{"id":434911,"date":"2026-01-28T14:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T14:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/434911\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T14:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T14:20:12","slug":"richard-linklaters-nouvelle-vague-leads-cesar-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/434911\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Linklater&#8217;s &#8216;Nouvelle Vague&#8217; Leads Cesar Nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/richard-linklater\/\" id=\"auto-tag_richard-linklater_1\" data-tag=\"richard-linklater\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Linklater<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/nouvelle-vague-review-richard-linklater-godard-breathless-1236220222\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/nouvelle-vague\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nouvelle-vague_1\" data-tag=\"nouvelle-vague\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nouvelle Vague<\/a> <\/a>has emerged as the frontrunner for the 2026 C\u00e9sar awards, France\u2019s equivalent to the Oscar, picking up  10 nominations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLinklater\u2019s French-language, black-and-white is a deep dive into the making of Jean-Luc Godard\u2019s 1960 classic Breathless. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Acad\u00e9mie des C\u00e9sar released the official list of contenders on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tFollowing closely behind Nouvelle Vague are three French films with 8 nominations each:  L\u2019Attachement, Dossier 137, and L\u2019Inconnu de la Grande Arche. All four are nominated in the best film category, joined by Jafar Panahi\u2019s Oscar contender It Was Just an Accident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBest director nominees include Carine Tardieu for L\u2019Attachement, Dominik Moll for Dossier 137, St\u00e9phane Demoustier for L\u2019Inconnu de la Grande Arche, Richard Linklater for Nouvelle Vague, and Hafsia Herzi for La Petite Derni\u00e8re. Nouvelle Vague earned additional noms for sound, cinematography, editing, costume and production design and visual effects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBest actress nominees include Leila Bekhti for Ma M\u00e8re, Dieu et Sylvie Vartan, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi for L\u2019Attachement, L\u00e9a Drucker for Dossier 137, Isabelle Huppert for La Femme la plus riche du monde, and M\u00e9lanie Thierry for La Chambre de Mariana. Best actor contenders are Claes Bang for L\u2019Inconnu de la Grande Arche, Bastien Bouillon for Partir un jour, Laurent Lafitte for La Femme la plus riche du monde, Pio Marma\u00ef for L\u2019Attachement, and Benjamin Voisin for L\u2019\u00c9tranger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tNominees in the best foreign film category are The Secret Agent from Brazil, Black Dog from China,  Sir\u0101t from Spain, Sentimental Value from Norway, and Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s One Battle After Another.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe winners will be announced at the upcoming 51st C\u00e9sar ceremony in Paris on February 26. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richard Linklater\u2019s Nouvelle Vague has emerged as the frontrunner for the 2026 C\u00e9sar awards, France\u2019s equivalent to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[205877,88,2091,89586,36128],"class_list":["post-434911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-cesar-awards","tag-entertainment","tag-international","tag-nouvelle-vague","tag-richard-linklater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}