Only men are competing this year for the César for best achievement. A selection criticized by the 50/50 collective.
The 50/50 collective, which campaigns for parity in cinema and audiovisual, denounces this Thursday the “total absence of women in the best achievement category” for the 48th Cesar ceremony on February 24.
In this category, only directors Cédric Klapisch (In Body), Louis Garrel (the innocent), Cédric Jiménez (November), Dominik Moll (The night of 12) and Albert Serra (Pacifiction-Torment on the Isles).
“A step back”
The César nominations were announced the day after those of the Oscars, already singled out for the same reasons:
“We would have dreamed of distinguishing ourselves from the Oscars, an institution which also shows an incomprehensible forgetfulness as to the directors who marked the past year with their works”, regrets the collective in its press release.
“This is a step backwards”, he tackles again, noting that women represented 14% of nominations in the achievement category in 2021, 43% in 2022, and therefore 0% this year. 50/50 recalls that Tonie Marshall, for Venus beauty (institute)is the only woman to have received the César for best director, in 2000.
A feminine production that is nevertheless very much alive
Certain observers of the seventh art have 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.
The collective also deplores a “lack of representation” of women in “the best film category”. In this category, only The Almond Treesdirected by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, appears alongside Cédric Klapisch, Louis Garrel, Dominik Moll and Albert Serra.
“Last year, the Academy of Oscars was criticized for competition that was too white. This year was too masculine. The Césars 2023 combine this double invisibilization”, further underlines the collective on its social networks.
