Co-star Jean Dujardin, whose debonair rendition of a silent movie icon has won
him Best Actor at Cannes, a BAFTA, a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination,
was passed over for the best actor Cesar, which went instead to Omar Sy in “Intouchables”.
Sy plays a rough-spoken but lovable delinquent from the deprived Paris suburbs
who by accident ends up as a live-in carer to a quadriplegic aristocrat in a
touching comedy that has been a smash hit in France with some 19 million
admissions.
Based on a true story sparked by a paragliding accident, it plays on
deep-rooted racial and class barriers in France.
“This is a gigantic buzz. I feel like a crazy guy,” Sy, one of
France’s most popular black actors and best known for his TV comedy roles,
said, before dancing a flamboyant jig on stage.
Winners of Cesar awards receive Oscar-like trophies sculpted by Cesar
Baldaccini, the artist they are named after.
Dujardin is seen as well-placed for the best actor Oscar on Sunday, with “The
Artist”, a critics’ darling throughout this award season, nominated for
10 Academy Awards. He would be the first French-born actor to win the Oscar
for a lead role.
Highly acclaimed Iranian family drama “A Separation” was awarded the
Cesar for best foreign film.
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