thomas Newman (music) - For the song "Down to Earth".
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score :
- Slumdog Millionaire - A.R. Rahman [winner]
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Alexandre Desplat
- Defiance - James Newton Howard
- Milk - Danny Elfman
- WALL·E - Thomas Newman
Best Short Film, Animated :
- Maison en petits cubes, La - Kunio Katô [winner]
- Oktapodi (2007) - Emud Mokhberi, Thierry Marchand
- Presto - Doug Sweetland
- This Way Up - Alan Smith (XVII), Adam Foulkes
- Ubornaya istoriya - lyubovnaya istoriya (2007) - Konstantin Bronzit
Best Short Film, Live Action :
- Spielzeugland / Toyland (2007) - Jochen Alexander Freydank [winner]
- Auf der Strecke (2007) - Reto Caffi
- Grisen - Tivi Magnusson, Dorthe Warnø Høgh
- Manon sur le bitume (2007) - Elizabeth Marre, Olivier Pont
- New Boy (2007) - Steph Green, Tamara Anghie
Best Documentary, Short Subject :
- Smile Pinki - Megan Mylan [winner]
- Conscience of Nhem En, The - Steven Okazaki
- Final Inch, The (2009) - Irene Taylor Brodsky ; Tom Grant
- Witness from the Balcony of Room 306, The -
- Adam Pertofsky, Margaret Hyde
Best Documentary, Features :
- Man on Wire - James Marsh, Simon Chinn [winner]
- Betrayal - Nerakhoon, The - Ellen Kuras, Thavisouk Phrasavath
- Encounters at the End of the World (2007) - Werner Herzog, Henry Kaiser
- Garden, The - Scott Hamilton Kennedy
- Trouble the Water - Tia Lessin, Carl Deal
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A peine la cérémonie des Oscars terminée, la France se met à l'heure des Césars, qui devrait voir cette année la victoire entre autres de la grosse production française de l'année "Mesrine" avec Vincent Cassel, et nous rappeler au passage la disparition de célébrités come Claude Berri et Guillaume Depardieu. Dany Boon (acteur, réalisateur et co-producteur de "Bienvenue chez les ch'tis") ne devrait pas être présent à la cérémonie après que son film n'ait été nominé qu'une seule fois cette année.
La nouvelle est tombée cette semaine, Dany Boon aurait gagné plus de 26 millions d'euros en 2009 après le succès fulgurant de son film, vu par plus de 20 millions de français dans les salles. A première vue, ce chiffre astronomique pourrait être comparé sans difficultés aux salaires des plus grandes stars américaines mais ce n'est évidemment pas aussi simple étant donné la triple casquette de Dany Boon dans cette magnifique comédie.
Voir la liste des nominés et des vainqueurs des Oscars ci-dessus.
OSCARS & CESAR 2007 : BABEL + TELL NO ONE + THE DEPARTED : DVD : Video : OSCARS & CESAR 2007 : BABEL + TELL NO ONE + THE DEPARTED : Mediadis www.mediadis.com/video/detail.asp?id=179485