Cerermony - Cesar 2022: Discover the official list of nominations

By Mulder, 26 january 2022

This Wednesday, January 26, 2022, at 10:00 am, the President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Techniques, Véronique Cayla, opened, under the supervision of a bailiff, the envelope containing the 126 nominations in the 24 categories for the Cesar 2022. The list of nominations was then published directly on the Academy's website and sent to the press. The first round of voting ended last night at midnight, the results were counted during the night by a specialized company, under the supervision of bailiffs. The turnout for this first round was 68.7%, a significant increase compared to previous years. 

The second round of voting for the 4,363 voting members will open on Tuesday, February 1st and close on February 25th at 4pm, a few hours before the opening of the 47th César Ceremony which will reveal the new and lucky winners of the 2022 Césars.

Under the presidency of Danièle Thompson and with Antoine de Caunes as Master of Ceremonies, the 47th César Ceremony will take place on Friday, February 25 at 9pm at the Olympia, and will be broadcast live and exclusively on Canal+.

Category César for the best actress : 
Leïla Bekhti in Les intranquilles
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi in La fracture
Laure Calamy in Une femme du monde
Virginie Efira in Benedetta
Vicky Krieps in Serre moi fort
Valérie Lemercier in Aline
Léa Seydoux in France

Category César for best actor :
Damien Bonnard in Les intranquilles
Adam Driver in Annette
Gilles Lellouche in Bac Nord
Vincent Macaigne in Médecin de nuit
Benoît Magimel in His Lifetime
Pio Marmaï in La fracture
Pierre Niney in Black Box

Category César for the best actress in a supporting role :
Jeanne Balibar in Lost Illusions
Cécile De France in Lost Illusions
Aissatou Diallo Sagna in La fracture
Adèle Exarchopoulos in Mandibles
Danielle Fichaud in Aline

Category César of the best actor in a second role :
François Civil in Bac Nord
Xavier Dolan in Lost Illusions
Vincent Lacoste in Lost Illusions
Karim Leklou in Bac Nord
Sylvain Marcel in Aline

Category César of the best female hope :
Noée Abita in Slalom
Salomé Dewaels in Lost Illusions
Agathe Rousselle in Titanium
Anamaria Vartolomei in The Event
Lucie Zhang in Les olympiades

Category César of the best male hope :
Sandor Funtek in Suprêmes
Sami Outalbali in A Story of Love and Desire
Thimotée Robart in Les magnétiques
Makita Samba in Les olympiades
Benjamin Voisin in Lost Illusions

Category César for best original screenplay :
Valérie Lemercier, Brigitte Buc for Aline
Leos Carax, Ron Mael, Russell Mael for Annette
Yann Gozlan, Simon Moutaïrou, Nicolas Bouvet-Levrard for Black Box
Catherine Corsini, Laurette Polmanss, Agnès Feuvre for La fracture
Arthur Harari, Vincent Poymiro for Onoda, 10 000 Nights in the Jungle

Category César for the best adaptation :
Yaël Langmann, Yvan Attal for Les choses humaines
Audrey Diwan, Marcia Romano for The Event
Xavier Giannoli, Jacques Fieschi for Lost Illusions
Céline Sciamma, Léa Mysius, Jacques Audiard for The Olympics
Mathieu Amalric for Serre moi fort

Category César for the best original music : 
Ron Mael, Russell Mael for the band Sparks for Annette
Guillaume Roussel for Bac Nord
Philippe Rombi for Black Box
Rone for Les olympiades
Warren Ellis, Nick Cave for La panthère des neiges

Category César for best sound :
Olivier Mauvezin, Arnaud Rolland, Edouard Morin, Daniel Sobrino for Aline
Erwan Kerzanet, Katia Boutin, Maxence Dussère, Paul Heymans, Thomas Gauder for Annette
Nicolas Provost, Nicolas Bouvet-Levrard, Marc Doisne for Boîte noire
François Musy, Renaud Musy, Didier Lozahic for Lost Illusions
Mathieu Descamps, Pierre Bariaud, Samuel Aïchoun for Les magnétiques

Category César for the best photo :
Caroline Champetier for Annette
Christophe Beaucarne for Lost Illusions
Paul Guilhaume for The Olympics
Tom Harari for Onoda, 10 000 nights in the jungle
Ruben Impens for Titanium

Category César for best editing :
Nelly Quettier for Annette
Simon Jacquet for Bac Nord
Valentin Féron for Black Box
Frédéric Baillehaiche for La fracture
Cyril Nakache for Lost Illusions

Category César for best costumes :
catherine leterrier for aline
pascaline chavanne for annette
madeline fontaine for délicieux
thierry delettre for eiffel
pierre-jean larroque for illusions perdues

Category César for best sets :
Emmanuelle Duplay for Aline
Florian Sanson for Annette
Bertrand Seitz for Délicieux
Stéphane Taillasson for Eiffel
Riton Dupire-Clément for Lost Illusions

Category César for best visual effects :
Sébastien Rame for Aline
Guillaume Pondard for Annette
Olivier Cauwet for Eiffel
Arnaud Fouquet, Julien Meesters for Lost Illusions
Martial Vallanchon for Titanium

