Great news for Mélanie! The full-length she directed, “Les Adoptés”, won the Prix du Jury Jeune and Prix du Public at the 16th Festival for Young Directors. Congratulations!

Les Chisteras de la 16e édition du Festival des jeunes réalisateurs, d’une grande qualité, ont été remis hier soir par le jury présidé par Catherine Jacob.

Michaël R. Roskam a reçu le prix du meilleur réalisateur pour son film « Bullhead ». Le chistera du meilleur film revient à Thierry Binisti pour « Une bouteille à la mer ». Les prix du meilleur acteur (Matthias Schoenaerts dans « Bullhead »), meilleure actrice (Sandra Hüller dans « L’Amour et rien d’autre »), du meilleur court-métrage (« L’Accordeur » d’Olivier Treiner) ont ensuite été remis.

Le premier film de Mélanie Laurent « Les Adoptés », projeté en ouverture du Festival, a décroché le prix du public et celui du jury jeune.

Hier soir, le film « Forces spéciales » de Stéphane Rybojad a été présenté en clôture du Festival.

Séances de rattrapage aujourd’hui à 11 heures et à 20 heures au Sélect de Saint-Jean-de-Luz : deux films primés seront à nouveau projetés.

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Good news for Mélanie! Her debut film as a director, “Les Adoptés”, will be shown in competition at the 16th Saint Jean de Luz Film Festival for Young Directors. The festival takes place between the 11th and 15th of October. Hopefully she might win something and we get a few photos of her at the festival!

Mélanie Laurent : Une récompense pour son premier film ?

Actrice et chanteuse à ses heures perdues – elle a récemment sorti son premier album -, Mélanie Laurent est aussi réalisatrice. Et son tout premier long-métrage pourrait bien être récompensé lors d’un festival de cinéma !

Après avoir réalisé deux courts-métrages, De moins en moins et A ses pieds, Mélanie Laurent a dirigé son premier long-métrage, dans lequel elle tient aussi un rôle. Baptisé Les Adoptés, ce film sera projeté en ouverture du 16e Festival International des Jeunes Réalisateurs, qui se tiendra à Saint-Jean-de-Luz du 11 au 15 octobre prochain.

Présenté en compétition, le film raconte l’histoire “d’une famille. Une famille de femmes que la vie a souvent bousculée mais qui est parvenue avec le temps à apprivoiser les tumultes. Les hommes ont peu de place dans cette vie et naturellement quand l’une d’entre elles tombe amoureuse tout vacille. L’équilibre est à redéfinir et tout le monde s’y emploie tant bien que mal. Mais le destin ne les laissera souffler que peu de temps avant d’imposer une autre réalité. La famille devra alors tout réapprendre. La mécanique de l’adoption devra à nouveau se mettre en marche forçant chacun à prendre une nouvelle place…”, lit-on dans le synopsis du premier long-métrage de Mélanie Laurent, dont elle partage l’affiche avec Denis Ménochet, Marie Denarnaud, Clémentine Célarié, Audrey Lamy et Théodore Maquet-Foucher. Un film qui sortira dans nos salles obscures quelques semaines après le festival, le 23 novembre.

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Hello, all! Thanks to Marine, we now have proper scans of two gorgeous spreads of Mélanie from recent months. The first is her feature in Madame Figaro in February, and the second is her feature in March’s Elle France. The pictures are lovely, but the interviews are also good reads, so be sure to check them out! As a sidenote, I apologize for the addition of tags to scans, but people reposting scans made for this site and claiming them as their own has been an ongoing problem. I know it isn’t fair to everyone else, but hopefully they’re unobtrusive enough.

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Magazine Scans > 2010 > Madame Figaro (February)
Magazine Scans > 2010 > Elle France (March)

Also, the Nuit des Molières theater awards were held tonight, and unfortunately Mélanie did NOT win for her role in “Promenade de Santé.” However, she did attend the ceremony, so I’m hoping we’ll have pictures for you tomorrow! Keep checking back.

Congratulations to Mélanie! She has been nominated for a Molière Award for Best Female Newcomer for her role in “Promenade de Santé” — the theater’s equivalent of her 2007 César nomination, basically! The ceremony will be held at the end of April. Best of luck to Mélanie and fingers crossed for a win!

Mélanie is at the 2010 César Awards ceremony, as predicted! What I did not expect, however, was her to present — and for Best Actor, nonetheless. Many pictures to come over the next couple days! I’ll edit this as I begin uploading to the gallery, but also expect a clip of her presentation some time.

Edit: Pictures from the ceremony are still trickling in slowly, so here are some screencaptures of her presentation in the meantime! The video is up at canalplus.fr — hopefully I’ll figure out how to embed, although she was only on screen a very short time.

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Interviews & Specials > Award Shows > 2010 César Awards – Presenting “Meilleur espoir masculin”

Sad news! The nominations for the 2010 César Awards have been announced and though Mélanie’s performance in “Le Concert” was well-received, she wasn’t nominated. “Le Concert” did, however, manage to grab several coveted nominations in non-acting categories. The film is nominated for Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, Music, Sound, and Editing.

Mélanie was also unfortunately passed over at the BAFTAs, but she was always more of a long-shot at the English speaking ceremonies. It seems a safe bet to say that at the least we’ll see her at the Césars themselves at the end of February!

The awards season race isn’t over for Mélanie yet — she’s nabbed not only a nomination but a win(!) for Best Actress according to the Austin Film Critics and Online Film Critics. Perhaps most exciting of all, she’s part of the pre-selection (or “long list”) of runners for Best Leading Actress for the BAFTAs! The official BAFTA nominations are announced on January 21st, so stay tuned. César nominations are announced on January 22nd, but Academy Award nominations aren’t announced until February 2nd.

As many of you probably know by now, Diane Kruger was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. While undoubtedly some of it comes down to the Weinstein Company campaigning Mélanie for Lead Actress, Owen Gleiberman at the EW.com Movie Critics blog wrote an entry taking the stance that it should have been Mélanie nominated instead. It’s definitely worth a read! Do you have any thoughts of your own? As webmiss of this site I have an obvious bias, but Bridget was also my favorite character in “Basterds,” so personally I’m still very happy for Diane.

The SAG nominees: Why they chose the wrong Actress from ‘Inglourious Basterds’

I thought the Screen Actors Guild showed more or less impeccable taste in their nominations this year (though for Best Cast, how could they have possibly forsaken the sublimely acted Up in the Air…and picked the hot warblers of Nine instead?). So in drawing attention to one performer, in particular, whom they left out of the Best Supporting Actress category, I solemnly promise you that I won’t exploit the s-word. (I’ll at least say it out loud once: snub.) What I will note is that this particular omission is worth talking about, if only because I flat-out adore this performance, and I suspect that many others do too.

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