The 46th Cesar ceremony takes place Friday at the Olympia in an unprecedented context, with few guests due to the health crisis.

The spotlight will also be on the Caesar academy, a year after the fiasco of the award awarded to Roman Polanski and the shattering departure of Adèle Haenel.

The 46th Cesar ceremony takes place Friday evening at the Olympia, in a highly particular context.

Covid obliges, very few guests will be present in the room, with 130 people seated on the red armchairs of the Olympia: the nominees and the remitters, who are not allowed to come accompanied.

Alongside Marina Fois, mistress of ceremony, Valérie Lemercier, Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Louis Garel or even Nathalie Baye are expected.

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Adèle Haenel absent

On the other hand, Adèle Haenel, announced for a while by the press, will not be present on Friday evening.

Last year, the actress left the room shouting her "shame" after the announcement of the César for best director awarded to Roman Polanski for his film on the Dreyfus affair.

A year later, the reform of the Caesar academy, which aims to establish democratic functioning and requirements for transparency, parity and diversity, has just begun.

There should thus be political speeches on the reform of the Caesar academy, but also on the reopening of cinemas, closed for many months.

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"The opportunity to say that things have changed"

Blanche Gardin and Laurent Lafitte, renowned for their corrosive humor, are writing sketches and videos that will punctuate the evening, set to music by Benjamin Biolay and his orchestra.

Even if the cinemas are closed, this ceremony had to take place according to producer Michèle Halberstadt.

“There are films that came out, that were made, so we had to do Caesars. There were Oscars and Golden Globes, so I don't see why there wouldn't be a Caesar. is also an opportunity to say, compared to last year, that things have changed, "she told Europe 1.

Three films go favorites 

As for the rewards, three films are favorites: the marivaudage of Emmanuel Mouret,

The things we say, the things we do

, the absurd societal comedy

Farewell Les Cons

by Albert Dupontel and the destructive and melancholy love of

Summer 85

, by François Ozon.

The Splendid troupe will receive a "anniversary César" while the public's César, which automatically went for three years to the French film with the most admissions, is deleted.

On the other hand, a new prize appears: the César des lycéens, on the model of Goncourt.

 The ceremony can be followed live and unencrypted on Canal + from 9 p.m.