Guillaume Gallienne’s ME, MYSELF AND MUM

Guillaume Gallienne’s ME, MYSELF AND MUM was the big winner at the 39th César Awards in Paris, taking home five awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Adaptation, Best First Film and Best Editing. Adapted from his one-man stage show, Guillaume Gallienne shows what it’s like to grow up as a boy when everyone is convinced that you’re really a girl – or should have been. Playing both himself and his frosty grande dame mother, Gallienne traces his life from childhood in an aristocratic family through adventures in Spain, ill-fated stints at boarding school and a hair-raising spa visit to the present, when he comes out as… well, simply as his own uncategorisable self. 

The complete list of winners of the 39th Cesar Awards:

Best Picture: Me, Myself and Mum

Honorary Cesar: Scarlett Johansson

Best Director: Roman Polanski for La Vénus à la fourrure

Best Actor: Guillaume Gallienne for Me, Myself and Mum

Best Actress: Sandrine Kiberlain for 9 Month Stretch

Best Supporting Actor: Niels Arestrup for Quai d’Orsay

Best Supporting Actress: Adèle Haenel for Suzanne

Most Promising Actress (Newcomer): Adèle Exarchopoulos for Blue Is The Warmest Color

Most Promising Actor (Newcomer): Pierre Deladonchamps for Stranger by the Lake

Best Original Screenplay: Albert Dupontel for 9 Month Stretch

Best Foreign Film: The Broken Circle Breakdown by Felix van Groeningen

Best First Film: Me, Myself and Mum by Guillaume Gallienne

Best Costume: Pascaline Chavanne for Renoir

Best Original Score: Martin Wheeler for Michael Kohlhaas

Best Production Design: Stephane Rozenbaum for L’Ecume des Jours

Best Sound:  Jean-Pierre Duret, Jean Mallet and Melissa Petitjean for Michael Kohlhaas

Best Documentary: Sur le Chemin de l’Ecole by Pascal Plisson

Best Adapted Screenplay: Me, Myself and Mum by Guillaume Gallienne

Best Animated Feature Film: Loulou l’Incroyable Secret by Eric Omond

Best Animated Short Film: Mademoiselle Kiki et les Montparnos by Amelie Harrault

Best Editing: Valerie Deseine for Me, Myself and Mum

Best Cinematography: Thomas Hardmeier for The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet

Best Short Film: Avant Que de Tout Perdre by Xavier Legrand 

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