31st César Awards (2006)
Best Film
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
L'Enfant
Live and Become
Joyeux Noël
The Young Lieutenant
Best Director
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
Best Actor
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
Best Actress
Nathalie Baye - The Young Lieutenant
Isabelle Carré - Entre ses mains
Anne Consigny - Not Here to Be Loved
Isabelle Huppert - Gabrielle
Valérie Lemercier - Palais royal!
Best Supporting Actor
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
Best Supporting Actress
Cécile de France - Russian Dolls
Catherine Deneuve - Palais royal!
Noémie Lvovsky - Backstage
Charlotte Rampling - Lemming
Kelly Reilly - Russian Dolls
Best Original Screenplay
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
Best Adaptation
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
Best Editing
Juliette Welfling - The Beat That My Heart Skipped
Sabine Emiliani - March of the Penguins
Francine Sandberg - Russian Dolls
Best Cinematography
Stéphane Fontaine - The Beat That My Heart Skipped
William Lubtchansky - Regular Lovers
Éric Gautier - Gabrielle
Best Production Design
Olivier Radot - Gabrielle
Jean-Michel Simonet - Joyeux Noël
Loula Morin - Grey Souls
Best Costume Design
Caroline de Vivaise - Gabrielle
Alison Forbes-Meyler - Joyeux Noël
Pascaline Chavanne - Grey Souls
Best Original Music
Alexandre Desplat - The Beat That My Heart Skipped
Philippe Rombi - Joyeux Noël
Émilie Simon - March of the Penguins
Armand Amar - Live and Become
Best Sound
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
Best Foreign Film
Million Dollar Baby
A History of Violence
The Sea Inside
Match Point
Walk on Water
Best First Feature Film
Darwin's Nightmare
Anthony Zimmer
Cold Showers
March of the Penguins
Little Jerusalem
Most Promising Actor
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.
Most Promising Actress
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
Best Short Film
After Shave
Obras
La Peur, petit chasseur
Sous le bleu
Honorary César
Hugh Grant
Pierre Richard