Isabelle Huppert will be responsible for presenting the Honorary Cesar to Cate Blanchett, according to information from the Sunday newspaper Saturday. The twice Oscar-winning actress will receive, on January 25, 2022, an honorary Cesar for her career and her commitments, on the occasion of the 47th Cesar ceremony.
The actress and producer, who notably won two Oscars in 2005 and 2014 for her roles in The Aviator by Martin Scorsese and Blue Jasmine by Woody Allen, will be awarded the honorary prize for his entire career and his “absolutely remarkable” personality, write Canal + and the Académie des Césars in a press release released in December. The two actresses know each other well. They played together the criminal sisters of the Good by Jean Genet in 2013, recalls the weekly.
Her fights for “women’s rights or ecology”
The actress will receive this distinction as she “just finished the production of the film ART directed by Todd Field” and that she plays a psychoanalyst in Guillermo Del Toro’s new film Nightmare Alley, released on January 19, 2022. The awarding of this award is also due to its commitment “outside the sets” for “women’s rights or ecology”, explained the organizers.
The star has particularly distinguished herself in the fight of women against sexual violence in the cinema, in particular since the Weinstein affair. In 2018, when she chaired the jury of the 71st Cannes Film Festival, she climbed the famous Cannes marches with 81 other women of the Seventh Art, in favor of equality. The 47th Cesars ceremony, broadcast by Canal+ will be held on the Olympia stage in Paris and will be presented by Antoine de Caunes.