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France’s 2025 Cesar Awards Announced (Updating Live)


The Cesar Awards are celebrating their 50th edition on Friday in Paris with 'The Count of Monte Cristo' and 'Beating Hearts' leading the race.

A pair of epic French blockbusters, “ The Count of Monte Cristo,” adapted from Alexandre Dumas’ literary classic, and “Beating Hearts,” Gilles Lellouche’s sprawling crime romance, are leading the race with 14 and 13 nominations respectively. Gilles Lellouche for “Beating Hearts”Matthieu Delaporte et Alexandre de la Patellière for “The Count Of Monte Cristo”Jacques Audiard for “Emilia Pérez”Boris Lojkine for “Souleymane’s Story”Alain Guiraudie for “Misericordia” Stéphane Demoustier for “Borgo”Emmanuel Courcol and Irène Muscari for “The Marching Band”Boris Lojkine et Delphine Agut for “Souleymane’s Story”Alain Guiraudie and “Misericordia”Louise Courvoisier and Théo Abadie for “Holy Cow”

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