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Douglas Serves as Foreign Ambassador At France's Cesar Awards
1998 César Awards
28 February 1998
The 23rd edition of the César Awards took place in the
Champs-Elysées Theatre in Paris Saturday night,
February 28, 1998. Juliette Binoche presided the
ceremony while Michael Douglas and Clint Eastwood,
the foreign ambassadors, along with Jean-Luc Godard
were the honored guests.
Canal + has taken over the position of host and producer
of the ceremony hoping to give the French Oscar-award
version a new life. In the words of its founder Georges
Cravenne, General Secretary of the Académie des Arts et
Techniques du Cinéma, "when I created the "César" to
award French cinema in 1975, I drew my inspiration
from the American version, the Oscars. They are
celebrating their 70th edition while this is our 23rd. I
assure you that amongall those I have met and talked with
in France and abroad, the Césars maintain international
recognition."
The first César awards, presided by Jean Gabin, were in
1976 and bestowed 13 awards. The statuette was
designed by the sculptor César and thus bears his name.
Today, the Academy members are nearly 3000. "The
Césars are above all a way for professionals of the 7th art
to bestow honors upon works according to their own
criteria and tastes. It is the artists that vote for other
artists, far from the bitter critics and the public's bad
judgement."
The triumphant winner this year was Alain Resnais
with seven awards for his latest film On Connaît la
Chanson (Same Old Song). He certainly has the French
right stuff as he also won seven Césars for Providence
in 1978 and five for Smoking-No Smoking.
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