Voting for the first round of this year’s edition opened on January 3 and will close on January 24 with first nominations due to be announced on January 25.
The César Academy and Canal+ have announced that Franco-Algerian actor Tahar Rahim will preside over the 48th edition of France’s Cesar Awards, which will take place at Paris’s historic l’Olympia concert venue on February 24.
Cesar Academy noted that Rahim has a long history with the Césars, having won best actor and most promising actor in 2010 for his breakthrough performance in Jacques Audiard’s The Prophet.
Rahim broke through in the Jacques Audiard movie A Prophet which received nine Césars and the Cannes Grand Prix. Rahim won the César for Best Male Newcomer and for Best Actor. He returned to Cannes in competition with The Past by Asghar Farhadi and Grand Central by Rebecca Zlotowski (2013). He went on to play numerous leading roles both in France and worldwide, including in The Price Of Success by Teddy Lussi-Modeste, Samba by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache and Mary Magdalene by Garth Davis, as well as in the series The Looming Tower opposite Jeff Daniels.
The actor’s upcoming films for 2023 include Ridley Scott’s Napoleon and S.J. Clarkson’s Madame Web.
France’s national film awards are voted on by around 3,000 cinema professionals who are members of the Cesar Academy and are open to French productions released theatrically in France the previous year.
