PARIS -- French actress, writer and director Valerie Lemercier has been named mistress of ceremonies and will present the 31st edition of France's Cesar Awards on Feb. 25, organizers said Tuesday. Lemercier, who won the Cesar for best supporting actress in 1994 for her role in The Visitors, and was nominated in the same category in 1992 for L'Operation Corned-Beef, recently directed and acted in Palais Royal!, a spoof on Europe's royal families. The Cesars are judged each year by the 3,300 members of the French Academy for Cinema Arts and Techniques -- the Gallic equivalent of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The ceremony, widely regarded as a curtain-raiser to the Oscars, will be held at the Theatre du Chatelet in the heart of Paris and broadcast live on French television by Canal Plus.
- 1/10/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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