This weekend it was one award show after the other starting with the Césars on Friday night, the SAG Awards on Saturday night and the Film Independent Spirit Awards on Sunday night. Read more about the winners here below.
I’m starting with the Césars, the French version of the Oscars, which honour the best French films of 2023. The big winner at the Césars this year was Anatomy of a Fall which won six awards, including Best Film. For her work on the film, Justine Triet became the second woman in history to win Best Director. The other winning film was The Animal Kingdom, which was nominated the most and won five awards. Agnès Jaoui and Christopher Nolan each received the Honorary César.
Here is the full list of winners at the Césars:
Best Film
Anatomy of a Fall
Best Director
Justine Triet – Anatomy of a Fall
Best Actor
Arieh Worthalter – The Goldman Case
Best Actress
Sandra Hüller – Anatomy of a Fall
Best Supporting Actor
Swann Arlaud – Anatomy of a Fall
Best Supporting Actress
Adèle Exarchopoulos – All Your Faces
Most Promising Actor
Raphaël Quenard – Junkyard Dog
Most Promising Actress
Ella Rumpf – Marguerite’s Theorem
Best Original Screenplay
Anatomy of a Fall – Justine Triet and Arthur Harari
Best Adaptation
Just the Two of Us – Valérie Donzelli and Audrey Diwan
Best First Feature Film
Junkyard Dog
Best Cinematography
The Animal Kingdom – David Cailley
Best Editing
Anatomy of a Fall – Laurent Sénéchal
Best Sound
The Animal Kingdom – Fabrice Osinski, Raphaël Sohier, Matthieu Fichet, and Niels Barletta
Best Original Music
The Animal Kingdom – Andrea Laszlo De Simone
Best Costume Design
The Animal Kingdom – Ariane Daurat
Best Production Design
The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan and The Three Musketeers: Milady – Stéphane Taillasson
Best Documentary Film
Four Daughters
Best Animated Feature Film
Chicken for Linda!
Best Animated Short Film
Été 96
Best Fiction Short Film
Expecting
Best Documentary Short Film
La mécanique des fluides
Best Foreign Film
The Nature of Love (Canada / France) – directed by Monia Chokri
Best Visual Effects
The Animal Kingdom – Cyrille Bonjean, Bruno Sommier, and Jean-Louis Autret
Next we have the SAG Awards that were live on Netflix for the first time. It was the 30th edition of the SAG Awards with Oppenheimer and The Bear as the big winners. The film and series both won three SAG Awards. Beef won two awards and Barbra Streisand received the 2023 SAG Life Achievement Award.
The SAG Awards are voted on by members of SAG-AFTRA in categories across film and TV, including stunt performances. The winners of the stunt performers categories were announced during the red carpet preshow with those awards going to The Last of Us and Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One.
If you missed the show, you can always watch it again on Netflix.
Here is the full lost of winners at the SAG Awards:
Film
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role
Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Oppenheimer
Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Television
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series
Steven Yeun – Beef
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series
Ali Wong – Beef
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series
Pedro Pascal – The Last of Us
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series
Elizabeth Debicki – The Crown
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series
Jeremy Allen White – The Bear
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series
Ayo Edebiri – The Bear
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
Succession
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
The Bear
Outstanding Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Comedy or Drama Series
The Last of Us
And lastly we had the Film Independent Spirit Awards that were live on YouTube and that was hosted by Aidy Bryant. Live in a tent from the beach of Santa Monica, the best independent films of the last year were awarded. This year, Film Independent added a new category: Best Breakthrough Performance in a New Scripted Series. This move evens the number of performance categories for film and TV; three on the film side and three on the television side.
The Holdovers was the big winner with three awards followed by American Fiction and Past Lives which won two awards. In the TV categories Beef and The Last of Us were the big winners with both two awards.
The winners of the special awards were Fremont that won the John Cassavetes Award, this award is given to the best feature made for under $1,000,000, and Showing Up won the Robert Altman Award, this award is given to the film’s director, casting director, and ensemble cast.
We also have the Emerging Filmmakers Awards that were given with the winners that were already known. The Producers Award, this award honors emerging producers who, despite highly limited resources, demonstrate the creativity, tenacity and vision required to produce quality, independent films, was won by Monique Walton, the Someone to Watch Award, this award recognizes a talented filmmaker of singular vision who has not yet received appropriate recognition, was won by Monica Sorelle for her film Mountains, and the Truer than Fiction Award, this award is presented to an emerging director of non-fiction features who has not yet received significant recognition, was won by Set Hernandez for his film Unseen.
If you missed the show, you can watch it again on YouTube.
Here is the list of other winners at the Spirit Awards:
Film
Best Feature
Past Lives
Best Director
Celine Song – Past Lives
Best Lead Performance
Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction
Best Supporting Performance
Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
Best Breakthrough Performance
Dominic Sessa – The Holdovers
Best Screenplay
American Fiction – Cord Jefferson
Best First Feature
A Thousand and One
Best First Screenplay
May December – Samy Burch
Best Documentary Feature
Four Daughters
Best International Film
Anatomy of a Fall (France) – Justine Triet
Best Cinematography
The Holdovers – Eigil Bryld
Best Editing
How to Blow Up a Pipeline – Daniel Garber
Television
Best New Scripted Series
Beef
Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series
Dear Mama
Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series
Ali Wong – Beef
Best Supporting Performance in a New Scripted Series
Nick Offerman – The Last of Us
Best Breakthrough Performance in a New Scripted Series
Keivonn Montreal Woodard – The Last of Us
Best Ensemble Cast in a New Scripted Series
Jury Duty
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