The women’s magazine announces the creation of its Cleopatra awards, to compensate for the absence of women nominated in the best achievement category at the César 2023.
Faced with the exclusively male list of nominees for the César 2023 for best achievement, the magazine chat found the parade: the launch of the Cleopatra awards, created specifically “to reward the best female directors (snubbed by the Caesars)”. The monthly reveals the terms of this initiative – and the names of this first edition – in a press release published on Friday.
“(Our prize) will consist of two awards, one awarded by our readers, the other by our editorial staff,” he announces. “The two winners (Jury Prize and Audience Prize) will be announced on February 24, the day of the César ceremony.”
Internet users have until February 10 to vote online, on the magazine’s websiteamong the six named: Alice Diop (Saint-Omer), Charlotte Le Bon (Falcon Lake) – two films nominated for the César in the best first film category -, Blandine Lenoir (Annie Colère), Patricia Mazuy (Bowling Saturn), Alice Winocour (See Paris again) and Rebecca Zlotowki (Other people’s children).
Initially, a joke on Twitter
This initiative of chat is inspired by a joke posted on Twitter by the ecologist deputy Marie-Charlotte Garin, a few hours after the announcement of the nominees for the Césars 2023. “I propose that we stop the Césars and that we mount the Cleopatras”, had- she writes, publishing the list of five men nominated for the César for best achievement.
“I didn’t think she was going to take so much!”, She said in the press release. chat. She will officiate as honorary president of the jury “for the rest composed of the editorial staff”.
wind of criticism
The César selection for the best director category is made up of Cédric Klapisch (In body), Louis Garrel (the innocent), Cedric Jiménez (November), Dominik Moll (The night of 12) and Albert Serra (Pacifiction – Torment of the Isles).
This exclusively male selection immediately raised many criticisms, the day after the revelation of the Oscar selection pointed out for the same reason. The 50/50 collective, which campaigns for parity in cinema and audiovisual, regretted “a step backwards” in a press release published this week. Similarly, in the best film category, only The Almond Trees by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi represents the fairer sex.
Observers of the seventh art had notably noted the absence in this category of Alice Diop, director of Saint-OmerGrand Prize at the Mostra and critically acclaimed, by Rebecca Zlotowski for Other people’s childrenby Mia Hansen-Love with A nice morning or even Blandine Lenoir for Annie Anger.
