The Académie des César, which wants to revive interest in its awards evening, announced on Wednesday that the 48th ceremony would be presented collectively by a cast of actors and actresses and no longer by a single master of ceremonies.
Nine masters and mistresses of ceremonies will officiate on February 24 at the Olympia: Emmanuelle Devos, Léa Drucker, Eye Haïdara, Leïla Bekhti (the evening is chaired by her companion Tahar Rahim), Jérôme Commandeur, Jamel Debbouze, Alex Lutz, Raphaël Personnaz and Ahmad Sulla.
The organizers promise "a collegial and joyful presentation in support of cinematographic creation, a collective mobilization in the service of a renewed ceremony which will highlight the diversity and richness of cinema in France".
A high-risk exercise
The presentation of the Césars is a high-risk exercise, after the storms weathered by the institution in recent years: the Polanski affair, hearings at half mast, criticism of the inter-self of the profession, etc.
The Academy, which has undergone major changes, has just tried to defuse a potential crisis by deciding, in the wake of the Sofiane Bennacer affair, an actor revealed in
Les Amandiers
and indicted for rape, that no person put in cause "by justice for acts of violence" would not be "highlighted" during the ceremony.
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