Category César for the best direction :
Valérie lemercier for Aline
Leos Carax for Annette
Cédric Jimenez for Bac Nord
Audrey Diwan for The Event
Xavier Giannoli for Lost Illusions
Arthur Harari for Onoda, 10 000 nights in the jungle
Julia Ducournau for Titanium

Category César for best animated short film :
Empty places directed by Geoffroy De Crécy, produced by Nicolas Schmerkin
Folie douce, folie dure directed by Marine Laclotte, produced by Christian Pfohl
Le monde en soi directed by Sandrine Stoïanov, Jean-Charles Finck, produced by Jérôme Barthélemy, Daniel Sauvage
Précieux directed by Paul Mas, produced by Marc Jousset, Perrine Capron

Category César for the best documentary short film:
America directed by Giacomo Abbruzzese, produced by Sébastien Hussenot, Marie Savare De Laitre
Les antilopes directed by Maxime Martinot, produced by Quentin Brayer
La fin des rois (The End of Kings) directed by Rémi Brachet, produced by Joséphine Mourlaque, Antoine Salomé
Maalbeek directed by Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis, produced by Lionel Massol, Pauline Seigland, Jules Reinartz, Maxence Voiseux

Category César for the best short fiction film :
L'âge tendre directed by Julien Gaspar-Oliveri, produced by Hélène Mitjavile
Le départ directed by Saïd Hamich Benlarbi, produced by Sophie Penson
Des gens bien directed by Maxime Roy, produced by Alice Bloch 
Les mauvais garçons directed by Elie Girard, produced by Lionel Massol, Pauline Seigland
Black soldier directed by Jimmy Laporal-Trésor, produced by Manuel Chiche, Violaine Barbaroux, Nicolas Blanc, Sarah Egry

Category César for best animated film :
Même les souris vont au paradis directed by Denisa Grimmová, Jan Bubenicek, co-producers France Alexandre Charlet, Jonathan Hazan
Le sommet des dieux directed by Patrick Imbert, produced by Jean-Charles Ostorero, Didier Brunner, Damien Brunner
La traversée directed by Florence Miailhe, produced by Dora Benousilio, Luc Camilli

Category César for best documentary film :
Animal directed by Cyril Dion, produced by Guillaume Thouret, Céline Roux, Patrice Lorton, Jean-Marie Michel,
Thomas Bénet, Cyril Dion, Patrick Fournier
Bigger than us directed by Flore Vasseur, produced by Denis Carot, Flore Vasseur
Debout les femmes ! directed by Gilles Perret, François Ruffin, produced by Thibault Lhonneur
Indes galantes directed by Philippe Béziat, produced by Philippe Martin, David Thion
La panthère des neiges directed by Marie Amiguet, Vincent Munier, produced by Laurent Baujard, Pierre-Emmanuel Fleurantin, Vincent Munier

Category César for best first film :
Gagarin directed by Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh, produced by Julie Billy, Carole Scotta
Les magnétiques directed by Vincent Maël Cardona, produced by Marc-Benoît Créancier, Toufik Ayadi, Christophe Barral
La nuée directed by Just Philippot, produced by Thierry Lounas, Manuel Chiche
La panthère des neiges directed by Marie Amiguet, Vincent Munier, produced by Laurent Baujard, Pierre-Emmanuel Fleurantin, Vincent Munier
Slalom directed by Sharlène Favier, produced by Edouard Mauriat, Anne-Cécile Berthomeau

Category César for best foreign film :
Compartiment n°6 directed by Juho Kuosmanen, distribution France Haut et Court Distribution
Drive my car directed by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, distribution France Diaphana Distribution
First cow directed by Kelly Reichardt, distribution France Condor Distribution
Julie (in 12 chapters) directed by Joachim Trier, coproduction France MK Productions (Nathanaël Karmitz, Juliette Schrameck, Elisha Karmitz)
La loi de téhéran directed by Saeed Roustayi, distribution France Wild Bunch Distribution
Madres paralelas directed by Pedro Almodóvar, distribution France Pathé
The father directed by florian zeller, coproduction France F comme film (Jean-Louis Livi),Cciné-@. (Philippe Carcassonne)

Category César for best film :
Aline produced by Edouard Weil, Alice Girard, Sidonie Dumas, directed by Valérie Lemercier
Annette produced by Charles Gillibert directed by Leos Carax
Bac Nord produced by Hugo Sélignac, directed by Cédric Jimenez
L'événement produced by Edouard Weil, Alice Girard, directed by Audrey Diwan
La fracture produced by Elisabeth Perez, directed by Catherine Corsini
Illusions perdues, produced by Olivier Delbosc, Sidonie Dumas, directed by Xavier Giannoli
Onoda, 10 000 nights in the jungle produced by Nicolas Anthomé, Lionel Guedj, directed by Arthur Harari
(the 7 films nominated for the César for best film will also be submitted to the vote of 1866 high school students for the
césar des lycéens)

Multi-nominations : Lost Illusions (15), Annette (11), Aline (10), Bac Nord (7), The Fracture (6), Black Box (5), The Olympics (5), The Event (4), Onoda, 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (4), Titanium (4), Eiffel (3), The Magnetics (3), The Snow Panther (3), Delicious (2), The Intruders (2), Hold Me Tight (2), Slalom (2)

(Source Press Release)