César Award for Best First Film
French film award
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The César Award for Best First Film (French: César du meilleur premier film) is an award presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma since 1982. It was originally named the César Award for Best Debut (César de la meilleure première œuvre in French) between 1982 and 1999, and César Award for Best Debut in Fiction (César de la meilleure première œuvre de fiction) until 2005, when it has been renamed again in 2006 to its current name.
Awarded forBest Debut Feature of the Year
CountryFrance
Presented byAcadémie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma
First award1982
| César Award for Best First Film | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best Debut Feature of the Year |
| Country | France |
| Presented by | Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma |
| First award | 1982 |
| Currently held by | Nino (2026) |
| Website | academie-cinema |
Winners and nominees
1980s
| Year | English title | Original title | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 (7th) |
Diva | Jean-Jacques Beineix | |
| Le Jardinier | Jean-Pierre Sentier | ||
| Neige | Jean-Henri Roger and Juliet Berto | ||
| Dead Certain | Une affaire d'hommes | Nicolas Ribowski | |
| 1983 (8th) |
Half a Life | Mourir à 30 ans | Romain Goupil |
| Josepha | Christopher Frank | ||
| Lettres d'amour en Somalie | Frédéric Mitterrand | ||
| Tir groupé | Jean-Claude Missiaen | ||
| 1984 (9th) |
Sugar Cane Alley | Rue Cases-Nègres | Euzhan Palcy |
| Le Dernier Combat | Luc Besson | ||
| Le Destin de Juliette | Aline Issermann | ||
| The Trail | La Trace | Bernard Favre | |
| 1985 (10th) |
Dangerous Moves | La Diagonale du fou | Richard Dembo |
| Boy Meets Girl | Leos Carax | ||
| Marche à l'ombre | Michel Blanc | ||
| Souvenirs, souvenirs | Ariel Zeïtoun | ||
| 1986 (11th) |
Tea in the Harem | Le Thé au harem d'Archimède | Mehdi Charef |
| Harem | Arthur Joffé | ||
| Strictement personnel | Pierre Jolivet | ||
| La Nuit porte-jarretelles | Virginie Thevenet | ||
| 1987 (12th) |
The Woman of My Life | La Femme de ma vie | Régis Wargnier |
| Black Mic-Mac | Thomas Gilou | ||
| I Hate Actors | Je hais les acteurs | Gérard Krawczyk | |
| Noir et Blanc | Claire Devers | ||
| 1988 (13th) |
L'Œil au beur(re) noir | Serge Meynard | |
| Avril brisé | Liria Begeja | ||
| Flag | Jacques Santi | ||
| Manuela's Loves | Le Jupon rouge | Geneviève Lefebvre | |
| Sorceress | Le Moine et la sorcière | Suzanne Schiffman | |
| 1989 (14th) |
Life Is a Long Quiet River | La Vie est un long fleuve tranquille | Etienne Chatiliez |
| Camille Claudel | Bruno Nuytten | ||
| Chocolat | Claire Denis | ||
| A Strange Place to Meet | Drôle d'endroit pour une rencontre | François Dupeyron | |
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
| Year | English title | Original title | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 (45th) |
Papicha | Mounia Meddour | |
| Atlantics | Atlantique | Mati Diop | |
| Au nom de la terre | Édouard Bergeon | ||
| The Wolf's Call | Le Chant du loup | Antonin Baudry | |
| Les Misérables | Ladj Ly | ||
| 2021 (46th) [3] |
Two of Us | Deux | Filippo Meneghetti |
| My Best Part | Garçon chiffon | Nicolas Maury | |
| Cuties | Mignonnes | Maïmouna Doucouré | |
| Simply Black | Tout simplement noir | Jean-Pascal Zadi | |
| Arab Blues | Un divan à Tunis | Manele Labid | |
| 2022 (47th) |
Magnetic Beats[4] | Les Magnétiques | Vincent Maël Cardona |
| Gagarine | Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh | ||
| Slalom | Charlène Favier | ||
| The Swarm | La Nuée | Just Philippot | |
| The Velvet Queen | La panthère des neiges | Marie Amiguet and Vincent Munier | |
| 2023 (48th) |
Saint Omer[5] | Alice Diop | |
| Bruno Reidal, Confessions of a Murderer | Bruno Reidal | Vincent Le Port | |
| Falcon Lake | Charlotte Le Bon | ||
| The Sixth Child | Le Sixième Enfant | Léopold Legrand | |
| The Worst Ones | Les Pires | Lise Akoka, Romane Gueret | |
| 2024 (49th) |
Junkyard Dog | Chien de la casse | Jean-Baptiste Durand |
| Bernadette | Léa Domenach | ||
| The Rapture | Le Ravissement | Iris Kaltenbäck | |
| Infested | Vermines | Sébastien Vaniček | |
| Vincent Must Die | Vincent doit mourir | Stéphan Castang | |
| 2025 (50th) |
Holy Cow | Vingt Dieux | Louise Courvoisier |
| Ghost Trail | Les Fantômes | Jonathan Millet | |
| The Kingdom | Le Royaume | Julien Colonna | |
| A Little Something Extra | Un P'tit Truc En Plus | Artus | |
| Wild Diamond | Diamant brut | Agathe Riedinger | |
| 2026 (51st) |
Nino | Pauline Loqués | |
| Arco | Ugo Bienvenu | ||
| Block Pass | La Pampa | Antoine Chevrollier | |
| Hearts on Fire | L'épreuve du feu | Aurélien Peyre | |
| Leave One Day | Partir un jour | Amélie Bonnin | |