MOVIE NEWS – The nominees for the César Awards, considered the French Oscars, have been announced: the latest adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo has received a total of fourteen nominations in thirteen categories.
This year, France’s most prestigious film award, the César Awards, will be presented for the fiftieth time. Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patellière’s adaptation of Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo, released last year, has received fourteen nominations: best film, best director, best adapted screenplay, best actor (Pierre Niney), best supporting actor (Bastien Bouillon and Laurent Lafitte), best supporting actress (Anais Demoustier), best cinematography (Nicolas Bolduc), best editing (Célia Lafitedupont), best sound, best original music (Jérôme Rebotier), best costume design (Thierry Delettre), best visual effects (Stéphane Taillasson), best visual effects (Olivier Cauwet).
The audience first saw Alexandre Dumas’s latest, nearly three-hour adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, where it received a 12-minute standing ovation, and topped the cinema charts for weeks after its French premiere.
The film’s protagonist is a young sailor, Edmond Dantès, who is falsely accused of treason and then imprisoned without trial in the castle of If, a grim island fortress near Marseille. After many years of captivity, he manages to escape to take revenge on those who falsely accused him in the person of the Count of Monte Cristo.
Three ADS films are also nominated in the Best Foreign Film category at the 50th César Awards: Coralie Fargeat’s body horror, The Drug, The Apprentice, which shows the early successes of Donald Trump, and The Trump Story, which approaches the Holocaust from a new perspective.
The César Awards will be presented on February 28, 2025, at the Olympia concert venue in Paris, with the ceremony’s president Catherine Deneuve, Julia Roberts and Greek-French director Costa-Gavras being awarded honorary César Awards.
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