28/11/2008

A list of young French actors and actresses selected by the César Academy Newcomers Committee is to be submitted to the 3,700 voters who will choose the nominees and then the winners of the 2009 César Awards for Best Female and Best Male Newcomer.

The list includes the three stars of Rémi Bezançon’s The First Day of the Rest of Your Life and Christophe Honoré’s La belle personne (“The Beautiful Person”), as well as several actors and actresses from films unveiled at the latest Cannes Film Festival (Versailles, Home, A Christmas Tale, Frontier of Dawn and Grown Ups).

There will also be two new additions to the rules at the 2009 César Awards in order to "better reflect the richness and diversity of French film and honour foreign productions in the French language". The nominations for Best Film will increase from five to seven films, as will those for Best Foreign Film (two of which will be reserved for French-language foreign films).

The nominations for the 2009 César Awards will be announced on January 23, 2009. Charlotte Gainsbourg will act as president of the 34th ceremony, to be held on February 27 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.

Hopefuls for 2009 César for Best Female Newcomer
Nora Arnezeder - Paris 36 [+see also:
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Leïla Bekhti - Dolls and Angels [+see also:
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Mélanie Bernier - Passe Passe [+see also:
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Marilou Berry - Vilaine [+see also:
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Olympe Borval - Le chant des mariées [+see also:
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Louise Bourgoin - The Girl from Monaco [+see also:
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Lizzie Brocheré - Le chant des mariées
Judith Chemla - Versailles [+see also:
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interview: Geraldine Michelot
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Anaïs Demoustier - Grown Ups [+see also:
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Déborah François - The First Day of the Rest of Your Life [+see also:
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Juliette Lamboley - 15 ans et demi [+see also:
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Adélaïde Leroux - Home [+see also:
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interview: Kacey Mottet Klein
interview: Thierry Spicher
interview: Ursula Meier
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Clémentine Poidatz - Frontier of Dawn [+see also:
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Léa Seydoux - La belle personne [+see also:
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Salomé Stévenin - Comme une étoile dans la nuit [+see also:
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Fanny Valette - Welcome Home [+see also:
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Hopefuls for 2009 César for Best Male Newcomer
Ralph Amoussou - With a Little Help From Myself [+see also:
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Julien Baumgartner - The Joy of Singing
Emile Berling - Les hauts murs [+see also:
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Laurent Capelluto - A Christmas Tale [+see also:
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Esteban Carjaval Alegria - La belle personne
François Civil - Dying or Feeling Better [+see also:
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Arthur Dupont - Nos 18 ans [+see also:
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Théo Frilet - Born in 68 [+see also:
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Nicolas Giraud Comme une étoile dans la nuit
Guillaume Gouix - Les hauts murs
Marc-André Grondin - The First Day of the Rest of Your Life
Adrien Jolivet - La très très grande entreprise [+see also:
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Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet - La belle personne
Pio Marmaï - The First Day of the Rest of Your Life
Yannick Renier - Born in 68
Guillaume Verdier - L’été indien

(Translated from French)