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5th César Awards

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Best Film
  
Tess

Best Actress
  
Date
  
2 February 1980

Best Actor
  
Network
  
Antenne 2

Other ceremonies
  
1979, 1981

Site
  
Location
  
Salle Pleyel, Paris, France

The 5th César Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, honoured the best French films of 1979 and took place on 2 February 1980 at the Salle Pleyel in Paris. The ceremony was chaired by Jean Marais and hosted by Pierre Tchernia and Peter Ustinov. Tess won the award for Best Film.

Winners and nominees

The winners are highlighted in bold:

  • Best Film:
    Tess, directed by Roman Polanski
    Womanlight directed by Costa Gavras
    Don Giovanni, directed by Joseph Losey
    I... comme Icare, directed by Henri Verneuil
  • Best Foreign Film:
    Manhattan, directed by Woody Allen
    Apocalypse Now, directed by Francis Ford Coppola
    Die Blechtrommel, directed by Volker Schlöndorff
    Hair, directed by Miloš Forman
  • Best Actor:
    Claude Brasseur, for The Police War
    Jean Rochefort, for Courage - Let's Run
    Yves Montand, for I... comme Icare
    Patrick Dewaere, for Série noire
  • Best Actress:
    Miou-Miou, for La Dérobade
    Romy Schneider, for Womanlight
    Dominique Laffin, for The Crying Woman
    Nastassja Kinski, for Tess
  • Best Supporting Actor:
    Jean Bouise, for Coup de tête
    Michel Aumont, for Courage - Let's Run
    Bernard Blier, for Série noire
    Bernard Giraudeau, for Le Toubib
  • Best Supporting Actress:
    Nicole Garcia, for Le Cavaleur
    Dominique Lavanant, for Courage - Let's Run
    Maria Schneider, for La Dérobade
    Myriam Boyer, for Série noire
  • Best Director:
    Roman Polanski, for Tess
    Costa Gavras, for Womanlight
    Joseph Losey, for Don Giovanni
    Jacques Doillon, for La Drôlesse
  • Best Writing:
    Bertrand Blier, for Buffet froid
    Jacques Doillon, for La Drôlesse
    Henri Verneuil, Didier Decoin, for I... comme Icare
    Alain Corneau, Georges Perec, for Série noire
  • Best Cinematography:
    Ghislain Cloquet, for Tess
    Jean Penzer, for Buffet froid
    Néstor Almendros, for Perceval le Gallois
    Bruno Nuytten, for Les Soeurs Brontë
  • Best Sound:
    Pierre Gamet, for Womanlight
    Alain Lachassagne, for Martin et Léa
    Jean-Pierre Ruh, for Perceval le Gallois
    Pierre Lenoir, for Retour à la bien-aimée
  • Best Editing:
    Reginald Beck, for Don Giovanni
    Claudine Merlin, for Buffet froid
    Henri Lanoë, for Le Cavaleur
    Claudine Merlin, for Les Soeurs Brontë
    Thierry Derocles, for Série noire
  • Best Music:
    Georges Delerue, for L'Amour en fuite
    Vladimir Cosma, for La Dérobade
    Ennio Morricone, for I... comme Icare
    Philippe Sarde, for Tess
  • Best Production Design:
    Alexandre Trauner, for Don Giovanni
    Théobald Meurisse, for Buffet froid
    Jacques Saulnier, for I... comme Icare
    Pierre Guffroy, for Tess
  • Best Animated Short:
    Demain la petite fille sera en retard à l'école, directed by Michel Boschet
    Barbe bleue, directed by Olivier Gillon
    Les Troubles fêtes, directed by Bernard Palacios
  • Best Fiction Short:
    Colloque de chiens, directed by Raúl Ruiz
    Nuit feline, directed by Gérard Marx
    Sibylle, directed by Robert Cappa
  • Best Documentary Short:
    Petit Pierre, directed by Emmanuel Clot
    Georges Demeny, directed by Joël Farges
    Panoplie, directed by Philippe Gaucherand
    Le Sculpteur parfait, directed by Rafi Toumayan
  • Honorary César:
    Pierre Braunberger
    Louis de Funès
    Kirk Douglas
  • References

    5th César Awards Wikipedia


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