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.^[1] 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, with Antoine de Caunes as master of ceremonies. Nominations were announced 27 January 2012.

37th César Awards
Official poster featuring a 1960 photo of the late French actress Annie Girardot
Date	24 February 2012
Site	Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, France
Hosted by	Antoine de Caunes
Highlights
Best Picture	The Artist
Best Director	Michel Hazanavicius
Best Actor	Omar Sy
Best Actress	Bérénice Bejo
Most awards	The Artist (6)
Most nominations	Poliss (13)
Television coverage
Network	Canal Plus
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Winners and nominees

Michel Hazanavicius, César Award for Best Director.

Omar Sy, César Award for Best Actor.

Bérénice Bejo, César Award for Best Actress.

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

Best Film	Best Director
The Artist Declaration of War (La Guerre est déclarée) Le Havre The Intouchables (Intouchables) The Minister (L'Exercice de l'État) Pater Polisse	Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist Alain Cavalier, Pater Valérie Donzelli, Declaration of War Aki Kaurismäki, Le Havre Maïwenn, Polisse Pierre Schöller, The Minister Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, The Intouchables
Best Actor	Best Actress
Omar Sy, The Intouchables Sami Bouajila, Omar Killed Me (Omar m'a tuer) François Cluzet, The Intouchables Jean Dujardin, The Artist Olivier Gourmet, The Minister Denis Podalydès, The Conquest (La Conquête) Philippe Torreton, Guilty (Présumé coupable)	Bérénice Bejo, The Artist Ariane Ascaride, The Snows of Kilimanjaro (Les neiges du Kilimandjaro) Leïla Bekhti, The Source (La Source des femmes) Valérie Donzelli, Declaration of War Marina Foïs, Polisse Marie Gillain, All Our Desires (Toutes nos envies) Karin Viard, Polisse
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Michel Blanc, The Minister Nicolas Duvauchelle, Polisse Joeystarr, Polisse Bernard Le Coq, The Conquest Frédéric Pierrot, Polisse	Carmen Maura, The Women on the 6th Floor (Les Femmes du 6e étage) Isabelle Breitman, The Minister Anne Le Ny, The Intouchables Noémie Lvovsky, House of Tolerance (L'Apollonide: souvenirs de la maison close) Karole Rocher, Polisse
Most Promising Actor	Most Promising Actress
Grégory Gadebois, Angel & Tony Guillaume Gouix, Jimmy Rivière Nicolas Bridet, You Will Be My Son Pierre Niney, 18 Years Old and Rising Dimitri Storoge, A Gang Story	(tie) Naidra Ayadi, Polisse and Clotilde Hesme, Angel & Tony Adèle Haenel, House of Tolerance (L'Apollonide: souvenirs de la maison close) Céline Sallette, House of Tolerance (L'Apollonide: souvenirs de la maison close) Christa Théret, Twiggy
Best First Feature Film	Best Original Screenplay
When Pigs Have Wings My Little Princess 17 Girls (17 filles) Angel & Tony (Angèle et Tony) Delicacy (La Délicatesse)	The Minister (L'exercice de l'État), Pierre Schoeller The Artist, Michel Hazanavicius Declaration of War (La Guerre est déclarée), Valérie Donzelli and Jérémie Elkaïm The Intouchables (Intouchables), Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache Polisse, Maïwenn and Emmanuelle Bercot
Best Cinematography	Best Adaptation
The Artist, Guillaume Schiffman Polisse, Pierre Aïm House of Tolerance (L'Apollonide: Souvenirs de la maison close), Josée Deshaies The Minister (L'Exercice de l'État), Julien Hirsch The Intouchables (Intouchables), Mathieu Vadepied	Carnage, Roman Polanski and Yasmina Reza Delicacy (La Délicatesse), David Foenkinos Guilty (Présumé coupable), Vincent Garenq Omar Killed Me (Omar m'a tuer), Olivier Gorce, Roschdy Zem, Rachid Bouchareb and Olivier Lorelle Rebellion (L'Ordre et la Morale), Mathieu Kassovitz, Benoît Jaubert and Pierre Geller
Best Editing	Best Sound
Polisse, Laure Gardette and Yann Dedet The Artist, Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius The Minister (L'Exercice de l'État), Laurence Briaud Declaration of War (La guerre est déclarée), Pauline Gaillard The Intouchables, Dorian Rigal-Ansous	The Minister (L'Exercice de l'État), Olivier Hespel, Julie Brenta and Jean-Pierre Laforce The Intouchables, Pascal Armant, Jean Goudier, and Jean-Paul Hurier House of Tolerance (L'Apollonide: Souvenirs de la maison close), Jean-Pierre Duret, Nicolas Moreau, and Jean-Pierre Laforce Polisse, Nicolas Provost, Rym Debbarh-Mounir, and Emmanuel Croset Declaration of War (La Guerre est déclarée), André Rigaut, Sébastien Savine, and Laurent Gabiot
Best Music Written for a Film	Best Costume Design
The Artist, Ludovic Bource Beloved (Les Bien-Aimés), Alex Beaupain House of Tolerance (L'Apollonide: Souvenirs de la maison close), Bertrand Bonello A Monster in Paris (Un monstre à Paris), Matthieu Chedid and Patrice Renson The Minister (L'Exercice de l'État), Philippe Schœller	House of Tolerance (L'Apollonide: Souvenirs de la maison close), Anaïs Romand My Little Princess, Catherine Baba The Artist, Mark Bridges The Women on the 6th Floor (Les Femmes du 6e étage), Christian Gasc The Source (La Source des femmes), Viorica Petrovici
Best Production Design	Best Documentary Film
The Artist, Laurence Bennett House of Tolerance (L'Apollonide: Souvenirs de la maison close), Alain Guffroy The Women on the 6th Floor (Les Femmes du 6e étage), Pierre-François Limbosch The Minister (L'Exercice de l'État), Jean-Marc Tran Tan Ba Le Havre, Wouter Zoon	Tous au Larzac Le Bal des menteurs Crazy Horse Ici on noie les Algériens Michel Petrucciani
Best Animated Film	Best Short Film
The Rabbi's Cat (Le Chat du rabbin) The Circus (Le Cirque) A Monster in Paris (Un monstre à Paris) Mouse's Tale (La Queue de la souris) The Painting (Le Tableau)	L'Accordeur La France qui se lêve tôt J'aurais pu être une pute Je pourrais être votre grand-mère Un Monde sans femmes
Best Foreign Film
A Separation (Jodái-e Náder az Simin) ( Iran), Asghar Farhadi Black Swan ( United States), Darren Aronofsky The King's Speech ( United Kingdom), Tom Hooper Drive ( United States), Nicolas Winding Refn The Kid with a Bike (Le Gamin au vélo) ( Belgium), Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne Incendies ( Canada), Denis Villeneuve Melancholia ( Denmark), Lars von Trier

Honorary César

Kate Winslet, English actress and singer

Viewers

The show was followed by 3.9 million viewers. This corresponds to 18.2% of the audience.^[2]

See also

• 84th Academy Awards
• 65th British Academy Film Awards
• 24th European Film Awards
• 17th Lumière Awards
• 2nd Magritte Awards
• 57th David di Donatello
• 27th Goya Awards