"2012. While many confuse ""The Artist"" as a silent feature, it is actually a sound picture with an accompanying soundtrack. The 1927 film ""Wings"" is still the only silent film to win Best Picture, an honor received at the inaugural awards ceremony in 1929. Moreover, it was also the first black-and-white feature to win Best Picture since 1993's ""Schindler's List"". Best Actor winner Jean Dujardin became the first French actor to win an Oscar. With her latest win for Best Actress, Meryl Streep became the fifth performer to win at least three acting Oscars. At age 82, Best Supporting Actor"
"a silent film shot in black and white by Michel Hazanavicius that reflected on the end of Hollywood's silent era. French cinema continued its upward trend of earning awards at the Cannes Festival, including the prestigious Grand Prix for ""Of Gods and Men"" (2010) and the Jury Prize for Poliss (2011); the Best Director Award for Mathieu Amalric (""On Tour"", 2010); the Best Actress Award for Juliette Binoche (""Certified Copy"", 2010); and the Best Actor Award for Jean Dujardin (""The Artist"", 2011). In 2011, the film ""Intouchables"" became the most watched film in France (including the foreign films). After ten"
"that have received few or no nominations or awards. Only three animated films have been nominated - ""Beauty and the Beast"" (1991), ""Up"" (2009) and ""Toy Story 3"" (2010), the latter two having been nominated after the Academy expanded the number of nominees—but none have won. No science fiction film or superhero film has won (none of the latter has been nominated); only two fantasy films have won — """" (2003) and ""The Shape of Water"" (2017). ""The Silence of the Lambs"" (1991) is the only horror film to win Best Picture, and only five other have been nominated for"
"Awards, and on 18 January 2012, it was named as one of the nine shortlisted entries for the Oscars. Six days later, the film was named as one of the five nominees. Alongside the Polish-Canadian co-production ""In Darkness"", which was submitted and nominated on behalf of Poland, the two films marked the first time in the history of Canadian cinema that two films with Canadian connections were finalists for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in the same year. It is also the second consecutive year that a Canadian film in French was nominated in this category, following the nomination"
"Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. ""The Hollywood Reporter"" wrote, ""In one of her strongest leading roles to date, Dequenne (""The Girl on the Train"", ""Rosetta"") does a remarkable job depicting Murielle’s wavering psychological states as she heads for oblivion, and an extended sequence-shot where she drives home while singing a Julien Clerc song is particularly unforgettable."" Our Children Our Children () is a 2012 Belgian-French psychological drama film directed by Joachim Lafosse. It is based on a real-life incident involving a woman (Genevieve Lhermitte), who killed her five"
"Bokanowski's 1982 ""The Angel"". In 2005, the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society produced a silent film version of Lovecraft's story ""The Call of Cthulhu"". This film maintained a period-accurate filming style, and was received as both ""the best HPL adaptation to date"" and, referring to the decision to make it as a silent movie, ""a brilliant conceit"". The French film ""The Artist"" (2011), written and directed by Michel Hazanavicius, plays as a silent film and is set in Hollywood during the silent era. It also includes segments of fictitious silent films starring its protagonists. The Japanese vampire film ""Sanguivorous"" (2011)"
"for Dujardin, making him the first French actor ever to win in this category. It was also the first French-produced film to win Best Picture, and the first mainly silent film to win since 1927's ""Wings"" won at the 1st Academy Awards in 1929. It was also the first film presented in the 4:3 aspect ratio to win since 1953's ""From Here to Eternity"". Additionally, it was the first black-and-white film to win since 1993's ""Schindler's List"", though the latter contained limited colour sequences; it was the first 100% black-and-white film to win since 1960's ""The Apartment"". In France it"
"be nominated for Best Picture, and remained the only animated film nominated until 2009 when the Best Picture field was widened to ten nominees, and it remains the only animated film nominated for the award when it had five nominees. It became the first musical in twelve years to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture of the Year, following ""All That Jazz"" (1979), and the last one to be nominated until ""Moulin Rouge!"" (2001), ten years later. It lost the Best Picture award to ""The Silence of the Lambs"". With six nominations, the film currently shares the"
"by 2.5 million viewers. This corresponds to 12.5% of the audience. 38th César Awards The 38th Annual César Awards ceremony, presented by the French Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques (Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma), was held on 22 February 2013, at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. The ceremony was chaired by Jamel Debbouze, with Antoine de Caunes as master of ceremonies. Nominations were announced 25 January 2013. Michael Haneke's film ""Amour"", nominated in ten categories, won in five, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Actress. Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold."
