César Award for Best Original Screenplay

César Award for Best Original Screenplay
César Award for Best Original Screenplay
Country	France
Presented by	Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma
First awarded	1983—1985; 2006—present
Currently held by	Justine Triet and Arthur Harari for Anatomy of a Fall (2024)
Website	academie-cinema.org

The César Award for Best Original Screenplay (French: César du meilleur scénario original) is an award presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma. It was initially awarded from 1983 to 1985, and then awarded again in 2006, when the original category (César Award for Best Writing) was split into two awards, the other being César Award for Best Adaptation.

Winners and Nominees

1980s

Year	Winners and nominees	Original title	Writer(s)
1983 (8th)	The Return of Martin Guerre	Le Retour de Martin Guerre	Jean-Claude Carrière and Daniel Vigne
	Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David?		Élie Chouraqui
	La Balance		Mathieu Fabiani and Bob Swaim
	A Good Marriage	Le Beau Mariage	Éric Rohmer
1984 (9th)	The Wounded Man	L'Homme blessé	Patrice Chéreau and Hervé Guibert
	Entre Nous	Coup de foudre	Diane Kurys and Alain Le Henry
	The ComDads	Les Compères	Francis Veber
1985 (10th)	Our Story	Notre histoire	Bertrand Blier
	Full Moon in Paris	Les Nuits de la pleine lune	Éric Rohmer
	My New Partner	Les Ripoux	Claude Zidi

The César Award for Best Writing was awarded from 1986 to 2005.

2000s

Year	Winners and nominees	Original title	Writer(s)
2006 (31st)	Live and Become	Va, vis et deviens	Alain-Michel Blanc and Radu Mihaileanu
	The Child	L'enfant	Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
	Hidden	Caché	Michael Haneke
	Merry Christmas	Joyeux Noël	Christian Carion
	The Young Lieutenant	Le petit lieutenant	Xavier Beauvois, Guillaume Bréaud and Jean-Eric Troubat
2007 (32nd)	Days of Glory	Indigènes	Rachid Bouchareb and Olivier Lorelle
	Jean-Philippe		Laurent Tuel and Christophe Turpin
	Orchestra Seats (a.k.a. Avenue Montaigne)	Fauteuils d'orchestre	Christopher and Danièle Thompson
	When I Was a Singer (a.k.a. The Singer)	Quand j'étais chanteur	Xavier Giannoli
	You Are So Beautiful	Je vous trouve très beau	Isabelle Mergault
2008 (33rd)	The Secret of the Grain	La graine et la mulet	Abdellatif Kechiche
	2 Days in Paris		Julie Delpy
	Molière		Laurent Tirard and Grégoire Vigneron
	Those Who Remain	Ceux qui restent	Anne Le Ny
	La Vie en Rose	La môme	Olivier Dahan
2009 (34th)	Séraphine		Marc Abdelnour and Martin Provost
	A Christmas Tale	Un conte de Noël	Emmanuel Bourdieu and Arnaud Desplechin
	The First Day of the Rest of Your Life	Le premier jour du reste de ta vie	Rémi Bezançon
	I've Loved You So Long	Il y a longtemps que je t'aime	Philippe Claudel
	Welcome to the Sticks	Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis	Dany Boon, Alexandre Charlot and Franck Magnier

