# 43rd César Awards

The 43rd César Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, took place on 2 March 2018, at the Salle Pleyel in Paris to honour the best French films of 2017.

## Winners and nominees

| Best Film (presented by Vanessa Paradis) BPM (Beats per Minute) Barbara Bloody Milk Le Brio Patients C'est la vie! See You Up There | Best Director (presented by Dany Boon) Albert Dupontel - See You Up There Robin Campillo - BPM (Beats per Minute) Mathieu Amalric - Barbara Julia Ducournau - Raw Hubert Charuel [fr] - Bloody Milk Michel Hazanavicius - Redoutable Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache - C'est la vie! |
| Best Actor (presented by Isabelle Huppert) Swann Arlaud - Bloody Milk Daniel Auteuil - Le Brio Jean-Pierre Bacri - C'est la Vie! Guillaume Canet - Rock'n Roll Albert Dupontel - See You Up There Louis Garrel - Redoutable Reda Kateb - Django | Best Actress (presented by Lambert Wilson) Jeanne Balibar - Barbara Juliette Binoche - Let the Sun Shine In Emmanuelle Devos - Number One Marina Foïs - The Workshop Charlotte Gainsbourg - Promise at Dawn Doria Tillier - M. & Mme. Adelman Karin Viard - Jalouse |
| Best Supporting Actor (presented by Laurence Arné and François-Xavier Demaison) Antoine Reinartz – BPM (Beats per Minute) Niels Arestrup – See You Up There Laurent Lafitte – See You Up There Gilles Lellouche – C'est la vie! Vincent Macaigne – C'est la vie! | Best Supporting Actress (presented by Laura Smet) Sara Giraudeau - Bloody Milk Laure Calamy - Ava Anaïs Demoustier - The House by the Sea Adèle Haenel - BPM (Beats per Minute) Mélanie Thierry - See You Up There |
| Most Promising Actor (presented by Juliette Binoche) Nahuel Pérez Biscayart – BPM (Beats per Minute) Benjamin Lavernhe – C'est la vie! Finnegan Oldfield – Reinventing Marvin Pablo Pauly – Patients Arnaud Valois – BPM (Beats per Minute) | Most Promising Actress (presented by Blanche Gardin) Camélia Jordana – Le Brio Iris Bry [fr] – The Guardians Laetitia Dosch – Montparnasse Bienvenue Eye Haïdara – C'est la vie! Garance Marillier – Raw |
| Best Original Screenplay (presented by Noomi Rapace and Lucien Jean-Baptiste) BPM (Beats per Minute) – Robin Campillo Barbara – Mathieu Amalric & Philippe Di Folco Raw – Julia Ducournau Bloody Milk – Hubert Charuel & Claude Le Pape C'est la vie! – Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache | Best Adaptation (presented by Stéphane De Groodt and Olga Kurylenko) See You Up There – Albert Dupontel & Pierre Lemaitre The Guardians – Xavier Beauvois, Frédérique Moreau & Marie-Julie Maille Patients – Grand Corps Malade & Fadette Drouard Promise at Dawn – Éric Barbier & Marie Eynard Redoubtable – Michel Hazanavicius |
| Best First Feature Film (presented by Golshifteh Farahani) Bloody Milk – Hubert Charuel Raw – Julia Ducournau Montparnasse Bienvenue – Léonor Sérraille Mr & Mme Adelman – Nicolas Bedos Patients – Grand Corps Malade | Best Cinematography (presented by Alice Belaïdi and Arié Elmaleh) See You Up There – Vincent Mathias BPM (Beats per Minute) – Jeanne Lapoirie Barbara – Christophe Beaucarne The Guardians – Caroline Champetier Redoubtable – Guillaume Schiffman |
| Best Editing (presented by Pascal Elbé and Vincent Elbaz) BPM (Beats per Minute) – Robin Campillo See You Up There – Christophe Pinel Barbara – François Gédigier Bloody Milk – Julie Lena, Lilian Corbeille & Grégoire Pontécaille C'est la vie! – Dorian Rigal-Ansous | Best Sound (presented by Alice Belaïdi and Arié Elmaleh) Barbara – Olivier Mauvezin, Nicolas Moreau & Stéphane Thiébaut BPM (Beats per Minute) – Julien Sicart, Valérie Deloof & Jean-Pierre Laforce See You Up There – Jean Minondo, Gurwal Coïc-Gallas, Cyril Holtz & Damien Lazzerini Raw – Mathieu Descamps, Séverin Favriau & Stéphane Thiébaut C'est la vie! – Pascal Armant, Sélim Azzazi & Jean-Paul Hurier |
| Best Original Music (presented by Eddy Mitchell) BPM (Beats per Minute) – Arnaud Rebotini See You Up There – Christophe Julien Raw – Jim Williams Bloody Milk – Myd Faces Places – Matthieu Chedid | Best Costume Design (presented by Aure Atika) See You Up There – Mimi Lempicka BPM (Beats per Minute) – Isabelle Pannetier Barbara – Pascaline Chavanne The Guardians – Anaïs Romand Promise at Dawn – Catherine Bouchard |
| Best Production Design (presented by Pascal Elbé and Vincent Elbaz) See You Up There - Pierre Quefféléan BPM (Beats per Minute) - Emmanuelle Duplay Barbara - Laurent Baude Promise at Dawn - Pierre Renson Redoubtable - Christian Marti | Best Documentary Film (presented by Elsa Zylberstein) I Am Not Your Negro 12 Jours A voix haute - La force de la parole Carré 35 Faces Places |
| Best Animated Feature Film (presented by Manu Payet) The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales... Sahara Zombillenium | Best Animated Short Film (presented by Manu Payet) Pépé le morse Le Futur sera chauve I Want Pluto to be a Planet Again Le Jardin de minuit |
| Best Short Film (presented by Géraldine Nakache) Les Bigorneaux Le Bleu blanc rouge de mes cheveux About Kings: Easy Rider Marlon Les Misérables | Best Foreign Film (presented by Sophie Marceau and Pierre Richard) Loveless (Russia) The Nile Hilton Incident (Sweden / Denmark / Germany) Dunkirk (UK / USA / France / Netherlands) La La Land (USA) The Square (Sweden / Germany / France / Denmark) A Wedding (Belgium / France / Luxembourg / Pakistan) |
| Audience Award (presented by Line Renaud) Raid dingue - Dany Boon ||
| Honorary César (presented by Marion Cotillard and Pedro Almodóvar) Penélope Cruz ||