"but ineligible for Best Foreign Language Film, as it was an American production); and ""Amour"" (French, 2012). Only nine films wholly financed outside the United States have won Best Picture, eight of which were financed, in part or in whole, by the United Kingdom. Those films being: ""Hamlet"" (1948), ""Tom Jones"" (1963), ""A Man for All Seasons"" (1966), ""Chariots of Fire"" (1981), ""Gandhi"" (1982), ""The Last Emperor"" (1987), ""Slumdog Millionaire"" (2008), and ""The King's Speech"" (2010). The ninth film, ""The Artist"", (2011) was financed by France. Other points of contention include genres (or styles in case of animation) of film"
"Romantics Anonymous Romantics Anonymous () is a 2010 French-Belgian romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Améris and starring Benoît Poelvoorde and Isabelle Carré. It received three nominations at the 2nd Magritte Awards, winning Best Foreign Film in Coproduction. Angélique is a young French woman who suffers from social anxiety disorder and is afraid of just about everything. She regularly attends a support group for other people like her. Jean-René, who owns a small manufacturer of chocolate called the Chocolate Mill, also suffers from social anxiety, and is afraid of many things, particularly intimacy. The Chocolate Mill is failing because it"
"film winning the Best Film honour. The following films received multiple nominations: The following films received multiple awards: The show was followed by 1.9 million viewers. This corresponds to 10.5% of the audience. 42nd César Awards The 42nd César Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, was held on 24 February 2017, at the Salle Pleyel in Paris to honour the best French films of 2016. Jérôme Commandeur hosted the César Awards ceremony for the first time. The nominations were announced on 25 January 2017 by Academy president Alain Terzian and awards ceremony host Jérôme"
"and performed by the US noise rock band Sonic Youth. It was released as part of the Sonic Youth Recordings series, titled as ""SYR9: Simon Werner a Disparu"". It is notable for being the last release of new music from the band prior to their indefinite hiatus which was announced in 2012. Lights Out (2010 film) Lights Out () is a French thriller film directed by Fabrice Gobert and starring Jules Pelissier, Ana Girardot, Arthur Mazet, Laurent Delbecque, Serge Riaboukine and Laurent Capelluto. The film was entered into the Un Certain Regard section of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. Lee"
"and ""Indiewire"" on their year-end film critics polls. French film magazine ""Cahiers du cinéma"" also elected ""Holy Motors"" the best film of the year. It was later ranked the 16th greatest film of the 21st century in a worldwide critics' poll conducted by BBC. Holy Motors Holy Motors is a 2012 French-German fantasy drama film written and directed by Leos Carax, starring Denis Lavant and Édith Scob. Lavant plays Mr Oscar, a man like an actor who inhabits several roles, but there are no apparent cameras filming the man's performances. It is Carax's first feature film since 1999. The film"
"in any category. Both films were eclipsed by ""The Silence of the Lambs"" which won four of its five nominations. Winners Jonathan Demme, Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster, Ted Tally, and Christina Ricci were not present to accept the award. Each sent an acceptance speech that was published in ""Fangoria"". Other attendees at the convention included Dario Argento, Clive Barker, special effects artist Gabe Bartalos, Michelle Bauer, Robert Clarke, Ken Foree, Monique Gabrielle, Mick Garris, Lance Henriksen, Anthony Hickox, Adrienne King, John Landis, Barbara Steele, and Brinke Stevens. Sneaks peeks included previews for the films ""Army of Darkness"" and ""Alien 3""."
