With ten nominations apiece, Sink or Swim [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Jacques Audiard
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intervista: Pierre Salvadori
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intervista: Emmanuel Finkiel
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Among the seven hopefuls for the Best Actress Award are three former winners: Elodie Bouchez (crowned in 1999) for In Safe Hands, Adèle Haenel (victorious in 2015) for her turn in The Trouble With You and Sandrine Kiberlain (triumphant in 2014), who has also been selected for In Safe Hands. Four actresses will be attempting to win the prize for the first time: Mélanie Thierry for Memoir of War, Léa Drucker for Custody, Belgium’s Cécile de France for Mademoiselle de Joncquières [+leggi anche:
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As for the male thesps, the landscape is witnessing a complete upheaval because not a single former winner is duking it out. The actors set to lock horns are Vincent Lacoste for Amanda [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Guillaume Senez
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It’s also worth noting the six nominations garnered by Mademoiselle de Joncquières by Emmanuel Mouret (which is nonetheless shockingly absent from the battle for Best Film, as is Amanda), the five racked up by Little Tickles [+leggi anche:
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Q&A: Pawel Pawlikowski
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intervista: Lukas Dhont
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Here is the full list of nominees:

Best Film
Memoir of War [+leggi anche:
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The Trouble With You [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Pierre Salvadori
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The Sisters Brothers [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Jacques Audiard
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Sink or Swim [+leggi anche:
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Guy [+leggi anche:
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Custody [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Xavier Legrand
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In Safe Hands [+leggi anche:
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Best Actress 
Elodie Bouchez - In Safe Hands
Cécile de France - Mademoiselle de Joncquières
Léa Drucker - Custody
Virginie Efira – An Impossible Love [+leggi anche:
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Adèle Haenel - The Trouble With You
Sandrine Kiberlain - In Safe Hands
Mélanie Thierry - Memoir of War

Best Actor 
Édouard Baer - Mademoiselle de Joncquières
Romain Duris - Our Struggles [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Guillaume Senez
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Vincent Lacoste - Amanda [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Mikhaël Hers
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Gilles Lellouche - In Safe Hands
Alex Lutz - Guy
Pio Marmaï - The Trouble With You
Denis Ménochet - Custody

Best Director 
Emmanuel Finkiel - Memoir of War
Pierre Salvadori - The Trouble With You
Jacques Audiard - The Sisters Brothers
Gilles Lellouche - Sink or Swim
Alex Lutz - Guy
Xavier Legrand - Custody
Jeanne Herry – In Safe Hands

Best Original Screenplay
Pierre Salvadori, Benoît Graffin, Benjamin Charbit – The Trouble With You
Gilles Lellouche, Ahmed Hamidi, Julien Lambroschini – Sink or Swim
Alex Lutz, Anaïs Deban, Thibault Segouin – Guy 
Xavier Legrand – Custody
Jeanne Herry – In Safe Hands

Best Adaptation
André Bescond, Eric Métayer – Little Tickles [+leggi anche:
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Emmanuel Finkiel - Memoir of War
Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain - The Sisters Brothers
Emmanuel Mouret - Mademoiselle de Joncquières
Catherine Corsini, Laurette Polmanss – An Impossible Love

Best Supporting Actress 
Isabelle Adjani  - The World Is Yours [+leggi anche:
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Leïla Bekhti - Sink or Swim
Virginie Efira - Sink or Swim
Audrey Tautou - The Trouble With You
Karin Viard – Little Tickles

Best Supporting Actor
Jean-Hugues Anglade - Sink or Swim
Damien Bonnard - The Trouble With You
Clovis Cornillac – Little Tickles 
Philippe Katerine - Sink or Swim
Denis Podalydès – Sorry Angel [+leggi anche:
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Most Promising Actress 
Ophélie Bau - Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno [+leggi anche:
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Galatea Bellugi – The Apparition [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Xavier Giannoli
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Jehnny Beth – An Impossible Love 
Lily-Rose Depp – A Faithful Man [+leggi anche:
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Kenza Fortas – Shéhérazade [+leggi anche:
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Most Promising Actor 
Anthony Bajon – The Prayer [+leggi anche:
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Thomas Gioria – Custody
William Lebghil – The Freshmen [+leggi anche:
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Karim Leklou – The World Is Yours
Dylan Robert – Shéhérazade

Best First Feature Film 
In the Move for Love [+leggi anche:
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Custody - Xavier Legrand
Little Tickles - Andréa Bescond, Éric Métayer
Sauvage [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Camille Vidal-Naquet
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Shéhérazade - Jean-Bernard Marlin

Best Documentary 
America [+leggi anche:
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Each and Every Moment [+leggi anche:
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Le Grand Bal [+leggi anche:
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So Help Me God [+leggi anche:
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The State Against Nelson Mandela and the Others [+leggi anche:
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Best Animated Feature Film
Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion [+leggi anche:
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Dilili in Paris [+leggi anche:
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Pachamama [+leggi anche:
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Best Cinematography 
Alexis Kavyrchine – Memoir of War
Benoît Debie - The Sisters Brothers
Laurent Tangy - Sink or Swim 
Nathalie Durand - Custody
Laurent Desmet - Mademoiselle de Joncquières

Best Editing 
Valérie Deseine – Little Tickles 
Isabelle Devinck – The Trouble With You
Juliette Welfling – The Sisters Brothers
Simon Jacquet – Sink or Swim
Yorgos Lamprinos – Custody

Best Original Music 
Anton Sanko - Amanda
Camille Bazbaz - The Trouble With You
Alexandre Desplat - The Sisters Brothers
Vincent Blanchard, Romain Greffe – Guy
Pascal Sangla – In Safe Hands
Grégoire Hetzel – An Impossible Love

Best Sound
Antoine-Basile Mercier, David Vranken, Aline Gavroy – Memoir of War
Brigitte Taillandier, Valérie de Loof, Cyril Holtz - The Sisters Brothers
Cédric Deloche, Gwennolé Le Borgne, Marc Doisne - Sink or Swim
Yves-Marie Omnès, Antoine Baudoin, Stéphane Thiébaut - Guy
Julien Sicart, Julien Roig, Vincent Verdoux - Custody 

Best Costume Design
Anaïs Romand, Sergio Ballo – Memoir of War
Pierre-Yves Gayraud – The Emperor of Paris [+leggi anche:
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Miléna Canonero – The Sisters Brothers
Pierre-Jean Larroque - Mademoiselle de Joncquières
Anaïs Romand – One Nation, One King [+leggi anche:
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Best Production Design 
Pascal Le Guellec - Memoir of War
Émile Ghigo – The Emperor of Paris
Michel Barthelemy - The Sisters Brothers
David Faivre - Mademoiselle de Joncquières
Thierry François – One Nation, One King

Best Short Film
Braguino - Clément Cogitore
Les Indes galantes - Clément Cogitore
Kapitalistis - Pablo Muñoz Gomez
Let Me Dance - Valérie Leroy 
Little Hands - Rémi Allier

Best Animated Short Film 
Entre Sombras – Alice Guimarães and Mónica Santos
The Death, Dad & Son – Denis Walgenwitz and Winshluss
Raymonde or the Vertical Escape – Sarah Van Den Boom
Wicked Girl – Ayce Kartal

Best Foreign Film 
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri [+leggi anche:
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Capernaum [+leggi anche:
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Cold War [+leggi anche:
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Q&A: Pawel Pawlikowski
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Girl [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Lukas Dhont
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Hannah [+leggi anche:
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Our Struggles - Guillaume Senez
Shoplifters - Kirokazu Kore-eda (Japan)