César Award Nominations

France's equivalent of the Oscars.

PICTURE
9 Mois Ferme
Blue is the Warmest Color
Jimmy P
Les Garcons et Guillame, A Table!
The Past
Stranger by the Lake
Venus in Fur

DIRECTOR
Arnaud Desplechin, Jimmy P
Albert Dupontel, 9 Mois Ferme
Asghar Farhadi, The Past
Guillaume Gallienne, Les Garcons et Guillaume, A Table!
Alain Guiraudie, Stranger by the Lake  
Abdellatif Kechiche, Blue is the Warmest Color
Roman Polanski, Venus in Fur

ACTOR
Mathieu Amalric, Venus in Fur
Michel Bouquet, Renoir
Albert Depontel, 9 Mois Ferme
Grégory Gadebois, Mon Ame Par Toi Guérie
Guillaume Gallienne, Les Garcons et Guillaume, A Table!
Fabrice Luchine, Alceste a Bicyclette
Mads Mikkelsen, Michael Kohlhass

ACTRESS
Fanny Ardant, Les Beaux Jours
Bérénice Bejo, The Past
Catherine Deneuve, Elle S'En Va
Sara Forestier, Suzanne
Sandrine Kiberlaine, 9 Mois Ferme
Emmanuelle Seigner, Venus in Fur
Léa Seydoux, Blue is the Warmest Color

Cahiers du Cinéma's Top 10 of 2013

Promising a riskier top ten list than anyone else, the Cahiers du Cinéma have announced their picks for the best of the year.  This might be the only group brave enough to put some of friskiest (and in the cases of #1 and #3 the gay sexiest) films of the year in their top three.

The controversial French gay cruising drama Stranger by the Lake

1. Stranger by the Lake- directed b Alain Guiraudie 
2. Spring Breakers- directed by Harmony Korine 
3. Blue is the Warmest Color- directed by Abdellatif Kechiche 
4. Gravity- directed by Alfonso Cuarón 
5. A Touch of Sin- directed by Zhangke Jia 
6. Lincoln- directed by Steven Spielberg 
7. La Jalousie- directed by Philippe Garrel 
8. Nobody's Daughter Haewon- directed by Sang-soo Hong 
9. You & the Night- directed by Yann Gonzalez 
10. Age of Panic- directed by Justine Triet