The Daniel Toscan du Plantier prize, rewarding the producer of the year, was awarded to the company Rectangle Productions which signed
Aline
, the film by Valérie Lemercier dedicated to Celine Dion, announced Tuesday evening the Academy of arts and techniques of movie theater.
This biopic is in the running for the César for best film, among ten nominations.
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A tribute to the film producer who died in 2003, the Daniel Toscan du Plantier prize pays tribute each year to "
the audacity, eclecticism and aestheticism in production
", on the initiative of the academy which organizes the Césars which will be awarded February 25.
About fifty films produced by Rectangle Productions
Directed by Édouard Weil and Alice Girard, the company Rectangle has so far produced around fifty fiction feature films covering a wide range of genres.
In 2021, they produced Audrey Diwan's second feature,
L'Événement
, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
Rectangles Productions has also to its credit
Oranges Sanguines
by Jean-Christophe Meurisse and
Vortex
by Gaspar Noé, presented at the last Cannes Film Festival.
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Lost Illusions, Annette
and
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are full of nominations for the César 2022, disappointment for
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The members of the Académie des César have until February 25 at 4 p.m. to nominate the 2022 winners in around twenty categories.
The ceremony will take place at the Olympia under the chairmanship of director Danièle Thompson, with Antoine de Caunes as master of ceremonies.
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by Valérie Lemercier, in 2020