César Award for Best Actor
Appearance
César Award for Best Actor | |
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Description | Best Actor in a Leading Role |
Country | France |
Presented by | Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma |
First awarded | 1976 |
Currently held by | Vincent Lindon for The Measure of a Man (2016) |
Website | academie-cinema |
This is the list of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Actor (French: César du meilleur acteur).
History
Superlatives
Superlative | Best Actor | Best Supporting Actor | Overall | |||
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Actor with most awards | Michel Serrault | 3 | Niels Arestrup | 3 | Michel Serrault André Dussollier Niels Arestrup |
3 |
Actor with most nominations | Gérard Depardieu | 17 | Fabrice Luchini André Dussollier Guy Marchand |
5 | Gérard Depardieu | 17 |
Actor with most nominations (without ever winning) |
Patrick Dewaere Jean-Pierre Bacri Fabrice Luchini |
5 | Jean-Pierre Marielle François Cluzet |
4 | Patrick Dewaere | 6 |
Oldest winner | Jean-Louis Trintignant | 82 | Michael Lonsdale | 80 | Jean-Louis Trintignant | 82 |
Oldest nominee | Michel Bouquet | 88 | Michel Bouquet | 88 | ||
Youngest winner | ||||||
Youngest nominee | Vincent Lacoste | 21 |
Winners
1970s
Year | Winner | English title | Original title |
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1976 (1st) |
Philippe Noiret | The Old Gun | Le Vieux Fusil |
Victor Lanoux | Cousin, Cousin | Cousin, cousine | |
Jean-Pierre Marielle | Cookies | Les Galettes de Pont-Aven | |
Gérard Depardieu | Seven Deaths by Prescription | Sept morts sur ordonnance | |
1977 (2nd) |
Michel Galabru | The Judge and the Assassin | Le Juge et l'assassin |
Alain Delon | Mr. Klein | Monsieur Klein | |
Gérard Depardieu | The Last Woman | La Dernière Femme | |
Patrick Dewaere | The Best Way to Walk | La Meilleure Façon de marcher | |
1978 (3rd) |
Jean Rochefort | Drummer-Crab | Le Crabe-tambour |
Alain Delon | Death of a Corrupt Man | Mort d'un pourri | |
Gérard Depardieu | This Sweet Sickness | Dites-lui que je l'aime | |
Patrick Dewaere | Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff | Le Juge Fayard dit le Shériff | |
Charles Denner | The Man Who Loved Women | L'Homme qui aimait les femmes | |
1979 (4th) |
Michel Serrault | Birds of a Feather | La Cage aux folles |
Claude Brasseur | A Simple Story | Une histoire simple | |
Jean Carmet | The Sugar | Le Sucre | |
Gérard Depardieu | The Sugar | Le Sucre |
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
Multiple nominations
2 nominations
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3 nominations
4 nominations
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5 nominations
6 nominations
7 nominations
12 nominations
17 nominations
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One actor have the record of most consecutive nominations with 4: Gérard Depardieu (1976, 1977, 1978, 1979 / 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986 / 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991)
See also
- Lumières Award for Best Actor
- Magritte Award for Best Actor
- European Film Award for Best Actor
- Academy Award for Best Actor
- BAFTA Award for Best Actor