2010s

Year	Winners and nominees	Original title	Writer(s)
2010 (35th)	A Prophet	Un prophète	Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Raouf Dafri and Nicolas Peufaillit
	In the Beginning	À l'origine	Xavier Giannoli
	Skirt Day	La Journée de la jupe	Jean-Paul Lilienfeld
	Welcome		Philippe Lioret, Emmanuel Courcol and Olivier Adam
	Le Concert		Radu Mihăileanu and Alain-Michel Blanc
2011 (36th)	The Names of Love	Le Nom des gens	Baya Kasmi and Michel Leclerc
	On Tour	Tournée	Mathieu Amalric, Philippe Di Folco, Marcelo Novias Teles and Raphaëlle Valbrune
	The Clink of Ice	Le Bruit des glaçons	Bertrand Blier
	Of Gods and Men	Des hommes et des dieux	Étienne Comar and Xavier Beauvois
	Mammuth		Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern
2012 (37th)	The Minister	L'Exercice de l'État	Pierre Schöller
	Declaration of War	La Guerre est déclarée	Valérie Donzelli and Jérémie Elkaïm
	The Artist		Michel Hazanavicius
	Polisse		Maïwenn and Emmanuelle Bercot
	The Intouchables	Intouchables	Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache
2013 (38th)	Amour		Michael Haneke
	Holy Motors		Leos Carax
	Camille Rewinds	Camille redouble	Noémie Lvovsky, Florence Seyvos, Maud Ameline and Pierre-Olivier Mattei
	Granny's Funeral	Adieu Berthe, l'enterrement de mémé	Bruno Podalydès and Denis Podalydès
	A Few Hours of Spring	Quelques heures de printemps	Floence Vignon and Stéphane Brizé
2014 (39th)	9 Month Stretch	Neuf mois ferme	Albert Dupontel
	Suzanne		Mariette Désert and Katell Quillévéré
	The Past	Le Passé	Asghar Farhadi
	Stranger by the Lake	L'Inconnu du lac	Alain Guiraudie
	Cycling with Moliere	Alceste à bicyclette	Philippe Le Guay
2015 (40th)	Timbuktu		Abderrahmane Sissako and Kessen Tall
	The Bélier Family	La Famille Bélier	Victoria Bedos, Stanislas Carré de Malberg, Eric Lartigau and Thomas Bidegain
	Love at First Fight	Les Combattants	Thomas Cailley and Claude Le Pape
	Hippocrates	Hippocrate	Thomas Lilti, Baya Kasmi, Julien Lilti and Pierre Chosson
	Clouds of Sils Maria	Sils Maria	Olivier Assayas
2016 (41st)	Mustang		Deniz Gamze Ergüven and Alice Winocour
	Dheepan		Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain and Noé Debré
	Marguerite		Xavier Giannoli
	Standing Tall	La Tête haute	Emmanuelle Bercot and Marcia Romano
	My Golden Days	Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse	Arnaud Desplechin and Julie Peyr
2017 (42nd)	The Aquatic Effect	L'Effet aquatique	Sólveig Anspach and Jean-Luc Gaget
	Divines		Romain Compingt, Houda Benyamina and Malik Rumeau
	The Innocents	Les Innocentes	Sabrina B. Karine, Alice Vial, Pascal Bonitzer and Anne Fontaine
	Slack Bay	Ma Loute	Bruno Dumont
	In Bed with Victoria	Victoria	Justine Triet
2018 (43rd)	BPM (Beats per Minute)	120 battements par minute	Robin Campillo
	Barbara		Mathieu Amalric and Philippe Di Folco
	Raw	Grave	Julia Ducournau
	Bloody Milk	Petit paysan	Claude Le Pape and Hubert Charuel
	C'est la vie!	Le Sens de la fête	Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache
2019 (44th)	Custody	Jusqu'à la garde	Xavier Legrand
	The Trouble with You	En liberté!	Pierre Salvadori, Benoît Graffin, Benjamin Charbit
	Sink or Swim	Le Grand Bain	Gilles Lellouche, Ahmed Hamidi, Julien Lambroschini
	Guy		Alex Lutz, Anaïs Deban, Thibault Ségouin
	In Safe Hands	Pupille	Jeanne Herry

2020s

Year	Winners and nominees	Original title	Writer(s)
2020 (45th)	La Belle Époque		Nicolas Bedos
	By the Grace of God	Grâce à Dieu	François Ozon
	The Specials	Hors normes	Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache
	Les Misérables		Ladj Ly, Giordano Gederlini and Alexis Manenti
	Portrait of a Lady on Fire	Portrait de la jeune fille en feu	Céline Sciamma
2021 (46th) ^[1]	Bye Bye Morons	Adieu les cons	Albert Dupontel
	My Donkey, My Lover & I	Antoinette dans les Cévennes	Caroline Vignal
	Love Affair(s)	Les Choses qu'on dit, les choses qu'on fait	Emmanuel Mouret
	Two of Us	Deux	Filippo Meneghetti and Malysone Bovorashy
	Delete History	Effacer l'historique	Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kerven
2022 (47th)	Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle	Onoda, 10 000 nuits dans la jungle	Arthur Harari and Vincent Poymiro
	Aline		Valérie Lemercier and Brigitte Buc
	Annette		Leos Carax, Ron Mael and Russell Mael
	Black Box	Boîte noire	Yann Gozlan, Simon Moutaïrou, and Nicolas Bouvet-Levrard
	The Divide	La Fracture	Catherine Corsini, Laurette Polmanss, and Agnès Feuvre
2023 (48th)	The Innocent	L'innocent	Louis Garrel, Tanguy Viel and Naïla Guiguet
	Full Time	À plein temps	Éric Gravel
	Forever Young	Les Amandiers	Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Noémie Lvovsky, Agnes de Sacy
	Rise	En corps	Cedric Klapisch, Santiago Amigorena
	Saint Omer		Alice Diop, Amrita David and Marie NDiaye
2024^[2] (49th)	Anatomy of a Fall	Anatomie d'une chute	Justine Triet and Arthur Harari
	All Your Faces	Je verrai toujours vos visages	Jeanne Herry
	The Animal Kingdom	Le Règne animal	Thomas Cailley and Pauline Munier
	The Goldman Case	Le Procès Goldman	Cédric Kahn and Nathalie Hertzberg
	Junkyard Dog	Chien de la casse	Jean-Baptiste Durand
2025 (50th)	Borgo		Stéphane Demoustier
	Holy Cow	Vingt Dieux	Louise Courvoisier and Théo Abadie
	The Marching Band	En Fanfare	Emmanuel Courcol and Irène Muscari
	Misericordia	Miséricorde	Alain Guiraudie
	Souleymane's Story	L'Histoire de Souleymane	Boris Lojkine and Delphine Agut

References

^ "'Bye Bye Morons' Wins Best Film at France's Cesar Awards". Hollywood Reporter.
^ "Cesar Awards Nominations: Thomas Cailley's 'The Animal Kingdom,' Justine Triet's Oscar-Nominated 'Anatomy of a Fall' Lead the Way". Variety. 24 January 2024.

External links

[1] "'Bye Bye Morons' Wins Best Film at France's Cesar Awards". Hollywood Reporter.

[2] "Cesar Awards Nominations: Thomas Cailley's 'The Animal Kingdom,' Justine Triet's Oscar-Nominated 'Anatomy of a Fall' Lead the Way". Variety. 24 January 2024.

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