"The Patience Stone (film) The Patience Stone () is a 2012 French-Afghan war drama film directed by Atiq Rahimi, based on his 2008 novel of the same title. Written by Jean-Claude Carrière and the director, the film stars Golshifteh Farahani, Hamid Djavadan, Massi Mrowat, and Hassina Burgan. The film was selected as the Afghan entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, although it was not nominated. Golshifteh Farahani was nominated for the Most Promising Actress award at the 39th César Awards. Somewhere, in Afghanistan or elsewhere, in a country torn apart by a war... A"
"won three awards, including Best Picture, the fourth film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture without its director nominated. Other winners included ""Les Misérables"" also with three awards, ""Django Unchained"", ""Lincoln"", and ""Skyfall"" with two, and ""Amour"", ""Anna Karenina"", ""Brave"", ""Curfew"", ""Inocente"", ""Paperman"", ""Searching for Sugar Man"", ""Silver Linings Playbook"" and ""Zero Dark Thirty"" with one. The telecast garnered more than 40 million viewers in the United States. The nominees for the 85th Academy Awards were announced on January 10, 2013, at 5:38 a.m. PST (13:38 UTC) at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Seth"
"Kate Winslet, English actress and singer The show was followed by 3.9 millions of viewers. This corresponds to 18.2% of the audience. 37th César Awards The 37th César Awards ceremony, presented by the French Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques (Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma), was held on 24 February 2012, at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. The awards honoured the best films of 2011. ""The Artist"" won six out of its ten nominations, including Best Film, Best Director (Michel Hazanavicius), Best Actress (Bérénice Bejo), and Best Cinematography (Guillaume Schiffman). The ceremony was chaired by Guillaume Canet,"
"silent screen era. Geoff Sobelle and Trey Lyford created and starred in ""All Wear Bowlers"" (2004), which started as an homage to Laurel and Hardy then evolved to incorporate life-sized silent film sequences of Sobelle and Lyford who jump back and forth between live action and the silver screen. The animated film ""Fantasia"" (1940), which is eight different animation sequences set to music, can be considered a silent film, with only one short scene involving dialogue. The espionage film ""The Thief"" (1952) has music and sound effects, but no dialogue, as do Thierry Zéno's 1974 ""Vase de Noces"" and Patrick"
"film to do so since 1987, when Maurice Pialat won the award for "" Under the Sun of Satan"". ""The Class"" was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but lost to ""Departures"". Set wholly in a secondary school in a working-class district of Paris, where many inhabitants are foreign-born, the film follows the year of a young teacher, François Marin, and the 25 pupils aged 14 or 15 who he takes for an hour each day in French language. A loner, he walks the narrow line between maintaining discipline and gaining co-operation. From the start,"
"features Marilyn Monroe, to mark the 50th anniversary of her death. The Palme d'Or was awarded to Austrian director Michael Haneke for his film ""Amour"". Haneke previously won the Palme d'Or in 2009 for ""The White Ribbon"". The jury gave the Grand Prize to Matteo Garrone's ""Reality"", while Ken Loach's ""The Angels' Share"" was awarded the Jury Prize. The following people were appointed as the Jury for the feature films of the 2012 Official Selection: The following independent juries awarded films in the frame of the International Critics' Week. Nespresso Grand Prize France 4 Visionary Award Nikon Discovery Award for"
"Artist"" (2012). Five actresses have received nominations for both the César Award for Best Actress and the Academy Award for Best Actress: Cotillard is the only woman to have won a Best Actress César and Oscar for the same performance. The other actress to have won both awards is Simone Signoret, but she did it with two different films. Bérénice Bejo is the only actress to have been nominated for the César Award for Best Actress and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, in 2012 for The Artist; she won the César but lost the Oscar. Juliette Binoche is"
"42nd César Awards The 42nd César Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, was held on 24 February 2017, at the Salle Pleyel in Paris to honour the best French films of 2016. Jérôme Commandeur hosted the César Awards ceremony for the first time. The nominations were announced on 25 January 2017 by Academy president Alain Terzian and awards ceremony host Jérôme Commandeur. ""Divines"" and ""It's Only the End of the World"" won three awards each. Other films with multiple awards include ""Chocolat"", ""My Life as a Courgette"" and ""Elle"" with two, with the latter"
"2012 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 47th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 5 January 2013, honored the best in film for 2012. Film titles are listed in order of placings: 1. Amour <br> 2. ""The Master"" <br> 3. ""Zero Dark Thirty"" 1. Michael Haneke – ""Amour"" <br> 2. Kathryn Bigelow – ""Zero Dark Thirty"" <br> 2. Paul Thomas Anderson – ""The Master"" 1. Daniel Day-Lewis – ""Lincoln"" <br> 2. Denis Lavant – ""Holy Motors"" <br> 2. Joaquin Phoenix – ""The Master"" 1. Emmanuelle Riva – ""Amour"" <br> 2. Jennifer Lawrence – ""Silver Linings Playbook"" <br>"
