Tahar Rahim will succeed Danièle Thompson as President of the 48th Cesar ceremony. This will be held on Friday February 24 at the Olympia.
D-20 before the announcement of the César nominations! In the meantime, the Academy of Cinema Arts and Techniques has just announced the President of this 48th ceremony. This is Tahar Rahim, crowned Best Male Newcomer and Best Actor in 2010 for his masterful performance in A Prophet by Jacques Audiard, his first major film role.
He will thus succeed Roschdy Zem and Danièle Thompson, who respectively held this position in 2021 and 2022. “Tahar Rahim has led his career with finesse, moving towards rich, diverse and complex characters, and new experiences”the statement said.
“Filmmakers in France and abroad offer him to play in front of their camera: Lou Ye pour Love and Bruises, Jean Jacques Annaud pour Or noir, Asghar Fahradi pour The past, Rebecca Zlotowski pour Grand Central, Éric Toledano et Olivier Nakache pour Samba, Fatih Akin pour The Cutor Kevin Macdonald pour Found Guiltywhich earned him a first Golden Globe and BAFTA nomination in 2021.
If he shines in the cinema, Tahar Rahim marks the small screens just as much, in memorable series such as Panthers, The Eddy from Damien Chazelle or The snakerole for which he receives a new nomination at the Golden Globes in 2022 and which definitively establishes his international fame.
And the prestigious institution to continue: “We will have the pleasure of discovering it soon alongside Meryl Streep, Kit Harrington et Sienna Miller in the series Extrapolationsas well as under the direction of Ridley Scottin the biopic Napoleonor even in the next film of the Marvel universe, Madame Web.”
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Last Monday, the Académie des César took the decision to exclude from the ceremony any person implicated by justice “for acts of violence”. This announcement followed the case of Sofiane Bennacer, actor of the Amandiers indicted for rape.
Other information revealed this time in November 2022, the Caesar of honor will be awarded to David Fincher. And for the first time in the history of the Caesars, there should be no master or mistress of ceremonies. According to Le Parisien, a collegial presentation would be provided by a dozen talents, including Jérôme Commandeur, Ahmed Sylla, Léa Drucker, Jamel Debbouze or even Alex Lutz.
As a reminder, the nominations will be known on Wednesday January 25, during the traditional press conference. The 48th ceremony will take place on Friday February 24 on the stage of the Olympia. It will be broadcast from 9 p.m. in clear, live and exclusively on Canal+.