The team of the film "Adieu les cons", Nicolas Marie, Virginie Efira and Albert Dupontel.

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Seven nominations, seven wins.

Albert Dupontel won Friday for the first time in his career the César for best film for

Adieu les Cons

.

This comedy, which saw its indoor career shattered by the second confinement after having gathered 700,000 spectators in one week, was full on Friday at the César with seven awards.

At the Olympia, the ceremony was, unsurprisingly, dominated by the pandemic, in particular with the exposure of Corinne Masiero in support of intermittent workers.

In addition to the César for best film,

Adieu les cons

won that of best supporting actor, was the choice of high school students and earned Albert Dupontel, who shone by his absence on Friday evening at the Olympia, that of the best director, reward he had already obtained in 2018 for

Goodbye up there

.

Goodbye idiots

, this is how the message pre-recorded by JB (Albert Dupontel himself) ends, for the attention of colleagues in the obscure administration where he works, before shooting himself in the head. .

But losing among the losers, JB even misses his suicide: the ball passes by, crosses the partition and ends its race in the open space.

Dupontel absent

A few meters from Suze Trappet (Virginie Efira), terminally ill who has only one wish before dying: to find a son to whom she gave life under X, as a teenager.

He agrees to help her and their duo will become a trio when they join a blind archivist, Mr. Blin, played by one of Dupontel's favorite actors, Nicolas Marié.

Again at the perfectionist author of

Bernie

and

9 months firm

, no detail is left to chance, especially if it can be the subject of a joke, preferably sour: if Mr. Blin has lost his eyes , it was because of an LBD shot and he developed an obsession with the police, the object of recurring gags.

Without downtime, the film follows the trio's desperate quest for 1.30 hours, led by determined Virginie Efira.

Until a final in which Dupontel does not hesitate to inject an unexpected dose of romanticism, then of the tragic.

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The complete list

Best film:

Farewell to the idiots

by Albert Dupontel

Best Director:

Albert Dupontel for

Adieu les cons

Best actress:

Laure Calamy in

Antoinette in the Cévennes

Best Actor:

Sami Bouajila in

A Son

Best Supporting Actress:

Emilie Dequenne in

Things We Say, Things We Do

Best Supporting Actor:

Nicolas Marié in

Adieu les cons

Best female hope:

Fathia Youssouf in

Mignonnes

Best Male Newcomer:

Jean-Pascal Zadi in

Simply Black

Best first film:

Deux

by Filippo Meneghetti

Best Original Screenplay:

Albert Dupontel for

Adieu les cons

Best Adaptation:

Stéphane Demoustier for

The Girl with the Bracelet

Best Original Music:

Rone for

The Night Coming

Best Foreign Film:

Drunk

by Thomas Vinterberg

Best animated film:

Josep d'Aurel

Best Documentary:

Adolescentes

by Sébastien Lifshitz

Best Production Design:

Carlos Conti for

Adieu les cons

Best Costume:

Madeline Fontaine for

The Good Wife

César of high school students:

Farewell the idiots

of Albert Dupontel

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