"also was the sixth performer to win at least three acting Oscars. ""Amour"" was the fourth film nominated simultaneously for Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film in the same year. At age nine, Quvenzhané Wallis became the youngest nominee for Best Actress and the youngest female acting nominee overall. Meanwhile, Emmanuelle Riva (aged 85) was the oldest nominee for Best Actress. This marked the first time in Oscar history that all five nominees in an acting category (Best Supporting Actor) were all previous winners.""Skyfall"" and ""Zero Dark Thirty""s joint win in the Best Sound Editing category was the sixth"
"most nominations were ""Dead Man Talking"" with eight, followed by ""Our Children"", ""Mobile Home"" and ""One Night"" with seven. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 2, 2013. ""Our Children"" won four awards, including Best Film and Best Director for Joachim Lafosse. Other multiple winners were ""The Minister"" with three awards, and ""Mobile Home"" with two. The following eleven films received multiple nominations. The following three films received multiple awards. 3rd Magritte Awards The 3rd Magritte Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie André Delvaux, honored the best films of 2011 and 2012 and took place on February"
"is complete. For this Academy Award category, the following superlatives emerge: Many critically acclaimed documentaries were never nominated. Examples include ""Paris Is Burning"", ""Crumb"", ""Hoop Dreams"", ""The Thin Blue Line"" and ""Fahrenheit 9/11"" (see below). Michael Moore's ""Fahrenheit 9/11"", at the time the highest-grossing documentary film in movie history, was ruled ineligible because Moore had opted to have it played on television prior to the 2004 election. Previously, the 1982 winner ""Just Another Missing Kid"" had already been broadcast in Canada and won that country's ACTRA award for excellence in television at the time of its nomination. The controversy over"
"music and presenting an intimate portrait of an artist. In 2012, he filmed his first opera in Orange Chorégies ""Turandot"" and his first ballet for the Opéra de Paris. He has participated in 48 HOUR FILM PROJECT (""to make a film in 48 hours""), co-producing with Nicolas Lebrun. The film ""The last role of Jacques Serres"" won the prize for best film as well as the best image among the 113 presented to the Paris edition of 2012. François Goetghebeur wrote on the social networking site Facebook: ""Great joy: 48(hours) best film editing film project Paris from over 100 films"
"was selected as the French entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, but was not nominated. In January 2014, the film received four nominations at the 39th César Awards, winning for Best Costume Design. The film tells the forgotten story of Andrée Heuschling, also known as Catherine Hessling, who was the last model of impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and the first actress in the films of his son, the film director Jean Renoir. Andrée was the link between two famous and widely acclaimed artists, a father and son. While the father is at the end"
"(1984, Claude Chabrol), ""Mata Hari"" (1985, Curtis Harrington), ""Angel-A"" (2006, Luc Besson), ""Notre univers impitoyable"" (2007, Léa Fazer), ""Les Femmes de l'ombre"" (2008, Jean-Paul Salomé), ""Demain dès l'aube"" (Denis Dercourt) and ""La folle histoire d’amour de Simon Eskenazy"" (Jean-Jacques Zilbermann) in 2009, ""Midnight in Paris"" (Woody Allen) and ""W.E"" (Madonna) in 2010 and ""Diplomacy"" in 2014. Le Meurice Le Meurice () is a 5-star hotel in the 1st arrondissement of Paris opposite the Tuileries Garden, between Place de la Concorde and the Musée du Louvre on the Rue de Rivoli. From the Rue de Rivoli, it stretches to the Rue"
"of Denis Villeneuve's ""Incendies"" at the 83rd Academy Awards, and with ""War Witch"" marking the third consecutive nomination in 2013. Sophie Nélisse, at 11 years old, tied for the youngest Genie winner in the history of the award ceremony. Nina Petronzio was also 11 when she won Best Actress for ""Vincent and Me"" in 1991. Monsieur Lazhar Monsieur Lazhar is a 2011 Canadian French-language drama film directed by Philippe Falardeau and starring Mohamed Saïd Fellag, Sophie Nélisse and Danielle Proulx. Based on ""Bashir Lazhar"", a one-character play by Évelyne de la Chenelière, it tells the story of an Algerian refugee"
"the world acclaimed and Best Picture and Best Director winner at the 2012 Academy Award (Oscars) The Artist; romances like Paris-Manhattan; thriving art house cinema by talented young directors such as Mia Hansen-Love (Father of my children), Catherine Corsini (Leaving), Alix Delaporte (Angèle & Tony). Of course, that ""French touch"" can also be seen in big productions like Taken 2 from Luc Besson, Asterix and Obelix in Britain, or Populaire all of which are French productions. In Australia, there has been a strong growth in audiences for French films over the past five years, with more than 3.5 million admissions"
"in order to offset the darkness of some of the scenes in the film. Ozon has also said that the backward structure of the story was in part inspired by Jane Campion's 1986 film ""Two Friends"", and that it allowed for ""a true, lucid reading of a couple's story"". 5x2 5x2 (also ""Cinq fois deux""; ) is a 2004 French film directed by François Ozon, which uncovers the back story to the gradual disintegration of a middle class marriage by depicting five key moments in the relationship, but in reverse order. A young married couple, Gilles and Marion, sit in"