31st César Awards

The 31st César Awards ceremony, presented by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, honoured the best films of 2005 in France and took place on 25 February 2006 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. The ceremony was chaired by Carole Bouquet and hosted by Valérie Lemercier. The Beat That My Heart Skipped won the award for Best Film.

The ceremony was marred by demonstrations by the intermittents (film industry workers), who lobbied for greater rights for temporary contract workers after running onto the stage before the start. The police had to evacuate the protesters, which ultimately led to a 23-minute delay to the start of the proceedings.

Winners and nominees

The nominations were announced on 10 January 2006. Winners are highlighted in bold:

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Pierre Richard, Honorary César recipient

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Jacques Audiard, Best Director winner

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Nathalie Baye, Best Actress winner

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Michel Bouquet, Best Actor winner

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Cécile de France, Best Supporting Actress winner

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Niels Arestrup, Best Supporting Actor winner

Template:Award category The Beat That My Heart Skipped L'Enfant Live and Become Joyeux Noël The Young Lieutenant	Template:Award category Jacques Audiard – The Beat That My Heart Skipped Xavier Beauvois – The Young Lieutenant Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne – L'Enfant Michael Haneke – Caché Radu Mihaileanu – Live and Become
Template:Award category Michel Bouquet – The Last Mitterrand Patrick Chesnais – Not Here to Be Loved Romain Duris – The Beat That My Heart Skipped José Garcia – The Axe Benoît Poelvoorde – Entre ses mains	Template:Award category Nathalie Baye – The Young Lieutenant Isabelle Carré – Entre ses mains Anne Consigny – Not Here to Be Loved Isabelle Huppert – Gabrielle Valérie Lemercier – Palais royal!
Template:Award category Niels Arestrup – The Beat That My Heart Skipped Maurice Bénichou – Caché Dany Boon – Joyeux Noël Georges Wilson – Not Here to Be Loved Roschdy Zem – The Young Lieutenant	Template:Award category Cécile de France – Russian Dolls Catherine Deneuve – Palais royal! Noémie Lvovsky – Backstage Charlotte Rampling – Lemming Kelly Reilly – Russian Dolls
Template:Award category Louis Garrel – Regular Lovers Walid Afkir – Caché Gilles Lellouche – Love Is in the Air Aymen Saïdi – Saint-Jacques... La Mecque Adrien Jolivet – Zim and Co.	Template:Award category Linh Dan Pham – The Beat That My Heart Skipped Déborah François – L'Enfant Mélanie Doutey – Il ne faut jurer... de rien! Fanny Valette – Little Jerusalem Marina Hands – Grey Souls
Template:Award category Live and Become – Alain-Michel Blanc and Radu Mihaileanu Caché – Michael Haneke L'Enfant – Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne Joyeux Noël – Christian Carion The Young Lieutenant – Xavier Beauvois, Guillaume Bréaud and Jean-Eric Troubat	Template:Award category The Beat That My Heart Skipped – Jacques Audiard and Tonino Benacquista The Axe – Costa-Gavras and Jean-Claude Grumberg Entre ses mains – Anne Fontaine and Julien Boivent Gabrielle – Patrice Chéreau and Anne-Louise Trividic The Last Mitterrand – Georges-Marc Benamou and Gilles Taurand
Template:Award category Darwin's Nightmare Anthony Zimmer Cold Showers March of the Penguins Little Jerusalem	Template:Award category Stéphane Fontaine – The Beat That My Heart Skipped William Lubtchansky – Regular Lovers Éric Gautier – Gabrielle
Template:Award category Juliette Welfling – The Beat That My Heart Skipped Sabine Emiliani – March of the Penguins Francine Sandberg – Russian Dolls	Template:Award category Laurent Quaglio and Gérard Lamps – March of the Penguins Brigitte Taillandier, Pascal Villard, Cyril Holtz and Philippe Amouroux – The Beat That My Heart Skipped Guillaume Sciama, Benoît Hillebrant and Olivier Dô Hùu – Gabrielle
Template:Award category Alexandre Desplat – The Beat That My Heart Skipped Philippe Rombi – Joyeux Noël Émilie Simon – March of the Penguins Armand Amar – Live and Become	Template:Award category Caroline de Vivaise – Gabrielle Alison Forbes-Meyler – Joyeux Noël Pascaline Chavanne – Grey Souls
Template:Award category Olivier Radot – Gabrielle Jean-Michel Simonet – Joyeux Noël Loula Morin – Grey Souls	Template:Award category After Shave Obras La Peur, petit chasseur Sous le bleu
Template:Award category Million Dollar Baby A History of Violence The Sea Inside Match Point Walk on Water
Template:Award category Hugh Grant Pierre Richard

Viewers

The show was followed by 2.5 million viewers. This corresponds to 13.6% of the audience.

See also

• 78th Academy Awards
• 59th British Academy Film Awards
• 18th European Film Awards
• 11th Lumière Awards

External links

• Official website
• Template:IMDb event
• 31st César Awards at AlloCiné