A new face to open a new page.
According to our information, Canal + and the Académie des Césars have made their choice.
Actress Marina Foïs will take on the costume of mistress of ceremonies for the first time, during the 46th Césars evening in 2021. It will be produced and broadcast live and unencrypted by the encrypted channel, as is the case every year for twenty-seven years.
It will be a great first for Marina Foïs.
And a return to the sources, since the actress was revealed on Canal +, with the troupe of Robins des Bois.
Since then, she has become one of the most sought-after actresses in French cinema with five César nominations to her credit.
At 50, the artist goes on filming: since August, she has played in "Barbaque" by Fabrice Eboué, then "La Fracture" by Catherine Corsini.
In the coming months, she will be showing in Jérémie Elkaïm's latest film and should shoot with Marc Fitoussi.
All this without ever abandoning the television sets, including that of “Burger Quiz”, Alain Chabat's game, of which she is the mascot.
A slinger to bring together
With Marina Foïs, Canal + intends to once again bring together French cinema, which has been noisily divided over the past twelve months.
The channel has chosen to strongly embody this new page of the Caesars with one of its ardent advocates.
Because the actress was one of the leaders of the rebellion against the old direction of cinema awards: one of the first to advocate "more equality, more diversity, less preconceptions, more mixes In the functioning of the Academy.
She was part, with Michel Hazanavicius, Catherine Corsini or Bertrand Bonello, of the small group which wrote the platform leading to the resignation of Alain Terzian and of the entire general assembly of the Césars.
She was also elected on September 29 as a member of the new board of directors.
In February, the evening presented by Florence Foresti had caused great tension in French cinema after the coronation, in the category best director, of Roman Polanski.
Everything has been overhauled since then.
The academy is now headed by a general assembly, which thus has 164 members (82 women and 82 men), elected by the 4,314 voters for the statuettes.
The new GA of the Césars, now chaired by the former boss of Arte Véronique Cayla and director Eric Toledano, is therefore perfectly democratic and equal.
In short, there will be no shortage of jokes for Marina Foïs, who succeeds Jérôme Commandeur, Manu Payet, Kad Merad and Florence Foresti.
The actress can also count on a new director.
For the first time, the ceremony will be performed by Tristan Carné (“The Voice”, “Mask Singer”).
He succeeds Jérôme Revon, at the helm since 2000. For viewers too, the Césars will visually change era.
In the United States, the Oscars have postponed the date of their annual party because of Covid-19 and the closure of cinemas, but the Caesars intend to keep the planned schedule.
However, the initial date of Friday, February 26, 2021 could change.
