This weekend was a major weekend for film awards, with the eyes of the world wondering who was going to take the big prizes.
While the Oscars grabbed the headlines, the César awards in Paris are the ones I am focusing on, with a big win for Gainsbourg (Vie Heroique).
Best film went to Of Gods and Men, which picked up three awards including best supporting actor and best cinematography. It wasn't even nominated for an Oscar.
The Ghost Writer, an English language film, picked up four Oscars including best director for Roman Polanski. It is the third time he's won a César for best director, having won for Tess in 1979 and The Pianist in 2002
Best foreign film was The Social Network.
I was particularly pleased to see the 'Best Animation' award going to The Illusionist, a great Franco-Scottish collaboration.
But the big winner, with the most interest here is Gainsbourg (Vie Heroique) which picked up three awards, best first film, best sound and best actor award for Eric Elmosnino. A well-deserved winner.
The film had a few other nominations, including best film and Laetitia Casta was nominated for best supporting actress.
Looking at the César awards this year in comparison to the Oscars is a strange parallel. No King's Speech in the French Republic, little outside the English-speaking world for the Oscars.
Anyway, today's video is Eric Elmosnino performing Gainsbourg's Nazi Rock from the film's soundtrack. On a weekend that saw Dior's head designer suspended for hurling anti-semitic insults in a bar in La Marais and saying how he loves Hitler, it seems fitting to celebrate a victory for a film marking the life and work of a Frenchman who was forced to wear the yellow star as a child during the Occupation.
Eric Elmosnino & Dionysos : Nazi Rock (BO Gainsbourg Vie...)
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